If HCQ works it’s probably when it’s dealing with low viral loads. The Vietnam nurses were working on Covid wards so were exposed to heavy loads daily.
Zinc interferes with viral replication but needs an ionophore to assist it in crossing cell walls, HCQ being an ionophore. So is quercetin. Ionophore action may not be the only way that HCQ works against the virus. I used to read the studies on that but it’s been awhile. MAbs are the superior therapeutics now and it looks like other drugs are coming out. HCQ and Ivermectin were basically stopgaps when there weren’t a lot of options. They were trying everything.
Thank you-that is a great explanation.
HCQ and IVM were absolutely stopgaps at that time, and I think we are still there.
But I would be disappointed if other things didn’t come to the fore.