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COVID and the Semmelweis Reflex
American Thinker ^ | 26 Mar, 2021 | Robert Jones

Posted on 03/26/2021 3:21:01 AM PDT by MtnClimber

The majority of physicians have failed because they have not put into practice the safe and effective treatments that now exist for COVID.

As recent as the mid-1800s, five women in 1,000 died in deliveries performed by midwives. On the other hand, when physicians performed deliveries, the death rate was often 10 to 20 times greater. This was because physicians often began their day performing autopsies with bare hands and then, without washing their hands, examined pregnant women and delivered babies. Midwives, on the other hand, did not perform autopsies. These physician-caused deaths were due to puerperal fever, a horrendous way to die characterized by high fevers, painful abscesses, and a tortured decline into a nightmare of irreversible sepsis.

Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis was the Hungarian physician who spent his life as a voice crying in the wilderness trying to reduce the death rate of pregnant women. He had discovered that if physicians simply washed with a chlorinated lime solution before examining pregnant women or delivering babies that the death rate dropped to less than 1%. Because his view countered prevailing medical opinion, he was shunned by the medical profession and died an ignominious death at the age of 47.

The “Semmelweis Reflex” is a metaphor for our reflex-like tendency to reject new knowledge because it contradicts with an established belief or norm. That is exactly what is happening today with COVID.

Around the world, a small number of esteemed physicians have found combinations of drugs that can produce a near complete cure for COVID, as long as patients are treated when the viral load is low.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: shutdown
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To: MtnClimber

And, the early HCQ trials, here, did not include the required zinc....nor IIRC, Vitamin D

A lot of the HCQ trials did not include the must-have zinc.


41 posted on 03/27/2021 4:26:12 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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To: metmom

“It hasn’t been around long enough to guarantee us that.”

For the long term effects, correct.

For short term effects, there have surely been some deaths. The medical profession is running blind on this one, and simply denying causation. But it is up to them to PROVE it safe, and they cannot do that without double blind placebo-control data. Which they do NOT have (a different vaccine, or an adjuvant is not a placebo!)

Never forget that for all vaccine testing, the patently dishonest excuse for not giving a true placebo is that it is “unethical”.

The EUA for the vax is void, because we have safe and effective therapeutics.


42 posted on 03/27/2021 6:25:09 PM PDT by SecAmndmt (Aim small, miss small)
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To: Jane Long

“A lot of the HCQ trials did not include the must-have zinc.”

And zinc is the key, because it is zinc that blocks RNA virus replication.

Their denials simply mean that they are willing to allow people to die so as to sell the vaccine narrative.


43 posted on 03/27/2021 6:27:01 PM PDT by SecAmndmt (Aim small, miss small)
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To: SecAmndmt

Their denials simply mean that they are willing to allow people to die so as to sell the vaccine narrative.


Exactly.

How sick these money changers are.


44 posted on 03/27/2021 6:53:45 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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To: Jane Long

It is sick, because it makes us feel sick, but more than that, anyone who would sacrifice someone else’s life to push their agenda is just plain evil.


45 posted on 03/27/2021 8:11:24 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: ransomnote

Thanks


46 posted on 03/27/2021 10:46:56 PM PDT by SecAmndmt (Aim small, miss small)
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