It's apparently not the hydroxychloroquine that kills the virus, it's zinc. HCQ just happens to be one of a number of drugs that moves zinc into cells: without that, circulating zinc in the bloodstream does no good.

It's not an antibiotic, it's an antimalarial. Malaria is caused by an intracellular parasite.

Note that all my wholesalers were sold out of all presentations of HCQ yesterday. I got 2x100 coming in today and who knows when I'll get more.