Bingo. My mom has been on hydroxychloroquine for 15 years for autoimmune disorders she has. All her doctors deemed it "as safe as it gets" for legit over a decade, when all of a sudden they needed millions of doses of an incredibly inexpensive drug. Remdesevir, the drug they pushed for advanced cases, costs several thousands per dose. Hydroxy costs mere cents.
My mom caught COVID and I'm convinced the hydroxy is the reason she legit had zero symptoms. So are her doctors. She's a senior citizen with a battery of health problems, but she never even broke a fever. It's probably not useful once somebody has symptoms, but there is very likely utility as a prophylactic. A lot of ER doctors/nurses in the city used it as a prophylactic for the first few months. My cousin is a pharmacist, the amount of scripts he filled for doctors was outrageous he said
I'm sorry, friend, but this is not credible evidence. 40% of people who are COVID-positive may never have symptoms, and even some of those would be senior citizens with a lot of underlying conditions. 80% or more of COVID-positive people will never have symptoms bad enough to warrant hospital evaluation or admission for treatment. I'm very glad that your mother is fine, but it was unlikely to have anything to do with hydroxychloroquine.
How do we know this? Because they data-mined the people they could find that were already taking hydroxychloroquine regularly for other conditions. If it had a true prophylactic effect, then they should have a statistically lower positive infection rate, a statistically lower hospitalization rate, and a statistically lower death rate related to COVID-19. So far, they haven't, and we don't expect that to change, nor should there be a reason for it to change.