Slightly off subject. I know more than a few people that have started HCQ and had their asthma diminish significantly or go away all together. Possible Malaria tie in also?
If you look at the first link I posted in my #46 on this thread, you can read that hydroxychloroquine has anti-inflammatory properties, so that may be why it appears to help the asthma sufferers you mentioned.
It does not prove there is any link between asthma and malaria at all.
When we were kids and got into poison ivy, our mothers would get out the bottle of calamine lotion. Same bottle came out if we got bitten up by mosquitoes. Calamine lotion might relieve the itchiness in both scenarios, but hardly proves any link between poison ivy and mosquitoes. One is a plant and the other is an insect. The itchiness is a reaction to substances released by very different organisms.
... started HCQ and had their asthma diminish significantly or go away all together.
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Have heard similar anecdote wrt: Ivermectin.