The key is to always treat early. You don’t go to the hospital with a broken leg only to be told to go home and come back if it gets worse. You don’t hear an oncologist say “you have cancer so let’s wait a few months to treat it”.
IMO they should have been handing out sealed packets of pills containing the HCQ+ (or the IVM+) regimen at every test site that said “break open in case of positive test” so anyone who got the bad news could start fighting it that very minute. Hell given the general safety of these they could have probably started taking them before they even got the test results. It’s only a few days worth of pills.