No, let's instead listen to corrupt salesmen looking to hawk their latest supplement with babbling woo and pooh-pooh the vetted research done under the proper scientific method in favor of dubious claims (you mean to tell me there hasn't been a single study that included zinc? If there were any merit to your claim, someone would've tried it).
What supplement would that be,
@jmyrlefuller?
Like supplemnts that included these?
Zinc Ionophore Activity of Quercetin and Epigallocatechin-gallate: From Hepa 1-6 Cells to a Liposome Modelhttps://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jf5014633Those other goodies were also on the shelves at Wal-Mart in the vitamins section, Zelenko just put them together in one bottle. Quercetin and Epigallocatechin-gallate could be obtained without prescription and performed as ionophores, similarly to HCQ or IVM.
Not a boatload of money to be made on off patent prescription drugs and Zinc supplements are cheap. What he marketed was something that could be sold without a prescription, would get the job done, and eliminated the scavenger hunt for all the ingredients in time of panic buying.
Not like tens of billions for worthless (at best) shots. Get your latest booster, now. Ka Ching!
None of the studies done claiming to discredit the use of IVM or HCQ included zinc. not one. Only a couple used Azithromycin. The complete regimen was not tested.If you think it was, then find the study done before Dec. 2021 that did. Post a link. I'd love to see it.
However...since the great panic (and a few boosters later)...
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33236142/ Zinc and SARS‑CoV‑2: A molecular modeling study of Zn interactions with RNA‑dependent RNA‑polymerase and 3C‑like proteinase enzymes https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8015651/Immunopharmacological perspective on zinc in SARS-CoV-2 infectionYou see, the objective of those earlier studies was not to find treatment for SARS-CoV-2, it was to keep the Emergency Use Authorization for the mRNA shots, which would have gone away with a viable treatment regimen. Tens of Billions of dollars were at stake, not to mention the incalculable value of the Liability Waiver, and here you are upset because of a guy who merely formulated a supplement that would, if used as directed, do much the same thing as the HCQ/Azithromycin/Zinc or IVM/Doxycycline/Zinc regimen would, if not quite as efficiently.
Even Earlier, Zinc had been known to be an effective antiviral (from 2010), provided it got into the cells.
https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1001176 Zn2+ Inhibits Coronavirus and Arterivirus RNA Polymerase Activity In Vitro and Zinc Ionophores Block the Replication of These Viruses in Cell CultureZelenko's protocol was based on solid science.
But that never made it to the nightly news, only panic, ridicule, and buy the jabs!