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Originally Posted by redneck
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Dr. Stephen Smith on effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine: 'I think this is the beginning of the end of the pandemic'
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It's promising (as are several other antivirals undergoing trials like remdesivir), but the hospitalization rate (more precisely hospital resource/time usage per case) needs to go down 10x for widespread transmission to be manageable.
Rejecting the null hypothesis is probably possible with the data, but showing 90% efficacy is harder. IIRC the % that can be treated with chloroquine is something like 50% so we still need some other options.