Thank you for continuing to mention early treatment every chance you get. You're almost alone in this endeavor, and as far as I can tell, it is the SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT issue at hand. How many hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of lives could've been saved with appropriate early treatment? And still, almost no one even mentions it. Thank you again, Dr. McCullough.
The COVID-19 pandemic response has been a cluster of crimes against humanity, regarding the suppression of vitamin D3 and other nutrients and of inexpensive early treatments, the problems caused by the quasi-vaccines, the lockdowns, social distancing, masks etc. https://nutritionmatters.substack.com/p/the-covid-19-pandemic-response-killed .
Please see the most important research on vitamin D and the immune system, cited and discussed at my long page (co-signed by Patrick Chambers MD): https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/ .
It is abundantly clear that we must get everyone's 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) levels up to the 50 ng/mL 125 nmol/L level their immune system needs to function properly. The above page has recommendations from Prof. Sunil Wimalawansa on how to attain this in the long term with vitamin D3 supplemental quantities as ratios of body weight, with higher ratios for those suffering from obesity. This is from his article: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/14/14/2997 . The ratios are in a table at: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/#sjw-updated-ratios . See the section before this for the mechanisms which cause the need for higher ratios for those suffering from obesity. These do not apply to normal weight or overweight people. I argue that there is no observational or mechanistic justification for the lower ratios recommended by Prof. Wimalawansa for underweight people. For 70kg 154 lb body weight without obesity, 0.125 mg (5000 IU) a day will get most people's 25(OH)D level safely over 50 ng/mL, over several months. This is a gram every 22 years - and pharma grade vitamin D3 costs about USD$2.50 a gram.
Bolus (10 mg, 400,000 IU) vitamin D3 takes about 4 days to raise 25(OH)D levels safely over 50 ng/mL, from typical unsupplemented levels of 5 to 25 ng/mL. The delay is due to the need for hydroxylation in the liver.
For all clinical emergencies, such as sepsis, COVID-19, Kawasaki disease, MIS-C etc. the most urgently needed treatment for most people is to boost their 25(OH)D level safely over 50 ng/mL in about 4 hours. This can only be done with oral calcifediol - which _is_ 25-hydroxyvitamin D. As Prof. Wimalawansa recommends, 0.014 mg per kg bodyweight will reliably and very safely achieve this in all people, no matter how low their 25(OH)D level was. See his article and: https://nutritionmatters.substack.com/p/calcifediol-to-boost-25-hydroxyvitamin . This is the most important treatment for all those suffering from severe influenza, COVID-19, sepsis etc. However, the most important step is to prevent all this suffering, harm and death by proper vitamin D3 supplementation in the long term.
First, Dr. McCullough, let me thank you for all your hard work re: COVID-19 and the C19 vaccines. I really appreciate the long interviews and presentations you give, both because I learn so much from listening to you and because your integrity and compassion calm, encourage, and inspire me.
I've just been listening to your interview on the MSCS Nov 3, 2022 podcast. In that interview, you stated -- if I understood you correctly -- that not a single U.S. hospital had developed its own COVID-19 treatment protocol. I'm writing to tell you that actually, a hospital in Florida, AdventHealth Ocala, did develop its own very successful protocol early in the pandemic. I want to alert you to this partly because I know you strive to be pinpoint accurate in everything you say, and partly because I think you'd appreciate both the "Let's get busy and solve this" attitude and the "brilliant common sense" approach of the Director of Pharmacy at this hospital, Dr. Carlette Norwood-Williams, who developed the protocol.
The protocol was called ICAM for its elements -- Immune system support using Vitamin C and zinc; a Corticosteroid (methylprednisolone) to quell inflammation; Anticoagulant medication (Enoxaparin) to counter blood clots; and a Macrolide antibiotic (azithromycin) for its antiviral activity and to guard against bacterial pneumonia which might "piggyback" on the viral illness. The hospital had impressive success with this protocol in the hospital, and was planning a clinical trial of it for outpatient treatment.
Here are links to two brief newspaper articles on the ICAM protocol:
Anecdotal note: During 2020, I was living in a small California town which had an AdventHealth hospital. I was watching the hospital statistics and they were grim -- it looked like many COVID patients ended up in the ICU, and about 75% of COVID patients in ICU died. About a week after I heard about the ICAM Protocol (and posted a comment about it on my county's public health department's Facebook page), there was a sudden turn-around in the hospital's statistics -- suddenly, it appeared that 75% or even more of the COVID patients in ICU were surviving. This went on for a few months and I wondered whether this local AdventHealth hospital -- and perhaps many Advent hospitals across the U.S.? -- were now using the ICAM protocol. What good news that would have been! But after a few months, the hospital's statistics seemed to revert to their original awful "normal" with most COVID ICU patients dying. And then I had to wonder whether ICAM had been "quashed" like HCQ and other effective early treatments. . .
