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Zinc/Z-pack and HCQ show promise in NYU study

An NYU study that involved 100 mg of zinc sulfate added to hydroxychloroquine, shows that people given that combo, with azithromycin, are 45 percent less likely to die from Covid-19, 46 percent less likely to be transferred to intensive care, and 38 percent likely to be put on a ventilator. But once a patient is transferred to intensive care, the odds of survival go way down even with the HCQ cocktail.

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Spectrum's 24-hour New York City cable channel, NY-1, has been one of the few outlets following hydroxychloroquine (two articles so far on the Langone trials). And more studies will be coming out of NYU — including double-blind and randomized, as well as the University of South Dakota, and Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles.