I'm posting IHU (Professor Raoult) pre-prints in english, they will be updated. 4 are available as for today. Link
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March 1st to March 26th versions
Clinical and microbiological effect of a combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin in 80 COVID-19 patients with at least a six-day follow up: an observational study
In this article they are talking about the chinese study conducted on 30 patients
80 rather young patients (median age 52 years) were treated in Marseille for 6 to 10 days, between March 3 and March 21, 2020;
all patients were treated with hydroxychloroquine (3 x 200 mg daily) + the antibiotic azithromycin;
58% had comorbidity (hypertension, diabetes, chronic respiratory disease, etc.) identified as a risk factor for Covid-19;
no significant treatment-related adverse events were noted (a single interruption). At the end of the study:
65 of the 80 patients (81%) developed favorably and were discharged from hospital very quickly, on average after 4.6 days;
13 of 80 patients (16%) were still in intensive care at 10 days or more;
1 patient (86 years old) died in infectious disease without going through intensive care;
93% of patients had an undetectable viral load after 8 days.
The decrease in viral load results from several indistinguishable factors, including natural healing of patients, the inherent effect of chloroquine and azithromycin, or a combination of the two.