Health – I have no idea who you are and not really sure I want to know. Your reference to the American Thoracic Society (ATS) is and your quote of their suggestions has no bearing on my comment. In the very same document that the ATS makes that suggestion (they don’t even call it a recommendation) they explain the rationale for that suggestions which is very different from what you imply. When you quote things out of context and give them meaning, clearly not intended, that is lying.
The ATS suggested hyrdoxychloroquine for patients with pneumonia when various conditions are met. In the actual details they discuss this in the context of hospitalized COVID-19 patients with severe pneumonia, in which case the outcomes were so bad to begin with that there was little concern that hydroxychloroquine will do harm. At no point do they even suggest that there is sufficient evidence to assume that it will help, rather they cast serious doubts on that, but see the value in at least trying it. Notably, they focus very much on collecting data as otherwise there is no way to learn if administering it helps at all.
We can discuss things here, and even something as challenging as medicine, but when people lie about what research studies or medical guidelines mean it is just not helpful to anyone. If your agenda is to simply promote hydroxychloroquine regardless of evidence for or against because you are convinced it works, well just say you think it works but you can’t offer evidence rather than lying about what things mean. On the other hand if you want a serious discussion, then pull out data, or whatever, that legitimately supports your position and you are not misconstruing or overstating and we can discuss that. So far all I have seen is nonsense being promoted, which in my opinion does not do Dr. Zelenko any favors, as rather than allowing his treatment to be considered in a neutral context it is being considered in the context of a bunch of nuts ranting and raving and in general lying about what things mean. It does not make it look good. The same goes for the politicization here of medicine. Trump should have never stepped into the arena to promote medicines that have not (yet) been accepted as proven treatments. Him doing that politicized this and was just not helpful. He is not a doctor and as such he should respect that and leave the medical stuff to the doctors.