The ridiculous assault on hydroxychloroquine by the media and the political left just needs to end. The research on the drug, related specifically to SARS CoV-1, is over a decade old and was performed by our own National Institutes of Health (NIH). The fact that practicing physicians are being censored for advocating the use of the medication on an outpatient basis and prophylactically is patently insane.
The fact that Donald Trump Jr. had his Twitter account locked for sharing the video of licensed doctors making their case for its use is just nuts. For social media platforms that insist people follow the guidelines of the World Health Organization (WHO)., they must have missed this statement:
Nothing from the WHO or the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has ruled out the use of the drug to prevent COVID-19 or treat it in the outpatient setting. The trials mentioned in the tweet were for late-stage disease and often utilized exceptionally high doses with the potential for toxicity. The FDA eliminated compassionate use for late-stage COVID-19. It has not made a determination on outpatient use and there are 243 ongoing trials globally according to the NIH.
The president has science behind his optimism about hydroxychloroquine
The studies referenced by the WHO in the tweet above are the same ones criticized by the members of America’s Frontline Doctors, who gave the press conference yesterday. The video went viral and the censors are out in force, despite their statements not violating current WHO guidance. They are real doctors with real licenses and real practices. You may check them out yourself.
In full disclosure, I am a licensed nurse in the state of New York. I no longer work in that capacity, but that does not negate years of education and experience. I began researching COVID-19 early in the pandemic because friends and family often rely on me for guidance and information on health-related matters.
While I support President Trump and will be voting for him in November, nothing I will say here is influenced by that fact. This is the same information I have given my own parents, who, due to their age, are high-risk by definition. I encourage you to do your own research and make your own health decisions.
Unfortunately, your choices for treatment are being limited by state and local governments in some cases. Information to help you is also being limited by the tech censors, so I will include as much here as I can.
Pulmonologist: Telling COVID-19 Patients to Stay Home Until They Have Shortness of Breath May Not Be Best Advice
Let’s start with a few basic things we know about COVID-19.
The disease has three phases. The first is an upper respiratory infection that many people recover from without medical support. The second is respiratory inflammation which may cause clots. The more severe form is caused by an abnormal immune system response that can lead to sepsis, organ damage, and death.
COVID-19 binds to the cell receptor ACE-2. So did the viruses first cousin, SARS. This is how it enters a cell.
Coronaviruses are RNA viruses that need to hijack the body cell’s function to replicate or make new viruses
America’s Frontline Doctors are advocating for the use of hydroxychloroquine, zinc, and azithromycin early in the illness and prophylactically. The most emphatic physician did overstate her case calling the drug combination a “cure.” However, if it can be verified that all of her 350 patients are still alive, then her patients have been cured.
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While Dr. Stella Immanuel could have toned down her optimism, she and other doctors present cited a 2005 study from the NIH related to SARS as the reason for investigating hydroxychloroquine. I archived it here in case it is disappeared. (For clarity)
Results
We report, however, that chloroquine has strong antiviral effects on SARS-CoV infection of primate cells. These inhibitory effects are observed when the cells are treated with the drug either before or after exposure to the virus, suggesting both prophylactic and therapeutic advantage. (preventing and treatind SARS) In addition to the well-known functions of chloroquine such as elevations of endosomal pH, the drug appears to interfere with terminal glycosylation of the cellular receptor, angiotensin-converting enzyme 2. (ACE-2 the receptor used by COVID-19) This may negatively influence the virus-receptor binding and abrogate the infection, with further ramifications by the elevation of vesicular pH, resulting in the inhibition of infection and spread of SARS CoV at clinically admissible concentrations. (May inhibit SARS from entering the cell to replicate)
Conclusion
Chloroquine is effective in preventing the spread of SARS CoV in cell culture. Favorable inhibition of virus spread was observed when the cells were either treated with chloroquine prior to or after SARS CoV infection. In addition, the indirect immunofluorescence assay described herein represents a simple and rapid method for screening SARS-CoV antiviral compounds.
Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine have the same pharmacological action in the body. The latter is considered to be safer, which is why it is being used. Both drugs are also zinc ionophores. This means if the virus successfully enters the cells, they hold open the passage and pull more zinc in. Zinc interferes with the virus’s ability to replicate or photocopy its RNA. The NIH knows that too. Archived for posterity here.
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