Why are you so intent that a malaria drug is the cure for this disease? Let me turn your own question on you? I know the answer. You are scared and want answers. Denial, anger, bargaining, acceptance. I’m just trying to help you and you keep shooting the messenger.
I’m intent upon hydrochloroquine and zpak because hydrochloroquine is very well tested, understood via decades of use outside of malaria, side effects are well known and minimal for most individuals, and primarily because it’s cheap due to being off patent. It can be ramped up and produced at quantity immediately with no price gouging. Standard of care of course involves newer patented antivirals that work no better according to everything I’ve read over the past week, that cost anywhere from four to ten times as much. Multiply that across tens of millions likely to eventually need treatment. I can see why pharmaceutical companies are salivating and why they’d want to tout their antivirals as somehow preferable... $$$ and a lot of them. Conversely, since a lot of this is coming out of the public treasury I’m sure you can envision as a conservative yourself why the cheaper but just as effective treatment is preferable. We’re already going trillions into the hole over this, I’d rather not pile on. Make sense?
You mean the way Hydrxychloroquine is said to alter intercellular pH causing antiviral action?
Or that it facilitates entry of zinc into cells, where zinc inhibits viral replication?