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A comment on Efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in patients with Covid-19: a randomized trial.

Re:Efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in patients with Covid-19:... by aazaa on Thursday April 02, 2020 @10:48AM (#22759596)
It's worth noting that this study does not include azithromycin in the treatment regime, as was the case in the Raoult/French study.

The French study, problematic in the extreme but still promising, claims a large synergistic effect of using both drugs in combination.

Also, unlike the French study, this one appears to be at least controlled, but possibly not blinded.

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Re:Efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in patients with Covid-19:... by kiloDalton on Thursday April 02, 2020 @11:04AM (#22759815)
I think this counts a double blind trial. From the top of page 4 in the article: "Randomization was performed through a computer-generated list stratified by site. Treatments were assigned after confirming the correctness of the admission criteria. Neither the research performers nor the patients were aware of the treatment assignments."
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