Hydroxychloroquine prevents COVID deaths after all?

Despite a major media push to discourage the use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in treating COVID-19, which President Trump had endorsed, evidence continues to mount that it does work. A new Belgian study published by major academic publisher Elsevier (Meeus et al.) adds to the evidence that HCQ saves lives. The researchers found: “Patients who did not receive HCQ had a 57% higher risk of mortality. A survival benefit in the treatment group was consistent across all age groups.” They concluded: “Treatment of COVID-19 using a combination of hydroxychloroquine plus azithromycin was safe and was associated with a statistically significant mortality benefit in the treatment of COVID-19 infection in hospitalized patients. Our findings do not support the current negative recommendations regarding this treatment.” Source.

Note that ivermectin suffered a similar fate, despite evidence for its effectiveness against COVID-19, and that Emergency Use Authorization could only be granted to the vaccines if “there are no adequate, approved, and available alternatives”. Source.

Okay then.

Extra: How many lives were unnecessarily lost to COVID-19 due to the actions of our politicians, approved experts, and media pundits in suppressing the use of effective treatment against COVID-19? Hundreds of thousands? Millions? How much worse is this scenario when their preferred alternative, the jab, is now known to be where it shouldn’t be, is causing widespread health problems, and could even be negatively effective? What should we do with them?