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Old 03-26-2020, 11:37 AM
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Originally Posted by CoachKandSportsguy View Post
Thank you for including a link. It is one more clinical report. This Bahrain news source quotes a medical official as saying they are using hydroxychloroquine after having detected Covid in the country 2 days earlier. It links to a report with a comment that Bahrain had been using medication since Feb 26th. No clinical information is included. No control group. Bahrain has a population of 1.7 million. The Johns Hopkins dashboard today shows:
Bahrain
Confirmed: 457
Deaths: 4
Recovered: 204
Active: 249

The article you linked does have a serious misstatement of fact
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In France, the anti-malarial was used in combination with azithromycin, an antibiotic typically prescribed for bacterial pneumonia, to treat some two dozen patients in Marseille.
The report actually shows only 6 patients were treated with the combination, not some two dozen.
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