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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — It was a promising COVID-19 treatment last year that is now sitting in stockpiles across the country. Hydroxychloroquine did not turn out to be the miracle drug once touted by the former president and sought out by Florida's governor. Instead, it has become a commodity for which the state has little use. Last April, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced he had secured a million doses of hydroxychloroquine from Israel at no cost to the state. The Republican and close ally of, at that time, President Donald Trump hosted a roundtable with doctors who supported the use of the...

Hydroxychloroquine has been one of the most controversial treatments for COVID-19 throughout the pandemic. Now a new research review finds this inexpensive drug offers a safe treatment for many people infected with the virus. Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, doctors around the world reported high success rates using an inexpensive treatment protocol of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and zinc, typically in combination with an antibiotic to treat secondary bacterial infections. HCQ is a zinc ionophore, which means it helps zinc get inside your cells where it can block viruses from replicating. The FDA issued an emergency use authorization in March 2020...

Dr. Stella Immanuel, who, together with her colleagues were lambasted by the media and establishment medical community after she swore to the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine at treating COVID-19 in a viral video last year, is now demanding an apology, as much of the medical community and establishment media now agree with her.“I demand an apology,” wrote Immanuel. “When we said Hydroxychloroquine works we were ridiculed. Now studies are coming out saying it works.”Immanuel added, “What about hundreds of thousands that have died and are still dying.”“I demand an apology,” she said in the video. “From the media, I’m talking about...

In December, I wrote about a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing focused on testimony about potential early and outpatient treatments for COVID-19. A group of doctors detailed their research on ivermectin, a generic anti-parasitic drug:The medication being discussed in this hearing is ivermectin. It has not been studied as much as HCQ, but the results to date are encouraging. The witnesses have studies covering over 4,000 patients in various settings but cannot obtain a review through the NIH. They asked for the committee’s assistance with this and noted that funding for additional studies is not readily available....

Facebook's independent Oversight Board has ruled against the social media giant's decision to remove an October 2020 post touting hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) - the antimalarial which Democrats and their media surrogates were cautiously optimistic about until former President Trump promoted it."In October 2020, a user posted a video and accompanying text in French in a public Facebook group related to COVID-19," explained the board on its website. "The post alleged a scandal at the Agence Nationale de Sécurité du Médicament (the French agency responsible for regulating health products), which refused to authorize hydroxychloroquine combined with azithromycin for use against COVID-19, but...

The Oversight Board has overturned Facebook’s decision to remove a post which it claimed, “contributes to the risk of imminent… physical harm.” The Board found Facebook’s misinformation and imminent harm rule (part of its Violence and Incitement Community Standard) to be inappropriately vague and recommended, among other things, that the company create a new Community Standard on health misinformation. About the case In October 2020, a user posted a video and accompanying text in French in a public Facebook group related to COVID-19. The post alleged a scandal at the Agence Nationale de Sécurité du Médicament (the French agency...

The American Journal of Medicine now (Jan. 2021) now recommends Hydroxychloroquine, Azithromycin, and Zinc for the treatment of Covid 19 outpatients.The irony is this is the treatment that former US President, Donald Trump promoted last year. The timing, right after the election, is interesting.Select extracts are below:AbstractApproximately 9 months of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavius-2 (SARS-CoV-2 [COVID-19]) spreading across the globe has led to widespread COVID-19 acute hospitalizations and death.…This article outlines key pathophysiological principles that relate to the patient with early infection treated at home. Therapeutic approaches based on these principles include 1) reduction of reinoculation, 2) combination...

A new study posted in the American Journal of Medicine in January found that early treatment of coronavirus patients with hydroxychloroquine lowered the mortality rate for the disease.The study found that immediate use of HCQ, while the patient was still at home, showed significant benefits.This is just the latest study that shows the effectiveness of HCQ in treating the coronavirus.For the past several months the website c19study.com has been tracking the HCQ-coronavirus studies.

Some of these countries come in with numbers that, while lower than ours, are not much lower — for example, Brazil at 1,021. Many numbers are spectacularly lower: Poland, 943; Chile, 938; Romania, 936. Or lower yet: Germany, 642; Latvia, 601; Ireland, 591. And there are about 75 nations that have fewer than 100 deaths per million, among them Iceland, Bangladesh, and Japan. What are these countries doing that the United States should be and considering? Granted, there are a multitude of reasons why any nation may have lower rates than another — for example, remoteness, climate, wealth, even religion....

The Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office has been tasked with attempting to return a $2 million stockpile of a malaria drug once touted by former President Donald Trump as a way to treat the coronavirus. In April, Gov. Kevin Stitt, who ordered the hydroxychloroquine purchase, defended it by saying that while it may not be a useful treatment for the coronavirus, the drug had multiple other uses and “that money will not have gone to waste in any respect.”

