"Patients with both azithromycin and hydroxychloroquine use had increased odds of mortality after adjusting for confounders. These findings are not only consistent with what was observed in other observational studies conducted in the earlier stage of the COVID-19 pandemic18-23 but also similar to results of recently published clinical trials in the United States and other countries.24,25 The multicenter, randomized, open-label trial of 504 patients with confirmed COVID-19 in Brazil by Cavalcanti et al24 found that neither hydroxychloroquine nor a combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin showed any benefit compared with controls on clinical outcomes at 15 days.24 A randomized, controlled, open-label trial of more than 4500 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in the United Kingdom (Horby et al25) indicated that 28-day mortality was slightly higher among patients treated with hydroxychloroquine than among those in the control group (OR, 1.09; 95% CI, 0.97-1.23).25 A randomized, double-masked, placebo-controlled trail across the United States and parts of Canada26 also concluded that hydroxychloroquine did not help prevent illness when used as postexposure prophylaxis for COVID-19."
Does this strike you as a repudiation of the AMA's established counsel on not using hyroxychloroquine for COVID-19?