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Re:About that Hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19 trial by dcolkitt on Monday March 23, 2020 @05:59PM (#22669268)
For the record since that decision day, the growth rate in the number of deaths in Italy has fallen in half[1]. In the 9 days from March 13 to March 22 the daily number of deaths grew 160% from 250 to 651. Prior to that, the same level of growth occurred in 4 days between March 9 (96 deaths) to March 13.

That seems like pretty strong evidence that the new treatment protocol is drastically decelerating the pandemic in Italy.

[1]https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/italy/

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Re:About that Hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19 trial by lultimouomo on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @04:19AM (#22673018)
This does not make much sense to me. If it was effective, it should decrease the lethality rate, not the growth in the number of deaths which is much more affected by the actual number of cases. In the page you link you can see that lethality rate has not fallen. Also, as I wrote I'm pretty sure that I saw an earlier version of that document, dating IIRC to the beginning of the month, that prescribed more or less the same combination of chloroquine and antivirals as a first line treatment.
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