“There are FDA approved medicines (Hydrochloroquine and Ivermectin) that have been repurposed that kills Covid.”
The HCQ claim comes from a 2005 PubMed paper on SARS-1. I posted a link to it here in spring 2020 some time before Trump ever mentioned HCQ. I figured his people must have found the same study.
The 2005 study was done in vitro on Green Monkey tissue. It killed SARS in the lab. But that kind of success doesn’t always translate to live humans. There was no chance to test it in vivo because SARS-1 had already died out.
When SARS-2 arrived, Covid-19, there were plenty of chances to test the effectiveness of HCQ in vivo. You can find the studies at PubMed. One case I recall in Vietnam, they used it as a prophylactic to see if it would protect nursing staff working directly with Covid patients. The nurses came down with Covid at the same rate as those not taking HCQ. It’s possible that it might help those who are not exposed to heavy viral loads like nurses are. If people want to try it they ought to be given the chance. It’s not a dangerous med. But it didn’t do what was hoped for it in 2005. It doesn’t cure Covid in live humans. And now there are effective therapeutics that do work, the MAbs being one group.