Big Pharma will be producing life saving drugs, even if unprofitable because they know that if they dont, they will lose a large portion of their customers...
Think about it. They don't sell $$$$ drugs to healthy people, but largely to elderly patients with health care problems. If they die, how will the drug producers survive?
They are not stupid, Their future, at least in the short term, depends upon keeping these people alive!!!
NYSE certainly seems to think HCQ/A will be effective
Plus, pharma gets a bad rep. My husband is a pharmacist (dealing with specialty meds) and the only patients that pay anything for meds are ones with Medicare because it's illegal by law to offer copay assistance. Humira, Enbrel, Tecfidera, etc. all have copay assistance programs that bring it down to $0-5 for the patients.