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My experience with becoming infected with covid-19 and taking Hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, and Zinc sulphate for five days was positive. My total time to recover from first sign of symptoms to becoming healthy again was about 11 days. I obviously can't and therefore won't make any claims that my experience is the direct result of taking those medications.

Here's a tracker that lists studies: https://c19study.com/

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Seems like your symptom resolution was about the median for most patients infected with covid.

http://cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6930e1.htm

You personal experience, despite being very important to you, isn't significative as scientific proof. The site you mentioned is anonymous, a collection of links with arbitrary ratings. This isn't a scientific paper, this is marketing. Here is a real meta-analysis for the different covid-19 treatments: https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m2980 In 100% of randomized controlled trials, the most significant kind of scientific evidence, hydroxychloroquine is ineffective. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1291068395497062400.html

Thanks for the meta-analysis link! Looking at the other measures, it does mention HCQ in duration of symptoms.

> Hydroxychloroquine might be the most effective in reducing the duration of symptoms. Remdesivir has intermediate effectiveness and lopinavir-ritonavir could have intermediate effectiveness. The main limitations of the evidence are risk of bias and imprecision.

Yes mean difference −4.5 days,with a low certainty.. They also say: Hydroxychloroquine might increase the risk of adverse events compared with the other interventions And no evidence for reduction in death, except for glucocorticoids.. I would expect an effective treatment to reduce mortality..

Well, your single personal experience can't be a proof of what treatment is working. Even more when we know that you had a 99% chance of recovering

No harm in taking these drugs even if you doubt the studies. The number of patients that have 'recovered' from COVID19 but are suffering long term debilitating effect is very scary. These drugs/minerals are been consumed by millions of people but little side effects before COVID. At best, it's somewhat effective; at worst, it's usefulness.

How did it compare to the other time you got COVID-19 and didn't take HCQ/AZT/Zn?

The parent comment might be downvoted at this time, but correctly illustrates how un-valuable single-person anecdotes are to this discussion.

You mean like all the anecdotes in this discussion, which some might call "replies"?

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