When my clinic(veterinary) had our 'outbreak' in Aug 2020, I was slightly ill. At the time, I still was somewhat worried about the disease. I had everyone tested, including myself. Funny thing is this--I was the ONLY one with symptoms and I am the ONLY one who tested negative. Regardless, I decided to treat out of an abundance of caution(I was 56 at the time and a lil chubby). I took Azithromycin and HCQ plus zinc and had my diabetic and 8 yrs older husband take the same(did not test him). No side effects and my symptoms were gone within a day. Was it just the Azithro? Who knows. As a vet, I cannot rely on FDA approval most times to treat my patients--no money for goats in drug company coffers because little profit to be made--, so I read the science behind zinc, HCQ and Azithromycin. Mechanism of action was consistent and I had always used Zn to ward off common colds in the past anyway since most colds are also coronaviruses.
Anyway, long story short, after I got tested, I asked the PA(never had contact with ANY doctor) who was working on my 'case' if I could take Azithromycin(I knew better than to say HCQ--at that time, the FBI might storm my house).....she told me to just stay home and drink plenty of fluids then go to the hospital if I couldn't breathe. She told me Azithromycin was ONLY approved for 'double pneumonia.' She had NO idea I had medical training and knew what she said was total bullshit. AZ is approved for a lot of things and I doubt that 'double pneumonia' is on the list because it just means involving both lungs. Of course, had she thought about it and used one ounce of her medical training, she would know that AZ could actually treat the secondary bacterial pneumonia that killed so many 'COVID' patients. This was a woman who has people's lives in her hands and she is either colossally stupid or lying through her teeth....neither one sat well with me. She works for the largest health care system in my area. As such, I have not been to see a doctor since, save breaking 6 ribs in a horse related incident. I don't trust them. I rigorously review EVERY SINGLE treatment and test result that my diabetic husband receives. Sad that his VET cares more about him than his doctor.....
I had not seen my doctor in a couple of years when I came down with Covid. 8 years before that even. So, when I came down with it, I decided to at least let them know in case they wanted to prescribe anything. I got the same reponse: if you cannot breathe go to the emergency room. I had a fairly mild case, no fever or sore throat. Was taking Quercetin, zinc, D3 and was fine in a few days (even walked 15 miles in those 3 days) short of a few intermittent bouts of extreme tiredness for a week or two. Not sure if I’ll be going back to a doctor again.
My father in law almost died from Covid. He was in the ICU and had been given remdesivir which was not working. They were about to put him on a ventilator but he did not want that knowing the outcomes were not good. My brother in law (an MD in another part of the country) persuaded the attending doctors to try convalescent plasma as a Hail Mary. Well, they agreed and found a donor. Within 12 hours, my father in law was already getting better. He was out of the ICU in 48 hours after the administration of the plasma, and out of the hospital completely 3 days after leaving the ICU. This was the first time this hospital had used convalescent plasma on a patient and this is a very reputable hospital. They apparently had never heard of the treatment and this was almost a year into the “pandemic.” I have to wonder how many people died because doctors were not willing to look outside for “non-approved” treatments.
Wives, mothers and kids care more than numbers can express. Even the best doctors cannot compete with that, but if they get even close, they will do their best. No surprise there.
I am so glad that you used zinc. I suspects it triples the effectiveness of HCQ (according to the studies) or more correctly HCQ as a terrific zinc ionophore greatly improves the anti-viral effect of the zinc when both are taken within 5 days of the viral infection/onset of viral symptoms.
Excellent piece of writing and it demonstrates a more thorough understanding of using research to inform care than anything Western docs have said in the last three years. It's not the American Medical Association, it's the American Pharmaceutical Governmental Medical Association.
The trust is broken. We need holistic providers to treat patients with conservative natural treatments first and save pharmaceuticals for last ditch efforts. My parents and my husbands parents didn’t go to the doctor unless there was trauma of some kind. And they lived in good health until late 80’s. Come on people- don’t give them a second chance- it may just kill you!
It was. I have never been so sick. But I have to say, it scared me enough to turn my focus to getting healthy. I have been doing intermittent fasting for 15 months, lost 30 pounds, stopped the seed oils, sugars and refined carbs and started exercising. I am sleeping great and my mind is so much clearer. I have been stockpiling supplements and meds. I am in a Herbology class to learn how to treat conditions with real foods. And I am growing numerous herbs in my sunroom. The day of depending on a physician for me health is over.
The courageous few continue to use real science and rigorous, proven methodology to show that government, Big Parma, the media, AND the corporate-medical community, victimized a fearful, trusting public. That trust has been obliterated. As the death and injury continues to unfold, we must arrive at accountability. We the People MUST see justice.
Inexcusable how the past almost 4 years have been handled by the " authorities" and " experts". Then throw in the ineffective and downright dangerous hospital protocols ( remdesivir etc)...so many many needless deaths. Sickening.
I think Trump also likes to eat tacos, so they must be disgusting - I'll never eat them again!! And he said the sky is blue, so msnbc told me it is now green.
Speaking of France & HCQ, here is some interesting information: HCQ was an OTC in France until October 2019 (take note of the timing). When the virus hit France, Dr. Didier Raoult started treating patients with covid in Marseille with HCQ until the government made it exceedingly difficult for him to do so. Turns out that the French hematologist, politician, & ex-health minister, Agnes Buzyn's 2nd husband, Yves Levy (a French physician, researcher, & former CEO of INSERM) (French Institute of Health & Medical Research), is not on good terms with Dr. Didier Raoult. When Dr. Vladimir Zelenko started treating his patients in Orange County, NY with HCQ/Azithromycin/Zinc, (with much success) in the spring of 2020, it was, in part, due to his knowledge of Dr. Raoult's success with it in France. By the time Dr. Zelenko died in June of 2022, he & his team had successfully treated approximately 7,000 patients with his protocol, which evolved over time to include Ivermectin & other re-purposed medications. The sad truth is that most western governments did not want its citizens to have access to life-saving medication. They wanted them to believe that the "vaccine" was the only answer. Sounds like pre-meditated murder to me. And...the whole thing in France is highly suspicious to me.
As a physician I was able to order 4 bottles of 200 mg HCQ from a supply house back in 2021. Each bottle had 100 tablets. It cost about $42 per bottle. I have used about half of that supply. I did find one pharmacy in my home town that would fill the prescription for that med. At first the pharmacist refused and I told her that if the patient (a 44 y.o. father of 6 with double pneumonia) died it would be on her. I also pointed out that if the pharmacists would have been so vigilant with opioids there would not have been an opioid epidemic. When I said that, there was silence on the phone and then she changed her mind and filled the prescription. I had found a reluctant but ethical pharmacist and since then, all my prescriptions go there, unless the patient requests elsewhere.
The late Dr. Vladimir “Zev” Zelenko was the 1st dissident doctor I came across & he was successfully treating patients with HCQ (the “gun”) that allows zinc (the “bullet”) to get into cells to halt viral replication, plus azithromycin (an antibiotic) as necessary. Made sense to me, thus while everyone else was shopping for masks online, I was shopping for his treatment protocol.
"Critics say this was not a randomized trial. Patients say it does not matter, they just want to survive on HCQ + AZM! When the differences are this large, we go with what is working for patients, not a false narrative from the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex deceiving the population on simple, safe, generic drugs."
Late December 2021, six family members and I became ill with COVID-19. It was the "wicked bad" (per Dr. Robert Malone) Delta variant.
