Positive news relayed from my super geek microbiologist daughter. (NOT an MD)
Note the rate of increase in the US and Spain in the video above. (She definitely is a super geek) On the prevention side and reason for sharing, note the discussion about taking Zinc pills (skip to 4:40), something I've done at her suggestion in cold/flu seasons for years in addition to taking L-Lysine and vitamin C. Chloroquine per the video above would be better but needs a prescription, while zinc and L-Lysine are cheap and in any drug store and most grocery stores. Drug companies won't like this because it's super inexpensive.
So far, I'm doing as much isolation as I can without halting life, so the efficacy of this is like the joke about how to know you don't have elephants in your fridge by checking for footprints in the butter. I simply can only say I do go to stores when needed, work on the boat in the marina, and haven't caught anything yet. But I have no pre-existing conditions (important!), have found in previous years that I get less colds and flus using L-Lysine and zinc while commuting when packed in with all the sick DC Metro riders, and anything potentially preventive sounds good to me.
She also sent the link below which is being looked at as a treatment for those with CV19 to reduce the mortality rate and length of the pneumonia and other issues which cause the lung damage and actually kill the victims. It’s a positive development and looks promising.
https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/19/french-study-finds-anti-malarial-and-antibiotic-combo-could-reduce-covid-19-duration/
The shortcoming is that what is in this video is only effective once patients have the disease, they are still transmissible pre-symptomatic, and still need the time for the CV19 virus itself to run its’ course. Plus making the amount needed for a global pandemic level illness. Another downside is that for us older folks and especially those with heart issues, hydroxychloroquine and zithromax are
known to extend the QT interval (in the ECG) and combining them can cause life-threatening arrhythmias.
This is info only, pick your poison carefully, and absolutely check with your doc before any action.
On a related note about NSAIDS toxicity (aspirin and IB):