RE: To my layman’s understanding, HCQ works with zinc to prevent virus replication. It is not a shield against exposure and infection, but rather against significant progression of the infection and disease.
Well thanks for that. If what you said is true, This seems to make the seeming mass usage of doctors and nurses of HCQ to protect themselves against infection useless then.
You only take it AFTER you get infected. Taking it BEFORE you get infected to protect yourself is pretty much useless.
Millions of Indians who are using HCQ as protective are simply wasting their money.
Is the goal to prevent exposure/infection, or to prevent illness? Exposure doesn’t mean illness - that takes replication by the virus unless the initial infection is a massive viral load. A normal infection starts with a moderate or low load, then progresses to illness via replication.
The flu shot, when it works, decreases the level of illness by having antibodies already in the body that can fight off the infecting virus from day 1. With a new virus like CCP Wuhan, nobody has effective antibodies. The vaccine Fauci and company speak of will work the same way.
It is not about preventing infection by a virus. It is about preventing illness.