The benefit of this drug seemed very low to me.
It’s no magic bullet much less very effective.
I’ve read the summaries of effectiveness for both the HCQ cocktail and Remdesivir. It appears to this untutored eye that Remdesivir is not very effective and that HCQ cocktail is more effective.
Perhaps the HCQ cocktail is more effective at the early stages of the disease and Remdesivir is more effective at the later stages. The usage reports and protocols I’ve seen indicate you need to get on the HCQ cocktail very quickly — at the very first symptoms and certainly before you are very ill.
It essentially does what HCQ and zinc do to stop virus replication using a cell’s ribosomes.
It seems to have some good effect on very advanced cases. HCQ seems to have its effects early on in the virus, like Tamiflu. That helps account for its poor results in hospital usage. Perhaps both in tandem will be useful in treating this virus.