Read the new Chinese retrospective I linked earlier in the thread. Amazingly these great results were achieved in critical patients on ventilators.
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Hydroxychloroquine treatment is significantly associated with a decreased mortality in critically ill patients with COVID-19 through attenuation of inflammatory cytokine storm. Therefore, hydroxychloroquine should be prescribed for treatment of critically ill COVID-19 patients to save lives.
Spot on. I am going to have to learn to reference the "cytokine storm". That is the right term for what goes wrong.