Top Doctors Join Pennacchio’s Call to Use Hydroxychloroquine to Combat Spread of COVID-19

insidernj.com ^ | 3/23/2020 | insidernj.com

[mmichaels1970]

A recent French peer review study by renowned infectious disease specialist Dr. Didier Raoult which was published in the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents showed promising results in the treatment of COVID-19 with Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ).

The French study also showed a significant decrease in “viral shedding,” from patients treated with HCQ. The lower the shedding, the less likelihood that the virus can be communicated to other individuals.

As the medical profession evaluates different treatment options, public health officials should adopt early treatment measures with the existing tools at our disposal. HCQ is an inexpensive, safe drug that has been used in the treatment of malaria for seventy years.

With no vaccine or antiviral in place, HCQ is the lead candidate for early treatment against the COVID-19 virus. This was the conclusion of a recent medical paper written by Dr. Raymond Chang whose affiliations include the Institute of East-West Medicine in New York and the National Taiwan University Hospital in Taiwan.

HCQ has the ability to prevent the virus from entering the cell, as well as to prevent the virus from replicating. HCQ has the unique factor of being able to accumulate high concentrations in the lungs (specifically where it is needed). What is also appealing is the long duration (22 day half-life) of HCQ in the body. These factors make it promising for early treatment if ingested days before the virus is introduced.

Worldwide reaction to the virus has been one of containment through isolation and social distancing. The objective of early treatment is to decrease the time of isolation and social distancing. The longer the isolation the more devastating the effects on our lives. A nationwide program of early treatment with HCQ, along with concurrent isolation may reap exponential benefits. The existing record of HCQ, its promise of efficacy in the treatment of COVID-19 and low costs make the risk to benefit ratio well worth the effort.

Federal and State governments should immediately direct public policy towards increasing production, storage and establishing a distribution protocol and regimen for HCQ to ameliorate the spread of the COVID-19 virus. This was the conclusion reached by U.S. academic studies in response to French infectious disease specialist Dr. Raoult’s peer review study, saying HCQ has a strong potential as a prophylactic measure against the severity of COVID-19.

We the undersigned agree with New Jersey State Senator Joe Pennacchio that all levels of government should work together to ameliorate the COVID-19 pandemic by developing an early treatment to minimize the effects of the virus and reduce its communicability by decreasing viral shedding with the use of Hydroxychloroquine:

