Dr. Anthony Fauci, whose “expert” advice to President Trump has resulted in the complete shutdown of the greatest economic engine in world history, has known since 2005 that chloroquine is an effective inhibitor of coronaviruses.
How did he know this? Because of research done by the National Institutes of Health, of which he is the director. In connection with the SARS outbreak – caused by a coronavirus dubbed SARS- CoV – the NIH researched chloroquine and concluded that it was effective at stopping the SARS coronavirus in its tracks. The COVID-19 bug is likewise a coronavirus, labeled SARS-CoV-2. While not exactly the same virus as SARS-CoV-1, it is genetically related to it, and shares 79% of its genome, as the name SARS-CoV-2 implies. They both use the same host cell receptor, which is what viruses use to gain entry to the cell and infect the victim.
The Virology Journal – the official publication of Dr. Fauci’s National Institutes of Health – published what is now a blockbuster article on August 22, 2005, under the heading – get ready for this – “Chloroquine is a potent inhibitor of SARS coronavirus infection and spread.” (Emphasis mine throughout.) Write the researchers, “We report…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.”
This means, of course, that Dr. Fauci (pictured at right) has known for 15 years that chloroquine and it’s even milder derivative hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) will not only treat a current case of coronavirus (“therapeutic”) but prevent future cases (“prophylactic”). So HCQ functions as both a cure and a vaccine. In other words, it’s a wonder drug for coronavirus. Said Dr. Fauci’s NIH in 2005, “concentrations of 10 μM completely abolished SARS-CoV infection.” Fauci’s researchers add, “chloroquine can effectively reduce the establishment of infection and spread of SARS-CoV.”
Dr. Didier Raoult, the Anthony Fauci of France, had such spectacular success using HCQ to treat victims of SARS-CoV-2 that he said way back on February 25 that “it’s game over” for coronavirus.
He and a team of researchers reported that the use of HCQ administered with both azithromycin and zinc cured 79 of 80 patients with only “rare and minor” adverse events. “In conclusion,” these researchers write, “we confirm the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine associated with azithromycin in the treatment of COVID-19 and its potential effectiveness in the early impairment of contagiousness.”
The highly-publicized VA study that purported to show HCQ was ineffective showed nothing of the sort. HCQ wasn’t administered until the patients were virtually on their deathbeds when research indicates it should be prescribed as soon as symptoms are apparent. Plus, HCQ was administered without azithromycin and zinc, which form the cocktail that makes it supremely effective. At-risk individuals need to receive the HCQ cocktail at the first sign of symptoms.
But Governor Andrew Cuomo banned the use of HCQ in the entire state of New York on March 6, the Democrat governors of Nevada and Michigan soon followed suit, and by March 28 the whole country was under incarceration-in-place fatwas.
Nothing happened with regard to the use of HCQ in the U.S. until March 20, when President Trump put his foot down and insisted that the FDA consider authorizing HCQ for off-label use to treat SARS-CoV-2.
On March 23, Dr. Vladimir Zelenko reported that he had treated around 500 coronavirus patients with HCQ and had seen an astonishing 100% success rate. That’s not the “anecdotal” evidence Dr. Fauci sneers at, but actual results with real patients in clinical settings.
“Since last Thursday, my team has treated approximately 350 patients in Kiryas Joel and another 150 patients in other areas of New York with the above regimen. Of this group and the information provided to me by affiliated medical teams, we have had ZERO deaths, ZERO hospitalizations, and ZERO intubations. In addition, I have not heard of any negative side effects other than approximately 10% of patients with temporary nausea and diarrhea.”
“If you scale this nationally, the economy will rebound much quicker. The country will open again. And let me tell you a very important point. This treatment costs about $20. That’s very important because you can scale that nationally. If every treatment costs $20,000, that’s not so good.
All I’m doing is repurposing old, available drugs which we know their safety profiles, and using them in a unique combination in an outpatient setting.”
The questions are disturbing to a spectacular degree. If Dr. Fauci has known since 2005 of the effectiveness of HCQ, why hasn’t it been administered immediately after people show symptoms, as Dr. Zelenko has done? Maybe then nobody would have died and nobody would have been incarcerated in place except the sick, which is who a quarantine is for in the first place. To paraphrase Jesus, it’s not the symptom-free who need HCQ but the sick. And they need it at the first sign of symptoms.
WHEN will the left’s obsession with HCQ end? If the doctor thinks it is useful, let them prescribe it. If not, let them NOT prescribe it. Why ban it? It hasn’t hurt ANYONE.
Those who have banned it should be sued. They should be held accountable for denying patients a cheap, effective and readily available treatment that led to worsening conditions and eventually death.
An astonishing 100% success rate? That is utter bullshit.
Even proven, highly effective drugs that are prescribed for the specific conditions they’re intended for don’t have a 100% success rate.
@Deplorable Me, #2:
Hydroxychloroquine was promoted as if it were some sort of miracle cure—witness the preceding claim of a 100% success rate. Such lies have been used to bolster the argument that effective COVID-19 response protocols should be prematurely lifted.
As a result, we’re looking at an out-of-control nation-wide resurgence of transmission that will kill thousands more than it otherwise would have, and will also greatly worsen and prolong the economic damage.
This is Trump’s doing. The consequences will be his fault, shared by those who have actively promoted the lies that encouraged people to ignore what every responsible health expert has been telling them.
Facist fauci does not care if people die
@Greg:
Absolutely. He trolled the left and trap them into a pointless debate about hydroxychloroquilne.
Through this debate, the left has been shown to lie, horribly misquote Trump, and to show their utter lack of scientific understand.
Owned.
@Greg:
Not as fantastic as thousands of tests that show 100% positive results, is it? If the patients were treated early enough, giving the proper dosages and with the proper combination of drugs (as is always mentioned as the proper use), not fantastic at all.
