In my opinion you are making the right decisions and have reasonable concerns. When nearly everyone is vaccinated, the risk to even the non-vaccinated decreases. Those parents who are not allowing their children to be vaccinated are shirking their social responsibilities.
Suntrader yu are against hydro for one reason and one reason only and yu know exactly what that reason is.....Hydroxychloroquine's efficacy in treating Covid is not a political question; it is a scientific question that's been answered to the satisfaction of most professionals in the medical field. It is pointless to argue it further. There will always be those, even in the medical racket, that are outliers in terms of their thinking. This is good!, but they have to have sound data and reasoning to back their renegade opinions or their colleagues will ignore them. What's not good is being sucked into nonsense that has its origin in social media.
Use of bacteria phages has been commonly used as a research tool in biochemistry and molecular biology research labs for many many years.
June 30, 2011
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Viruses are the most abundant parasites on Earth. Well known viruses, such as the flu virus, attack human hosts, while viruses such as the tobacco mosaic virus infect plant hosts.
More common, but less understood, are cases of viruses infecting bacteria known as bacteriophages, or phages. In part, this is due to the difficulty of culturing bacteria and viruses that have been cut off from their usual biological surroundings in a process called in vitro.
Researchers from the California Institute of Technology, funded in part by the National Science Foundation, were the first to use a clever technique to look at virus-bacterium interactions in vivo, that is, within an organism's normal state. The researchers report their results in the July 1st issue of the journal, Science.
https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=120974
Yes because it hasn't been rigorously SCIENTIFICALLY proven effective.
The zinc thing is another unproven remedy. No doubt it comes from the finding that Zn++ is virustatic/virucidal in vitro at sufficient concentrations, thus the zinc gluconate lozenges sold to treat colds. Apparently they work to some extent if used at first signs of infection. But that's a topical application. The zinc+hydroxychloroquine is likely under controlled test somewhere in the world right now. See the NIH list of on-going covid therapy tests. I think it will have no efficacy internally against covid. But zinc lozenges at first exposure possibly of some value.
