There seldom is in medicine but I'm thankful we have some hopeful rays of light in all this.
You are right. Can’t expect 100% success yet but maybe coming down the pipe in clinical testing.
What the doctors needed was a standard ‘first line of defense’ drug(s) that they could give right away. This HCQ/Zpack with zinc and maybe high dose vitC now fits the bill. It’s working in many cases. People who recovered who had been on vents say they could suddenly breathe better. They thought they weren’t going to live the night and they recovered.
If plan A (HCQ/Zpack) doesn’t work then move to plan B (say remdesivir) or plan C or plan D. Suddenly there’s a protocol and maybe light in a very dark tunnel for coronavirus patients.