Here is something my daughter just sent me concerning other possible steps to take:
Combating COVID-19 coronavirus
Coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) is most dangerous to those who are immunocompromised, those over 60, and those who have cardiovascular disease (including hypertension), diabetes, hepatitis B, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic kidney disease, and cancer. Since a vaccine may be 1-2 years away, if you test positive for or have symptoms suggestive of COVID-19 (low-grade fever, sore throat, cough, headache, loss of sense of smell, diarrhea), here is what I recommend in terms of treatment:
Prescription oral hydroxychloroquine or nitazoxanide: Click here.
Intravenous vitamin C, artesunate, curcumin (solubilized in cyclodextrin), and melatonin: Click here, here, here, here, and here.
Inhalable molecular hydrogen and oxygen: Click here and here. Here’s why this may be useful: Click here and here.
Regarding prevention, wash your hands often, cough into your elbow, don’t touch your face, maintain social-distancing of 6 feet from others, and take vitamin D3 (click here). And to prevent others from getting sick, if you feel sick, stay home and call your doctor.
Comments from Dr. Thomas: For my own protection, in addition to taking 50,000 IUs of vitamin D3 once a week, I am also taking one teaspoon of Lauricidin® three times daily, two tablets of ThioDox® twice daily, and metformin 500 mg twice daily. The active ingredient in Lauricidin is monolaurin and it has been found in vitro to destabilize the protective envelope of viruses. This may prevent them from attaching and entering host cells, making infection and replication difficult (click here). The active ingredients in ThioDox increase intracellular glutathione levels. Having adequate glutathione can help protect against excess inflammation and maintain immune function during a serious infection (click here). Metformin has been found to possess anti-microbial and anti-cytokine properties (click here).
UPDATE: March 25, 2020: Based on new data (click here), I no longer recommend hydroxychloroquine. I still recommend nitazoxanide.
UPDATE: March 26, 2020: Based on new data (click here), I recommend adding azithromycin to nitazoxanide.
UPDATE: March 27, 2020: Some people quickly progress from symptoms to death. An American Airlines flight attendant died while awaiting the COVID-19 test results (click here). If you have symptoms suggestive of COVID-19, what should you do? Get tested, stay at home, wait for test results, and if positive, treat? Or, treat while awaiting test results? But, what if the test results come back negative? Do you stop treatment given that the test has a false-negative rate of 10-15% (click here)? If you have symptoms, I recommend treatment. Otherwise, you may risk death or organ damage.
UPDATE: March 28, 2020: Sneeze droplets have been found to travel up to 26 feet (click here). To be safe, does social-distancing need to be increased from 6 feet to >26 feet? Obviously, this is impractical and unenforceable. In my expert medical opinion, more emphasis should be put on treatment.
UPDATE: March 29, 2020: Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said COVID-19 could kill up to 200,000 Americans (click here). Please contact your doctor now and ask if he/she is prepared to help you. Do not wait until you get sick.
I wrote the material below for a comment on an FR post regarding possible suppression of commonly available healing substances. It refers to a long comment there about a Dr. Vladimir Zelenko’s recommendations for using Hydroxychloroquine, Azithromycin, and Zinc Sulfate. I offered my thoughts and experience using readily available supplements.
No, a potential cure might not be discussed by either Democrats or Republicans. For example, the fact that NY is now trying Vitamin C to treat Covid-19 sufferers was not mentioned, and you can be sure none of the doctors like Fauci and others have mentioned it in public even though China has three clinical trials at work, which unfortunately will not be reported until Sept. Below explains why I no longer belong to either party.
While Democrats might wish to deprive Trump of any credit for helping this scourge, both parties are subject to the political donations and pressures of Big Pharma. These established treatments for other illnesses are off patent, and therefore no longer BIG money makers for the drug companies. On the other hand from their perspective Vitamin C is even worse. I checked lower cost chloroquine at GoodRX. It was $75.00 for 30 500mg tablets. The same quantity of Vitamin C tablets costing from 5 to 10 cents each would be $1.50 to $3.00. Wow!! No fortunes to be made there, for sure. And C is well known as completely safe.
New York is now reported to be using Vitamin C for treatment. https://nypost.com/2020/03/24/new-york-hospitals-treating-coronavirus-patients-with-vitamin-c/
This is good news, but they are still using doses far less then those by Cathcart in his high C treatment of 9,000 patients over 10 years. He recommends pushing C to bowel tolerance. The link is long, and very informative regarding how to treat a number of conditions. http://www.doctoryourself.com/titration.html
A Chinese doctor has transmitted his good news about Vitamin C treatment, but points out at the video that NY is not using strong enough doses.
https://greenbeltoutdoors.com/blogs/survival-blog/vitamin-c-in-high-doses-is-safe-in-treatment-of-coronavirus-covid-19-dr-richard-cheng
Should you have any medical or military deciders, or even President Trump’s office you want to contact with the above, here is the official NIH description of at least one of the Chinese studies.
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04264533
When my son in Special Forces said the World Health Organization (WHO) was asking Google and facebook to suppress some videos on China and Vitamin C, I was surprised. I am no longer a skeptic. So, I hope the skeptics here will be willing to consider my own recommendations based on over 45 years helping myself, my family, and others, some in deadly peril. To parallel Dr. Zelenko’s advice. In addition to what he suggests if you can find it and trust it,
1. Any person of any age not yet sick and living where infection is possible:
1 gram (1,000 milligrams) of Vit. C morning and evening.
2000 to 4000 IU of Vitamin D per day
1 good multi-vitamin/multi-mineral morning, and evening if under stress or chronically tired, continue when sick
1 or 2 calcium/magnesium/zinc tablets a day, continue when sick
Other supplements you have researched and find sensible for your physical age and condition
2. Any person in the high-risk category even with minor symptoms
2 grams C in the morning, 1 or 2 gms. every 5 hours, 2 gms at bedtime
Continue use of other supplements, drink plenty of water
3. Any person with serious symptoms if they are not hospitalized
Continue with step 2 recommendations
Crush 10 grams of C or equivalent of powdered C and add to 12 to 20 ounce bottle of water
Have patient sip the water as they wish to level of “bowel tolerance”, see Cathcart’s link above
Allow new C water bottles as often as every 6 or 8 hours
A tablespoon of honey and 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder or juice can be added to water bottle
4. For serious case try to find doctor/hospital that will use IV high dose Vitamin C if you want it. If not, sneak in the water bottles if not intubated.
In my experience, using number 2. Vitamin C doses would reduce a fever by 2 degrees: 104f to 102, 103 to 101. Using honey makes it easier to take the acidity of the C, the garlic I found especially good for the dry choke phase of a cough. Do not use unpasteurized honey for a child under 1 year. When very young and sick, I would fill a baby bottle with water, add 500mg of crushed C, a tablespoon of honey, and 1/4 teaspoon of garlic powder, mixed well. They would wake crying or coughing, grab the bottle, suck on it and fall back asleep. This also helped open their drainage when they had ear infections. Good luck and please send this information to anyone who can use it or encourage authorities to look into it.