I have always been stupified by how FDA decisions are almost always anti patient. We always heard they made their decisions to benefit drug companies and I believed it was largely because of revolving door positions where gov’t. employees go on to work at drug companies for lucrative pay and benefits. I didn’t know, as this article points out, that drug companies provide one third of the FDA’s funding! 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/hydroxychloroquine-works-in-high-risk-patients-and-saying-otherwise-is-dangerous

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What do you need to know to evaluate these smears against hydroxychloroquine? The first thing to understand is that COVID-19 has two main stages. At the first stage, it is a flu-like illness. That illness will not kill you. If you are a high-risk patient and begin treatment immediately, you will almost certainly be done with it in a few days. When not treated, high-risk patients may progress. The virus then causes severe pneumonia and attacks many organs, including the heart. In this second stage, hydroxychloroquine is not effective.