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Re:Chloroquine: An Effective Treatment for Coronavirus by Engineering-MD on Monday March 16, 2020 @07:48PM (#22599618)
Just in case anyone gets drawn into this, all the above is not based on any evidence. The poster has literally made up a ‘protocol’ that sounds right.

Chloroquine is under current investigation (ie results not yet in, and certainly not a treatment protocol) and zinc has been shown in some cases to maybe improve some aspect of illness, it’s far from proven.

The rest of what they said is at best speculation/conjecture.

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Re:Chloroquine: An Effective Treatment for Coronavirus by WilsonPaige on Monday March 16, 2020 @11:19PM (#22601281)
On Chloroquine phosphate:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32074550

DIY on zinc - There is an entire industry of antiviral zinc sprays, lozenges and pills. Zinc stops viral replication deader than your prefrontal lobes:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=zinc+halts+viral+replication&t=ope...

Like I said, we have herein a safe treatment that is cheap, available, and free of risk, namely

1. immediate zinc lozenge/spray/pill dissolved in mouth to be applied early (preferably first 3 days) of illness, and possibly every day thereafter +

2.Chloroquine phosphate (up to 500 mg/day).

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