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One scholarly article published in Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease last month detailed experiments by researchers in Marseille, France, who treated over 3,100 patients with a combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin. That treatment regimen was "associated with a decreased risk of transfer to ICU or death … decreased risk of hospitalization ≥10 days … and shorter duration of viral shedding," the researchers wrote.
(That study appeared to use hospitalized patients as trial subjects, but Risch said that the facility functions as both an inpatient ward and a day clinic. "During the study, HCQ was not legal to prescribe for outpatients," he said. "So the hospital admitted patients for the day, did exams etc. and gave them the HCQ prescriptions, then they went home. Only a small number were actually hospitalized. So in reality they were outpatients.")
Researchers in Brazil, meanwhile, said that patients treated with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin were less likely to be hospitalized, particularly the earlier the treatment was started. Risch also shared an open letter written in late April by upstate New York doctor Vladimir Zelenko in which the doctor said he had observed "very positive results" by treating patients with hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin and zinc. Of 405 patients treated with that regimen, Zelenko wrote, two died, six were hospitalized, and four were intubated.
In a July 20 academic letter, Risch ultimately cited a total of 12 studies he said showed a positive association with HCQ use and improved mortality outcomes, including one trial in New York City concluding that "hydroxychloroquine use was associated with decreased in-hospital mortality."
Risch said that the practice of treating sicker patients with the drug "favors a poorer outcome for the medication."
"The evidence is when you limit studies to just the five conditions outlined in my first email, [the drug] shows benefits in those strict conditions," Risch said.
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