I would upvote you for rightly pointing out that it seems political, which is worth calling out, but I disagree with your sarcastic tone. But largely, yes, som

I would upvote you for rightly pointing out that it seems political, which is worth calling out, but I disagree with your sarcastic tone. But largely, yes, somehow, in some people's heads I think people have made an emotion association that endorsement of a drug is somehow a validation of an ex-political-figure. Hopefully that can all be put behind us now. I looked on wikipedia and found "Hydroxychloroquine is being studied to prevent and treat coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‑19), but all clinical trials conducted during 2020 found it is ineffective and may cause dangerous side effects.[3][4][5][6]" But interestingly, the systematic review it referenced concluded "There is sufficient pre-clinical rationale and evidence regarding the effectiveness of chloroquine for treatment of COVID-19 as well as evidence of safety from long-time use in clinical practice for other indications [3] to justify clinical research on the topic." The rest of the citations were prior to June. I'm not specifically saying it does or doesn't work, I couldn't care less. I do care about citations matching.