I wanted to post a few facts:
1) Hydroxychloroquine is not an antiviral. It is an antimalarial. It is also an immune suppressant. Malaria is not a virus and you need your immune system to fight off things that are.
https://medlineplus.gov/druginfo/meds/a601240.html?fbclid=IwAR0bTbqHDnVRGmCRzOIs7-IiNvPc2uKHcTmLorRQAxLUbIidDh93PLsU66M
2) The recent uproar you have heard about a video being taken down? That video is from Breitbart news, centers on unsupported claims that masks don't help and Hydroxychloroquine does, and prominently features a doctor who in the past has spread conspiracies about "The New World Order", the Illuminati, and the dangers of treating LGBTQ+ people like humans
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/28/trump-coronavirus-misinformation-twitter/?fbclid=IwAR0bTbqHDnVRGmCRzOIs7-IiNvPc2uKHcTmLorRQAxLUbIidDh93PLsU66M
3) Breitbart News (who published the recent video) has never even pretended to be unbiased. They are best known for fabricating evidence and making wild conspiracy claims
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breitbart_News
4) That Lancet study that was retracted? It was retracted for doing science wrong, not for being proved incorrect. When people mess up their science, The Lancet retracts their studies because they do their best to be a responsible medical journal. More recent and better documented studies continue to show that Hydroxychloroquine (again, not an antiviral in ANY way) has either no effect or slightly negative outcomes on people with mild to moderate COVID. This makes perfect sense when you consider that it is a drug with no plausible reason to interact with a virus.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2019014https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2016638