In late March 2020, God began leading me to COURAGEOUS, SACRIFICIAL Heroes like Dr. McCullough, Dr. Knut Wittkowski, Dr. Simone Gold (Americas Frontline Doctors), Dr. Pierre Kory/Dr. Paul Marik (FLCCC), Dr. Robert Malone, Dr. Ryan Cole, Del Bigtree (The Highwire), Children's Health Defense, Dr. Kulldorff, Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche, Dr. Harvey Risch (to name a FEW) that were speaking TRUTH at IMMENSE PERSONAL costs. So we already had a COURAGEOUS, SACRIFICIAL COVID-19 Doctor on retainer so to speak.
Our COVID-19 Doctor leapt into action using the FLCCC protocol...tweaking it for each of us using the art and science of medicine to meet our every individual need...at home...via text. She even had oxygen delivered to our homes for those of us that got pneumonia. She referenced a study done in Israel to determine how to help my husband when he needed extra help recovering from the pneumonia. She used a repurposed drug which was very helpful to him.
All six of us recovered.
Our primary care physician that we had trusted for a decade refused to help us. Our "COVID-19 Doctor" had previously been an emergency medicine Doctor for decades then later switched to owning a very successful skin care business. When COVID-19 hit, she recognized that she could help so she began providing EARLY treatment at a nominal fee. We have still never met her in person but she provided us REMARKABLE care 24/7 via text. At that time, she estimated she had provided COVID-19 treatment for approximately 600 patients. ZERO deaths.
If I remember correctly, there are approximately 1 million physicians and 500,000 physician assistants in America. EVERY American should have received the same level of care that my family received.
Dr. McCullough - You and the other Heroes have helped save INNUMERABLE lives. I PRAISE and THANK ALMIGHTY GOD for raising up each of you for "such a time as this".... May ALMIGHTY GOD continue to rain His RICHEST BLESSINGS upon each of you.
It's interesting that double blind testing is the only acceptable regime now, regardless of off label use of a variety of pharma drugs which sometimes finds new uses for existing drugs, and every new batch of MRNA which are tested on no humans whatsoever and only a handful of rodents. Big S science doesn't care about the scientific method. They care about who is in the White House, who control the levers of governmental oversight of the healthcare system, and who has the power to determine what "works" and what doesn't.
I no longer have faith or frankly interest in what the CDC or FDA promotes. They are captured brands of an unscientific marketplace of uniform ideas. We would be well to dismantle those parts of these systems that have become problematic without killing the agencies themselves.
I am a physician in Family Practice (licensed both in France and the United States). I was practicing general medicine in a rural area in France when the epidemic broke out. I was fortunate to find Pr Raoult's medical team and their recommendations early on with their weekly updates on YouTube (HCQ, azithromycin, Zinc, and later Vitamine D). None of the patients I followed personally died of Covid, although a few needed oxygen therapy at home. Early treatment was key to this. I told my patients "if your PCR is positive, contact me the same day to initiate therapy promptly." An article published in October 2021 by Pr Raoult's team showed that their early treatment protocol decreased mortality for those over 60 years of age by a factor of 4 to 5 compared to overall mortality from 5 Western European countries. Imagine the number of lives this treatment could have saved if it had been permitted!
I am a family physician licensed to practice medicine in both France and the United States. I am now retired. During the epidemic, I was practicing in a physician shortage area in rural France. I was fortunate to find the weekly updates on YouTube by Professor Raoult's excellent medical team early on in the epidemic, learning of their treatment protocol using HCQ, azithromycin, Zinc, and later Vitamin D. With this treatment, none of the patients I personally followed died, although a few needed home oxygen. Early treatment was essential because this treatment is most active during the replicative phase of the virus. I told my patients, "If you have a positive PCR, contact me the same day so we can start therapy promptly." Pr Raoult's team published an article in a medical journal in October 2021 showing that their early treatment protocol resulted in a mortality rate 4 to 5 times lower than the overall mortality of five Western European countries in patients over 60 years of age (mortality was negligible under 60 years of age). Imagine how many lives could have been saved if early treated had been permitted!!!
