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Originally Posted by BarbC2016

Italy Finally Starts Mass Treatment with Hydroxychloroquine

The Italian doctors are noting that the drug is best used in the early stages of the infection.

Please critically evaluate these statements from the article you linked [thank you for a link]

We have just understood that the virus has an evolution in two phases and that it is during the second phase, after a few days (about a week), that the situation can suddenly, in 24 or 48 hours, worsen and leads to respiratory failure requiring intensive care.
The results that we are starting to accumulate suggest that hydroxychloroquine administered early, gives the possibility of avoiding this evolution in a majority of patients and is also helping us to prevent hospitals from filling up.

Now seeing as approximately 80 % of patients with early Covid never progress why would a finding that the majority of patients given a treatment don't progress be meaningful? If only 20% of early patients given the medicine progressed would you be impressed? Of course not as the known pattern of Covid is that 80% of patients given only symptomatic treatment don't progress to being sick enough to fill up hospitals.