This is true. You fail to acknowledge this truth when it doesn't fit your narrative. You also are among the first to tout statistical surveys that have no clinical basis. You often equate correlation with causation. I posted a comprehensive link on this showing a summary of over 100 studies, some showing positive results and some showing negative results. The overwhelming conclusion was that HCQ by itself had little effect, that HCQ plus Zinc if administered early in the replication cycle, and HCQ by itself or in combination was ineffective when administered late in the replication cycle.
The main difference between the original SARS virus and SARS-COV-2 is the S gene, which includes zinc-binding domain (ZBD). Of course we didn't know early that SARS-COV-2 was likely engineered to have a spike protein designed to make the virus more infectious.