Raoult was and is fantastic. I am a GP in the UK. I came across his work on HCQ before Zelenko and others (probably in May 2020). At that time, there was no possibility of an early treatment randomised trial. I prescribed the combination (HCQ/ AZT) off-label to a bunch of my UK patients based on what he was publishing. Patients with co-morbidities heading towards an NHS hospital admission with SaO2 dropping below 92% reversed within 12h. This was a more dramatic turnaround than seeing patients treated with antibiotics for bacterial infections.
And then the 'prestige' papers came including the Oxford one (where patients were given a toxic dose of HCQ), and the Surgisphere fraud (which resulted in the WHO declaring that HCQ should not be prescribed). I saw so many of my peers foaming at the mouth about the cardiotoxicity of HCQ/ AZT (funnily enough all silent on modRNA Covid vaccine cardiotoxicity). Within a couple of weeks of that WHO declaration, the Swiss who had been using HCQ, abandoned it, saw mortality spike and outcomes deteriorate on withdrawal of treatment.
Aside from that pressure, doctors were scolded for prescribing HCQ for Covid patients as it deprived rheumatology patients of their drugs. We were derided for supporting a treatment that had not been subject to RCT at the time. Such a terrible time!
I entirely agree! We lived through this epidemic drawing the same conclusions, sharing the same treatment success, then realizing with dismay, astonishment, and utter disappointment the total lack of public health support backed by the fraudulent studies on HCQ. There were not enough of us to contest, otherwise it may have been different. The wolf was watching over the sheep...
(sorry for the two comments I made initially, I did not think the first went through)
When my clinic(veterinary) had our 'outbreak' in Aug 2020, I was slightly ill. At the time, I still was somewhat worried about the disease. I had everyone tested, including myself. Funny thing is this--I was the ONLY one with symptoms and I am the ONLY one who tested negative. Regardless, I decided to treat out of an abundance of caution(I was 56 at the time and a lil chubby). I took Azithromycin and HCQ plus zinc and had my diabetic and 8 yrs older husband take the same(did not test him). No side effects and my symptoms were gone within a day. Was it just the Azithro? Who knows. As a vet, I cannot rely on FDA approval most times to treat my patients--no money for goats in drug company coffers because little profit to be made--, so I read the science behind zinc, HCQ and Azithromycin. Mechanism of action was consistent and I had always used Zn to ward off common colds in the past anyway since most colds are also coronaviruses.
Anyway, long story short, after I got tested, I asked the PA(never had contact with ANY doctor) who was working on my 'case' if I could take Azithromycin(I knew better than to say HCQ--at that time, the FBI might storm my house).....she told me to just stay home and drink plenty of fluids then go to the hospital if I couldn't breathe. She told me Azithromycin was ONLY approved for 'double pneumonia.' She had NO idea I had medical training and knew what she said was total bullshit. AZ is approved for a lot of things and I doubt that 'double pneumonia' is on the list because it just means involving both lungs. Of course, had she thought about it and used one ounce of her medical training, she would know that AZ could actually treat the secondary bacterial pneumonia that killed so many 'COVID' patients. This was a woman who has people's lives in her hands and she is either colossally stupid or lying through her teeth....neither one sat well with me. She works for the largest health care system in my area. As such, I have not been to see a doctor since, save breaking 6 ribs in a horse related incident. I don't trust them. I rigorously review EVERY SINGLE treatment and test result that my diabetic husband receives. Sad that his VET cares more about him than his doctor.....
I had not seen my doctor in a couple of years when I came down with Covid. 8 years before that even. So, when I came down with it, I decided to at least let them know in case they wanted to prescribe anything. I got the same reponse: if you cannot breathe go to the emergency room. I had a fairly mild case, no fever or sore throat. Was taking Quercetin, zinc, D3 and was fine in a few days (even walked 15 miles in those 3 days) short of a few intermittent bouts of extreme tiredness for a week or two. Not sure if I’ll be going back to a doctor again.
