You are right to smell a rat. No ZINC is ~almost half not helped, maybe harm. Just need to get the word out. Like "Epstien didn't kill himself. Don't forget the ZINC!" People are like half-dead zombies and brush over ZINC even after you gently nail them to the wall about it.

The rat is also the English-challenged fuck who wrote the letter in the PDF. They very carefully repeated FDA's 'dislike' of the drug, while carefully not saying that the revocation restores the default condition that existed before the EUA where HCQ is an FDA approved drug just not for COVID, but is able to be prescribed for 'off-label' use by physicians without restriction.

Here is a video where Trump extracts (with pliers) a clarification in plain English.
(transcript, starts at 40:45)

Even Azar's response is a little misleading because he fails to mention that certain governors have issued 'edicts' that limit HCQ to hospital trials on a state level.

And the FDA press release contains this if you know where to look,

Of note, FDA approved products may be prescribed by physicians for off-label uses if they determine it is appropriate for treating their patients, including during COVID.

Burying the only thing people might ever read an FDA notice about with an "Of note," means the paragraph was probably added while Trump's pliers was squeezing someone's balls.

Zelenko is jubilant but quaint in his irritation of the FDA notice's misleading content,

FDA announcement is misleading and uses Joseph Goebbels propaganda tactics. What the FDA needs to say is TREAT COVID-19 EARLY AND LIVE. Don’t end up in a hospital on a respirator and die.

It's on his @zev_dr Twitter feed but I won't link to it because Twitter is a linkless javascript cesspool and fuck Twitter

From what I've looked into on this it seems it means they can only administer it in hospitals or prescribe it for the approved purposes like malaria. If any pedes have any more input on this please correct me.