My brother had a temperature and got tested for the SARS-CoV-2, which came back positive. He sheltered away from his pregnant wife, and survived. His wife got t

My brother had a temperature and got tested for the SARS-CoV-2, which came back positive. He sheltered away from his pregnant wife, and survived. His wife got tested too, but her test came back negative. Then she had the antibody test, which came back positive. My working hypothesis is she got the virus and exposed my brother, or they were both exposed at the same time & she was asymptomatic on account of the biochemistry of pregnancy, sorta like all those asymptomatic women who tested positive after they showed up at the hospital in NYC to give birth [6]. NYC took COVID-19 on the chin because the doctors hadn't yet figured out that ventilators aren't needed when the patient is capable of breathing on their own. This article is the pinnacle of single-variable thinking. What is NYC going to do when the sun goes away for the winter, and coronavirus season comes roaring back? I'm sure the media will castigate the public for daring to take off their masks. Dr. Zelenko had a good point: patients showed up in his office after 3-5 days of symptoms. It was easy to tell if the patient probably had COVID-19. Why wait another 3 days for a test to come back positive [5], when you can just start treatment the same day with zinc [3], an anti-inflammatory antibiotic (azithromycin), and a zinc ionophore [4]? He said it's about $20 for his course of treatment, whereas if he'd waited for a positive test before initiating treatment the patient would have certainly deteriorated to the point they needed to be hospitalized. IMHO the United States' medical industry has a tremendous financial incentive to do the most-expensive/least-effective interventions [2], and educates their worker-bee physicians accordingly. [1] https://twitter.com/zev_dr/status/1280978415131267084 https://twitter.com/zev_dr/status/1280978415131267084 (edit: was originally just a link to @zev_dr, then I found the specific tweet with the video about Dr. Zelenko using his clinical judgement to initiate treatment early.) [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21728864 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21728864 [3] Zn2+ Inhibits Coronavirus and Arterivirus RNA Polymerase Activity In Vitro and Zinc Ionophores Block the Replication of These Viruses in Cell Culture - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2973827/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2973827/ [4] https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=medcram+zinc+ionophore https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=medcram+zinc+io... [5] https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202007.0025/v1 https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202007.0025/v1 [6] https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-in-pregnant-woman-high-nyc.html https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-in-pregnant-woman-hi... (edit1: changed the link from @zev_dr to a specific tweet) (edit2: mostly minor changes)