No doubt people have heard the orange one tout the supposed benefits of a drug called hydroxychloroquine, presumably based on a very preliminary and somewhat dodgy early study in France in which the authors of that study themselves said that the number of patients involved was too small and needed further study. That's been followed by others, and of some doctors prescribing it out of desperation and lack of any other choices, and people stockpiling the stuff based on the word of the orange leader.
Well. Here we go. This is from a couple of days ago.
Hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19: What do the clinical trials tell us? - CEBM
TL : DR ?
"Current data do not support the use of hydroxychloroquine for prophylaxis or treatment of COVID-19. ... Neither they, nor three other negative trials that have since appeared, support the view that hydroxychloroquine is effective in the management of even mild COVID-19 disease."
In other words ... High probability that this whole thing, touted by the orange one, was a wild goose chase. Due to the inevitable stockpiling and demand from people wanting treatment with this, and doctors acting in desperation ... this may have adversely affected people who actually need that drug for treatment of other diseases for which its use is proven (e.g. lupus), and didn't do much, if anything, for people with covid-19.
Even in periods of desperation ... we still need to try to follow the scientific method the best we can.