Replies

Dems hating Trump is not part of what I am writing next, but it could certainly be used by them for that.

On at least 3 occasions Dr. Vladimir Zelenko has attempted to contact President Trump and alert him to a very low cost and comparatively helpful early, out-patient treatment for Covid. If confirmed scientifically it could form a valid basis for opening up the country a lot faster and more safely. We do not know at this point how soon we will have an effective vaccine, nor how frequently it will need to be administered. Dr. Fauci’s favored drug, Remdesivir (sp?) from Gilead Sciences has not performed as hoped. And so far Bill Gates support of 7 vaccine trials is still awaiting positive results.

On April 12, Dr. Zelenko sent the letter which is included in this link, which also has some follow up dated April 16th. https://internetprotocol.co/hype-news/2020/04/14/a-detailed-coronavirus-treatment-plan-from-dr-zelenko/
This site did not allow me to copy text, so I am rewriting from a copy I printed. First he lists his criteria for out-patient treatment. Next he lists his 3 part outpatient treatment regimen, at which I am changing the order of the 3 items:

“1. Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) 200 mg. twice a day for 5 days
3. Zinc sulfate 220 mg. once a day for 5 days
2. Azithromycin 500 mg. once a day for 5 days”

Then he adds: “The rationale for my treatment plan is as follows, I combined the data available from China and S. Korea* with the recent study published from France (sites available on request).
We know that HCQ 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 3 drugs are well known and usually well tolerated [me: especially for short term use] hence the risk to the patient is low.”

As a person who has lost one lung, Dr. Zelenko is very motivated to prevent the deadly Covid pneumonia. The letter continues with details on patients treated and outcomes. The April 16th addition has modifications in the HCQ aspect of dosing.

On April 7, 2020, a separate communication was reportedly sent to President Trump by Dr. Zelenko urging widespread treatment with his regimen. https://internetprotocol.co/hype-news/2020/04/07/how-to-cure-coronavirus-an-exclusive-letter-to-donald-trump/
His 11 point statement includes some of these recommendations:
“4. This is World War III (virus vs humanity). We don’t have time to wait for the results of a long study. Millions will die while we wait. We need to initiate immediate treatment of high risk patients in the outpatient setting.”
“7. We need an immediate supply of 1.5 billion pills of HCQ 200mg, 500 million pills of Zithromycin 500mg, 500 million pills of zinc sulfate 220mg (or its equivalent - we need 50mg elemental zinc).” He then goes on to 8. with the 3 drug regimen I listed above.
“5. Any obstruction to life saving medication (HCQ) should be viewed as crimes against humanity.” [He keeps missing the ball by not stressing that Zinc is co-equal with the HCQ.] This has been frequently missed by others so that people keep saying to use the HCQ (send the police to open the door), but then failing to say use the Zinc (to clean up the crooks inside). Then he says:
“9. I suggest the following prophylactic regimen for very high risk patients: [me: here he may mean Trump]
HCQ 200mg once a day for 5 days, and then 1 pill a week until immunity can be shown or a vaccine becomes available.
Zinc Sulfate 220mg once a day for 5 days, and then 1 pill a week until immunity can be shown or a vaccine becomes available.” #
The remaining recommendations will not really be feasible until item 7. is being advanced aggressively. Same problem as not enough ventilators a month ago. President Trump, Fauci and others need to stop treating low cost zinc as a Cinderella stepchild, and acknowledge it’s true importance for the Zelenko regimen to work well.

* S. Korea which now is in good shape experimented with a number of already available drugs. One was a combination of HCQ and the HIV antiviral, Kaletra. Same concept—open the door with HCQ, send in Kaletra (or Zinc) to deal with the evil ones inside. They also heavily used contact tracing, masks and social distance.
** I read in late March or early April that one Washington, DC hospital was finding 40% of its lung emergency admissions were actually suffering from MRSA, a bacteria which responds to Azithromycin. It would be interesting to see how common this is in other areas.
# For a few days Trump was talking about taking the HCQ & ZINC. Then he stopped including the Zinc, and then there was a whole lot of media attention to “how dangerous it was to the heart to take HCQ.” I plan to do more research, but it appears the new drug and vaccine boys really don’t want a low cost early treatment to interfere with their money making. On the other hand, a lot of other “big” interests would really like to get the economy moving again by opening up the states. WHO WILL WIN???