I would hesitate to go into issues and evidence for HCQ and inflammatory conditions, as I would not want to derail the thread. I guess the point of my mentioning inflammatory conditions, which if I understand you correctly (I am not a physician—just a writer/teacher) is that HCQ for covid-19 works through a mechanism with zinc and possibly also an antibiotic. Is that your understanding, also? This mechanism is thought to be HCQ acting as an ionophore to transport zinc into the cells, which then STOPS the virus from replicating. Thus, if there is no zinc, the HCQ has no purpose or effect on Covid-19—unless (and here it is murkier) it may be helping in some other way, by itself, as an anti-inflammatory. Is that your take on it, also? However, why not add the zinc in the study? I can not find zinc in one single negative HCQ for Covid-19 study, unless I missed one. I see no rhyme or reason to exclude it from studies. In addition, many of the negative studies seem to use potentially toxic HCQ doses. Yikes! What has happened to science!
I hope that you have had a chance to watch Dr. Mobeen Syed's explanation of the mechanisms (plural) of HCQ, re its use-full-ness in the battle against the SARS-2-CoV Coronavirus.
I had to watch his "DrBeen" explanation of HCQ mechanisms several times, in order to gather his quick English dialect re some of the terminology that he used (egs. mRNA is "messenger RNA").
In the absence of HCQ, and based upon what Dr. Mobeen Syed has explained otherwise (egs. Famotidine), plus some other info (re, of course, vitamins C and D), a combination of Battlefield Expedients:
Famotidine (egs. Pepcid; also under the Equate brand name at Walmart), Zinc (some use Zicam Cold Remedy), vitamin D (some say D3), vitamin C (I am grateful that a variety of fruit is still at the grocery store), exercise, and sleep, plus plenty of fluids (under stress, some people tend to stop drinking refreshment), good personal hygiene, good mask maintenance . . . all operate in a person's favor.