WHAT “response protocols” have been lifted? I think you are spouting bullshit. What has happened, in reality, is the people have suffered permanent damage or died because you goddamn leftists have to try and prove Trump wrong all the time.
No, that’s a result of leftists banning the use of the best treatment we have readily available AND left wing promoted massive riots, on going for well over two months nightly. In other words, the spread is a result of DEMOCRAT actions.
@Deplorable Me:
Well, there you have it. A clear example of the bullshit that Comrade Greggie spreads. Hydroxychloroquine was promoted as “promising” and no one has claimed 100% success rate if the tests involved senior citizens with comorbidities. But, then, we know that Comrade Greggie is the most dishonest here.
Also, it is clear that Comrade Greggie wants Americans to die so he, and his miserable party can blame President Trump. Don’t forget how Comrade Greggie defended China’s actions in all of this.
When Bobby Kennedy asked his brother what all the drugs Dr. Feelgood was giving JFK, JFK didn’t know but told Bobby “I don’t care if it’s horse piss. It makes me feel good.” I suspect those who are at risk of dying from the Chi-Com flu if not treated early feel the same way.
A majority of mildly symptomatic COVID-19 patients who were healthy to begin with recover on their own. This is one of the characteristics of the disease. Attributing their recovery to hydroxychloroquine as Dr. Vladimir Zelenko has done makes no sense at all. He might as well have given them each a vitamin pill and attributed their recovery to that.
This is the sort of thing that differentiates anecdotal evidence from evidence produced by a controlled study. With controlled studies, you can clearly determine what is producing an effect, and the degree to which it does so.
@Greg:
And you got your degree in virology where again, Comrade Greggie?
Why would anyone pay attention to a damn thing you have to say when you prove, day after day, you are simply a parrot of the left and a blithering idiot?
@retire05: I posted this article on my Facebook and got three “fact checks” (clear Facebook desperation), all three of which, like Greg, take some argument that is not even made (like Fauci never said it was a cure or preventative, which the article doesn’t claim) and then “disprove” it. It is truly pathetic and even criminal how the left strives to forbid the use of a treatment that can save lives and reduce permanent damage. This is how much they care about lives.
@retire05, #9:
You seem to be excessively in awe of degrees and licenses. Dr. Vlad presumably has both, but his claims don’t stand up well against a general knowledge of scientific method combined with common sense.
@Greg: Doctors prescribe HCQ because it works; you can’t buy it over the counter and abuse it. Its benefits are indisputable.
@Greg:
What I am not in awe of are bullshit artists like you who has no, absolutely NO, education in the subject when you make declarative statements like this:
You’re a sick person, Comrade Greggie. You would rather see Americans die just so your party can attack the President over those deaths. You need to be locked up if for your own safety.
@Deplorable Me:
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@Ben Dozier:
Well, “consensus” seems to be good enough for the global warming nuts.
And where did I say anything about a consensus?
@retire05:
People are entitled to say and believe whatever nonsense they want and I generally won’t care about it one way or the other. But when the bullshit is genuinely dangerous, comes from a supposed authoritative source, and begins to gain a following through endless repetition, anybody who knows better has an obligation to point that out.
I don’t know if Trump’s absurd promotion of hydroxychloroquine is a result of mendacity or ignorance. In either case he’s full of it, and has done actual harm to both those who believe his every word and those who don’t. It isn’t just a matter of the drug’s ineffectiveness on any particular individual; it’s primarily a matter of how mistaken belief that there’s a readily available treatment modifies everyone’s attitude toward socially dangerous behavior. Likewise, his stupid refusal to set an example by wearing a mask. This isn’t about the personal circumstances that he’s in at any particular moment. It’s about setting an example of what we should all be doing to help reduce the spread of a dangerous virus. It’s a presidential responsibility to set a good example.
@Greg:
Like every radical left winger, you have to find blame with Trump. Is that due to the total incompetence of your own party?
How many people do you know that if they have a health issue, they call the White House? I don’t know of anyone who does that. Instead, they call their own physician or talk to a physician at the ER. Why do you assume Americans are stupid?
@retire05:
It’s due to the fact that Trump is totally unfit to occupy the office that he holds.
@Greg:
You seem to have Trump confused with Obama who WAS totally unfit to occupy the office he held.
Oh, but that’s right, you just love you some Socialist poseur like Obama was.
And I didn’t ask your opinion of Trump. I asked why you assume Americans are stupid.
@Greg:
So by that standard, it’s OK for guys to cheat on their wives and get blowjobs in their offices or use their position to greatly enhance their personal wealth like our two past Democrat presidents have while in office.
What a clown you are, Comrade Greggie.
I didn’t vote to install a criminal into the White House.
@Greg: Yes you did! You voted for Obama!
@Greg:
Are you saying you didn’t vote for Hillary?
@Greg:
Glad to know you oppose Black Lives Matter and are quite vocal about it. Good job.
@Greg:
You’re entitled to that opinion, and assuming you’re American, you can vote accordingly. That’s how it works.
If others vote for this guy–winning the EC, not the Popular vote…that’s not how you win–then you accept the results and deal with it until the next election.
That’s how it works. Violent rebellion will not be tolerated.
@Ben Dozier: Shouldn’t that be “Ben Dover”?
@retire05: Further, the science supports the effectiveness of HCQ while “consensus” among Trump-haters and those profiting from pharmaceuticals is all that suppresses the use of HCQ.
@Greg:
Funny comment since people are suffering and dying when denied HCQ, which is denied for no reason other than Trump supported its use and you on the left have such a visceral hatred for Trump, you want people to die so you can blame him for it. WHO has the proper administration of HCQ harmed?
Yes you did. She lost.