Hydroxy hell: The deadly attack on a long-proven COVID treatment

WND ^ | 06/21/2021 | Joel S. Hirschhorn

[SeekAndFind]

Sadly, many people have every reason to mistrust science, medicine and the public health system because of the endless pandemic lies.

The biggest, long-lasting lie is the attack on the use of hydroxychloroquine for early COVID home/outpatient treatment. It was always more about politics than medicine and health care.

The chief protagonist in the battle against HCQ is Anthony Fauci, the darling of big media. The details of this travesty were laid out in my book, "Pandemic Blunder."

Recently, a physician in India made this fascinating observation: "In the 1985-86 edition of 'Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine' [a highly recommended book for students in medical school], Dr. Fauci wrote that HCQ worked as an anti-viral agent despite being an anti-malarial drug. There was no COVID-19 back then. HCQ's anti-viral properties were known."

Did Fauci forget what he knew 35 years ago? He had no hesitancy in ignoring a mountain of evidence for the effectiveness of HCQ against the COVID virus. Maybe that can be explained by the fact so ignored by big media that Fauci is not a trained virologist. As a loyal friend of the drug industry, he has shown no skill in following any science that conflicts with that industry's interests.

This reference to such an early work explains why physicians in Europe and the U.S. in the early months of 2020, when the pandemic was just exploding, thought to use hydroxychloroquine. Dr. Vladimir Zelenko in New York became famous for his cocktail based on HCQ that worked to safely cure his mostly elderly patients hit with the COVID virus. In France, Dr. Didier Raoult was one of the earliest to discover its usefulness. He treated over 1,000 patients with azithromycin and hydroxychloroquine, and almost 99% recovered.

[smoky415]

…and in Australia more have died from the vaccine than from the virus, this year.

[immadashell]

Fauxci is a political stooge for the Left.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Fauxci is a political stooge for the Left.

In 2005, Fauci actually pushed HCQ as a treatment for all types of coronaviruses. It was reported that he was a strong proponent of HCQ, because it worked against SARS, a cousin of the current SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19. He admitted that HCQ "completely abolished SARS-CoV infection."

This came about because of research done in connection with the SARS outbreak that concluded HCQ was effective at stopping the SARS coronavirus in its tracks. COVID-19 is a coronavirus, and though not exactly the same virus as SARS, it is genetically related to it and shares 79% of its genome. They both use the same host cell receptor, which is what viruses use to gain entry to the cell and infect the victim.

The Virology Journal published what now seems a historic article on Aug. 22, 2005, under the heading, "Chloroquine is a potent inhibitor of SARS coronavirus infection and spread." Five of the eight authors were from the CDC. "We report … that chloroquine has strong antiviral effects on SARS-CoV infection of primate cells. These inhibitory effects are observed when the cells are treated with the drug either before or after exposure to the virus, suggesting both prophylactic and therapeutic advantage." What works with chloroquine will likely work with its safer cousin hydroxychloroquine.

Now known as an unrepentant flip-flopper, Fauci used his considerable power to block HCQ use in 2020, despite what science was saying. The follow-the-science hypocrite suddenly decided that HCQ could not be widely used, despite extremely positive results from both research and frontline doctors. He pushed the clinical results aside as "anecdotal." Real-world data endorsed in a 2016 federal law were dismissed arrogantly by Fauci.

Which brings us to this understanding: Despite compelling real-world data starting in March 2020 that cheap, safe and FDA-approved hydroxychloroquine really worked, big media, federal officials and public health despots maintained their vicious attacks. Even into the present.

[Hojczyk]

Dr Fauci should be in jail...

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[DuncanWaring]

Dr. Fauci should be in a gibbet.

[eyeamok]

Come on Man, there is NO MONEY to be made foe a dirt cheap off patent drug with no side effects that is safer than tylenol

[Jane Long]

Scary.

That may be the case in even more countries, this year.

[Jane Long]

Come on Man, there is NO MONEY to be made foe a dirt cheap off patent drug with no side effects that is safer than tylenol

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Yep. If sheeple can’t figure BigPharma’s (who owns hospital systems -> who own docs) obvious goal...w/this ScamDEMic and rushed, experimental and risky shots, then they are truly blind.

[jonrick46]

HCQ used as a early treatment for Covid infection is a good use. However, there have been 3,888,357 deaths world wide from Covid. If every one of them received HCQ treatment, that would have been quite a demand for it. Right now, HCQ costs $66 for 60 tablets (200mg) at Costco. If there was a huge demand world wide for HCQ, that cost would go through the roof. How much would it cost if all 3,888,357 were treated with HCQ? How many of the 179,534,629 world wide cases, even if they didn't die, would have been treated early on with HCQ? I can imagine the demand for HCQ would have been like the toilet paper wiped off the shelves as fast as it was supplied.

Then, the use of HCQ used as a preventative instead of a vaccine is another matter to consider. How much would HCQ cost if every one in the world took one 200 mg tablet each day?

Here is the year supply for the world's population (7.7 billion) taking one tablet per day:

2,810,500,000,000 tablets or 46,841,666,666 60 tablet bottles.

How much would those 60 tablet bottles cost at Costco?

$3,091,549,999,956

[eyeamok]

I guess it is a good thing this has gone main stream, but a lot of us have known these facts for a long long time.

[GBA]

“… compelling real-world data starting in March 2020 that cheap, safe and FDA-approved hydroxychloroquine really worked …”

Yeah, but if you have one or more existing, effective treatments, then you can’t emergency authorize experimental drugs for mass distribution and use, right?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

... if you have one or more existing, effective treatments, then you can’t emergency authorize experimental drugs

We heard that all the time. It strikes me as a red herring excuse because the feds could have easily relaxed or suspended that prohibition against EUA if there was a therapeutic treatment available. It's a man-made regulation that might make sense in non-pandemic times. But a man-made reg could be easily undone for a year or two specifically for COVID. Why was there no effort or political will to do that?

[Eagles6]

And a lot of others.

[roving]

Some on here trust the government 100%, If they were told they needed to jump off a bridge after the shot, they would.

[Political Junkie Too]

It strikes me as a red herring excuse because the feds could have easily relaxed or suspended that prohibition against EUA if there was a therapeutic treatment available.

The optics would have been very bad for them.

First, they'd have to admit to an existing treatment, or face questions about why they are removing a restriction that doesn't apply.

Then they would have to address requests for the existing treatment over the experimental new vaccines.

It was in their best interests to keep the regulation as it was and just kill the hopes of using HCQ, even if they had to flip-flop and go against longstanding prior opinions on the matter.

-PJ

[ProtectOurFreedom]

So saving face was more important to them than saving lives. It’s too bad Trump couldn’t have cut through that BS

[GBA]

Why was there no effort or political will to do that?

“Ch-Ching!” And suddenly I hear The O’Jays singing For The Love of Money in my head … “Money, money, money, money …. Money!”

And, of course, Power!

Because, while some got very rich, some lost power and some retained power and some regained power!

And, because not having readily available, cheap and well understood APPROVED drugs and protocols was essential for not letting this crisis go to waste, so they made the most of it?

That is my observation. How about you? Or did I misunderstand your question?

My question is: how many politicians and judges would you need to run America?

My best guess is that someone knows this answer and their collection has become more than adequate to do this … which would explain a great deal that doesn’t make sense any other way.

How about you?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

"essential for not letting this crisis go to waste"

The pandemic was the key to stealing the election, so they would do anything humanly possible to keep HCQ and Ivermectin unavailable.

See Sometimes a Coincidence isn’t a Coincidence for an explanation of how it did't go to waste. They used this crisis to achieve a far bigger result than any crisis in human history.