if someone is taking aspirin pre-hospitalization it might mess with the dosage of anticoagulants the patient may need within hours of hospitalization? only thing I can think of
This stop all mild case treatment reminds me of when general antibiotic use was suddenly phased out in response to the exponential growth of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. This may be a similar step - slow the mutations. Otoh, India is swamped with patients and short on everything, so it may be a political out for doctors and hospitals to justify turning away all but the most critical patients.
India is in the malaria belt. I’m sure there’s plenty of HCQ to go around.
If they’re shot on resources they should send people home with Ziverdo kits. Reducing the time people are shedding virus should reduce R0.
https://www.rxindia.com/medicines/medicines-by-therapeutic-class/covid-19/ziverdo-kit/
Currently out of stock at this site, but had been being sold for months, for cheap.