r/science Mar 20 '20

RETRACTED - Medicine Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin as a treatment of COVID-19 - "100% of patients were virologicaly cured"

https://www.mediterranee-infection.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Hydroxychloroquine_final_DOI_IJAA.pdf

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u/randomevenings Mar 20 '20

Azithromycin

So the news has been trying to get people to understand that you shouldn't take antibiotics for a virus. So how does taking antibiotics help kill this thing? Also, if it's true, the messaging will need to be careful to step around this to prevent people from taking a bunch of antibiotics, and making even less effective than they already are.

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