What hypothesis?
This one?
Despite its small sample size, our survey shows that hydroxychloroquine treatment is significantly associated with viral load reduction/disappearance in COVID-19 patients and its effect is reinforced by azithromycin.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Or this one??
Or this one??
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Or this one??
View: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1239776019856461824
None of which involve zinc.
That's because of moving goal posts and the layman hatred of the scientific process.
This NEJM article, which is solid science probably started through an IRB process back in March and only came out the other end now.
The zinc requirement only became focused when the French studies were not able to be easily reproduced and the VA study was shutdown for killing people.
The next round in 3-4 months will likely involve zinc addition as that as become a more common criticism (even though it wasn't when the French studies were being bandied about)