It is truly incredible. You almost have to conclude they want the disease to win. It’s also dismaying that they spend very little time looking at the data that is out there about Chloroquine and Azythromycin. It’s not a perfect study but we don’t have time for that. But what we are seeing is that it seems to work really well to defeat the virus among those infected. And works much better than standard of care. The first official publication from Dr. Raoult was March 17 - and it showed a huge improvement by day 3, with a 1:10,000 chance of the odds being random. But he (and the FDA and CDC) knew the data even before it was published.
Since that time we have even more data.
For the people who want to look at the political angle on this they may not be so happy. If this does happen to be the miracle we’ve been looking for, Trump gets to claim credit for pushing for its use weeks ago, and to blame the bureaucrats who delayed it and the governors who have banned its use (which is also just totally jaw-droppingly cruel and bone-headed).