Table 3. Comparison of viral RNA load at different time points between groups.

	Control group		HCQ group		Mann-Whitney U Test
	n	median IQR[Q2;Q3]	n	median IQR[Q2;Q3]	p-value unadj	q-value
Day 0, total RNA copies in swab	12	447 847 [23 821;1 030 282]	33	130 183 [33 812;982 481]	0.38	0.45
Day 3, total RNA copies in swab	12	27 638.5 [20 138;45 794]	29	27 715.0 [17 204;87 433]	0.45	0.45
Day 8, total RNA copies in swab	10	19 001.5 [0;28 313]	26	23 880.5 [8 094;36 859]	0.18	0.45

HCQ, hydroxychloroquine; IQR, interquartile range; Q2, quartile 2; Q3, quartile 3. Differences between groups were quantified using the Mann–Whitney U test without (p-value unadj) and with the Benjamini-Hochberg correction (q-value).