Physicians who diagnose cases of COVID-19 coronavirus illness get a quick sense of whether the patient is on track to develop the deadly form of coronavirus pneumonia.  The most common symptoms are fever, dry cough, shortness of breath and flu-like symptoms.

But modern medicine is so steeped in its pharmacy of prescription drugs, with its blinders toward nutritional medicine, that it can't see the obvious evidences of a trace mineral deficiency that results in the same signs and symptoms produced by COVID-19 coronavirus.

An emergency room physician in New Orleans shares an account of his experience with this dreaded pathogenic virus.   He writes: "You can literally watch it happen in a matter of hours."  Some 70-90% of hospitalized patients who have to be placed on a ventilator die.

As I read through this doctor's account of how he goes about making a quick assessment of the severity of the patient's lung disease, all of its common signs and symptoms I quickly realized are signs of zinc deficiency.  A chart provided below makes the comparison.  All 18 coronavirus symptoms and signs point to zinc deficiency.