@Health if you Google “who hcq” it’s the first result from WHO’s website.
Here’s the link, which mods may let through https://www.who.int/news/item/04-07-2020-who-discontinues-hydroxychloroquine-and-lopinavir-ritonavir-treatment-arms-for-covid-19
I don’t get this obsession with HCQ, or any other treatment.
This USA mistrust of doctors is an American machla because your healthcare is so monitised. Here in the UK where 99% of treatment for Covid happens in a NHS hospital there is almost zero way for anyone to make money out of surpressing valid treatments, and letting people die.
And yet, UK doctors, medical cheifs and head scientists are pretty much unanimous that masks, and social distancing are necessary especially when there’s a new variant with unknown long-term effects on the spread, because there is no guaranteed treatment. (And all agree that HCQ is ineffective, as is some heirmishe Monsey doctor’s magical cocktail.)
You USA-ers have got to start looking outside of your own country, at yiddishkeit worldwide and see how Eretz Yisroel reacts, and the gedolim there. The USA has one of the worst death rates from Covid in the Western world, and the yidden there someone think it’s a chov kodosh to keep the USA 11th commandment of freedom and almost entirely disregard the measures that the rest of the world, including frum yidden worldwide, think necessary.
The halachoh is that we follow rov rofim. The halacha is clear that most poskim hold that dinei dmalchusa dine applies to matters of public health.
This denial has much more to do with a misyavnim effect of valuing your USA-originating freedoms than a Torah viewpoint to do whatever we can to guard our health, obey the law of tha land, not to be misgreh b’umos and obove all to think critically and accept the majority worldview on health matters instead of conspiracy theories and quack doctors.