Source: https://www.rxindia.com/images/detailed/2/Ziverdo_Kit_Strip_Back.jpgPosted on 12/28/2020 7:42:41 PM PST by SeekAndFind
This is a brief essay, a chain of thoughts, from a $2 therapy to … the fall of nations … (nothing less!)
Article available in French at this link.
If you watch the news about COVID-19, you will have certainly heard about drugs such as Remdesivir and REGEN-CoV2, two drugs that were administered to President Trump when he got the disease.
But what about ZIVERDO? You probably never heard about it! And chances are that, if you don’t read this blog, or pay attention to COVID-19 news on Twitter and some other social media, you would never hear about it.
A reason may simply be that it’s a very very cheap therapy for COVID-19.
The drugs we hear about tend to be very pricey. Forbes looked at the price of REGEN-CoV2 and came with this comparison.
“To put things in perspective, that’s potentially over 220 to 950 pieces of avocado toast, depending on whether goat cheese is involved and whether you make your own avocado toast.”
Not sure how they came up with this comparison, but they also gave a cost estimate at “somewhere between $1,500 and $6,500 per treatment.”
In the US, the federal government is subsidizing the drug, so it’s offered free of charge to patients, although in some cases, some fees are applicable. To this date, some 55 000 doses of Casirivimab/Imdevimab, the commercial name of the drug, have been delivered.
https://www.phe.gov/emergency/events/COVID19/investigation-MCM/Bamlanivimab/Pages/allocation.aspx
As for Remdesivir, the price is $3120 per patient for a typical treatment course, for those with private insurance. This does not include the hospitalization costs.
While Remdesivir is known to have significant toxicity and has been found to be ineffective by the international SOLIDARITY trial, leading to the World Health Organization to recommend against its use, it’s still widely used in US hospitals and officially recommended by the National Institutes of Health.
Interim analysis of data for 275 patients, of a clinical trial regarding REGN-COV2, was published on December 17 in the New England Journal of Medicine and found that the drug “reduced viral load, with a greater effect in patients whose immune response had not yet been initiated or who had a high viral load at baseline.”
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2035002
So this research shows an interesting signal, but let’s see how this evolves. The purpose of this article is not to look into the details of the effectiveness of this therapy.
Now what about the ZIVERDO Therapy?
Regarding its cost, it’s can be purchased online, in India, for the whopping total amount of US$2.00
https://www.rxindia.com/medicines/medicines-by-therapeutic-class/covid-19/ziverdo-kit/
https://www.indiamart.com/proddetail/ziverdo-kit-22974209655.html
https://www.pharmacolifesciences.com/covid-drugs.html
Yes you read it well: retail price is below what you would tip for your coffee at Starbucks. I am not talking here about the price of your latté, which is immensely more expensive than that of the potentially life-saving ZIVERDO Therapy.
But who developed this therapy? Well, drawing from its composition, it appears that it can be attributed to none other than the esteemed Professor Thomas Borody, from Australia, whom we interviewed last September and who had even the audacity to claim that COVID-19 was “easier than treating the flu.”
The ZIVERDO therapy is made of 3 agents:
While Professor Borody did not make public the precise dosage of his therapy, the producers of ZIVERDO opted for the following:
“ZIVERDO Kit Contains Zinc Acetate 50 mg, Doxycycline 100 mg & Ivermectin 12 mg Dispersible Tablets.”
Source: https://www.rxindia.com/images/detailed/2/Ziverdo_Kit_Strip_Back.jpgIn addition, they also recommend Vitamin D3, to make it a “quadruple therapy.”
The therapy is offered as home kits and is presented as “first line treatment for COVID-19 positive patients.”
The ZIVERDO therapy is also very close to the i-MASK+ protocol developed by Professor Marik and his colleagues, where Ivermectin and Zinc play a key role.
In our recent webinar, Professor Marik mentioned Doxycycline can be added to the protocol for early treatment when needed.
If you are in a country such as Canada, the US, France, the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Sweden, Germany and many others, for sure you will not have heard about ZIVERDO, except for blogs like this one or some posts on social media.
Countries like India, where the ZIVERDO is offered as a frontline treatment, cannot afford the kind of medicine that is being pushed in these rich, “developed” countries. They cannot afford either massive hospitalizations for a disease that can be treated home.
But if you think about it. When cheap effective drugs are being vehemently denied by the authorities to patients suffering from a deadly disease, can we still talk about medicine?
And are such rich countries, denying life-saving treatments, really developed?
History shows that the rise and fall of nations have many explanations. With this pandemic, it looks like greed may be a pretty good one.