Anika Ackerman MD Urology

Joseph Addeo MD Oncology

Munir Ahmed MD Orthopedics

Niran Al-Agba DO Pediatrics

Frank Alario MD Internal Medicine

Sharon Carswell MD Family Medicine

Kimberly Corba MD Family Medicine

Doug Crane MD Internal Medicine

Madeline Danny DO Family Medicine

Philip DeFina PhD Neuroscientist Clinical Research US ARMY Intel

Anthony Dippolito MD MBA General & Colorectal Surgeon

John Eck MD Family Medicine

Josephine Feingold MD Emergency Medicine

Ken Fisher MD Family Medicine

Chris Garofalo MD Family Medicine

David Gee MD Family Medicine

Helen Gelhot MD General Surgery

Eric Gerwirtz MD Anesthesiology

Yvette Gozzo MD Pulmonology

Karladine Graves DO Family Medicine

Wayne Graves DO Emergency Medicine

Lee Gross MD Family Medicine

Avinash Gupta MD Cardiology

James Halper MD Neuropsychiatry & Internal Medicine

Scott Hardiman MD Otolaryngology

Kris Held MD Ophthalmology

Travis Hendricks MD Infectious Disease

Bindukumar Kansupada MD Cardiology

Cameron Knackstedt DO Family Medicine

Herbert Kunkle, Jr MD Orthopedic Surgery

Steve Kupferburg MD Otolaryngology

Lee Kurisko MD Radiology

Guru Lamba MD Hematology Oncology

Katarina Lindley DO Family Medicine

Jennifer Lorine DO Family Medicine/Neuromuscular Med OMT

Lee Merritt MD General Surgery, US Navy

Winslow Murdoch MD Family Medicine

Katherine Newland MD Emergency Medicine

Lisa Norberg DO Family Medicine

Fred Notarnicola MD Internal Medicine

Sheila Page DO Neuromuscular & Skeletal, AAPS President Texas

Kirit Kumar Pandya MD Urology

Prashant Parikh MD Primary Care

Philip Pattison MD Gastroenterology

Danae Powers MD Anesthesiology

Lee Pressler MD Urology

Samuel Putnam MD Interventional Radiology, US Army Flight Surgeon

Raj Raval MD Physiatrist, Interventional Pain

Luis Rodriguez Jr MD Interventional Radiology

Scott Roethle MD Anesthesiology

Sohayla Rostami DO General Surgery Resident

James Rowsey MD Ophthalmology

Christine Saba PharmD MD Pediatrics

Vinod Sanchetti MD Internal Medicine

Nikki Silverstein MD Ophthalmology

Marilyn Singleton MD JD Anesthesiology

Pat Smith MD Gynecology

Reed Smith MD Internal Medicine

Douglas Spiel MD Interventional Pain Radiology

Joel Strom DDS Dentist

James Thomas MD MBA Interventional Radiology, Naval Flight Surgeon

Teresa Thomas MD Internal Medicine

Josh Umber MD Family Medicine

Kip VanCamp DO Interventional Radiology

Craig Wax DO Family Medicine

Vicki Wooll MD MPH Family Medicine, Epidemiology

Marlene Wust-Smith MD Pediatrics

[clyde260]

Oh my goodness, he is not against it, he never said don’t take it, he can’t stop it’s usage! He said “the evidence is anecdotal” and he’s right. They cannot put their stamp of approval on something that is not proven, it has only had the 1, ONE, 1 study.

[Jackson Brown]

Fauci is NOT in medical team assembled with Trump in the daily ‘’Medical Task force’’ briefing on TV as I write this.

[LucyT]

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PING

I follow a Facebook page called Pharmacy Week (and I cannot recall why I ever added them LOL), but yesterday, someone posted:

"I work at a 340B pharmacy. We could usually get brand name Plaquenil for $1 for a bottle of 100. We have several patients on it monthly. Now it is $1000 a bottle. So much for contract pricing. Both the brand and generic are on back order from Bergen."

Two quick online searches verify that Planequil is one brand name for hydroxychloroquine, and that a 340B pharmacy is one that is on a government drug discount program. Any pharmacy folks here who can verify this?

[Brown Deer]

Arizona man dies after taking chloroquine for coronavirus

March 23 (Reuters) - An Arizona man has died and his wife is in critical condition after they ingested chloroquine phosphate - an aquarium cleaning product similar to drugs that have been named by President Trump as potential treatments for coronavirus infection.

The couple, in their 60s, experienced immediate distress after swallowing the drug, an additive used at aquariums to clean fish tanks, according to Banner Health Hospital in Phoenix.

Chloroquine phosphate shares the same active ingredient as malaria drugs that President Trump has touted as possibly effective against COVID-19, the potentially life-threatening disease caused by the coronavirus.

On Saturday, Trump tweeted about the combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin, saying it had "a real chance to be one of the biggest game changers in the history of medicine."

The nation's top infectious disease expert, Anthony Fauci, played down that claim, saying the therapy must be tested to assure its safety and efficacy.

"Chloroquine, a malaria medication, should not be ingested to treat or prevent this virus," Banner Health said in a statement on Monday.

The new coronavirus, which causes the highly contagious COVID-19 respiratory illness, emerged in December in Wuhan, China and has spread throughout the world.

There are currently no vaccines or treatments approved for the disease, but researchers are studying existing treatments and working on experimental ones. At the moment, most patients can only receive supportive care.

"Given the uncertainty around COVID-19, we understand that people are trying to find new ways to prevent or treat this virus, but self-medicating is not the way to do so," said Dr. Daniel Brooks, Banner Poison and Drug Information Center medical director.

Brooks urged the medical community to not prescribe chloroquine medication to any non-hospitalized patients.

"The last thing that we want right now is to inundate our emergency departments with patients who believe they found a vague and risky solution that could potentially jeopardize their health."

[LucyT]

An Arizona man has died and his wife is in critical condition after they ingested chloroquine phosphate - an aquarium cleaning product similar to drugs that have been named by President Trump as potential treatments for coronavirus infection.

Thanks, Brown Deer.

[Fred Nerks]

One assumes that hydroxychloroquine is NOT the same as the ingredient chloroquine phosphate used to clean fishtanks...I suppose that's what you get when you buy your 'medication' at the local petshop at the same time as you buy flea treatment and worm tablets.

[Fred Nerks]

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3827677/posts

‘Miracle’ malaria drug touted by Trump saved me from coronavirus, claim Americans: Infected patients across US say hydroxychloroquine helped them recover – despite experts’ insistence evidence of its effectiveness is slim
dailymail.co.uk ^ | 3/23/20 | Valerie Edwards

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[nutmeg]

Faux Fauci, The Deep Stater, is dismayed.

Wow, that's quite a list up there. You may be right about "Faux Fauci".

[null and void]

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

The false positive rate was 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's or one old fart’s life, it's worth it.

[Candor7]

Planequil gougers will be scrutinized by the DOJ, starting today, as announced by AG Barr on Monday, 23rd March.

