I don’t care what the cocktail is or the doses or anything. I just want to see some evidence it works. Anecdotes are not evidence. Even 1,000 collected anecdotes that weren’t followed for the appropriate length of time are just 1,000 anecdotes.
Hoping for some real evidence soon, here’s what I know (I think).
Chloroquine the older more toxic form had been observed to interfere with replication in vitro with SARS 1. All that work was suspended with the end of that pandemic in 02 IIRC. The Chinese doctors did not have access to CQ you can still get it in Africa and other places, but they tried HCQ thinking it is enough the same why not? They observed the same effect reported in the SARS work. Giving it to patients in China they reported mixed results.
Bill Still reported the name of a doctor who theorized about the zinc. CQ is known as a zinc ionophore. He said that explained the recovery numbers out of South Korea that they have been using it. This zinc aspect makes it dangerous right?
HCQ has three effects please correct me, as an anti-inflammatory and is in daily clinical use for this, as an RdRP inhibitor on its own, and as I said as a zinc ionophore. It can use existing zinc but so many seniors are deficient in this. So the zinc supplement is needed. The z-pack was given to forestall secondary infections but if it has some synergy with the HCQ, I cannot tell how that would work chemically.
The recent French study using HCQ alone did not show any extra benefit. No zinc and no z-pack. It won’t be hard to test this Jewish doctors results. I really want to know what happens when all three are used in the ccu. Plaquenil is contraindicated with a list of meds used by the elderly, heart patients, and cancer so this will not be a panacea. It will be disappointing if this promising therapy is forbidden to some who most need it.
Thanks in advance for correction and comment. I know enough about this stuff to get in way over my head. I will appreciate correction and contradiction.