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I see some MDs/scientists dismissing #hydroxychloroquine as a potential treatment for #COVID-19 and that may be short-sighted. That's b/c studies on hydroxycholoroquine thus far haven’t considered a central mechanism of action by which the drug might help patients with COVID-19
2/ As far as I can tell, the main rationale for treating #COVID-19 with #hydroxychloroquine is this: chloroquine (a drug similar to hydroxychloroquine) was shown, in the lab, to be a zinc ionophore:
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3/ A zinc #ionophore is a compound that, in simple terms, creates a channel in the outer membrane of cells that allows #zinc to more easily move from the outside of the cell to the inside (it can help increase levels of intracellular zinc)
