The problem is that this crank doctor from France used exactly this treatment (Zinc+HCQ) in a crappy study and proclaimed it as hugely successful. This was the

The problem is that this crank doctor from France used exactly this treatment (Zinc+HCQ) in a crappy study and proclaimed it as hugely successful. This was then picked up by a crowd of "right wing deplorables" up to and including the orange man in the white house. The scientific establishment can not allow this bunch of clowns to turn out right, thus further inquiry is being suppressed. Call it a conspiracy theory, but that's exactly how human egos have played a role in the history of science.