> I thought hydroxychloroquine was disproven as total junk science. I recall seeing on the news during the pandemic that it was ineffective. What has changed?

Once again: what has changed is the lies of mainstream media and politicians during the covid outbreaks being exposed.

Here's a study on 30 000+ patients made by doctors, not politicians. The results are without any appeal: HCQ works and it works wonder (which many knew and many knew that for whatever reason there was a cabal trying to silence doctors saying HCQ was working):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37861932

That's mentioned several times in the paper.

> despite the controversy surrounding its use, treatment with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin remains a viable option

Also keep in mind there were only 400 people in the treatment group, and the study concedes:

> our study reports on outcomes from the first half of 2020, before vaccination became available and before the emergence of new COVID-19 variants. Since that time several drugs, like remdesivir, molnupiravir and nirmatrelvir/ritonavir were approved for the treatment of Covid-19

...This result is remarkable because treatment with hydroxychloroquine was abandoned following the results of the SOLIDARITY and RECOVERY trial, which did not find a clinical benefit [20,21].