My father in law almost died from Covid. He was in the ICU and had been given remdesivir which was not working. They were about to put him on a ventilator but he did not want that knowing the outcomes were not good. My brother in law (an MD in another part of the country) persuaded the attending doctors to try convalescent plasma as a Hail Mary. Well, they agreed and found a donor. Within 12 hours, my father in law was already getting better. He was out of the ICU in 48 hours after the administration of the plasma, and out of the hospital completely 3 days after leaving the ICU. This was the first time this hospital had used convalescent plasma on a patient and this is a very reputable hospital. They apparently had never heard of the treatment and this was almost a year into the “pandemic.” I have to wonder how many people died because doctors were not willing to look outside for “non-approved” treatments.
Keep a watch on your father in law for organ damage, especially kidneys, after that remdesivir!
Wives, mothers and kids care more than numbers can express. Even the best doctors cannot compete with that, but if they get even close, they will do their best. No surprise there.
I am so glad that you used zinc. I suspects it triples the effectiveness of HCQ (according to the studies) or more correctly HCQ as a terrific zinc ionophore greatly improves the anti-viral effect of the zinc when both are taken within 5 days of the viral infection/onset of viral symptoms.
Excellent piece of writing and it demonstrates a more thorough understanding of using research to inform care than anything Western docs have said in the last three years. It's not the American Medical Association, it's the American Pharmaceutical Governmental Medical Association.
The trust is broken. We need holistic providers to treat patients with conservative natural treatments first and save pharmaceuticals for last ditch efforts. My parents and my husbands parents didn’t go to the doctor unless there was trauma of some kind. And they lived in good health until late 80’s. Come on people- don’t give them a second chance- it may just kill you!
I understand- I had Delta in late October 2021. I did have some ivermectin but dose was very low. 6 day hospital stay. I am prepared now!
It was. I have never been so sick. But I have to say, it scared me enough to turn my focus to getting healthy. I have been doing intermittent fasting for 15 months, lost 30 pounds, stopped the seed oils, sugars and refined carbs and started exercising. I am sleeping great and my mind is so much clearer. I have been stockpiling supplements and meds. I am in a Herbology class to learn how to treat conditions with real foods. And I am growing numerous herbs in my sunroom. The day of depending on a physician for me health is over.
The courageous few continue to use real science and rigorous, proven methodology to show that government, Big Parma, the media, AND the corporate-medical community, victimized a fearful, trusting public. That trust has been obliterated. As the death and injury continues to unfold, we must arrive at accountability. We the People MUST see justice.
Inexcusable how the past almost 4 years have been handled by the " authorities" and " experts". Then throw in the ineffective and downright dangerous hospital protocols ( remdesivir etc)...so many many needless deaths. Sickening.
Wait a minute....didn't Trump mention hydroxychloroquine? So it must be useless, right?
You mentioned Trump, isn’t all this really about FREEDOM vs TYRANNY???.....!!!!!!!....I’m SO MAD!!!
I think Trump also likes to eat tacos, so they must be disgusting - I'll never eat them again!! And he said the sky is blue, so msnbc told me it is now green.
Speaking of France & HCQ, here is some interesting information: HCQ was an OTC in France until October 2019 (take note of the timing). When the virus hit France, Dr. Didier Raoult started treating patients with covid in Marseille with HCQ until the government made it exceedingly difficult for him to do so. Turns out that the French hematologist, politician, & ex-health minister, Agnes Buzyn's 2nd husband, Yves Levy (a French physician, researcher, & former CEO of INSERM) (French Institute of Health & Medical Research), is not on good terms with Dr. Didier Raoult. When Dr. Vladimir Zelenko started treating his patients in Orange County, NY with HCQ/Azithromycin/Zinc, (with much success) in the spring of 2020, it was, in part, due to his knowledge of Dr. Raoult's success with it in France. By the time Dr. Zelenko died in June of 2022, he & his team had successfully treated approximately 7,000 patients with his protocol, which evolved over time to include Ivermectin & other re-purposed medications. The sad truth is that most western governments did not want its citizens to have access to life-saving medication. They wanted them to believe that the "vaccine" was the only answer. Sounds like pre-meditated murder to me. And...the whole thing in France is highly suspicious to me.
