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
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I presume that means lifting the upper age restrictions?
I was bitterly disappointed to realize after 9/11/01 that I was a couple years “too old” to serve.
Uh, no, all retired members on the DFAS email list got it.
Tucson Sentinel has had no scoop, period.
This went out earlier this afternoon.
I also received the same e-mail from the Army. However, I was not in a medical specialty during my 20 years; I was Field Artillery and Military Intelligence. And now at 72, I’m in the prime group to possibly get the Wuhan flu and horribly out of shape, especially if expected to pass a PT test. However, I’m sure there are some fellow vets who will respond.
That is a request, I assume, since soldiers don't take life-time vows. I hope those retired soldiers step up.
The Church is calling out retired priests to step back into the Church. That started MONTHS ago.
And since priests are in the priesthood for their ENTIRE life, they respond by returning "to duty."
I got one too.
I am a Cat 3 (60 or older) but the AMEDD is far more lenient on age than the warfighters.
How about the docs and other health care workers who are in the Botox, facelift, cosmetic surgery business. There might be a lot of shut-down medical training available right now.
Slavery end d a long time ago
Those who feel like they can help have already volunteered
I must’ve read about this somewhere this past week and subconsciously tucked it away because I had a dream the other night that I NEEDED to start running again and get back to my Fightin’ Weight because the Army called me back in!
Aarrggh!
Trust me! Those dreams rank right up there with being buried alive and showing up at your High School Assembly in your underwear!
I’m glad they’re being pro-active, though. Army Strong! People WILL step up if needed.
I miss Army Life every day. Except for all that needless, ENDLESS running, LOL!:)
After all of the mass disease and viral events of the past,let alone the threat of biological threats of the enemy,America did what to prepare for THIS?.....I forgot,”priorities” as TRILLIONS will be spent to do nothing real and our children and unborn Americans will pay for it.....while setting America up AGAIN for the same type of event that very well may be the BIG one that WILL kill us rapidly.
PING TO MARK IT FOR TOMORROW
I got the email as well. If they need Air Defense Artillery guys, I’ll be first in line. However, I suspect there will be no enemy airplanes overhead in the near future.
Having screwed up their medical system, Blue States Democrats want to call up the Nat Guard and Army Reserve so they can force Red State Doctors and Nurse to abandon their community to fix their screw ups.
I hope it isn’t needed either - but it makes perfect sense to expand the pool of potential resources and allow some mobility to regions with biggest needs.
My daughter was a traveling nurse in Upstate NY for a few years and recently moved back down to MS....two of the contractors in NY have been trying to get her to go back to work for them...with some nice incentives...but she’s under contract here and doesn’t want to be away from her kids...
(via ABC News):
More than 9,000 retired soldiers have responded to the U.S. Army’s call for retired medical personnel to assist with the response to the novel coronavirus pandemic, as hundreds of active duty soldiers deploy to support Army field hospitals in New York and Seattle.