Intracellular Zn+ inhibits All RNA viruses that use RdRp to replicate via translation Retroviruses are a subset of RNA viruses that happen to have the ability to infiltrate into the nucleus (via integrase), and then write their rna code into the DNA using reverse transcriptase, then basically HIV / retroviruses becomes a part "of you".  When you get a retrovirus, it's permanent, until we have a way to make a virus that reverses it's insertions into the DNA  (a reverseHIV if you will) if zinc ionophores push zinc into the cells, and then cause cells that act as retrovirus reservoirs to die, then there goe the retrovirus reservoirs!   this means zinc makes retroviruses less virulent and gives the human body's immune system--which is one of the most impressive complex things in the whole known universe--the ability to win any war of attrition That makes this a novel new strategy that is very simple...to fight hiv I believe quercetin analogues and EGCG are going to take a part in the future of fighting hiv and other retroviruses