This would mean that coronaviruses are able to insert genes into cells like adenoviruses do. I'm skeptical, but nothing is impossible. Another reason for treating C19 patients with ivermectin: Ivermectin blocks the virus from sending proteins into the nucleus to change gene expression. If the nucleus is protected, no RNA can integrate.
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Its primary effect is probably by drawing more zinc ions into cell and thus like HCQ deforming the specially fragile SARS-2 coronavirus in one of its odds of creating its longest protein... itself.
But THIS PAPER says Ivermectin is a wonderdrug with THREE , YES THREE effects, one outside cell, one intra-cell, and one , AS YOU STATED, protecting nucleus DNA :
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8203399/
diagram of 'the RED Xs' from Ivermectin : https://files.catbox.moe/cmsoec.png
It actually lists far more than three mechanisms and mentions "Level 3: Action as an Ionophore" but maliciously does not name zinc by name.
I think that blocking the importer molecules is the by far most important effect of ivermectin because the virus has no chance if it cannot block the gene expression needed to produce the self-defence stuff.
Ivermectin also plays a role in regulating the immune-response, avoiding or dampen the cytokine storm. This is why ivermectin also helps in the ICU, when the virus load is already going down.
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