The real failure in adopting HCQ + Zinc as a therapeutic treatment in the US was relying on a centralized bureaucracy (CDC, FDA) to determine its effectivity top-down rather than on a bottom-up analysis based on complex systems theory.
In bottom-up approaches medical practitioners are able to explore a wide range potential treatments for a disease on a small number of participants to reduce risk. The use of HCQ + Zinc was actually recommended by the NIH as a therapy for earlier SARS-2 epidemics and it was this literature that lead Dr. Vladimir Zelenko to experiment with it on his patients. If he had not seen any benefit he would have simply discontinued prescribing it and no one would ever heard of him just as biological solutions that fail die off from natural selection.
Because he found success he told other doctors and their experience spread word of mouth to demonstrate its safety and effectiveness without the need for the RCT formality. This uses parallel search in real time to solve a medical problem which is a much more adaptively efficient strategy when dealing with complex systems.
What is irksome is that hydroxychloroquine is an FDA approved drug. Every physician has the legal jurisdiction to prescribe it for their patients. That some states and other government agencies temporarily banned its use is borderline criminal treason. TDS by these vile cretins of the left caused more deaths than was necessary and they have the gall to blame Trump. I can’t express my feelings in words on these posts.