• Premiere: Hydroxychloroquine went live with video featuring illustration by Chris Lyons as part of Modern Art Orchestra’s Art of Virus project on August 13, 2020.

• Instrumentation: four or more voices

• Duration: 3:00

• Text drawn from remarks by President Donald J. Trump about Hydroxychloroquine and Coronavirus Response on March 19 and August 3, 2020; an ABC News headline; a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association; and a statement issued by the FDA upon the revocation of emergency use authorization for Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine.

illustration by Chris Lyons

music written and performed by Gilda Lyons

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Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate

game changer

An Arizona man died and his wife was hospitalized after taking Chloroquine Phosphate, March 23 2020

Cardiac arrest was significantly more likely in patients receiving Hydroxychloroquine + Azithromycin, The Journal of the American Medical Association, May 11 2020

Alert: REVOKED This warrants revocation of the emergency use authorization (EUA) for Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate (HCQ) and Chloroquine Phosphate (CQ) for the treatment of COVID-19, U.S Food and Drug Administration, June 15 2020   

You’re not going to get sick or die

It’s been heavily tested

I think we’re doing a great job

You’ll be seeing that very soon