How hard is it to treat a patient with this, take a count of how much COVID is in their blood before treatment, then measure the virus count in their blood on an hourly or daily basis. If it works, the count should go down precipitously.
I know it isn’t apples to apples across the board, but do this ten times for ten patients and I’d think you’d start to model a trend. A thousand times, you have solid stats.
There is absolutely no excuse why we are months into this thing and this treatment is still seen as “anecdotal.” If it works as well as some docs are claiming, we could all get back to work tomorrow. If you have a sniffle, take the drug to short-circuit it. If don’t get sick, you’re back in the game of life.
” ...How hard is it to treat a patient with this, take a count of how much COVID is in their blood before treatment... “
SARS-CoV-2 is not a blood born virus. There is no evidence that this virus enters and circulates in the bloodstream. It is primarily* a respiratory virus infecting the mucus membrane tissues of the nasal cavity, trachea, and lungs. That is why all current tests for infection do not use blood samples. *Note: There has been some evidence that COVID-19 may also infect the gut causing nausea and diarrhea, along with detection of virus in feces.
Anyway, I agree that with thousands of hospitalized patients, we should be doing more to try all the combinations of HCQ + antibiotics + zinc (along with the other drug candidates)to see if there are significantly good results. We really don’t have time for scientifically pure trials that can take months to complete...