A California med school professor, Dr. Roger Sheheult, has a YouTube video outlining the promising exploration of zinc as a treatment for coronavirus. You can easily access the video , but here is a rough summary. In a nutshell, zinc inhibits replication of the virus inside cells. zinc needs an assisting gateway to make its way into the intracellular structure. , however. This gateway is provided by Chloroquine. , an antimalarial drug that’s been around for a long time. South Korea and China have used this combination of zinc and chloroquine .While there have been no double blind scientific studies, anecdotal evidence of this therapy suggests that it reduces both the intensity and duration of the disease. My apologies to any MD’s and scientists who may be chuckling at the oversimplification by this former English major. Anyway, I thought I’d pass along the information for consideration.
