To: Candor7
From what I have found, zinc provides the same disruption in the virus’ ability to employ the cell’s machinery for duplication as Remdesivir.
5 posted on
04/27/2020 6:15:42 PM PDT by
jonrick46
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To: jonrick46
From what I have found, zinc provides the same disruption in the virus’ ability to employ the cell’s machinery for duplication as Remdesivir. No. Zinc stops replicase of the existing RNA strand.
Remdesivir inserts new bases every so often into the strand - giving it a different signature that can't replicate.
In my opinion, Remdesivir is much more dangerous and unproven to use.
19 posted on
04/27/2020 6:27:41 PM PDT by
politicket
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To: jonrick46
I did a search before I went out and bought some zinc...some of the info said that it also blocks the virus from accessing manganese which it needs in order to propagate.
58 posted on
04/28/2020 3:52:07 AM PDT by
trebb
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