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.
There isn’t some big conspiracy against HCQ among medical researchers. NIH/NCBI published an article back in 2005 on HCQ’s possible effectiveness against the first SARS virus, and Covid-19 is actually another SARS virus. HCQ may well be effective, there’s anecdotal reports from doctors suggesting so, but no one can say for sure at this point.
Fauci gets accused of being against HCQ because he won’t endorse it. But he can’t endorse it until there’s a double blind study proving its efficacy. Double blind studies prevent researchers from affecting the results. Since Covid-19 is only the 2nd SARS outbreak there hasn’t been an opportunity to do a double blind test of HCQ vs SARS. Maybe one is being run now, who knows.
“We’ll have to agree to disagree on the analogy, which, granted, is a bit hyperventilated, but not completely off of the mark.”
The “analogy” is ridiculous and only useful as inflammatory rhetoric. The Tuskegee Study began in 1932 with subjects already infected with syphillis. The first effective drug against syphillis was Penicillin, which didn’t become available for another 12 years. You’ll have to explain how that has any connection at all to HCQ and SARS-2.