Posted on 01/20/2022 8:41:23 PM PST by SeekAndFind
COVID-19 is a global pandemic. Treatment with hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), zinc, and azithromycin (AZM), also known as the Zelenko protocol, and treatment with intravenous (IV) vitamin C (IVC) have shown encouraging results in a large number of trials worldwide. In addition, vitamin D levels are an important indicator of the severity of symptoms in patients with COVID-19.
Our multicenter, randomized, open-label study aimed to assess the effectiveness of HCQ, AZM, and zinc with or without IVC in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 in reducing symptom severity and duration and preventing death.
Hospitalized patients with COVID-19 in seven participating hospitals in Turkey were screened for eligibility and randomly allocated to receive either HCQ, AZM, and zinc (group 1) or HCQ, AZM, zinc plus IV vitamin C treatment (group 2) for 14 days. The patients also received nontherapeutic levels of vitamin D3.
The trial is registered on the Australian and New Zealand Clinical Trial Registry ACTRN12620000557932 and has been approved by the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA).
A total of 237 hospitalized patients with COVID-19 aged 22-99 years (mean: 63.3 ± 15.7 years) were enrolled in the study. Almost all patients were vitamin D deficient (97%), 55% were severely vitamin D deficient (<25 nmol/L) and 42% were vitamin D deficient (<50 nmol/L); 3% had insufficient vitamin D levels (<75 nmol/L), and none had optimal vitamin D levels.
Of the patients, 73% had comorbidities, including diabetes (35%), heart disease (36%), and lung disease (34%).
All but one patient (99.6%; n = 236/237) treated with HCQ, AZM, and zinc with or without high-dose IV vitamin C (IVC) fully recovered. Additional IVC therapy contributed significantly to a quicker recovery (15 days versus 45 days until discharge; p = 0.0069).
Side effects such as diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting, reported by 15%-27% of the patients, were mild to moderate and transient. No cardiac side effects were observed.
Low vitamin D levels were significantly correlated with a higher probability of admission to the intensive care unit (ICU) and longer hospital stay.
Sadly, one 70-year-old female patient with heart and lung disease died after 17 days in ICU and 22 days in the hospital. Her vitamin D level was 6 nmol/L on admission (i.e., severely deficient).
Our study suggests that the treatment protocol of HCQ, AZM, and zinc with or without vitamin C is safe and effective in the treatment of COVID-19, with high dose IV vitamin C leading to a significantly quicker recovery.
Importantly, our study confirms vitamin D deficiency to be a high-risk factor of severe COVID-19 disease and hospitalization, with 97% of our study’s patient cohort being vitamin D deficient, 55% of these being severely vitamin D deficient, and none had optimal levels.
Future trials are warranted to evaluate the treatment with a combination of high-dose vitamin D3 in addition to HCQ, AZM, and zinc and high-dose intravenous vitamin C.
bmfl
Now that the NIH proved that hcq is safe and effective, doesn’t that eliminate the emergency authorization for the vaccines?
Sure would seem so.
Well, until FRAUDci “takes care of” this study and its organizers, probably. :-(
Good point.
It is dangerous to go against the little Dr. Mengele
Docs should have lobbied for payment. ..good vit D levels PREVENT many problems. It’s idiotic NOT to make D a required, paid for test...they do in one of the Scandinavian countries if I remember right.
First time I’ve seen report of being vitamin D deficient if under 75!!!
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Different units.
Last spring our pharmacy filled Rx for Ivermectin. But they questioned my wife’s doctor about her HCQ prescription. She has been taking HCQ daily for decades.
Not on our tests...
75 nmol/l is 30 ng/ml
Thanks.
Bkmk
bkmk
Bookmark for my doctor appointment next week.
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“The blood of tens of thousands are on their hands.”
Millions.
Highly recommend the interview of Dr Peter McCullough MD by Dr Julie Ponesse on Rumble. Especially the end.
I’ll look into that. Thank you.
Here’s the link, to the interview video link you mentioned....
https://rumble.com/vt10hy-the-double-edged-fear-of-covid-19-dr.-peter-mccullough.html
Great interview....Dr Julie Ponesse’s statement, at the end, about Canadians, with their children, was a shocking eye opener.
BFLR
Wow. Thanks for posting this.
Correct me if I am wrong, but isn’t this protocol very similar if not the same as original Zev Zelenko protocols?
Protocols that Zelenko used in New York at the initial NY outbreak in early 2020 which he sent to Trump in early Spring 2020—March if I recall.
How many debates have we had here on FR about the benefits of these supplements used in these combinations—and the doctors promoting them were called quacks and smeared?
Sad, but perhaps we can reopen some of those old threads and correct the record...if that’s not possible perhaps going forward, some minds around here can be opened.
was at the pharmacy the other day and the pharmacist said “Any questions?” On my antibiotic prescription.
\/\/ayne: “If I had a prescription for Ivermectin, would you fill it?”
Pharmacist: “If we could get it I would. They are blocking it from us.”
The pharmacist then turned away quickly to attend to something.
Good news...This week. Bills are being considered in New Hampshire and Indiana that would allow pharmacists to dispense the Ivermectin by means of standing orders.
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