Here is a perspective from someone who has been on hydroxychloroquine (aka Plaquenil) for couple of years for my Rheumatoid Arthritis. In Rheumatoid Arthritis, the immune system goes bananas and attacks various parts of your body instead of protecting your body from invaders. In my case, it attacked my heart. I now have severe heart failure and have had 3 heart surgeries with 2 new artificial heart valves. The hydroxychloroquine and other drugs are used to tamp down the immune system, so the immune system won’t attack you.
It is my understanding that the Covid-19 puts your immune system in hyperdrive, and that the inflammation and damage are actually caused by your own immune system attacking you, not directly by Covid-19, which is why these drugs are effective against Covid-19.
According to my rheumatologist, the hydroxychloroquine won’t keep me from getting Covid-19, but will tend to keep me from getting a severe case. I do hope he is right. He is in the top of his field here in Los Angeles.
Niece’s body is a wreck from the crap they’ve given her. Plaquenil is the latest, Lupus/Sjogren’s. Her lungs, liver, kidney’s are Trashed and heart is enlarged now. RA she doesn’t have. Knee has had 3 surgeries, next is amputation. Jacksonian Seizures. BP out of control. Idiot lung doc sent her down to ER and no one called a Cardio, no BP meds, they let her go into withdrawal from Valium and Flexeril for her muscle spasms. She lives up near Dollywood, no decent hospitals or docs. C/D grades for specialist. 5-7 yrs to live going by the severity of symptoms.
What will happen to her teen with Duchenes is on hold until she can get a divorce. Hope they put him in Fed prison for Income tax/stimulus fraud. Only reason he’s passed his last 2 dope test, no job to buy the crap.
I have those.