There are different strains of coronavirus. A medication that treats disease caused by one strain does not automatically work on treating disease caused by another. That’s why clinical trials are necessary. Those trials are going on right now. It takes time for this to be done properly because patients have to respond to medication.
I understand quite well there are different strains, in fact, a study out of Iceland says they have identified 40 different strains.
That is irrelevant, if you read the abstract, what they have determined and what is known about hydroxychloroquine, is that is an ionophore that allows zinc ions to more easily enter the cell and stop the virus from replicating. It interferes with the virus’s ability to hijack the RNA sequencing mechanism of the cell to replicate itself, regardless of the strain.
BS ... do you even know why hydroxychloroquine with zinc actually works? Doubt it! Go learn more then get back to us.
Sure but what about the people that don't get the drug? They have to die to prover your point, that is what a double blind study does. Give a drug to people that shows promise and withhold the real drug from half of them, count the dead as a positive, that is what data does. It is immoral to withhold a drug from people that might be helped by it no matter what data you need. People have to die my foot, how about the ones that take it and keep living, that is data as well. Just not absolute proof that you think they need. The drug has been abound since the 40's what more do you think they need to know about the safety of it?