Writing this to put people’s minds at ease.
Hospitals are essentially all using treatment protocols including hydroxychloroquine, often with zinc and Zithromax or similar hopeful drugs.
In my regional hospital system, if you have hypoxia and covid, or a risk factor and covid, you are getting treated with these meds as the standard, unless there is a reason not to.
I have family who work in big name academic medical centers in other states also on the front lines. They are also using these meds. And we all hope it is making a difference.
So please rest easy, word has gotten out and hospitals and docs are embracing and not rejecting these therapies.
One thing I'm seeing more of is that HCQ is not effective unless used with zinc. See Dr. Anthony Cardillo of Mend Urgent Care in Los Angeles. He says that he has used the combination of HCQ and zinc on several very ill patients who were asymptomatic in 8 -12 hours/
Zinc interferes with virus replication. HCQ just opens the gates for Zinc to come in.
Thanks Pede.
Holy shit. If true, and I hope that it is, that's remarkable!
Medical sauce for those that crave it.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2973827/
HCQ is effective without Zinc. Zinc + HCQ works even better because they both have antiviral effects.
Note that both aren't magic bullet cures, they simply reduce the virus' ability to replicate in such a manner that the body can mop it up easy.