Top Doctors Join Pennacchio’s Call to Use Hydroxychloroquine to Combat Spread of COVID-19

insidernj.com ^ | 3/23/2020 | insidernj.com

[mmichaels1970]

A recent French peer review study by renowned infectious disease specialist Dr. Didier Raoult which was published in the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents showed promising results in the treatment of COVID-19 with Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ).

The French study also showed a significant decrease in “viral shedding,” from patients treated with HCQ. The lower the shedding, the less likelihood that the virus can be communicated to other individuals.

As the medical profession evaluates different treatment options, public health officials should adopt early treatment measures with the existing tools at our disposal. HCQ is an inexpensive, safe drug that has been used in the treatment of malaria for seventy years.

With no vaccine or antiviral in place, HCQ is the lead candidate for early treatment against the COVID-19 virus. This was the conclusion of a recent medical paper written by Dr. Raymond Chang whose affiliations include the Institute of East-West Medicine in New York and the National Taiwan University Hospital in Taiwan.

HCQ has the ability to prevent the virus from entering the cell, as well as to prevent the virus from replicating. HCQ has the unique factor of being able to accumulate high concentrations in the lungs (specifically where it is needed). What is also appealing is the long duration (22 day half-life) of HCQ in the body. These factors make it promising for early treatment if ingested days before the virus is introduced.

Worldwide reaction to the virus has been one of containment through isolation and social distancing. The objective of early treatment is to decrease the time of isolation and social distancing. The longer the isolation the more devastating the effects on our lives. A nationwide program of early treatment with HCQ, along with concurrent isolation may reap exponential benefits. The existing record of HCQ, its promise of efficacy in the treatment of COVID-19 and low costs make the risk to benefit ratio well worth the effort.

Federal and State governments should immediately direct public policy towards increasing production, storage and establishing a distribution protocol and regimen for HCQ to ameliorate the spread of the COVID-19 virus. This was the conclusion reached by U.S. academic studies in response to French infectious disease specialist Dr. Raoult’s peer review study, saying HCQ has a strong potential as a prophylactic measure against the severity of COVID-19.

We the undersigned agree with New Jersey State Senator Joe Pennacchio that all levels of government should work together to ameliorate the COVID-19 pandemic by developing an early treatment to minimize the effects of the virus and reduce its communicability by decreasing viral shedding with the use of Hydroxychloroquine:

Anika Ackerman MD Urology

Joseph Addeo MD Oncology

Munir Ahmed MD Orthopedics

Niran Al-Agba DO Pediatrics

Frank Alario MD Internal Medicine

Sharon Carswell MD Family Medicine

Kimberly Corba MD Family Medicine

Doug Crane MD Internal Medicine

Madeline Danny DO Family Medicine

Philip DeFina PhD Neuroscientist Clinical Research US ARMY Intel

Anthony Dippolito MD MBA General & Colorectal Surgeon

John Eck MD Family Medicine

Josephine Feingold MD Emergency Medicine

Ken Fisher MD Family Medicine

Chris Garofalo MD Family Medicine

David Gee MD Family Medicine

Helen Gelhot MD General Surgery

Eric Gerwirtz MD Anesthesiology

Yvette Gozzo MD Pulmonology

Karladine Graves DO Family Medicine

Wayne Graves DO Emergency Medicine

Lee Gross MD Family Medicine

Avinash Gupta MD Cardiology

James Halper MD Neuropsychiatry & Internal Medicine

Scott Hardiman MD Otolaryngology

Kris Held MD Ophthalmology

Travis Hendricks MD Infectious Disease

Bindukumar Kansupada MD Cardiology

Cameron Knackstedt DO Family Medicine

Herbert Kunkle, Jr MD Orthopedic Surgery

Steve Kupferburg MD Otolaryngology

Lee Kurisko MD Radiology

Guru Lamba MD Hematology Oncology

Katarina Lindley DO Family Medicine

Jennifer Lorine DO Family Medicine/Neuromuscular Med OMT

Lee Merritt MD General Surgery, US Navy

Winslow Murdoch MD Family Medicine

Katherine Newland MD Emergency Medicine

Lisa Norberg DO Family Medicine

Fred Notarnicola MD Internal Medicine

Sheila Page DO Neuromuscular & Skeletal, AAPS President Texas

Kirit Kumar Pandya MD Urology

Prashant Parikh MD Primary Care

Philip Pattison MD Gastroenterology

Danae Powers MD Anesthesiology

Lee Pressler MD Urology

Samuel Putnam MD Interventional Radiology, US Army Flight Surgeon

Raj Raval MD Physiatrist, Interventional Pain

Luis Rodriguez Jr MD Interventional Radiology

Scott Roethle MD Anesthesiology

Sohayla Rostami DO General Surgery Resident

James Rowsey MD Ophthalmology

Christine Saba PharmD MD Pediatrics

Vinod Sanchetti MD Internal Medicine

Nikki Silverstein MD Ophthalmology

Marilyn Singleton MD JD Anesthesiology

Pat Smith MD Gynecology

Reed Smith MD Internal Medicine

Douglas Spiel MD Interventional Pain Radiology

Joel Strom DDS Dentist

James Thomas MD MBA Interventional Radiology, Naval Flight Surgeon

Teresa Thomas MD Internal Medicine

Josh Umber MD Family Medicine

Kip VanCamp DO Interventional Radiology

Craig Wax DO Family Medicine

Vicki Wooll MD MPH Family Medicine, Epidemiology

Marlene Wust-Smith MD Pediatrics

[mmichaels1970]

I am fully aware that doctors have been prescribing for several days now. With talk of nationalizing companies, mobilizing hospital ships, trillion dollar stimulus packages, I'm wondering when we're going to see information on AMERICAN results?

