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Re:After 100K Covid-19 cases, it’s clearer where Californian... by schoolornot on Sunday May 31, 2020 @12:27AM (#23367182)
NY's governor was going on his brother's TV show making light of the situation and sharing corny jokes as the elderly were dying in nursing homes.

And when people were desperate for relief it was the governor that decided to ban off-label use of drugs for COVID meanwhile his brother sprang back into action fairly quick after becoming infected and taking: https://nypost.com/2020/05/20/chris-cuomo-took-less-safe-ver...

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Re:After 100K Covid-19 cases, it’s clearer where Californian... by IAmEveryone on Sunday May 31, 2020 @01:43AM (#23367481)
And, as we have since learnt, HCQ doesn't help and is actively harmful.

These two brothers are also not the same person, so it's entirely possible for one of them to ban something while the other still wants to use it.

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Re:After 100K Covid-19 cases, it’s clearer where Californian... by IAmEveryone on Sunday May 31, 2020 @08:20AM (#23369080)
The science has moved to "evidence-based medicine", i. e. pure empiricism, about 80 years ago?

I know such theories always sound convincing. So did miasmas, and blood-letting, and so on. But that way of thinking just never worked!

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Re:After 100K Covid-19 cases, it’s clearer where Californian... by hcknwscommenter on Sunday May 31, 2020 @02:21AM (#23367644)
You are dangerously misinformed. RNA polymerase requires Zinc. In fact, I believe essentially all polymerases known use Zinc as a core component of their catalytic chemistry.
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Re:After 100K Covid-19 cases, it’s clearer where Californian... by pdonis on Sunday May 31, 2020 @03:10AM (#23367822)
> You are dangerously misinformed.

No, you are:

https://jvi.asm.org/content/91/21/e00754-17

Paper title: "Zinc Salts Block Hepatitis E Virus Replication by Inhibiting the Activity of Viral RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase"

Published in 2017.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21079686/

Paper title: "Zn(2+) Inhibits Coronavirus and Arterivirus RNA Polymerase Activity in Vitro and Zinc Ionophores Block the Replication of These Viruses in Cell Culture"

Published in 2010.

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Re:After 100K Covid-19 cases, it’s clearer where Californian... by dekhn on Sunday May 31, 2020 @10:56AM (#23369952)
The person you replied to is technically correct: DNA-dependent RNA polymerases are zinc metalloenzymes, have zinc at the active site, and the zinc is required for catalytic functionality.
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Re:After 100K Covid-19 cases, it’s clearer where Californian... by hcknwscommenter on Sunday May 31, 2020 @02:23AM (#23367649)
"unless the patient has certain heart conditions"

Sorry for the multiple posts, but this is an absurd statement. COVID itself is a heart condition. HCQ for COVID is dangerous.

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Re:After 100K Covid-19 cases, it’s clearer where Californian... by m0zg on Sunday May 31, 2020 @02:41AM (#23367718)
We have learned no such thing. The study WHO is referring to is fake: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/29/covid-19-surgi...

You're being gaslit.

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