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Re:About that Hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19 trial by Cantbekhan on Monday March 23, 2020 @06:30AM (#22662618)
If you are curious, this is the actual Chinese trial registration (edit: not results) about hydroxichloroquine (among the many citations in the pdf)

http://www.chictr.org.cn/showprojen.aspx?proj=48880

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Re:About that Hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19 trial by hannob on Monday March 23, 2020 @06:31AM (#22662627)
Just to make this clear: This is a trial registration, not a result.
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Re:About that Hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19 trial by chvid on Monday March 23, 2020 @06:35AM (#22662643)
Is this an ongoing trial? When are the results due? 3x100 subjects (is that correctly read?) seems quite powerful.
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Re:About that Hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19 trial by Cantbekhan on Monday March 23, 2020 @06:46AM (#22662713)
Yes it seems they have 100 on one dosage, 100 one a different dosage and 100 in a placebo group.

According to the register, the study execution time should be "2020-01-31 To 2020-02-29"

But nobody seems to have any insight on the final results. But I would recommend this article with comments of the study leader (Dr Zhang Zhan). The article also explains how they initially discovered the efficiency of the drug by just noticing there were no lupus patients (who were under chronic treatment of hydroxichloroquine) infected with covid19.

https://www.jqknews.com/news/388543-The_novel_coronavirus_pn...

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Re:About that Hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19 trial by hinkley on Monday March 23, 2020 @02:27PM (#22667069)
And apparently those Lupus patients are now having trouble getting their prescriptions filled.
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Re:About that Hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19 trial by hanniabu on Monday March 23, 2020 @07:55AM (#22663125)
> But nobody seems to have any insight on the final results.

I assume that means it's either too small of a sample size or it doesn't make enough of an affect?

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Re:About that Hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19 trial by zeckalpha on Monday March 23, 2020 @08:33AM (#22663400)
A study designed like this shouldn’t have data analysis before it is all collected.
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