Quercetin, an over the counter drug, is also a zinc ionophore.
novel length, insane, anti-Trump attack from NYT...as usual:
16 Jun: NYT: A Mad Scramble to Stock Millions of Malaria Pills, Likely for Nothing
Before the F.D.A. withdrew its waiver to stockpile the drugs as coronavirus treatments, the Trump administration had embarked on a headlong effort to import tens of millions of doses.
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg
Medical experts across the country — including those who are researching hydroxychloroquine — on Tuesday applauded the F.D.A.’s withdrawal of the waiver after it concluded the drugs’ potential benefits did not outweigh their risks...
Besides Mr. Navarro, the internal debate over the malaria drugs included a well-known cast of characters: Mr. Trump, who took hydroxychloroquine for two weeks and insisted on Monday that it “certainly didn’t hurt me”; Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert; Rick Bright, who said he was ousted from his position as head of a federal research agency after complaining that Bayer’s chloroquine was not safe; and various Fox News personalities.
“They had a flimsy basis for the E.U.A. in the first place,” Dr. Peter Lurie, the president of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, said, using the abbreviation for emergency use authorization. “It’s quite clear they were strong-armed into it by Navarro himself and others — not excluding radio, television talk show hosts, the president’s pals and some doctor in New York. And now they’ve got mud on their faces because they’ve belatedly come to their senses and done the right thing.”
Dr. Bright, writing on Twitter on Monday night, offered his own idea: “The drugs should never have been brought into our country and should be destroyed. It took far too long for HHS to revoke this EUA.”...
(FINALLY, NEAR THE END) The decision does not prevent doctors from prescribing hydroxychloroquine, also available through pharmacies, on their own, though it will probably discourage them from doing so...
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/16/us/politics/trump-hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus.html
Yes, and Zinc Picolinate seems to be the best form to get absorption.