As a physician I was able to order 4 bottles of 200 mg HCQ from a supply house back in 2021. Each bottle had 100 tablets. It cost about $42 per bottle. I have used about half of that supply. I did find one pharmacy in my home town that would fill the prescription for that med. At first the pharmacist refused and I told her that if the patient (a 44 y.o. father of 6 with double pneumonia) died it would be on her. I also pointed out that if the pharmacists would have been so vigilant with opioids there would not have been an opioid epidemic. When I said that, there was silence on the phone and then she changed her mind and filled the prescription. I had found a reluctant but ethical pharmacist and since then, all my prescriptions go there, unless the patient requests elsewhere.
GOD BLESS YOU for being a COURAGEOUS Warrior and MIGHTY Physician!
The late Dr. Vladimir “Zev” Zelenko was the 1st dissident doctor I came across & he was successfully treating patients with HCQ (the “gun”) that allows zinc (the “bullet”) to get into cells to halt viral replication, plus azithromycin (an antibiotic) as necessary. Made sense to me, thus while everyone else was shopping for masks online, I was shopping for his treatment protocol.
Jan - I stumbled upon this site yesterday (dated 5/21/21) which is all about HCQ. I found it to be interesting....https://totalityofevidence.com/hydroxychloroquine/
AMEN, Dr. McCullough:
"Critics say this was not a randomized trial. Patients say it does not matter, they just want to survive on HCQ + AZM! When the differences are this large, we go with what is working for patients, not a false narrative from the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex deceiving the population on simple, safe, generic drugs."
Late December 2021, six family members and I became ill with COVID-19. It was the "wicked bad" (per Dr. Robert Malone) Delta variant.
In late March 2020, God began leading me to COURAGEOUS, SACRIFICIAL Heroes like Dr. McCullough, Dr. Knut Wittkowski, Dr. Simone Gold (Americas Frontline Doctors), Dr. Pierre Kory/Dr. Paul Marik (FLCCC), Dr. Robert Malone, Dr. Ryan Cole, Del Bigtree (The Highwire), Children's Health Defense, Dr. Kulldorff, Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche, Dr. Harvey Risch (to name a FEW) that were speaking TRUTH at IMMENSE PERSONAL costs. So we already had a COURAGEOUS, SACRIFICIAL COVID-19 Doctor on retainer so to speak.
Our COVID-19 Doctor leapt into action using the FLCCC protocol...tweaking it for each of us using the art and science of medicine to meet our every individual need...at home...via text. She even had oxygen delivered to our homes for those of us that got pneumonia. She referenced a study done in Israel to determine how to help my husband when he needed extra help recovering from the pneumonia. She used a repurposed drug which was very helpful to him.
All six of us recovered.
Our primary care physician that we had trusted for a decade refused to help us. Our "COVID-19 Doctor" had previously been an emergency medicine Doctor for decades then later switched to owning a very successful skin care business. When COVID-19 hit, she recognized that she could help so she began providing EARLY treatment at a nominal fee. We have still never met her in person but she provided us REMARKABLE care 24/7 via text. At that time, she estimated she had provided COVID-19 treatment for approximately 600 patients. ZERO deaths.
If I remember correctly, there are approximately 1 million physicians and 500,000 physician assistants in America. EVERY American should have received the same level of care that my family received.
Dr. McCullough - You and the other Heroes have helped save INNUMERABLE lives. I PRAISE and THANK ALMIGHTY GOD for raising up each of you for "such a time as this".... May ALMIGHTY GOD continue to rain His RICHEST BLESSINGS upon each of you.
