That claim is a far cry from, "The combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin cures 100% of cases."
Another way of looking at this study is to ask yourself whether anyone would ever attempt to replicate this study. The answer is absolutely not. Nobody with adequate resources would fail to randomize, choose such a small sample, exclude treatment patients without a pre-determined protocol, choose a control group from a different population, etc.
I didn't bother to find out who actually sponsored this study. I would imagine that it was motivated by someone who was convinced by anecdotal evidence and who wished to immediately convince others to study the matter sooner rather than later. If that was their intention then they have succeeded. Trump took the same approach.
You seem to be missing the fact of the other anecdotal evidence when as taken as a whole along with this study amounts to reason to hope and give this thing a shot.
Why do you believe NY has been sent hundreds of thousands of doses of these medications to use on Chinese Virus patients? Do you think they would do this if there was no chance of helping the victims?
Youy may not be interested but there are many doctors, well known doctors who advocate for the use of these drugs. There are NONE that I am aware of who claim we should NOT use them using any other reason than “they haven’t been sufficiently tested for THIS use”
That is not a viable excuse given the current circumstances since we already KNOW the possible side effects of these well tested medications along with its success rate even if it is anecdotal.