To think one step further, could the poor response to the pandemic be an indicator of future fall of certain nations?
Food for thought … History will tell us, as they say …
PS 1: In the US, even if the official recommendation remains not to treat COVID-19 before hospitalization, you can find a GP or a telehealth service that will prescribe an early therapy likely similar to this ZIVERDO protocol. See the listing maintained by the AAPS by downloading their home-based COVID treatment guide.
PS2: In macroeconomics, the cost of health is considered a contribution to the growth domestic product. When one spends fortunes on expensive and/or ineffective drugs, it’s computed as a contribution to the GDP. Widely using cheap drugs, even when life-saving, is not adding significantly to the GDP. Same goes for hospitalization: the cost of hospitalization is seen as a contributor to the economy, unlike a home-based treatment. In short, you can have substantial resources allocated to health, seen as contributing to the economy, yet without much of an impact in terms of health outcomes (including life expectancy)
PS3: An oddity with these expensive treatments is that President Trump held shares in both Regeneron and Gilead in the past. Maybe he is still holding such stocks. Could that have influenced his therapy?
Ping for your interest.
someone here has been posting about it. dont remember his alias.
bump
I’m not trying to brag (that wouldn’t make sense) and I am sorry for those of you who lost people to this virus.
But in a family of well over a 100, not including extended family and friends and the people they know, I still don’t know ONE person who has had this thing.
Staten Island, ground zero.
Probably a number have had it with no symptoms.
We destroyed an entire economy over (in historical terms) a relatively innocuous virus.
Well it wasn’t. It destroyed the economy and let vote by mail happen to make the coup successful
In my company of about 1,000 people and their families numbering let’s say 3,000, we have had Covid close down several of our operations with many dozens of staff sick.
We have had three deaths FROM SUICIDE, NONE FROM COVID.
Inexpensive?
Isn’t that illegal?
from one listed website
“it consists of Ivermectin 12mg, Zinc Acetate 50mg & Doxycycline 100mg a lethal Combination to fight against Covid-19.”
Does this mean that if you poison yourself with random drugs from India your death will be counted as poisoning instead of covid?
thats cool
I have had a lot of family members get it...one had to be hospitalized and had stroke when came out but none have died.
sketchy area of the law
some places have a Dr who will write the script but it is still importing a drug for personal use
saw on the COPD site that a lot of people with scripts buy inhalers from overseas.
I know Trump was talking about relaxing import laws but dont know if he did
Silver. The king of anti virals and bactericide
Still need a prescrip or is this ‘gray market’?
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Btw, I would like a telehealth site that prescribes Ivermectin in the US. Still searching for a reference where they actually do it.
I saw a reference where a pharmacist in India gets you the script...maybe pharmacists can write them there..not sure...
In Indian Rupees I believe.
bkmk dosage
I can’t be having Biden decide to arrest me for buying $2 worth of Ivermectin from India so I need a telehealth service in the US.
https://www.policymed.com/2020/11/trump-administration-finalizes-drug-importation-rule.html
“If the final rule takes place, individual states will be able to implement their own importation policies, and several states have already indicated their interest in doing so, including Florida, whose legislature approved two importation programs in 2019. While Americans have long been purchasing drugs from Canada for personal use despite it being illegal, the FDA has generally permitted purchases for individual use. It will be interesting to see if that policy shifts with the new importation rule, or if it will continue has it has for decades.”
You can get the Ivermectin at any feed store, look for the “Sheep Drench” liquid version of it. You can get zinc from the Vitamin Shoppe or Amazon, zinc gluconate or zinc sulfate.
Doxycycline is by Rx, but you only need it for secondary infections. If you treat early, no need for Doxy.
Bottom line, no need to order the supplements from India.
At first I used to say that until my cousin caught it and died. Now, our family friend Daniel caught it only to be placed on a respirator and he passed away last night after spending a month in the ICU. His wife caught it and was hospitalized just across the room from him but she is now home and recouperating plus their son also caught it but his is mild. Only the daughter escaped it but is now dealing with their father’s death.
My dad and his wife both had it. Wife with dementia only had a fever, my dad was sicker, but is recovering albeit it has been slower than he wanted. He will be 90 this week. His doc prescribed a zpac, and he takes vitamins. My son had a member of his unit who lost his father in law to this. My best friend and her husband had it. I know LOTS of people who have had it, and know of a few deaths. HS friend lost her husband last week, in his 60’s.
I still think that the treatment protocol has been royally screwed up. Zpac, HCQ, and D would be what I would demand if diagnosed.
Hubby and I take zinc, C, D, and Quercetin.
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