I read the article. It stated for this experiment, the HCQ was useless and they stopped bothering to test it way back.
Maybe its ok for prophylaxis...which apparently many medical types use it as a precaution...but apparently its not helping those who are really in trouble.
These studies fail to use zinc. Purpose of using HQC is to carry zinc into cells so RNA virus cannot replicate. Once you are in trouble its late. Although now it appears another cheap steroid Dexamethasone appears to work well in late stage.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/16/health/dexamethasone-covid-drug-recovery-trial-bn/index.html
Theres no money to be made using cheap off patent drugs.