Gene sequencing analysis strongly suggest that COVID-19, the current deadly viral pandemic, the virus originated in bats. which originated in Wuhan, China Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) resulted from bats before being transferred to humans in wet-markets via civet cats. These wet-markets create conditions conducive to the spread of the viruses responsible for both COVID-19 and SARS. While the bottom fell out of the Stock-market, creating a world-wide recession Professor Didier Raoult, Advisor to the French Government on COVID-19, announced that a majority of 24 non-randomized patients in Southern France responded to a short treatment trial of  hydroxychloroquine, a well-established drug for the prevention and treatment of Malaria.