Re:A mysterious company’s Covid-19 papers in top medical jou...
by lbeltrame on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @06:19PM
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> Sigh. They were not giving zinc supplements.
Check the supplementary data. There were confounding factors, but a group of patients took zinc, and there is no difference between the two groups.
Bear in mind that this study has no say on the use as a treatment.
It’s really frustrating that the theorized mechanism of HCQ effectiveness as a prophylactic is its ability to transport zinc across cell walls (zinc interrupts the viral RNA replication), yet these trials don’t include zinc supplements.