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.
It is n excellent mechanism detail, the only problem being that it is wrong. This is not a heme issue. This is the latest and greatest error to be promulgated. And befoe you tee of the way you have on other people, I am standing at bedside treating these critically ill patients and I have not had a single death. It is NOT a hemoglobinopathy.
Zinc — our patients are on fully balanced feedings, and it is impossible to get zinc in IV unless TPN which would be contraindicated. As Zinc won’t hurt anyone, if someone want to give it — fine — but it is at best a 2B intervention. Please stop with the fake hemoglobin issues.