Research paper that says HCQ helps nada, nothing, zero. And in fact the people administered HCQ were dying at double or triple the rate compared to those that weren't given anything.
Not even the placebo effect in action.
Link to paper :
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.16.20065920v1.full.pdf
WaPo covers the study :
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/21/anti-malarial-drug-trump-touted-is-linked-higher-rates-death-va-coronavirus-patients-study-says/