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
The media is going to have a hard time admitting this. They crapped on Trump for recommending it, and they would rather have people die than compliment Trump.
Thank you for posting this. I have already watched the full interview. This is the best information yet about treatment for this virus from a front-line doctor who is actually treating it successfully.
Safe and effective - are these not the criteria for approval of a method of treatment?
The relative safety of hydroxychloroquine is already known, as it is approved in several other applications, and azithromycin is included so a backstop to prevent or control the invasion of bacterial pathogens in the presence of a weakened immune system.
There is a magic bullet for COVID-19 Wuhan virus. Denial of its deployment is malpractice, of law and to some degree, of medicine.
You know damned well all the media elites, state governors and
deep state **sholes are taking this therapy. At this point,
they want all credit for saving lives with this criminal, economy crushing quarantine.
Effective on 699 patients? Meaningless. Out of 700? Out of 10,000? It kinda matters.
Where’s the data from the people who were taking Plaquenil prior to the epidemic? It’s there. That would make a much better paper than this “ad”.
Does anyone know:
What companies manufacture this drug? Are these American companies? Are the ingredients available from the USA or must they be gotten from abroad? What amount can be produced in what time span?
Thanks if anyone has this information.
There can be no doubt that the top researchers of this country (and elsewhere) are working feverishly (no pun intended) on this and will release their findings as soon as it's responsible for them to do so.
This all depends on your definition of “safe and effective”.
The use of a time-tested medication no longer under patent is by no means safe for the profit margins and bonuses for big pharma and their executives, and it most certainly is not effective at generating boat-loads of cash that can then be spread around to Washington DC lobbyists and politicians.
Libs are trying to get Rudy banned from twitter for posting this information. Check out the vile comments: https://twitter.com/rudygiuliani/status/1244054408519974914?s=21
L8tr
And yet we’ve got the Big Pharma CDC/NIH/HHS on everyday playing that down, stalling, and not ramping up production—while instead fully funding their studies on various new and expensive, patented drugs instead.
Birx, Fauci and Azar are not our, our country’s or our president’s friends.
I’ll wager the Coronavirus Groupies who frequent these threads will be heartbroken over this news! Watch for them to pooh pooh this good news, just like their good buddies in the Fake News.
Only professional bureaucrats are qualified to say this!
Seems like it would be easy for the task force to send people up to the little community and confirm the Doc’s story. If they find he is telling the truth, this could be huge.
Instead, they will probably ignore the story.
Related:
Michigan man who was given the meds blasts the gov for stonewalling:
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3829491/posts?page=1#1
