[BDParrish]

Watched it. He still does not touch on the mechanism.
“...and CQ opens those gates...”
simply by virtue of being a weak base?

“...Zinc stops replicase.”
simply by changing intracellular pH?

Always appreciate your kind desire to help.

[MHGinTN]

Hydroxychloroquine is a zinc ionophore. That means HCQ acts to ferry ZINC into the cell where THE ZINC disrupts the replication of the viral RNA. HCQ also is an anti-inflammatory, so it reduces the cytokine potentials. HCQ may also alter the intracellular pH just enough to hinder the viral efforts to invade cells at the ACE2 receptor sites.

Adding the Zinc reduces the viral load so the immune system can overcome the invading pathogen.