[WilsonPaige]

Yes. One of the earliest proponents of that was Dr. Zev Zelenko:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ulqf5NXhms

and

https://twitter.com/RossFairchild/status/1242263727325483010?

"Dr Zelenko statistics – 699 cases / 0 deaths = 0% death rate

PATIENTS TREATED WITH THREE DRUG REGIMEN

1- hydroxychloroquine 200mg twice a day for 5 days 2- azithromycin 500mg once a day for five days 3- zinc sulfate 220mg once a day for five days

CONCLUSION – TREAT AS EARLY AND AS AGGRESSIVELY AS POSSIBLE IN THE OUTPATIENT SETTING

Respectfully,

Dr. Vladimir (Zev) Zelenko"

But Zelenko treated his patients _early_; he didn't wait until they had pneumonia or other lung problems to administer the triad of drugs.

The recent studies that "disprove hydroxychloroquine/chloroquin" differ from Zelenko's suggested treatment in that:

a) they select patients where disease is in an advanced stage, i.e., in in the lungs and/or pneumonia/SARS/ARDS has developed,

b) they don't administer zinc at all: they may not administer azithromycin,

c) these studies usually _overdose_ the hydroxychloroquine/chloroquin. Note that Zelenko used only 200mg hydroxychloroquine twice a day.

Zelenko makes it clear that his goal was to defeat the virus early (ergo the zinc sulfate + hydroxychloroquine as a zinc ionophore, which allows the zinc zn++ ion to move from the bloodstream into each cell's cytoplasm where viral replication takes polace.

Zelenko also clearly notes (in other places) that the azithromycin was a trick taken from ICU doctors, a drug intended to _prevent_ opportunistic bacterial infection consequent to the virus damaging lung tissue.

Waiting for pheumonia/SARS/ARDS to develop before deploying azithromycin or other antibiotics should be considered medical negligence.

Even medicine can't avoid politics these days.