A Galveston-area doctor, Dr. Robin Armstrong, who was in charge of a nursing home, found himself in the middle of the worst health care nightmare anyone can imagine: a COVID-19 outbreak, on a home full of elderly people, and he was in charge. Odds were big they were going to die. We already know what the coronavirus did to a nursing home in Washington State, and we have subsequently learned what inserting COVID-19 patients into unwilling nursing homes in New York City did to those populations. Coronavirus + Nursing Home = Death Sentence. That was what he was looking at.
In desperation, the Texas doctor decided to treat his threatened patients with hydroxychloroquine in a last-ditch effort to save them...and he called it right. Unlike those other places, his patients got well. His informed judgment saved the lives of a building full of nursing home patients, and he reported no bad side-effects such as heart problems brought on by the treatment. He would have been justified to take such risks because his treatment was triage, and the alternative was the death sentence. But there wasn't even that. His patients lived, they regained their fragile health, and there were no stacked bodies or chaotic medical scenes in his part of Texas on his watch.
That's frankly a story of heroism, and the brilliant medical man should be celebrated for the huge number of lives he saved.
Instead, all he got were trashy stories with scare headlines like NPR's, painting him as some kind of evildoer. Bad medicine, unproven treatment, everybody get scared.
No good deed goes unpunished.
I reviewed the scientific literature on hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), azithromycin (AZ), and their use for COVID-19. My conclusions:
- HCQ-based treatments are effective in treating COVID-19, unless started too late.
- Studies, cited in opposition, have been misinterpreted, invalid, or worse.
- HCQ and AZ are some of the most tested and safest prescription drugs.
- Severe COVID-19 frequently causes cardiac effects, including heart arrhythmia. QTc prolonging drugs might amplify this tendency. Millions of people regularly take drugs having strong QTc prolongation effect, and neither FDA nor CDC bother to warn them. HCQ+AZ combination, probably has a mild QTc prolongation effect. Concerns over its negative effects, however minor, can be addressed by respecting contra-indications.
- Effectiveness of HCQ-based treatment for COVID-19 is hampered by conditions that are presented as precautions, delaying the onset of treatment. For examples, some states require that COVID-19 patients be treated with HCQ exclusively in hospital settings.
- The COVID-19 Treatment Panel of NIH evaded disclosure of the massive financial links of its members to Gilead Sciences, the manufacturer of a competing drug remdesivir. Among those who failed to disclose such links are 2 out of 3 of its co-chairs.
- Despite all the attempts by certain authorities to prevent COVID-19 treatment with HCQ and HCQ+AZ, both components are approved by FDA, and doctors can prescribe them for COVID-19.
By the time the National Institutes of Health issued its non-recommendation of HCQ, questions were being raised as to whether this was really about just hating Trump. I wrote about that here.
Because along with the NIH's non-recommendation for HCQ (which wasn't as bad as the press touted, but enough for a round of negative media stories), there also was an enthusiastic NIH recommendation in late April for Gilead's Remdesivir, same company the NIH directors had a lot of conflicts of interest in.
Take that, Trump! Except that Trump issued high praise for that drug too, and that didn't set off a barrage of negative press stories the way HCQ did.
> “Is Big Pharma behind the great war on Hydroxychloroquine?”
YES.
resimiver makes the virus heal only 33% faster in some cases- HCQ 66% faster- with a supposed 91% success rate Remdesivir when it was tested awhile back showed no effect- none- zero- HCQ is showing a stunning success when given early-
The answer to this is a resounding, YES. In fact, this has been obvious to anyone paying any attention at all.
The old axiom, follow the money, is 100% applicable in this case. There is no money to be made in the HCQ/Azithromycin/Zinc remedy. In fact, there is plenty of evidence that HCQ is not just an effective cure, it is also an effective prophylactic. This too has been attacked. Viciously.
There is a fortune to be made in a new, patented, expensive alternative drug. Plain and simple.
I suspect that big pharma undermines a lot of nutritional supplements because the supplements work well against many health issues, and they compete with pharama’s pricey products.
Yes, as is Fauci. He most likely has a big payday in Remdesivir as well.
A $30 proven course for a cure Vs. $1,000 a pill experimental treatment. Do the math.
The results I’ve seen on Remdesivir are lame. It’s all about the money.
HCQ + zinc and remdesivir are used in different settings for best efficacy. Remdesivir is administered IV and thus in a hospital setting. Both regimens do essentially the same thing, halt virus replication at the cell ribosome stage of replication.
Bump
Ingraham’s interview of the good doctor, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYXUzsM1iIs
It’s criminal what the dems/msm and big pharma are doing based their TDS and/or greed.