Writing this to put people’s minds at ease.
Hospitals are essentially all using treatment protocols including hydroxychloroquine, often with zinc and Zithromax or similar hopeful drugs.
In my regional hospital system, if you have hypoxia and covid, or a risk factor and covid, you are getting treated with these meds as the standard, unless there is a reason not to.
I have family who work in big name academic medical centers in other states also on the front lines. They are also using these meds. And we all hope it is making a difference.
So please rest easy, word has gotten out and hospitals and docs are embracing and not rejecting these therapies.
I would not say that such patients are denied medicine. It really just comes down to your doc. If you test positive I recommend you ask your doc for the meds. The emerging standard is that if you have hypoxia or a risk factor you will get meds; if not, meds are up to you and your doc who also needs to make sure that you don’t have a contraindication.