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She is a gynecologist. He is a surgeon. They are married and both 77 years old. In mid-November, they were diagnosed with COVID-19, first her, then him. Their paths diverge at this point, but not to worry. She took the drug hydroxychloroquine. He took ivermectin. They are both well now – walking, golfing, doing yoga — seven weeks later.The couple’s brush with COVID might have ended very differently. In the United States, patients 75 to 84 years old die at 220 times the rate of adults under 30. But these two elderly, otherwise healthy physicians live in India. They were...

Their retraction-admission validates what President Trump stated in the very beginning of the pandemic A leading medical journal has issued a retraction of their endorsement for a study that concluded the anti-viral drug hydroxychloroquine was ineffective against the COVID-19 virus. This retraction appears to validate the claims then-President Trump made about the medication being a frontline drug in the battle in the pandemic. The Lancet, a respected online medical journal, issued an apology to its readers in an edition last year after the retraction. “We deeply apologize to you, the editors, and the journal readership for any embarrassment or inconvenience...

Dr. Simone Gold led a team of doctors called America’s Frontline Doctors, a group that challenged COVID prevention strategy in America, back in July in Washington DC. The Frontline doctors from across met in Washington DC to dispel the misinformation and myths surrounding the coronavirus. The group was concerned with the disinformation campaign being played out in the far left American media today. The group also promoted the use of hydroxychloroquine as a life-saving medication in treating the coronavirus. The American left trashed the doctors and the tech giants blocked their content from the internet. The American left hates to...

Certain media outlets and social media circles have erupted with claims that the American Medical Association has reversed its stance against prescribing hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malaria drug that President Donald Trump had touted, as a COVID-19 treatment. But a closer look at the documents reveals that’s not correct.THE QUESTIONDid the American Medical Association quietly rescind its opposition to prescribing hydroxychloroquine to COVID-19 patients?THE ANSWER No, says the American Medical Association. The AMA reiterated in a tweet Wednesday that its “position remains unchanged.” WHAT WE FOUNDThe claim arose from a proposal, Resolution 509, to rescind the AMA’s position statement on hydroxychloroquine. It...

Dr. Vladimir Zelenko just posted on GAB. His Gab Handle is @ZZ611 For those who want to follow him, you can find him here: https://gab.com/ZZ611 Here is his latest Gab (Not Tweet, it's called a Gab): __________________________________ Dr. Zelenko Dr. Zelenko @ZZ611 6d · Please check out and share my new website: http://Vladimirzelenkomd.com it has life saving information 29 likes 4 comments 16 reposts

"ENOUGH ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE BECOMES PRETTY GOOD EVIDENCE." HYDROXYCHLORIQUINE (HCQ) FOR COVID-19 Current News (*Actual case known personally and verified Jan. 5, 2021): ___________________________________ What you read below is not published to sensationalize, but to urge all to put these things before their own physicians and insist on the availability of therapeutics for early outpatient treatment of Covid-19. ___________________________________ A 78 year-old preacher in southern Indiana with Covid-19 and multiple comorbidities is headed home after just a couple of days in the hospital. A year ago this dear Brother was prescribed (one-year prescription) HCQ for his arthritis. He stopped taking the...

Although coronavirus vaccines are now being rolled out, it will be months before most people have access to them. In the meantime, information about which treatments for COVID-19 are effective and safe is crucial.Below is a list of treatments for COVID-19 that have received considerable media attention in the last year. This list describes the latest state of the research on these treatments and which governmental organizations approve the treatment.Remdesivir: Remdesivir is an anti-viral drug that is given intravenously. Two randomized controlled trials found that the drug improved the outcomes for patients hospitalized for COVID-19. In October, the Food and...

“Would you immunize someone for a disease that has a 99.99% survival rate without any medical intervention?” That was the question the got Dr. Vladimir Zelenko in trouble. Twitter suspended the account of the respected Jewish doctor on Monday for spreading false and potentially harmful information. Twitter said:“Your account, zev_dr has been suspended for violating the Twitter Rules. Specifically, for violating our rules against platform manipulation and spam.”For those of you who may not be familiar with Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, he’s the Jewish doctor who first treated coronavirus patients using hydroxychloroquine and zinc. Dr. Zelenko is a board-certified family practitioner...

Prepare for supplies to tighten for the cheap, effective therapeutic treatment for early stage Covid-19 infection, hydroxychloroquine (HCQ). Just as the medical establishment in the US is relaxing its absurd and lethal suppression of the cheap, generic drug, following President Trump’s endorsement of it early in the pandemic, HCQ’s continued availability may suffer. The world’s second largest pharmaceutical facility producing the precursors for HCQ has been destroyed by an explosion and fire.Taiwan English News reports: An explosion at a pharmaceutical factory in Taoyuan City left two injured and caused a fire early this afternoon, December 20.People as far as Tamsui...