Not talking about HCQ by itself. It was discovered that in vitro, combined with azithromycin, it's anti-viral. At least against CCPvirus. Nobody knows why. Even at that maybe calling it a "cure" is sloppy layman's usage of the term? How much virus it will kill compared to how much dosage I have no idea, only that it is proven to kill this virus. Add zinc and you cut hospitalizations and deaths further in half.
It takes all 3 in combination to be called "Trump pills." Notice that none of the studies touted to discredit HCQ studied this combination; they're totally irrelevant and not legitimate science or medicine.
I would not claim that this combination does anything more than reduce viral load, reduce viral replication, and gives our body a much better chance at finishing off the virus, recovering completely. Specifically, all breathing problems gone in 2 days, and most people virus free in 6 days. That's not a cure? Really hard to spread it like that. Also really hard to die like that. The first 699 people studied with this, the sickest of them got up to 800mg HCQ per day for the first two days. Nobody died. The next batch of 751 patients studied, nobody got more than the 400 mg per day HCQ John Hopkins classifies as safe for long term use, and 2 people died.
Pretty damn effective, whatever you want to call it.
Not talking about HCQ by itself. It was discovered that in vitro, combined with azithromycin, it's anti-viral. At least against CCPvirus. Nobody knows why. Even at that maybe calling it a "cure" is sloppy layman's usage of the term? How much virus it will kill compared to how much dosage I have no idea, only that it is proven to kill this virus. Add zinc and you cut hospitalizations and deaths further in half.
It takes all 3 in combination to be called "Trump pills." Notice that none of the studies touted to discredit HCQ studied this combination; they're totally irrelevant and not legitimate science or medicine.
I would not claim that this combination does anything more than reduce viral load, reduce viral replication, and gives our body a much better chance at finishing off the virus, recovering completely. Specifically, all breathing problems gone in 2 days, and most people virus free in 6 days. That's not a cure? Really hard to spread it like that. Also really hard to die like that. The first 699 people studied with this, the sickest of them got up to 800mg HCQ per day for the first two days. Nobody died. The next batch of 751 patients studied, nobody got more than the 400 mg per day HCQ John Hopkins classifies as safe for long term use, and 2 people died.
Pretty damn effective, whatever you want to call it.