It's interesting that double blind testing is the only acceptable regime now, regardless of off label use of a variety of pharma drugs which sometimes finds new uses for existing drugs, and every new batch of MRNA which are tested on no humans whatsoever and only a handful of rodents. Big S science doesn't care about the scientific method. They care about who is in the White House, who control the levers of governmental oversight of the healthcare system, and who has the power to determine what "works" and what doesn't.
I no longer have faith or frankly interest in what the CDC or FDA promotes. They are captured brands of an unscientific marketplace of uniform ideas. We would be well to dismantle those parts of these systems that have become problematic without killing the agencies themselves.
AMEN!
Peter and all,
The devastation of America because of the SAFE AND EFFECTIVE POISON will continue and even be worse with the horrifying war coming to our shores…
This message is worth repeating over and over…
All the mess we are in is because We the People allowed a person who was NOT a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN to take office as ‘president’ in 2008!
This can NEVER happen again!
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I am a physician in Family Practice (licensed both in France and the United States). I was practicing general medicine in a rural area in France when the epidemic broke out. I was fortunate to find Pr Raoult's medical team and their recommendations early on with their weekly updates on YouTube (HCQ, azithromycin, Zinc, and later Vitamine D). None of the patients I followed personally died of Covid, although a few needed oxygen therapy at home. Early treatment was key to this. I told my patients "if your PCR is positive, contact me the same day to initiate therapy promptly." An article published in October 2021 by Pr Raoult's team showed that their early treatment protocol decreased mortality for those over 60 years of age by a factor of 4 to 5 compared to overall mortality from 5 Western European countries. Imagine the number of lives this treatment could have saved if it had been permitted!
I am a family physician licensed to practice medicine in both France and the United States. I am now retired. During the epidemic, I was practicing in a physician shortage area in rural France. I was fortunate to find the weekly updates on YouTube by Professor Raoult's excellent medical team early on in the epidemic, learning of their treatment protocol using HCQ, azithromycin, Zinc, and later Vitamin D. With this treatment, none of the patients I personally followed died, although a few needed home oxygen. Early treatment was essential because this treatment is most active during the replicative phase of the virus. I told my patients, "If you have a positive PCR, contact me the same day so we can start therapy promptly." Pr Raoult's team published an article in a medical journal in October 2021 showing that their early treatment protocol resulted in a mortality rate 4 to 5 times lower than the overall mortality of five Western European countries in patients over 60 years of age (mortality was negligible under 60 years of age). Imagine how many lives could have been saved if early treated had been permitted!!!
Raoult was and is fantastic. I am a GP in the UK. I came across his work on HCQ before Zelenko and others (probably in May 2020). At that time, there was no possibility of an early treatment randomised trial. I prescribed the combination (HCQ/ AZT) off-label to a bunch of my UK patients based on what he was publishing. Patients with co-morbidities heading towards an NHS hospital admission with SaO2 dropping below 92% reversed within 12h. This was a more dramatic turnaround than seeing patients treated with antibiotics for bacterial infections.
And then the 'prestige' papers came including the Oxford one (where patients were given a toxic dose of HCQ), and the Surgisphere fraud (which resulted in the WHO declaring that HCQ should not be prescribed). I saw so many of my peers foaming at the mouth about the cardiotoxicity of HCQ/ AZT (funnily enough all silent on modRNA Covid vaccine cardiotoxicity). Within a couple of weeks of that WHO declaration, the Swiss who had been using HCQ, abandoned it, saw mortality spike and outcomes deteriorate on withdrawal of treatment.
Aside from that pressure, doctors were scolded for prescribing HCQ for Covid patients as it deprived rheumatology patients of their drugs. We were derided for supporting a treatment that had not been subject to RCT at the time. Such a terrible time!
I entirely agree! We lived through this epidemic drawing the same conclusions, sharing the same treatment success, then realizing with dismay, astonishment, and utter disappointment the total lack of public health support backed by the fraudulent studies on HCQ. There were not enough of us to contest, otherwise it may have been different. The wolf was watching over the sheep...
(sorry for the two comments I made initially, I did not think the first went through)
Thank you.