This is a great example. That doctor will not give the drug. He will wait and look for some-other-evidence. Belgium and China have issued official treatment guidance instructing doctors that chloroquine is the first line of defense. Our guys aren’t going to do with without FDA approval, and FDA wants to take months. In 1 month, all the hospital beds in the USa will probably be filled.
The med cram guy from the link posted here does indicate as well that you need a double blind study
and there is this comment that I Have no ability to understand as I am not a science person (but i am still going to do zinc lozenges):
“Thank you for this great video. Now allow a science rant:
Please stop hyping this Zn+ PlosOne study. Consider two (serious) caveats of the study:
a) Zink reduces activity of RdRP... HOWEVER any other molecule/ion may do that too (e.g. a strong toxin!). The key point is, it does so WITHOUT AFFECTING NORMAL CELLULAR FUNCTION IN A MAJOR WAY . Naively, this could be assessed by: Use Zn+ and the Zn+ transporter, increase both independently, scatter survival of cells XY.
HOWEVER this is not what authors did. In fact they DID NOT measure cell viabilty with high concentration of Zn AND the transporter at all ! (b) Further, consider that just the Zn transporter (WITHOUT adding Zn!) already decreased RdRP. THIS GOES WITHOUT ANY EXPLANATION.
IMHO this study should be retracted immediately since the red flags this raises are skyhigh.
Please correct me if I’m wrong with anything in this factually.”