This virus appears to be a dual killer. It attacks the hemoglobin, reducing delivered O2 and it replicates in depp lung cells destroying cells in the lungs resulting in what appears to present as ARDS.
The HCQ works in more ways than one to mitigate these effects. It has been shown to change the interstitial pH, stressing the virus where it seeks to spread in the blood; it reduces inflammation throughout the body and especially the airways; it acts as a zinc ionophore to transport zinc inside the infected cells where the zinc blocks virus replication; it may also degrade the protein casing of the viral packet.
Excellent mechanism detail.
The bureaucracy is in the way.
It’s up to the Docs to pull rank over bureaucrats. Docs really are the bosses in situations such as this but they’ve been wimpified for various reasons to pass the buck to bureaucrats.
If this was a relatively untested regimen of new meds, then yes, Docs could have liability. But these meds are older than most of the Docs are. The meds are very well-known. So there’s virtually no harm in using them.
Malpractice attorneys would only have a case against Docs prescribing HCQ + Zinc + Z-Pak if more effective alternatives existed. There are no such alternatives.
Docs are therefore free to pull rank.
And that’s what we all need to see our Docs do, take the bull by the horns and get it done. Screw the Fauci’s of the world.
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