FEMA ships out nearly 20 million Hydroxychloroquine tablets

The Strategic National Stockpile has sent out 19.1 million tablets of hydroxychloroquine, the malaria drug that some doctors have prescribed to Covid-19 patients, a spokesperson for the Federal Emergency Management Agency confirmed. The tablets, sent out in two shipments, are heading to cities around the country.

About 10.1 million are going to the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs, as well as Washington, D.C.; Baton Rouge; St. Louis; Philadelphia; Baltimore; Miami; Milwaukee; Indianapolis; Houston and Pittsburgh.

Another shipment, of 9 million tablets, is headed for Detroit, New Orleans, New York City and Chicago, according to the spokesperson.

Those last four cities — particularly New York — have been hit hard by the pandemic. Others slated to receive the medication have fewer cases but may face upticks. Allegheny County, where Pittsburgh is located, has fewer than 900 cases, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health. And Milwaukee County has fewer than 2,000, per its county government. Miami-Dade County, meanwhile, has 7,555 confirmed cases of the illness, according to the Miami Herald. And Cook County in Illinois has had more than 15,000 cases, per the county’s Department of Public Health.

Erin Fox, senior director of Drug Information and Support Services at the University of Utah College of Pharmacy, said most courses of hydroxychloroquine treatment for Covid-19 take 12 to 14 tablets. So the shipments will cover treatment for about 1.4 million patients.

Fox added that the data on the drug’s efficacy for coronavirus patients is anecdotal, as there have been no clinical trials showing that hydroxychloroquine is effective in treating Covid-19.

re: “Dr Didier Raoult only gave hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and azithromycin (AZ) with a with a mortality rate of 0.5%, in elderly patients.

He used hydroxychloroquine as an alkaline that bonds to the hemoglobin and an antibiotic that was it. He didn’t use HCQ as a zinc ionphore or use asorbic acid or anything.”

That’s not what I understand takes place. The HCQ in vitro works to allow Zinc to enter the human cells and the Zn inhibits virus reproduction. This is mentioned several different sources.

There is also this:

Scientists have found what is causing the severe Covid-19 lung problems and how to prevent this:

Radboudumc researchers publish new insights into COVID-19
Consequences for treatment are now being examined internationally
10 April 2020

https://www.radboudumc.nl/en/nieuws/2020/radboudumc-researchers-publish-new-insights-into-covid-19

Vanishing ACE2 receptors.

“We have been closely monitoring the Covid patients,” says Frank van de Veerdonk. “That first phase, during which the lungs fill up with fluid, CT scans of the lungs look bad and patients quickly experience shortness of breath due to the administration of fluid, is very characteristic. This image cannot be explained solely by the infection of the lungs. So we got the idea that the capillaries, which are the very small blood vessels, start to leak into the lungs during this process. That leakage causes the lungs problems, because they partly fill up.”

This observation was already made with SARS (a previous coronavirus infection that occurred in 2003), but no good explanation was available. Researchers from the Radboudumc now come up with a hypothesis, a theoretical explanation that makes the leakage plausible. Van de Veerdonk: “Covid-19 enters the lungs via the ACE2 receptor.

The virus binds to the receptor, which then pulls it into the lung cell where the virus can multiply. In case of a massive infection, this process makes the ACE2 receptors disappear from the outside of the cell. With that, their function also disappears.”

Bradykinine makes blood vessels leak.

ACE2 (angiotensin-converting enzyme 2) is known to play a role in maintaining blood pressure throughout the body, which is regulated by the RAAS, the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system. The RAAS system, and thus ACE2, controls blood pressure by regulating vasodilatation and vasoconstriction. But ACE2 has another function, which up until now has remained out of the picture in coronavirus infections. Van de Veerdonk: “ACE2 keeps the substance bradykinin under control. Bradykinin makes blood vessels leak. We have good reason to believe that with Covid-19 infections we see exactly this effect: when the virus is introduced, ACE2 receptors disappear from the lung cells, giving bradykinine free rein in causing the small blood vessels to leak massively at the site of infection.”

SEE also:

COVID-19 CAN BE TREATED WITH HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE AND ZINC? FACT OR FICTION?
by KudosMD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FbEwpj1vJw&t=10s

Cell penetration
Dr. Minh D. Ta, Board certified family physician practicing in Northern Virginia
https://youtu.be/5FbEwpj1vJw?t=400

All that is true Jim. HCQ is a zinc ionphore and could work even better if Dr Didier Raoult gave additional zinc for the reaction to work.

To be clear
hydroxychloroquine works in two ways
1. HCQ is a zinc ionosphere (which many doctors are NOT utilizing. As they're not giving the patient additional zinc for this reaction to work. The argument one doctor gave was there isn't enough zinc in the blood for the reaction to work even if we gave them more. The problem with that argument even if it was true is the throat and nasal area is where the virus mostly grows. Coating the throat with zinc.
2. HCQ is an Alkali which bonds to the hemoglobin(Hemoglobin carries oxygen.) Where the mutated cell by the SARS-CoV-2 (called Viroprotein Orf3a) is acidic which oxidizes the iron in the heme(part of the hemoglobin.) Without the Iron the Oxygen can't bond to the hemoglobin. The HCQ neutralizes the Viroprotein Orf3a.
HCQ neutralizing the viroprotein you can find here

COVID-19: Attacks the 1-Beta Chain of Hemoglobin and Captures the Porphyrin to Inhibit Human Heme Metabolism
https://ravikollimd.com/resources/COVID/COVID-19__Attacks_the_1-Beta_Chain_of_Hemoglobin_and_Captures_the_Porphyrin_to_Inhibit_Human_Heme_Metabolism_v5.pdf

SARS-Cov-2 attack the beta chain of Hemoglobin. Unstable hemoglobin creates heme cells that destroy nitric oxide
Macrophages(white blood cell) require tons of asorbic acid to generate Nitric oxide which they use to create their oxidative burst. Asorbic acid is the ammunition for your white blood cells it last literally ten minutes in your blood and it's gone. If the person is very sick an asorbic acid IV of +3 to 5 grams a day is KEY for this to work.

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