HCQ acts to reduce inflammation in the airways, but it does ferry ZINC into the infected cells which have not died, so it does reduce viral load, especially effective if the symptoms are treated early on. And that's the way this cocktail will help get the nation back at work ... if the drug cocktail is allowed to be written by any physician or physician's assistant before hospitalization is needed.
As you know, the virus attacks via the ACE2 receptors. Once a person is hospitalized, the virus is raging throughout the body, attacking not just the lungs but the organ systems, too.
Yes as I said I am speaking to hospitalized patients only. This will likely take several different treatments for different stages and severity if illness. More than &0% of people will recover with no intervention at all