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Message: [QUOTE="JustbrewitMan, post: 3486003, member: 7806"] Yep, interesting and encouraging. Some important basic medical research study critique notes: [LIST=1] [*]Very small sample size, not a true randomized trial. Control group was selected from a couple different sites other than the one where they gave the treatments [*]Vast majority of patients had only mild disease or were asymptomatic. At this point. can't extrapolate the encouraging results to the sickest patients who could benefit most from active antiviral therapy with much level of confidence [*]Main endpoint of interest was seeming to reduce the nasopharngeal viral load to undetectable levels in a decent % of hydroxychloroquine patients and all of the hydroxychloroquine+azithromycin patients. This finding [B]*IF REAL & REPRODUCIBLE*[/B], coupled with widespread screening of patients, could be a [B]PROFOUND[/B] intervention to curtail rampant spread of the disease by mildly symptomatic/asymptomatic people. [/LIST] BAD NEWS: -In true panic fashion, since this has circulated like wildfire on social media, people are jumping all over this and hounding MDs for prescriptions whether they need them or not. Similar to what we saw with TP, most pharmacies & healthcare facilities already are in "backorder" status with usual suppliers trying to order these meds for patients. [/QUOTE]