When people say that studies have shown a lack of efficacy, they're talking about studies of HCQ or CQ by itself.
It has to be combined with zinc to be truly effective. Zinc channels the HCQ into the cells so that it can block replication. This is the treatment that doctors in FL and various places were having wild success with last year.
It's a little fishy that Fauci chose to base his assessment of "a clear lack of efficacy" (and even calling it dangerous) on the one study that was completely fraudulent. Any professional who isn't incompetent could have glanced at that study and found a million red flags. I don't think that Fauci's incompetent. Do you?
Even when The Lancet was forced to retract that bogus study, Fauci and company only doubled down on their aggressive attack on the treatment. Is there any logical reason that a drug that's been safely and commonly used for 65 years should be banned? The worst thing that you could rationally say about it is that it may only be mildly effective.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/med...mes/ar-AAKSGnq
This is a recent study which shows that HCQ/zinc increased the survival rate by 200% in severely ill patients.
Which is consistent with the anecdotal evidence from last year.
I know it may seem like I'm the one who isn't being objective. I see the opposite. I see people who want to talk themselves into believing the narrative that seems less "crazy" and more commonly accepted/mainstream, and to do so they ignore red flags and inconsistencies.
Frankly, I don't know why everybody's first instinct is to roll their eyes when someone accuses the least-trusted industry in America of greed. They should be rolling their eyes at the suggestion that the industry cares more about the health of the population than earning billions.