[Swordmaker]

I wonder when the same media types are going to attack Harvey A. Risch, MD, PhD , Professor of Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health for his article in Newsweek.

Actually, free, Dr. Risch’s peer-reviewed scientific paper on it was published on May 27, 2020, in the American Journal of Epidemiology, Oxford University Press. Dr. Risch has over 300 peer-reviewed journal articles published. He’s no lightweight "kook."

Early Outpatient Treatment of Symptomatic, High-Risk Covid-19 Patients that Should be Ramped-Up Immediately as Key to the Pandemic Crisis

Harvey A Risch
American Journal of Epidemiology, kwaa093,
Paper Source, Oxford University Press
Published: 27 May 2020

Abstract More than 1.6 million Americans have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 and >10 times that number carry antibodies to it. High-risk patients presenting with progressing symptomatic disease have only hospitalization treatment with its high mortality. An outpatient treatment that prevents hospitalization is desperately needed. Two candidate medications have been widely discussed: remdesivir, and hydroxychloroquine+azithromycin. Remdesivir has shown mild effectiveness in hospitalized inpatients, but no trials have been registered in outpatients. Hydroxychloroquine+azithromycin has been widely misrepresented in both clinical reports and public media, and outpatient trials results are not expected until September. Early outpatient illness is very different than later hospitalized florid disease and the treatments differ. Evidence about use of hydroxychloroquine alone, or of hydroxychloroquine+azithromycin in inpatients, is irrelevant concerning efficacy of the pair in early high-risk outpatient disease. Five studies, including two controlled clinical trials, have demonstrated significant major outpatient treatment efficacy. Hydroxychloroquine+azithromycin has been used as standard-of-care in more than 300,000 older adults with multicomorbidities, with estimated proportion diagnosed with cardiac arrhythmias attributable to the medications 47/100,000 users, of which estimated mortality is <20%, 9/100,000 users, compared to the 10,000 Americans now dying each week. These medications need to be widely available and promoted immediately for physicians to prescribe.

Azithromycin, Covid-19, Doxycycline, Hydroxychloroquine, Remdesivir, SARS-CoV-2, Zinc

Topic: cardiac arrhythmia doxycycline azithromycin hydroxychloroquine ambulatory care services inpatients outpatients terminally ill antibodies mortality zinc older adult pandemics standard of care remdesivir sars-cov-2 covid-19

Issue Section: Special article

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Thanks for posting the original research. I think we have a data point now about the utter hypocrisy of the liberal media. None of them have made ad-hominem attacks on Dr. Risch, but they gleefully attacked Dr. Immanuel, an African woman doctor with a barrage of accusations. Those accusations included the fact that she was educated in Nigeria, that she is also a Christian, and that she has made statements that would be culturally relevant to patients from some ethnic backgrounds whose beliefs may differ from common Western beliefs. And that's not all. Main stream media outlets are accusing her of disinformation for saying the same thing Dr. Risch has said, and they are dredging up old lawsuits and every other bit of negative information they can.

I wonder if any of the media people reporting with disdain her education in Africa realize how racist that belief is. Do they really think that because a university is in Nigeria that the students that study there are necessarily less educated or intelligent than people who studied in say Pakistan, or India, or Arkansas?

So we now have a very clear data point. Dr. Risch and Dr. Immanuel both presented the exact same message - use Hydroxychloroquine along with zinc and other drugs as a treatment for early phase COVID-19. The liberal media ignores Dr. Risch but attacks Dr. Immanuel. I guess attacking an African woman is OK, but the white guy from Yale gets a pass. To the liberal media Dr. Risch's opinion is acceptable, but the same opinion expressed by an African woman doctor is not. That's the best evidence of racism in the liberal American media I have seen in a long time.