re: #206 jaunte

The GOP keeps falling back to the same bulkshit because they’ve got nothing else.

They have to keep hoping someone believes that HCQ type treatments are valid because there’s no strategy to stop the spread nationally. And the body count will keep rising without one.

HCQ and zinc is the latest attempt to claim that HCQ does something.

The reality is that HCQ is not a valid treatment no matter what it’s paired with. It’s got too many deadly side effects and shouldn’t be considered. Zinc? It might be no better than a placebo. You’d have to test zinc separate from HCQ and placebos as a double blind to see if there’s any effect.

I see FB postings claiming that NYU had a study showing HCQ+zinc is successful, but Langone is first beginning to study this. They’d have results some time this summer after enrolling 2000 people.

They’re latching on to early indicators that zinc plus other stuff can benefit. There’s a whole lot of wishful thinking here that this is a valid treatment.