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There's some discussion on the r/COVID19 subreddit about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/hkgj7a/covid19_outpatients_early_riskstratified/ https://

• JohnTHaller 6y ago
  Current top comment on reddit by PAJW: This is a study with authorship by Vladimir Zelenko, MD, a New York physician who has often spoken in favor of HCQ in the popular press. I'm not sure what role the two German authors played. The study finds a clear decrease in hospitalization and death among those treated with HCQ + AZT + Zinc to an "untreated public reference". Essentially no details are given regarding the control group except whether they sought hospitalization or died as a result of COVID-19. The study group was clearly younger than the usual COVID-19 death (median age: 58; IQR 40-60), but 70% had one or more medical condition that may serve as a comorbidity (most common: hypertension 28%, obesity 28%, hyperlipidema 23%). As with many of the studies that aren't RCTs, it is difficult to say whether the treatment worked or not. In this case, since the control group is unknown in composition, the data is really murky. 4 hospitalizations among 141 COVID-positive patients sounds fairly low, but I can't say that definitively.