You’re missing that Howard Richmon fails to offer any evidence at all that Americans are lacking the necessary amount of zinc for HCQ to work.
He doesn’t offer that evidence because there isn’t any. He just assumes that there is because it’s necessary for his argument. In America you would have to work hard at not getting enough zinc from your normal diet.
The first clue that this was going to be a nonsense article was his linking HCQ with the Tuskegee syphillis study, as if there is the remotest connection.
Hmmm...well i’m not a doctor, but I understood that Zinc deficiency was often found in people with sickle cell disease, and chronic liver and kidney problems, which are clearly associated with poorer outcomes when infected by the CCP virus.
You’re reacting strongly to this, so I’m genuinely interested in getting educated on the issue.
In any event, the piece was clearly referencing the Doctor Who Must Not Be Named (Zelenko) and his famous “Zelenko Protocol”.
We’ll have to agree to disagree on the analogy, which, granted, is a bit hyperventilated, but not completely off of the mark. If Fauci is indeed deliberately NOT testing the protocol that was proposed, there needs to be an explanation.
It could be that “Zelenko is a crank/quack”. It could be “there’s no need for zinc supplementation, normal blood levels should be fine”. It could be something else, but it’s an obvious question.
My understanding is that one of the ways HCQ and zinc work to mitigate or slow virus replication is to provide cells with an over abundance of zinc. This is achieved through the introduction of an ionophore. HCQ acts like an ionophore, i.e., a compound that facilitates the transport of (zinc) ions across the cell membrane.
When we say the RDA for zinc is 15mg, does that same level of RDA apply when the goal is to overload cells with zinc? Frankly, I don't know.
Food for thought: If the U.S. diet typically provides all the zinc we need, then why do people use zinc lozenges to shorten colds (viruses)?