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https://forward.com/fast-forward/447020/zelenko-hydroxychloroquine-kiryas-joel-hasidic/
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It also comes after Zelenko released a video over the weekend, addressed to the Kiryas Joel residents, in which he accused town leaders of orchestrating multiple investigations against him. Zelenko accused three men — Gedalye Szegedin, the town administrator; Mayer Hirsch, a developer and Joel Mittelman, the chief executive of the main health care provider in Kiryas Joel, where Zelenko used to work — of being responsible for the deaths of 14 Jews who died of Covid-19. The three did not act quickly enough in closing the town’s synagogues and schools at the beginning of the pandemic, he said.
In an interview with the Forward Tuesday, Szegedin denied all the accusations, and said that he, Mittelman and Hirsch were considering legal proceedings for libel against Zelenko.
Zekenko declined to comment further on his video.
In the Wednesday video, Zelenko said that he wanted to dispel rumors that his decision to leave had anything to do with a disagreement with his current employer, CareStier Health, where he is the medical director.
FROM THE NEW YORK POST:
https://nypost.com/2020/05/21/doctor-who-promoted-covid-cocktail-leaves-jewish-community/
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The announcement comes after community leaders accused the doctor of spreading misinformation about the rate of coronavirus infection in Kiryas Joel, prompting discrimination against residents, according to The Times of Israel.
Zelenko is also being investigated by a Baltimore federal prosecutor over his inaccurate claim that a study of the drugs he touted had won FDA approval, the outlet reported.
In a New York Times interview early this month, Zelenko claimed that sloppy wording was to blame for that statement.
“I’m a clinician, not a researcher,” he said. “I don’t fully understand the language of clinical research.”
In March, Zelenko claimed in a YouTube video that he had recently successfully treated 350 patients showing early signs of the coronavirus using the drug cocktail in his office.
He claimed the $20 treatment had “100 percent” success among patients in Monsey, where he also practiced.
“If anyone has any political influence, please make noise because we need the political status to change and these medications to be used without obstruction,” Zelenko said.