No. zinc deficiency is vanishingly rare and I’m not sure it’s even on our formulary. People that are intubated are on tube feeding and all are assessed by a dietician for nutritional needs and all tube feeding regimens are nutritionally complete. The answer is at least once people are ill enough to be hospitalized hydroxychloroquine is less than overwhelmingly effective. I don’t see outpatients so I can’t tell you about treating them but remember at least 80% of those people will only experience mild symptoms. I do not know how many of those outpatient miraculous improvement stories would have occurred anyway without intervention. The bottom line is we use the hydroxychloroquine because it’s all we have readily available right now but we need to keep looking. The IL inhibitors are showing good promise. reverse transcriptase inhibitors should in theory work it will be interesting to see how those trials go. Several “miracle” drugs that were popular and rushed into use have actually turned out to not o oh be ineffective but actually harmful. If you have time look up a drug called xigris. That one was going to cure sepsis. Turns out we were killing people faster with it. That is why the medical community wants studies even though it frustrates the arm chair quarterbacks
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