Posted on 03/25/2020 5:50:57 AM PDT by dennisw
Seriously sick coronavirus patients in New York states largest hospital system are being given massive doses of vitamin C based on promising reports that its helped people in hard-hit China, The Post has learned.
Dr. Andrew G. Weber, a pulmonologist and critical-care specialist affiliated with two Northwell Health facilities on Long Island, said his intensive-care patients with the coronavirus immediately receive 1,500 milligrams of intravenous vitamin C.
Identical amounts of the powerful antioxidant are then readministered three or four times a day, he said.
Each dose is more than 16 times the National Institutes of Healths daily recommended dietary allowance of vitamin C, which is just 90 milligrams for adult men and 75 milligrams for adult women.
The regimen is based on experimental treatments administered to people with the coronavirus in Shanghai, China, Weber said.
Enlarge ImageDr. Andrew G. Weber Dr. Andrew G. WeberLinkedIn The patients who received vitamin C did significantly better than those who did not get vitamin C, he said.
It helps a tremendous amount, but it is not highlighted because its not a sexy drug.
A spokesman for Northwell which operates 23 hospitals, including Lenox Hill Hospital on Manhattans Upper East Side said vitamin C was being widely used as a coronavirus treatment throughout the system, but noted that medication protocols varied from patient to patient.
As the clinician decides, spokesman Jason Molinet said.
About 700 patients are being treated for coronavirus across the hospital network, Molinet said, but its unclear how many are getting the vitamin C treatment.
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Media touting the toxic dangers of Vitamin C in 3, 2, 1. .
It's not a drug, it's a vitamin. And, it's not highlighted because it does not kill virus. Anti-virals kill viruses. I think it's a given that you should always try to maintain your own health and a healthy immune system.
Extreme amounts of Vitamin C can kill. Vitamin C needs to be banned in all states. This article will kill people.
Here, you have to be sick as a dog to be tested. So they send you home to pass it on to others.
That’s because there is nothing in it for the pharmas, doctors or medical facilities and vitamin C is something we can get anywhere.
I am trying not to be cynical but in this instance, I cannot help it.
I remember when I listened to his show, years ago, that he said he took 10,000iu-plus a day.
Oranges, tangerines and strawberries.
Can’t eat enough of them at the dosage levels they are talking about though.
I’ll have to add tonic water to my shopping list. Smashing idea!
Before this thing blew up, I bought four 60-pack boxes of Emergen-C. Each packet has 1,500 mg vitamin C, electrolytes, and B vitamins.
Therapeutic and anecdotal....off to the firing squads in Central Park.
Only state studied & approved treatments can be used.
Was just passing it on and scrambling to find out where I read it, but there is this however: https://tneyemds.org/news/news.asp?id=487417
I stocked up on Brawndo. It's got Electrolytes!
NYC must ban this highly inappropriate, unstudied, approach to treat COVID.
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Yes, they are merely “anecdotal reports”. /sarc
Youre hoarding /sarc
Last I knew we imported virtually all our C (and other vitamins) from China.
Where was it in the multi-trillion bailout bill that pharma and critical med companies have to ramp up local production—fast?
Yep. It’s pathetic, we are far behind the curve where it counts.
This is how South Korea got in front of the exponential curve: massive testing and quarantine, even of asymptomatic spreaders.
Asymptomatic spreaders like the ones on every full plane now coming from NY, CT and NJ to Florida at the rate of thousands of arrivals per day. Potentially seeding every small town in the state.
Which is why Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has the NG at our airports, taking contact information from every arriving passenger, and making them sign a 14 day self-quarantine agreement, under threat of jail and massive fines if they are not at home when checked.
“Just the flu” indeed.
I guess GOP governor DeSantis is part of the anti-Trump conspiracy now.
I don’t know where the “Flu Bros” heads are at. Some kind of massive denial.
That’s how the countries who got on top of it early did it. Test, test, test.
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They believed China?! I have been taking Vitamin C, too, but sure would not relied on advice from China.
Boy, 17, announced as America’s first child coronavirus death may have died of septic shock - as it’s revealed his Uber driver father has tested positive and is currently sick as infections in California hit 2,500 and the death toll reaches 51
this is where vitamin C treatment comes in to help deal with sepsis
Emergen-C (or whatever it's called) is a flavored vitamin C powder mixed to be mixed into bottled water or tonic and it goes down pretty easily.
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