I enjoyed your posts from Australia. When I vent in sub-stack comments about medical tyranny, agency gaslighting, uninformed judiciary, etc., I have had a number of replies from Western Australia, NZ, Canada and UK rooting for us to succeed in recovering Constitutional governance ... they are depending on it.
Some questions for you:
1. Where did Australia (and other countries) get their vaccine vials? US DOD?
2. When Pfizer (etc.) did safety trials, did they use vaccines made to strict control/ quality standards customary to US manufacturing, or did they use the DOD supply line with almost no QA and undetermined number of “dud” or low potency vials? If all the vials were high octane mRNA one must ask how many trial recipients would have survived.
No one has answered these questions. If I missed it, the answers are worth repeating.
Thank you!
--Mandate “Retiree”. I’m OK in retirement but lost a lot when I had to leave in Sept ‘21. No exemption for NI. My losses are “legal standing” to go after the company for fraud. The package inserts at the company sponsored vaccine “clinic” were blank and the vials came from the DOD. No one told us. I’d like to see them answer for the deaths of colleagues who stayed on when I left. Company posts on LinkdIn brag about how nice it is to travel again. But how many group life policies were paid out to members of the community whose jobs were leveraged to force compliance? As Federal law was broken, an AG investigation should work, but not likely in a Democratic State.
P.S. I follow Alan Dershowitz on RUMBLE and even wasted money on LOCALS to send him comments. He wrote a book advocating mandates as a Constitutional scholar. He thinks the shots are great. He is best buddies with Netanyahu. My comment to him was that gov’t policies that kill citizens by intent or by criminal malfeasance (hospital protocols and shots) are about as Constitutional as Jim Jones and his Kool Aid. No answer back on that yet.
I forgot to ask how much Netanyahu collected from Pfizer.
"According to InDaily, the unvaccinated are five time more likely to die of Covid. An analysis of South Australian cases also found unvaccinated people are eight times more likely to be hospitalised. The release of the findings comes ahead of the national rollout of the fifth Covid vaccine."
Thank you for continuing to mention early treatment every chance you get. You're almost alone in this endeavor, and as far as I can tell, it is the SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT issue at hand. How many hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of lives could've been saved with appropriate early treatment? And still, almost no one even mentions it. Thank you again, Dr. McCullough.
The best research shows that influenza vaccines do not reduce the risk of hospitalisation or death for influenza or for respiratory infections in general. See Anderson et al. 2020 https://sci-hub.ru/10.7326/M19-3075 and my two articles discussing this and related research: https://nutritionmatters.substack.com/p/influenza-vaccines-do-not-reduce
The COVID-19 pandemic response has been a cluster of crimes against humanity, regarding the suppression of vitamin D3 and other nutrients and of inexpensive early treatments, the problems caused by the quasi-vaccines, the lockdowns, social distancing, masks etc. https://nutritionmatters.substack.com/p/the-covid-19-pandemic-response-killed .
Please see the most important research on vitamin D and the immune system, cited and discussed at my long page (co-signed by Patrick Chambers MD): https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/ .
It is abundantly clear that we must get everyone's 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) levels up to the 50 ng/mL 125 nmol/L level their immune system needs to function properly. The above page has recommendations from Prof. Sunil Wimalawansa on how to attain this in the long term with vitamin D3 supplemental quantities as ratios of body weight, with higher ratios for those suffering from obesity. This is from his article: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/14/14/2997 . The ratios are in a table at: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/#sjw-updated-ratios . See the section before this for the mechanisms which cause the need for higher ratios for those suffering from obesity. These do not apply to normal weight or overweight people. I argue that there is no observational or mechanistic justification for the lower ratios recommended by Prof. Wimalawansa for underweight people. For 70kg 154 lb body weight without obesity, 0.125 mg (5000 IU) a day will get most people's 25(OH)D level safely over 50 ng/mL, over several months. This is a gram every 22 years - and pharma grade vitamin D3 costs about USD$2.50 a gram.
Bolus (10 mg, 400,000 IU) vitamin D3 takes about 4 days to raise 25(OH)D levels safely over 50 ng/mL, from typical unsupplemented levels of 5 to 25 ng/mL. The delay is due to the need for hydroxylation in the liver.
For all clinical emergencies, such as sepsis, COVID-19, Kawasaki disease, MIS-C etc. the most urgently needed treatment for most people is to boost their 25(OH)D level safely over 50 ng/mL in about 4 hours. This can only be done with oral calcifediol - which _is_ 25-hydroxyvitamin D. As Prof. Wimalawansa recommends, 0.014 mg per kg bodyweight will reliably and very safely achieve this in all people, no matter how low their 25(OH)D level was. See his article and: https://nutritionmatters.substack.com/p/calcifediol-to-boost-25-hydroxyvitamin . This is the most important treatment for all those suffering from severe influenza, COVID-19, sepsis etc. However, the most important step is to prevent all this suffering, harm and death by proper vitamin D3 supplementation in the long term.
