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I watched. He talked and talked and talked without giving any details that would make me think he's legitimate. He actually mocked the drug approval process, which is a HUMUNGOUS red flag. He claims to have treated several hundred patients, but, according to an article I found, he is testing patients and finding a 65% positive rate. Actually, here is the key quote from the article dated Mar. 24, "Zelenko said in one of two videos he posted on Tuesday that he stopped testing his patients for coronavirus after “the first few hundred tests came back with 65% positive results."

That is pretty unbelievable, especially back in March. Especially considering that as of today, there are 1,528,661 cases in the US, which isn't even close to being 65% of the population, not in NYC, not anywhere else. Not only does that raise questions about what kind of testing he is doing, it also contradicts any attempt to show efficacy of a treatment, where the first step is to actually verify that the patient has the condition.

At 22:36, the interviewer asked when a paper is coming out. At 22:48, Zelenko answered "Next week." This video was uploaded on Apr 27--so where is this paper?

Yep, this guy is a quack.

I'll also mention that leaders in the Hasidic community were not happy with Zelenko, since his inflated claims of Covid-19 in that community were causing other people to shun them.

RE: I’ll also mention that leaders in the Hasidic community were not happy with Zelenko, since his inflated claims of Covid-19 in that community were causing other people to shun them.

Can you cite a reliable source for this? Anew news item? Any Hasidic Jew we can quote?

RE: Not only does that raise questions about what kind of testing he is doing, it also contradicts any attempt to show efficacy of a treatment, where the first step is to actually verify that the patient has the condition.

I sent you the link to the radio interview that he did with Kevin McCulloagh, he is doing a study with St. Francis Hospital, the results of which are slowly coming out, that specifically addresses the issue you brought up. Please listen to it.

Also see here:

https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/04/30/coronavirus-exclusive-meet-the-doctor-behind-the-hydroxychloroquine-treatment-for-covid-19/

RE: Yep, this guy is a quack.

If this guy is a quack, then these doctors, all of whom used the same or similar protocols that he used SUCCESSFULLY are quacks as well. Look them up or even call them of you want to get at the truth :

1) Dr. Stephen Smith:

Watch his testimony using hydroxychloroquine here:

https://www.foxnews.com/media/dr-stephen-smith-on-effectiveness-of-hydroxychloroquine-with-coronavirus-symptoms-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-pandemic

Here are his credentials:

https://www.smithcenternj.org/about-our-doctors/

2) Dr. William Grace in New York City, Affiliated with St. Vincents Hospital.

Here is his personal experience:

https://www.newsbreak.com/new-york/new-york/news/0Ob0lZpb/dr-william-grace-thanks-to-hydroxychloroquine-we-have-not-had-a-death-in-our-hospital

Here are his credentials:

https://www.healthgrades.com/physician/dr-william-grace-2r7k9

3) Dr. Muhammud Alam in Long Island

See here: https://nypost.com/2020/04/04/long-island-doctor-tries-new-hydroxychloroquine-for-covid-19-patients/

He is an infectious disease specialist affiliated with
Plainview Hospital, he said 81 percent of infected covid patients he treated with hydroxychloroquine and antibiotic azithromycin at three Long Island nursing homes recovered from the contagion.

Here are his credentials:

https://www.northwell.edu/find-care/find-a-doctor/internal-medicine/dr-mohammud-mahmud-alam-md-11312851

4) Dr. Anthony Cardillo in Los Angeles

Read his successful cases here:

https://abc7.com/health/doctors-say-caution-needed-in-drug-treatment-for-covid-19/6082485/

See his credentials here:

https://www.healthgrades.com/physician/dr-anthony-cardillo-x34qk

5) Dr. Ivette Lozano of Dallas, Texas. See here cases here:

https://www.newsbreak.com/texas/dallas/news/0P2lHIgN/dallas-physician-heals-covid-patients-successfully-with-non-fda-approved-hydroxychloroquine-after-hospitals-sent-them-home-with-no-treatment

Here are her credentials:

https://www.healthgrades.com/physician/dr-ivette-lozano-3fqdp

Just to name a few...

An oh yeah, do you want to call the Doctors who endorse Hydroxychloroquine from the American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) quacks too?

See here:

https://aapsonline.org/hcq-90-percent-chance/

TITLE: Hydroxychloroquine Has about 90 Percent Chance of Helping COVID-19 Patients

What do these doctors have in common?

They have treated their Coronavirus patients with Hydroxychloroquine with great success.

And less you say that this is just an American thing, Here are some experiences from Physicians abroad:

A global survey found that anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine was the most highly-rated treatment against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

SOURCE: https://www.precisionvaccinations.com/fda-issued-emergency-authorization-hydroxychloroquine-treatment-covid-19-patients-usa

TITLE: Doctors Rate Hydroxychloroquine Most Effective Therapy for Coronavirus Infection

And here are just a few countries who are successfully using Hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19:

* Turkey claims success treating COVID-19 with broad use of drug touted by Trump

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus-covid-19-treatment-turkey/

* “The drug has proven to be successful in patients who have been treated currently,” says Mario Ruíz, Medical Manager of the Costa Rican Social Security System (CCSS, or Caja).

SEE HERE:

https://ticotimes.net/2020/04/22/costa-rica-using-hydroxychloroquine-for-covid-19-treatment

If Dr. Zelenko is a quick, then thousand of other physicians from everywhere in the world are quacks also. Which means the word has lost its meaning ( just like the word “racism” )

Methinks you use the word “quack” to quickly without thinking it through.