Dr Zelenko from New York who was successfully treating patients with hydroxychloroquine (HCQ)+ zinc + azithromycin (AZ) wrote to President Trump. [1, 2]
On March 21, 2020, Trump tweeted that HCQ + AZ as a potential treatment and in response received huge media and “expert” backlash, including from Dr Anthony Fauci. [3]
This is a cheap and readily available drug is commonly promoted for malaria prevention even with it’s know potential side effect profile, and Arthritis Australia don’t even consider heart issues as important enough to list on their fact sheet even though the FDA believes it “could cause severe heart problems”.
At that time only 182 COVID-19 deaths were declared in USA.
Hydroxychloroquine has been “restricted” by Australia’s Therapeutics Goods Administration (TGA) since March 2020 on the basis of supply shortages, even though 32.9 million doses were donated.