Orange County, California Doctor Cites Positive Results Using Hydroxychloroquine to Treat Covid-19

Dr. Gregg DeNicola is one of the first doctors in Southern California to develop a cohesive treatment plan for COVID-19 that includes the widely debated drug hydroxychloroquine—and he told The Epoch Times he’s seen only positive results.

“A couple [patients] look you in the eye and say, ‘I think I’m going to die,’” DeNicola said. But none of the Laguna Beach-based doctor’s 95 COVID-19 patients have died yet, and he credits hydroxychloroquine with helping to save them.

The use of hydroxychloroquine to treat the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as the novel coronavirus, has divided opinion since it was first suggested. On May 18, President Donald Trump announced he had been taking the anti-malaria drug for over a week, as a preventive measure.

But on May 27, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci said hydroxychloroquine is not an effective treatment for COVID-19. The World Health Organization paused clinical trials of the drug on May 25, citing safety concerns. And certain European countries, including France, have begun to ban its use for treating the disease.

The Lancet medical journal published a 96,000-patient observational study on May 22 that failed to confirm any benefit of using the drug. It found hydroxychloroquine drug regimens were associated with decreased in-hospital survival and increased ventricular arrhythmias (abnormal heartbeats).

However, the gold standard in testing new medical treatments is randomized, controlled trials. The results of such trials are not yet in.

And while DeNicola is aware of the study, he thinks it has some flaws, and he trusts the results he’s seen firsthand with the drug, both in treating COVID-19 and in treating other conditions before the pandemic.

AND FOR THOSE WHO ASK IF ZINC WAS INCLUDED IN HIS REGIMEN, THE ANSWER IS 'YES'.

DeNicola said the controversy surrounding the drug “makes no sense.” The drug has been used since the 20th century to treat connective tissue diseases, he said, and prescribing it has been “second nature” to him.

“I just can’t explain all the negativity to it … all I can do is report what I saw,” he said, citing a 100 percent recovery rate.

The Food and Drug Administration approved hydroxychloroquine for emergency use on March 28. DeNicola immediately began treating his patients with it, coupled with zinc and the antibiotic azithromycin (also known as Z-pak).

He said he uses “the patient’s age, health status, degree of illness, and whether or not the infection is improving or not” to determine whether to prescribe the drug.

DeNicola said he has prescribed the drug to 18 “severely ill” patients. Within three days, they all felt much better.

In some cases, the patients’ lungs fill up with “copious” amounts of liquid or mucus, DeNicola said, making them feel as if they’re drowning. But after taking hydroxychloroquine, they began to feel their lungs clear up and their energy restored—in two or three days.

DeNicola started curbside testing of patients in Laguna Beach on March 10. Since then, his company, Caduceus Medical Group, has tested over 2,000 people for the disease.

Of the 95 confirmed patients DeNicola has treated so far, 40 percent are under 40 years old, he said. Ten percent are over 65, and the remainder are between 40–65. Men and women are affected equally. A few have underlying health conditions.

“They’re 40 to 50 years old, they’re not geriatric,” DeNicola said. “All the patients are actually quite healthy.”

DeNicola said that 90 percent of his patients cite fatigue as the biggest symptom. “Only 80 percent have fever at all, and almost half have parageusia (loss of taste and smell),” his blog states.

One of his patients—a 60-year-old man with diabetes—suffered for 28 days before recovering. Others recovered after roughly two weeks.

DeNicola has been prescribing hydroxychloroquine for years, to combat lupus, malaria, and other connective tissue diseases. He began administering the drug early in the pandemic when he noticed its effectiveness against a severe case of COVID-19.

“One severe case in March was given Plaquenil [hydroxychloroquine] almost as a last resort,” according to his blog. “There was immediate improvement so we used it again. And again. Every case improved.”

The blog added that there have been “no cardiac issues.”

“If I travel this fall I’ll take a supply of HCQ+Zn with me.”
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How will you obtain it? Do you have a doctor willing to prescribe it?

I heard 65,000 people in Italy were taking it for either lupus or rheumatoid arthritis. Of those 65,000 people, only 20 contracted the Chinese virus; none of them died, and none of them had to be hospitalized.

Eighty people in a nursing home in Texas tested positive for the Chinese virus. Staff and patients. They all were given hydroxychloroquine, and 79 of the eight recovered.

There are countless other success stories, but there’s no money in hydroxychloroquine for Gates and Fauci.

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