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Originally Posted by SupDock
Because in science, we don’t start with the assumption that something works. In fact, we try not to have an assumption either way. There hasn’t been any clinical data to show it works, so why would I use it?
I’m not a clinical researcher, so I generally don’t use unproven therapies.
Anecdotal evidence is the worst kind of evidence. In the beginning of the pandemic I wasn’t seeing patients who were very sick, mainly due to screening processes. And guess what, none of them were hospitalized after I diagnosed them with Covid-19. That doesn’t mean I did anything that kept them from getting sick.
I could have prescribed ivermectin, azithromycin, plaquenil, or whatever and then claimed that is what kept them from being hospitalized. The reality is that they just were not that sick, mostly due to selection bias.
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Are you not a believer in the power of zinc?
There's plenty of evidence that zinc inhibits viral replication, including in Covid patients. HCQ is only useful to channel the zinc into cells. It makes little sense that nearly all the studies involve HCQ by itself.
There are also studies that have shown zinc deficiency in a significant number of Covid patients, along with more complications and higher mortality.