When it comes to the treatment of COVID-19, many Western nations have been hobbled by the politicization of medicine. Throughout 2020, media and many public health experts warned against the use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), despite the fact that many practicing doctors were praising its ability to save patients. Most have been silenced through online censorship. Some even lost their jobs for the “sin” of publicly sharing their successes with the drug. HCQ had been approved for use on COVID-19 under an emergency use authorization (EUA) like that used to fast-track the approval of the vaccines now being taken by millions of Americans. But the EUA for HCQ was withdrawn shortly after a high-profile study published in The Lancet claimed the drug had no benefit in treating COVID and may be harmful. The Lancet study has since been retracted because the datasets used were found to be extremely unreliable. Other studies …