We know the HCQ was called a zinc ionophore and it failed in clinical studies
Only, wrong.
Did those studies even include zinc?
Guess that’s why states are FINALLY allowing it to be prescribed?
South Carolina doctors can prescribe Ivermectin or HCQ
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4040662/posts
Further reading....
NIH National Library of Medicine: Therapies to Prevent Progression of COVID-19, Including Hydroxychloroquine, Azithromycin, Zinc, and Vitamin D3 With or Without Intravenous Vitamin C: An International, Multicenter, Randomized Trial
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4031332/posts
Veritas Documents Reveal DC Bureaucrats Had Evidence Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine Were Effective in Treating COVID — BUT HID THIS FROM PUBLIC
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4029152/posts
I doubt your links to the benefits of Zinc, Ivermectin, HCQ—etc, were peer reviewed. I doubt they were double blind studies. You need to expand your reading away from the false snake oil salesmen like those of Frontline Doctors:
“The treatment teams in the Egyptian universities, which incorporated infectious diseases consultants and clinical pharmacists, adopted the importance of integration of zinc into the treatment protocol of treatment. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first clinical trial investigating the role of the addition of zinc to hydroxychloroquine in the treatment of COVID 19 patients.
The main hypothesis behind this approach was the fact that zinc was proven to have an inhibitory effect on the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase of SARS-CoV in cell culture [17, 18]. Moreover, CQ and HCQ are known to increase the intracellular concentrations of zinc and thus enhance its effect [18].
Despite these proved benefits of zinc in the literature, this study found that zinc supplements did not enhance the clinical efficacy of HCQ.
There are a lot of questions now about the efficacy of CQ or HCQ in the treatment of COVID 19 patients. A recent randomized study found that adding HCQ to standard care did not add significant benefit, did not decrease the need for ventilation, and did not reduce mortality rates in COVID-19 patients.”
You may also not that the study was done by Egyptian scientists who have no connections to big U.S. Pharma.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7695238/