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.
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.