Health, I looked at the underlying hcqmeta site referred in Medscape Aug 21 article. Here is what results actually say. I am looking at only RCT (randomized controlled) not “early” tests:
Prophylaxis gets some 20% on average improvement
Late treatment shows 50% improvement
Early treatment results – many show improvement 505 on average, but most are very small. biggest ones Recovery, Solidarity show that HCQ is worse than controls. These studies also seem to be on sicker patients (10-25% dying in controls), while many positive studies have 1-10% dying.
There is also 2x less benefit in North America comparing with all other regions
Overall, it seems it seems from this analysis that HCQ is moderately beneficial, but not under all conditions and not for all people.