News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on About that Hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19 trial.

Re:About that Hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19 trial by roenxi on Monday March 23, 2020 @02:37PM (#22667164)
Why are we so excited about the French trial? What about the Chinese treatment guidelines [0]?

The Chinese recommend chloroquine phosphate. They've had more experience than anyone else in this area and have had time to conduct actual trials. The disease has a ~2-4 week course so it should take about that long to gather compelling evidence; and they've been dealing with it since January.

The French are clever people, but we really should be looking to Asia for this information. People should be finding and quoting Chinese studies.

[0] http://kjfy.meetingchina.org/msite/news/show/cn/3337.html 10(b)(4)

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:About that Hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19 trial by klmadfejno on Monday March 23, 2020 @03:23PM (#22667720)
The featured article claims that references to the supposed Chinese studies don't turn up anything. And that seems to be true. Here is the Chinese cited material from the French article: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/bst/14/1/14_2020.01047/...

It claims many clinical trials have been done in China that show chloroquine works. However... there's nothing to actually read with any data.

[ Parent | on HN ]