RE: Put it into perspective. HCQ is malaria pills. If you were posted to a foreign assigment where malaria was a problem, you’d take it daily like a vitamin. Zinc IS a vitamin.
And back to the question -— how many percent of those who take HCQ against Malaria still get Malaria nonetheless? Or is it 100% protective?
The answer to the above question is important because the study in this article tells us that only 7% of those who take HCQ were infected with Covid-19, meaning 93% of the others were not.
Now if Malaria is similarly 93% protective, then I would say that this study implies that HCQ is just as good for Covid-19 as it is for Malaria. But I don;t really know the Malaria figure.
I couldn’t disagree more with your take on this.
There is ZERO disappointment and ZERO significance to realizing a drug won’t actually prevent infection from a virus. What drug has ever done this for a virus?
This was never hoped or claimed for.
Someone touting this as a headline or some significant discovery is a bad joke.
It is such a ridiculous bar to set, I have to wonder if the study/article were paid for by the vaccine industry.
They pointedly avoided even looking at what the drug was hoped to do, and believed to do, reduce the severity of disease upon infection.
If a huge percent of people who take low dose HCQ once a week end up with asymptomatic infections instead of worse categories of severity, that is a huge benefit and not a disappointment in any way.
Yes people who are asymptomatic can still infect others, although they are much less infectious than worse cases (viral load). If it saves lots of lives among high risk individuals, that is the farthest thing possible from being a disappointment.
News is coming out now that the numbers of asymptomatic infections for C19 are far bigger than previously thought.
By the way if you are stationed in a place with risk of malaria they give you low dose once a week for prophylactic, not daily.
Same for c19, low dose once a week for prophylactic, high dose daily for acute/severe treatment (under close supervision with zinc/zpak)
The answer to that question is complicated by the evolution of Malaria. There are many places where HCQ is no longer used because the malaria organism has evolved to be resistant to HCQ.
I think the original effectiveness of CQ against malaria was quite high.
But perfection is not necessary, only significant effectiveness. Realistically, N-95 masks, gowns, and gloves are not 100% effective in actual use. But that doesn't mean people shouldn't use them.