We see a rolling death count, we see a rolling confirmed count plastered on our TV 24/7. Businesses are closed and employees sent home almost immediately.

Is it too soon to ask to start seeing numbers of people who have received the treatment, what condition they were in when prescribed, and their condition on treatment day +1, +2, +3, etc? How many have died from the virus AFTER receiving the prescription?

[Chgogal]

Faux Fauci, The Deep Stater, is dismayed.

[Harpotoo]

Since they can’t give the Guy CREDIT for anything I’ll correct the headline:-) Top Doctors Join TRUMP’S Call to Use Hydroxychloroquine to Combat Spread of COVID-19

[LisaFab]

Amen!

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Fauci is the same age as Biden, replete with similar symptoms.

[wardaddy]

I’m taking 200mg hydrochoroquin (sic) 2-3 times a week at bedtime

It makes ones ears ring at first and maybe a bit tired feeling

I took it for dengue decades ago

I’m sole parent provider now of five kids with four at home now with a lifetime of bad heart and scar tissue in lungs

Just being cautious...I have to work...long as folks are washing cars

Use hand sanitizer and don’t touch your mouth as frequently

I have sure had my eyes opened as to who panics and who doesn’t in this world

America is 3/4 panickers

Yes women panic more God love em but young men today....it’s sad what can I say ...and the more educated in parenthesis...the weaker

Anyhow...if I die ...I had a good life....I can’t sit at home and go broke

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Well, they’d better hurry up, because if this thing keeps spreading at the current rate we’ll all be dead by 2040.

[crz]

They can add my personal doctor to that list. I wont give his name since I havent permission, but just now got back from seeing him for my 6 mo check.

Asked him about it and he said it WORKS!!!!!!

Know what else he told me? Told me the number one killer that will come out of this will be the stress caused by the panic.

[clyde260]

President Trump and Dr. Fauci are not at odds.

President Trump and Dr. Fauci are NOT at odds.

President Trump and Dr. Fauci are NOT at odds!

President Trump and Dr. Fauci are NOT at odds!!!

PRESIDENT TRUMP AND DR. FAUCI ARE NOT AT ODDS!!!!!

Please grow brains and stop feeding into the media propaganda and hysteria and attempts to make our president look like a fool.

That is all.

[38special]

Nobel Prize for this French doctor.

[1_Rain_Drop]

"if this thing keeps spreading at the current rate we’ll all be dead by 2040."

I though we only had 10.17 years left and there you go delaying it to 2040. I'll need to buy more TP.

[mmichaels1970]

Know what else he told me? Told me the number one killer that will come out of this will be the stress caused by the panic.

He isn't wrong. That doc sounds like a keeper!

Asked him about it and he said it WORKS!!!!!!

If we simply had an online reference where we could see how this prescription treatment is affecting people (for better or worse), I think it could go a long way.

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[mmichaels1970]

Nobel Prize for this French doctor.

And I'll go to the parade.

[Chgogal]

POYUS looks good, Faux Fauci is the ass.

‘I can't jump in front of the microphone and push him down’: Fauci says he tells Trump things FOUR times before they sink in, criticizes him for shaking hands with people and using term ‘China virus’ - and is absent from latest briefing“

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8141443/I-jump-microphone-Fauci-says-trying-correct-Trump.html

https://www.wellingtondailynews.com/zz/news/20200323/i-cant-jump-in-front-of-microphone-and-push-him-down-fauci-addresses-trump-coronavirus-claims

And as reported in Texas:
https://www.kbcy.com/news/fauci-on-trump-i-cant-jump-in-front-of-the-microphone-and-push-him-down/

Are you sure I am the one who has to grow a brain?

[clyde260]

And that is exactly what Dr. Fauci means, there are questions that cannot be answered yet because the evidence is anecdotal, ONE study does not do the trick.

It is very hopeful and I believe it will be the answer, but what is the dosage? How long should it be prescribed for? How does it react when a patient is prescribed Chloroquine but has other complications? and many more questions.

How many lawsuits will be brought if they get any of this wrong? It can and is being prescribed, it just can’t get the stamp of approval yet.

[Chgogal]

Now that is a headline that makes sense!

[clyde260]

Very sure. I watched and listened to Fauci himself last night.

[crz]

He also told me, after I told him that I believe the wife and I had this in late Jan, that he really loves to work with people who know how to fight an illness.

He asked me how I managed it and I told him that we drank enough fluids that we had to pee at least every hour, took hot soaking tub baths-or the hot tub, ate what our mother used to give us when we were sick when we were kids..

Said the fluids were the most important part. Your body is trying to WASH out the virus and it needs fluids to help do that. Also, fuids help minimize inflammation caused by the bodies reaction to the virus. The hot tub may most likely be the second best since it raises the core temps of the body a tiny bit and viruses cant handle higher temps. Then the foods-soups, crackers, etc are always important.

[mmichaels1970]

Please grow brains and stop feeding into the media propaganda and hysteria and attempts to make our president look like a fool.

I agree with you. But task force members should not be doing media interviews. Not with CNN, Fox, Levin, or anybody. If they want to talk to the media to get a message out or clarify something, they should appoint a press secretary or public relations person.

If Dr. Fauci wants to step up to the podium during a task force briefing, and the president approves, that is fine. But media tours by members of the "war room" should not be happening.

Dr. Fauci is doing harm to the task force and to the country by showing up for media interviews, many of whom are hostile to the president and the country. He needs to focus more on being a doctor and less on being a distinguished guest.