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Dr. Zev Zelenko Addresses Chloroquine/Zinc/ZPAK Critics (soundcloud.com)
2 points by giardini on April 25, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



Zelenko's statistics to-date:

- 1450 patients total:

- 405 high risk patients, - 3 drug treatment (chloroquine, azithromycin,zinc sulfate)

- Results: 2 deaths, 4 on respirators who recovered, the rest survived.


Great for him, if true. He has not published data in the past[1], so we weren't able to verify his claims.

Assuming they are true, it's still not enough to go on when making decisions for other patients. For example, these drugs could result in lasting heart damage for some patients who were going to survive the virus anyway.

1. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/zelenko-669-coronavirus-pa...




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