Hydroxychloroquine is great on arthritis. Doctors in Texas was saying it worked. I do not know. I am not a doctor.
I'm a clinical hospital pharmacist and am really ambivalent about it. If the doc wants to use it, fine, if not, fine. The few times we've actually used it was more of a why not than a real belief it works. If I get CD19 and start to get short of breath and my doc wants to prescribe it, I'd take it, but not with azithromycin, I'd also be OK not taking it by itself. The data varies and it's really opinion at this point whether it works or not and if it does, when and how much is at question.
Again though, the vast majority of people who test positive don't need anything other than a few tylenol and some cough syrup at most.
