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HCQ is a prescription medication with side effects. There was some concern that HCQ’s known heart-related side effects might interact poorly with COVID-19’s known heart-related side effects, although other than the retracted study based on Surgisphere data it seems like that has proved unfounded.

Vitamin C and D are over the counter, or easily obtained from diet (citrus fruits and milk).

Moreover, HCQ was promoted by political entities as “100% effective” for COVID-19 (viral Charlie Kirk tweet, quoted by Rudy Giuliani, deleted by twitter). There was no clear scientific evidence of this and it was studied extensively and the best scientific trials (RCTs) of HCQ have shown no effect on the disease progression.

A big part of the concern with HCQ is that it was promoted as a cure alongside the claim that all other efforts to fight the virus could be discontinued, since HCQ would cure the disease.