You’re talking as if a drug being a “zinc ionophore” and a ‘protease inhibitor” are altogether two different things.
Zinc is a protease inhibitor.
You are drawing a false distinction.
Zinc needs help to be most effective as an anti-viral.
It’s not just me saying this, it is many doctors who have promoted aggressive treatment of Covid vs “supportive care” or the wait until your lips are blue and go to the hospital crowd in charge.
Regarding the original piece for which this thread was started it appeared to me that the good doctor was equating all three. The pfizermectin “new and improved” treatment appears to be a copy of IVM and it does not appear to be the same chemically as HCQ or the same by mode of action as HCQ against coronavirus.
It’s not that big of a deal to me so we can agree to disagree about whatever your disagreement was with what I wrote. I do believe HCQ is a good tool against coronavirus based on what I have read and studied if it is accompanied by zinc supplements or the appropriate amount of zinc in the body AND it is administered early.
I firmly believe that IVM is the BEST tool against coronavirus.
I guess if his point was that Pfizer is floating something that is no more effective and much more expensive he is spot on, but I view the two drugs as being very different.
Unless I have completely missed something (certainly possible), it is not HCQ itself that is effective against the coo. It is how HCQ allows zinc to act that is responsible for its efficacy.