They did, probably illegal shipment or counterfeit intercept rather than a ban.  Our gov like most are dickheads, but they adopted HCQ fairly early, also pretty sure local HCQ/Antibiotic dujour + Zi live trials validated the original French expert, US, CCP Russian & almost everywhere else now, results...except NY to course.  90+% success rate, even dickheads get that don’t they?  Then their is NY...