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“ Significance: Among patients with COVID-19, the use of HCQ could significantly shorten TTCR and promote the absorption of pneumonia.”

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So hate to ask this, can you explain this for non-medical spectators? Specifically what TTCR and is "absorption of pneumonia" a good thing (e.g. the body has absorbed the pneumonia and therefore it has gone away) or a bad thing (e.g. the body has absorbed the pneumonia and therefore has "collected" more)?

From Paper:

TTCR: Time to clinical recovery

I have a feeling that this is a mistranslation, not jargon. Other similar usage of "absorption" that I can find was also written by Chinese researchers.

edit: got downvoted, so adding link to only other "absorption of pneumonia" use that I could find: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5344839/

edit2: I could also find some usage of "absorption of inflammation", again also all Chinese researchers.

In pneumonia, areas of the lungs fill with fluid. This prevents the area from filling with air, which therefore prevents the exchange of CO2 and O2 between the blood and air.

I will assume that 'absorption' in this sense refers to the fluid. It's a good thing when this happens, because that that area of the lung can be accessed by air again.

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