You are right. as a retired medical professional wrote to me tonight as we were discussing the issue;
“Hydroxychloroquine plus zinc and or azithromycin treatment does not kill the virus, it stops the replication. The bodies immune system of neutrophils, eosinophils, T=lymphocytes, etc. and the clean up crew of macrophages actually kill off and dispose of the virus and it’s debris. That is one reason, given the real effectiveness of this drug cocktail, that the med community is quietly putting this HCQ into their closets and including it in their armamentarium.”
Now, If you haven’t done the research to find out exactly how hydroxychloroquine works and why a medication that was developed 65 years ago to fight malaria has been so successful against the virus, both in laboratory tests and in hospitals around the world, I’ll be glad to tell you.
Hydroxychloroquine impairs the ability of the virus to replicate by allowing zink, which interferes with the replication process, to more easily penetrate the cell wall and attack the virus inside the cell. Hydroxychloroquine is an ionophore that acts as a gateway for the Zinc ions to more easily pass through the cell wall and prevent the virus from hijacking the RNA sequencing mechanism of the infected cell to replicate itself.
In this video, Dr. Roger Seheult, Pulmonologist and Associate Professor at UC-Riverside, explains exactly how Hydroxychloroquine allows Zinc to penetrate infected cells to prevent the Covid-19 virus from replicating. Extremely interesting, invaluable knowledge:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=share&v=U7F1cnWup9M
Here is something you should also know; it is often not the virus that is killing people, it is the overactive immune response triggered by this virus, called a “cytokine storm”, that that kills them. A cytokine storm is when the body’s immune system becomes over-stimulated and, in this case, floods the lungs with so many pro-inflammatory cytokines that healthy cells as well as infected cells are damaged, causing the lungs to fill with fluid...killing the patient.
Hydroxychloroquine regulates the immune response and prevents too many pro-inflammatory cytokines from being released at one time. That is why hydroxychloroquine is prescribed for people with autoimmune diseases such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. HCQ helps protect healthy cells from an overactive immune system and, in the process of treating the coronavirus, helps prevent the lungs from being damaged.
Azithromycin is prescribed with the hydroxychloroquine to control secondary infections attacking a compromised respiratory system. It also appears to have antiviral properties. The pairing of these two drugs along with a zinc supplement is helping almost everyone that is given these drugs recover and go back to their homes and their families.
In regards to the safety of this so-called “dangerous” drug, Hydroxychloroquine has been on the market for 65 years and is in every pharmacy in America. It is used to not only treat malaria, but also lupus and other autoimmune diseases. It has an excellent safety rating and less than one in 5000 patients using the drug for five years or longer has any issue with macular or retinal toxicity. In most cases, those symptoms have been found to resolve themselves after the patient has discontinued use of hydroxychloroquine
Doctors have been prescribing this drug for six decades and know everything there is to know about the drug, it’s contraindications and its interaction with other drugs. Hydroxychloroquine is on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) List of Essential Medicines, “the safest and most effective medicines needed in a health system” and not even on the list of the top 100 FDA approved drugs found to have side-effects relating to macular or retinal toxicity.
Https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroxychloroquine
Another vid on how it works... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIymfznD7YA&feature=youtu.be
Here is a link to a study about what you are describing about with chloroquine and zinc (for those interested in more detail). The study is about chloroquine, but Hydroxychloroquine should have the same effect likely better as it is believed to be more potent:
Fantastic post. Thank you.