First, Dr. McCullough, let me thank you for all your hard work re: COVID-19 and the C19 vaccines. I really appreciate the long interviews and presentations you give, both because I learn so much from listening to you and because your integrity and compassion calm, encourage, and inspire me.
I've just been listening to your interview on the MSCS Nov 3, 2022 podcast. In that interview, you stated -- if I understood you correctly -- that not a single U.S. hospital had developed its own COVID-19 treatment protocol. I'm writing to tell you that actually, a hospital in Florida, AdventHealth Ocala, did develop its own very successful protocol early in the pandemic. I want to alert you to this partly because I know you strive to be pinpoint accurate in everything you say, and partly because I think you'd appreciate both the "Let's get busy and solve this" attitude and the "brilliant common sense" approach of the Director of Pharmacy at this hospital, Dr. Carlette Norwood-Williams, who developed the protocol.
The protocol was called ICAM for its elements -- Immune system support using Vitamin C and zinc; a Corticosteroid (methylprednisolone) to quell inflammation; Anticoagulant medication (Enoxaparin) to counter blood clots; and a Macrolide antibiotic (azithromycin) for its antiviral activity and to guard against bacterial pneumonia which might "piggyback" on the viral illness. The hospital had impressive success with this protocol in the hospital, and was planning a clinical trial of it for outpatient treatment.
Here are links to two brief newspaper articles on the ICAM protocol:
https://bgr.com/science/coronavirus-cure-icam-protocol-florida/
https://www.ocala.com/story/business/2020/09/22/ocala-developed-covid-19-therapy-local-study/5865410002/
Anecdotal note: During 2020, I was living in a small California town which had an AdventHealth hospital. I was watching the hospital statistics and they were grim -- it looked like many COVID patients ended up in the ICU, and about 75% of COVID patients in ICU died. About a week after I heard about the ICAM Protocol (and posted a comment about it on my county's public health department's Facebook page), there was a sudden turn-around in the hospital's statistics -- suddenly, it appeared that 75% or even more of the COVID patients in ICU were surviving. This went on for a few months and I wondered whether this local AdventHealth hospital -- and perhaps many Advent hospitals across the U.S.? -- were now using the ICAM protocol. What good news that would have been! But after a few months, the hospital's statistics seemed to revert to their original awful "normal" with most COVID ICU patients dying. And then I had to wonder whether ICAM had been "quashed" like HCQ and other effective early treatments. . .
Peter and John
Thanks as always for informative posts.
I enjoyed your posts from Australia. When I vent in sub-stack comments about medical tyranny, agency gaslighting, uninformed judiciary, etc., I have had a number of replies from Western Australia, NZ, Canada and UK rooting for us to succeed in recovering Constitutional governance ... they are depending on it.
Some questions for you:
1. Where did Australia (and other countries) get their vaccine vials? US DOD?
2. When Pfizer (etc.) did safety trials, did they use vaccines made to strict control/ quality standards customary to US manufacturing, or did they use the DOD supply line with almost no QA and undetermined number of “dud” or low potency vials? If all the vials were high octane mRNA one must ask how many trial recipients would have survived.
No one has answered these questions. If I missed it, the answers are worth repeating.
Thank you!
--Mandate “Retiree”. I’m OK in retirement but lost a lot when I had to leave in Sept ‘21. No exemption for NI. My losses are “legal standing” to go after the company for fraud. The package inserts at the company sponsored vaccine “clinic” were blank and the vials came from the DOD. No one told us. I’d like to see them answer for the deaths of colleagues who stayed on when I left. Company posts on LinkdIn brag about how nice it is to travel again. But how many group life policies were paid out to members of the community whose jobs were leveraged to force compliance? As Federal law was broken, an AG investigation should work, but not likely in a Democratic State.
P.S. I follow Alan Dershowitz on RUMBLE and even wasted money on LOCALS to send him comments. He wrote a book advocating mandates as a Constitutional scholar. He thinks the shots are great. He is best buddies with Netanyahu. My comment to him was that gov’t policies that kill citizens by intent or by criminal malfeasance (hospital protocols and shots) are about as Constitutional as Jim Jones and his Kool Aid. No answer back on that yet.
I forgot to ask how much Netanyahu collected from Pfizer.
Here’s a study from earlier. I just fell on it so sorry if it’s a repeat you’ve seen. I like the government comments at the end.
https://www.scivisionpub.com/pdfs/us-covid19-vaccines-proven-to-cause-more-harm-than-good-based-on-pivotal-clinical-trial-data-analyzed-using-the-proper-scientific--1811.pdf
Could someone please examine & explain this to me/us?
https://arep.med.harvard.edu/SBP/Church_Biohazard04c.doc
"According to InDaily, the unvaccinated are five time more likely to die of Covid. An analysis of South Australian cases also found unvaccinated people are eight times more likely to be hospitalised. The release of the findings comes ahead of the national rollout of the fifth Covid vaccine."