This virus is the result of "gain of function" research. In other words, they keep modifying viruses to make them more infectious and/or lethal. This work gets done at Fort Detrick and Wuhan, two labs that happened to be shut down last Fall over "security breaches. HCQ is a generic drug that is easy to manufacture, thus, it is cheap. That is problem number one. The medical system is fully incentivized to go the more expensive route with drugs still covered under patents. With trillions being created in debt right now, price is not a limiting factor at all. Big Pharma's influence strikes again.