Covid-19, SARS-Cov-2, vaccines, Remdesivir, Chloroquine...and all that Jazz

We told you several weeks ago about the Orange County, New York doctor – Vladimir Zelenko – who has had tremendous success in treating hundreds of symptomatic coronavirus patients with a combination of hydroxycholoroquine and antibiotics. That course of medication is now being copied by many doctors around the country, despite the best efforts of Dr. Anthony Fauci and the corrupt news media to hide the crucial information from the public.

America’s major medical society specializing in the treatment of respiratory diseases has endorsed using hydroxychloroquine for seriously ill hospitalized coronavirus patients.
The American Thoracic Society issued guidelines Monday that suggest COVID-19 patients with pneumonia get doses of the anti-malaria drug.

Chloroquine, and a related derivative, hydroxychloroquine, have gained attention - despite the World Health Organization (WHO) saying there is no definitive evidence they work.
So what is the current evidence of their effectiveness as a treatment for the coronavirus, and who is using them?

The researchers found that the control and HCQ groups did not differ in terms of age and sex distribution. For time to clinical recovery, the HCQ group had significantly shortened body temperature recovery time and cough remission time. Compared with the control group, the HCQ group had a larger proportion of patients with improved pneumonia (80.6 versus 54.8 percent). Four patients—all in the control group—progressed to severe illness. There were two patients with mild adverse reactions in the HCQ treatment group.

Two weeks ago, French doctors published a provocative observation in a microbiology journal. In the absence of a known treatment for COVID-19, the doctors had taken to experimentation with a potent drug known as hydroxychloroquine. For decades, the drug has been used to treat malaria—which is caused by a parasite, not a virus. In six patients with COVID-19, the doctors combined hydroxychloroquine with azithromycin (known to many as “Z-Pak,” an antibiotic that kills bacteria, not viruses) and reported that after six days of this regimen, all six people tested negative for the virus.

He added that combining the drug with zinc has been the key to the success. The hydroxychloroquine, he said, "opens the zinc channel" allowing the zinc to enter the cell, which then "blocks the replication of cellular machinery."

COVID-19 patients on hydroxychloroquine heal faster, a Senegalese doctor has disclosed. Moussa Seydi, Head of the Infectious Diseases Department at Fann Hospital in Dakar made the announcement after 55 people had recovered from the virus.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Sunday told a story about an elderly man with a high fever arriving at Mount Sinai Hospital, “and the first thing they did before they even talked to him was give him hydroxychloroquine. Why is the governor banning it?” Guiliani said on “Sunday Morning Futures.” “Everything shows that it works.”
“There’s a dispute as to whether it treats symptoms or cures the disease. But it works. And we don’t have the luxury right now for a perfect solution,” President Trump’s personal lawyer said.

Thus, despite the recent approval of this drug for use against COVID-19, questions remain as to the efficacy of this treatment. As Molina and colleagues note: “Ongoing randomized clinical trials with hydroxychloroquine should provide a definitive answer regarding the alleged efficacy of this combination and will assess its safety.”

The new study was published yesterday online on scientific pre-print server BioRxiv and shows that 30-40% of mice treated with a combination of HCQ or CQ and diabetes drug metformin, died. Treatment with the same dose of either drug alone had no effect on the survival of the mice.

While all this is happening, there is still no scientific evidence that proves hydroxychloroquine is indeed the answer to the Coronavirus. It may very well be, but there is still no medical evidence to show that it indeed works. And without potentially dangerous side effects. The White House top Coronavirus advisor, Dr. Anthony Fauci told CBS’s Face of The Nation that, “In terms of science, I don’t think we can definitively say it works. The data are really just at best suggestive. There have been cases that show there may be an effect and there are others to show there’s no effect.”

Even as the mainstream media, such as NY Times and Washington Post, continue to suppress the good news about hydroxychloroquine, numerous reports have shown the drug to be highly effective against COVID-19 virus and saved many lives around the world.

Reported findings include:

• Body temp recovery time was shorter in the HCQ group by 1.0 day
• Time to cough remission was significantly reduced in the HCQ group (2.0 vs 3.1 days)
• 80.6% of the HCQ group experienced improvement in pneumonia vs. 54.8% of the control group; 61.3% of the HCQ group had significant pneumonia absorption
• Four patients progressed to severe illness, all in the control group
• Two HCQ recipients experienced mild side effects: 1 developed a rash, 1 experienced a headache

The minister of Health, Population and Hospital reform, Prof. Abderrahmane Bebouzid, said Thursday in Algiers that the first results of the cases submitted to the chloroquine protocol are "satisfactory."