If this keeps up, $1.00 bottles of Choroquin priced at $1000 dollars will not only result in criminal charges, but I predict some of these POS gougers will be shot by vigilantes.

[Candor7]

Chloroquin phosphate is far more toxic than Hydroxi Chloroquin, and generally must be administered via IV solution at safe concentration as was done in France.

The victims in this case poisoned themselves by taking it orally.

Both Chloroquin phosphate and Hydroxi Chloroquin are effective in destroying COVID-19 virus in ones body. The way it works apparently is that the Chloroquin causes the virus external membrane to become permeable to Zinc molecules or Zinc ions , which them destroy the virus from within by interfering with its internal chemistry.

Back channel information from Physician blogs from New York City reveal that most doctors on the front line fighting this virus have a ready dosage of Hydroxi-chloriquin on hand in case they become infected, while taking daily supplements of chelated Zinc.

[bgill]

The only thing we need to know is what meds would Fauci demand if he caught CV. That would stop any debate.

[bgill]

The WH said it’d go after price gougers.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Do it. Make America Open for Business Again!

COVID-19 super PING!

[JonPreston]

A month ago Fauci was telling us to get a flu shot and cough into our shirt sleeve. I hope we’ve seen the last of him

[DouglasKC]

This was just started to be used in New York. I think the time frame is 5 or 6 days of treatment before the results are known.

[JCL3]

What the media is covering up is the number of RECOVERED cases with little or no lasting effects.
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Also not given is the TOTAL number of folks who had this due to no antibody test. Once THAT is out and we get real numbers, the total of cases, recovered, and REAL death rate can be calculated. Things may get ugly then when/if it comes out that the economy was destroyed for little or no benefit.

[Norski]

Successful therapy against Covid-19 virus from New York State:

Dr. Vladimir (Zev) Zelenko

Board Certified Family Practitioner

501 Rt 208, Monroe, NY 10950

845-238-0000

March 23, 2020

To all medical professionals around the world:

My name is Dr. Zev Zelenko and I practice medicine in Monroe, NY. For the last 16 years, I have cared for approximately 75% of the adult population of Kiryas Joel, which is a very close knit community of approximately 35,000 people in which the infection spread rapidly and unchecked prior to the imposition of social distancing.

As of today my team has tested approximately 200 people from this community for Covid-19, and 65% of the results have been positive. If extrapolated to the entire community, that means more than 20,000 people are infected at the present time. Of this group, I estimate that there are 1500 patients who are in the high-risk category (i.e. >60, immunocompromised, comorbidities, etc).

Given the urgency of the situation, I developed the following treatment protocol in the pre-hospital setting and have seen only positive results:

1. Any patient with shortness of breath regardless of age is treated.

2. Any patient in the high-risk category even with just mild symptoms is treated.

3. Young, healthy and low risk patients even with symptoms are not treated (unless their circumstances change and they fall into category 1 or 2).

My out-patient treatment regimen is as follows:

1. Hydroxychloroquine 200mg twice a day for 5 days

2. Azithromycin 500mg once a day for 5 days

3. Zinc sulfate 220mg once a day for 5 days

The rationale for my treatment plan is as follows. I combined the data available from China and South Korea with the recent study published from France (sites available on request). We know that hydroxychloroquine helps Zinc enter the cell. We know that Zinc slows viral replication within the cell. Regarding the use of azithromycin, I postulate it prevents secondary bacterial infections. These three drugs are well known and usually well tolerated, hence the risk to the patient is low.

Since last Thursday, my team has treated approximately 350 patients in Kiryas Joel and another 150 patients in other areas of New York with the above regimen.

Of this group and the information provided to me by affiliated medical teams, we have had ZERO deaths, ZERO hospitalizations, and ZERO intubations. In addition, I have not heard of any negative side effects other than approximately 10% of patients with temporary nausea and diarrhea.

In sum, my urgent recommendation is to initiate treatment in the outpatient setting as soon as possible in accordance with the above. Based on my direct experience, it prevents acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), prevents the need for hospitalization and saves lives.

With much respect,

Dr. Zev Zelenko

cc: President Donald J. Trump; Mr. Mark Meadows, Chief of Staff

Video at Link

https://matzav.com/watch-kiryas-yoel-dr-zev-zelenko-to-trump-im-seeing-success-with-your-approved-drug/?fbclid=IwAR0gVHAW9kWF-JLRHjzQx9bSFx6jlRgTn9_PpAmaiykXhsVqTE7wJrddS4g

8 posted on 3/24/2020, 5:02:30 PM by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html))

[wardaddy]

Need to get some zinc sulfate

[wardaddy]

I’m taking my 200mg prophylaxis tonight every other day...