Here is the money finding within the text of the study:
“There were 27 deaths (27.8%) in the HC group, 25 deaths (22.1%) in the HC+AZ group, and 18 deaths (11.4%) in the no HC group (Table 3). Mechanical ventilation occurred in 13.3% of the HC group, 6.9% of the HC+AZ group, and 14.1% of the no HC group (Table 4).”
Notice that ventilation was needed LEAST in the group of patients treated with HC+AZ (6.9%).
so in reality, the study finds that HC+AZ significantly reduces the need for ventilation. Oops.
If you have doubts about this, check it out:
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.16.20065920v1.full.pdf
97 people is a very low number in any case. This study is far and away of much less consequence than the thousands of anecdotal reports from all over the world that have said the opposite.
What? No zinc?