Posted on 04/11/2020 8:09:54 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
During this COVID-19 pandemic, Pierce County, Washington residents expect our public health system to aggressively confront the virus.
Data from South Korea and France demonstrate hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin taken orally for five days have striking results — for example, 95% of severely ill treated patients had symptoms quickly resolved, vs. 25% of untreated patients —and evidence builds that malaria and lupus sufferers taking hydroxychloroquine are COVID-resistant.
These are not “gold standard” double-blind studies. But a delta of 70 points is strong evidence that hydroxychloroquine suppresses viral replication and mitigates disease severity, preventing hospitalizations.
Our health experts have known about this treatment for a long time, but still resist recommending it for use before a symptomatic patient must be hospitalized. Why?
Are they afraid of a “run” on these meds? That word makes us think of a mosh pit of people grabbing for toilet paper at the grocery store.
But these meds require a doctor’s visit, where the doctor identifies the patient’s symptoms and risk profile, and writes the prescription if it’s called for. Then a pharmacist checks the prescription and dispenses the meds. The fear of a “run” just isn’t real.
Are they afraid hydroxychloroquine won’t be available for rheumatoid arthritis or lupus patients? Its half-life is 40 days (that’s how long it stays in the patient’s system after being ingested); it is often not the primary med for R.A.; and the supply can be replenished quickly, as it has been recently.
Meantime, fewer elders with co-morbidities will be hospitalized and die with COVID.
Are they afraid of side effects? Those haven’t kept doctors from prescribing hydroxychloroquine for R.A. or lupus, so why the great concern with COVID?
Remember, these same experts knew weeks ago that non-symptomatic COVID carriers could infect others but told us wearing a mask wasn’t effective to suppress its spread. Last week, they admitted that’s untrue.
Are they afraid hydroxychloroquine doesn’t have final FDA approval for COVID? Doctors often prescribe medications “off-label” after assessing the patient’s health and the risks and benefits. Now even the FDA has approved this.
Worst case, it doesn’t work. Best case, it does. So why not use it with high-risk patients who have COVID symptoms, to prevent hospitalization?
Are they afraid it will displace another effective treatment? Unlikely, since there isn’t another one generally available. The public health system is touting the infusion drug remdesivir, which requires hospitalization, also has side effects (like infections at the infusion site) and will cost hundreds of times the cost of two little pills taken at home for 5 days.
Maybe remdesivir’s huge income potential for the health system is relevant to this conversation.
Are they afraid that stories of hydroxychloroquine’s healing effects are true, so they call them “just anecdotal?” Well, a delta of 70 is a little more than “anecdotal.” And if it’s your spouse or favorite auntie, avoiding severe health problems is a pretty powerful outcome to be dismissed with “just.”
The thousands of known “anecdotes” are real stories about health recovered, hospitalizations prevented, COVID’s spread in a home stopped and lives saved; they cannot be so easily dismissed. And they are being acted upon outside of our health system.
As our public health experts wait for more research, or for a higher authority to give its approval, hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin are being used around the world to attack COVID and prevent hospitalizations.
It is past time for health experts here to suppress their fears, use their reason and fulfill their primary duty to protect our community’s health. Our neighbors are dying for it.
Who was the first person to mention that HCQ works? Was it a doctor? I bet you Fauci, Gates, Big Pharma are cursing that person’s name for destroying their huge plans of scaring everyone to demand their vaccine. Hope that person doesn’t disappear mysteriously.
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Gov. A Cornuto (D-NY) is a little cazzo.
Much better
They want hundreds of millions of dollars for research. If there is a readily available, economical cure, they lose out on that pork. Then there’s the Bill Gates vision to vaccinate everyone with a vaccine that doesn’t exist yet and require proof of innoculation to conduct normal daily business. May be a conspiracy theory, but then again, maybe not.
In any event, the answer is ‘follow the money’.
Remdesivir - Safety still undecided.
Remdesivir efficacy promising but numbers still small.
Hydroxchloroquine - Safety well-known and established.
Hydroxychloroquine with Azithromycin empirically effective*, numbers large.
Hydroxychloroquine with Azithromycin and Zinc empirically effective, numbers large.
* Dr.Didier Raoult in France, now more than 1000 patients, no zinc supplement but French diet, especially Marseille diet is Zinc-rich. American diet is Zinc-poor relatively.
Be concerned official trials with HCQ are starting and do not appear to be including Zinc. This is likely CDC/NIH failing to write it into trial protocol. Be fearful it’s omitted because results may be mixed. Vaccine Lobby wants HCQ to fail, to appear at most with mixed results, to render efficacy doubtful.
Clinical trials of HCQ should have two arms (placebo arm excluded, would be malpractice as no standard of care yet established):
1. HCQ with Azithromycin (Z-Pak) (or Doxycyclin in lieu of Z-Pak, doctor’s call)
2. Above with Zinc.
A Remdesivir arm could be included but it appears not yet ready safety wise or production wise.
We are going to ask people next to President to have Fauci ordered to amend protocol fo HCQ to include a Zinc arm. This is no at all expensive. But it puts Zinc in the game which is important.
Strongly expect a Zinc arm to produce large success rate mirroring success in NY with Dr. ‘Zev’ Zelenko.
HCQ helps push Zinc into the cell. Zinc neuters the virus. Virus flushed out by cytokine immune response. Virus flushed into plasma and eliminated in urine. Patients recover in 6-12 hours sometimes as little as 2 hours.
You trust anything Little Cuomo says?
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Are any of the power honchos DC reading this?
Take that away from them and you have just destroyed the entire op of:
1. Trillions of Govt. spending which would allow almost unlimited vote buying for piglosi and her gang of criminals.
2.Destroying the economy and Trump by closing down business
3.Killing off old people who are expensive to treat which go first with the current covid WuFlu.
4.You have ruined the op against Trump's reelection.
5.Perhaps the worst case for the criminals who did all this is you took away a huge part of their possible income. Aside from selling some respirators,masks and other stuff much of their income will be gone with no vaccine to sell.
There is more but by now you get what is really going on.
The Left doesn’t want a rapid solution.
they are NOT afraid of the medication.
THEY: are Afraid PRES. TRUMP will get credit
AND/or that they will get caught fashioning, releasing,
patenting, protecting, distributing, profiting
from CORONAVIRUS SARS_CoV-2.
Exactly its called power politics and the hard left plays it 24/7.
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Success scares them to death.
DING DING DING !!!!! WE HAVE A WINNER !!!!!
If it works, orange man was right! Can’t have that.
Plus, HCQ can be given in an outpatient basis, with the patient coming in a few times for monitoring. No money for hospitals.
Trump backed Hydroxychloroquine early, therefore the left must oppose that life saving drug.
Trump Derangement Syndrome is deadly.
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