[DylanBohlender]

Sounds like it (I've also heard of zinc being added in with HCQ and the z-pak as part of that treatment protocol, sometimes called the "Raoult protocol" and referred to hereafter as such for brevity).

Both the Raoult protocol and remdesivir appear to help if used earlier in the disease progression; neither seem to do anything if the disease has progressed past a certain point.

If early use is the key to efficacy (and if both demonstrate the same degree of efficacy, as it seems currently), the Raoult protocol is the only one that makes sense to scale up. The ingredients for the Raoult protocol are much more easily mass-produced and administered, whereas remdesivir is proprietary, very expensive, and IV-only (as other posters have noted).