Apparently it isn't just hoarders. I follow a Facebook page called Pharmacy Week (and I cannot recall why I ever added them LOL), but yesterday, someone posted:
"I work at a 340B pharmacy. We could usually get brand name Plaquenil for $1 for a bottle of 100. We have several patients on it monthly. Now it is $1000 a bottle. So much for contract pricing. Both the brand and generic are on back order from Bergen."
Two quick online searches verify that Planequil is one brand name for hydroxychloroquine, and that a 340B pharmacy is one that is on a government drug discount program.
I read that we have a factory, or two, firing up, to start making the hydroxychloroquine.
I have a friend who takes it, as a maintenance drug...for an autoimmune disease.
I told her a month and a half ago to stock up. She did.
Hopefully, our factories can produce within six months.
I know Isreal is also sending millions of doses.