Another Forgotten Covid Treatment

I recently spoke to a middle-aged non-vaccinated woman who just had  Covid. Doctors in her midwestern state were forbidden from prescribing Ivermectin, but she was able to obtain prescriptions for Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin, which she was advised to take along with Zinc, and vitamins. She started taking everything immediately. After having been sick for five days, shortly after her second dose she felt impressively better. 

Coincidence ?

Hydroxychloroquine ? I thought the word was that Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) was a verboten treatment for Covid. How did that malarial medicine get that reputation, and is it justified?

Many doctors around the world started using the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) early on in the COVID-19 pandemic. Among them is Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, a practicing physician in a Jewish community in Monroe, New York. He garnered national attention in March 2020 when he said that he’d had a near-100% success rate treating COVID-19 patients with HCQ, azithromycin and zinc sulfate for five days. “I’ve seen remarkable results; it really prevents progression of disease, and patients get better.”

A lot of the following comes from an Epoch Times interview with Dr. Zelenko in which he said the following,

“When we have a large population of people that need to be treated, it has to be oral, cheap, safe and effective. By the way, this is not new. This information was known in 2005 — even before.

There are papers with [Dr. Anthony] Fauci’s name on it, calling [HCQ] a miracle drug. Fauci called HCQ a vaccine. There’s a paper in which he called it an absolute dream treatment and vaccine. So, it’s conveniently forgotten but that’s what it is. It’s a matter of scientific record.”

In all, Zelenko had only had 15 patients out of over 3,000 treated, who ended up requiring hospitalization, four of whom were intubated. All were eventually successfully extubated and have recovered. The remaining 11 were admitted for intravenous antibiotics for pneumonia. In all, only three of his high-risk patients died from COVID-19, which puts the mortality rate for this treatment at just 0.3%.

“Hospitals were near capacity and all the outpatient services were closed. Half my staff was sick and all of a sudden I had a war zone. I basically started learning triage medicine, trying to save as many people as possible. At that time, the whole world had been focusing on building respirators and hospital capacity [instead of putting] emphasis on prehospital care. I found that bizarre because that’s never what we do in medicine. We [use] common sense and intervene in the earliest stages.

“It’s much easier to fix a small problem than a large problem. For example, someone has cancer, we don’t wait for it to become metastatic disease. We treat as soon as possible. Someone has a small infection. We put the infection out.”

Why HCQ?

Zelenko goes on to describe how he settled on HCQ, a so-called zinc ionophore, meaning it shuttles zinc into the cell. He likens HCQ and zinc to a gun and a bullet. HCQ is the gun that shoots the zinc into the cell. Zinc is the silver bullet that kills the virus by inhibiting an enzyme associated with viral replication inside the cell. 

So although it seemed that Zelenko’s treatment regime was effective, it was vilified and mocked. The question is why? One obvious reason was that it was a presidential election year, and then-president Trump came out in support of HCQ in March 2020. His announcement sparked immediate backlash from a chronically hostile media. “There were plenty of people willing to use every possible way to vilify the president and to discredit anything that might give him a win,” Zelenko says.

Then, of course, there were financial interests at play. Millions of dollars were being invested into new drugs like remdesivir, for example — a drug that costs more than $3,000 per treatment and is only for in-hospital use.

Hospitals were also paid tens of thousands of dollars more for COVID-19 patients, so there was no lack of incentive to get people into the hospital and keep them there either. Meanwhile, Zelenko’s early outpatient treatment costs about $20.

At this point from my perspective there are only two possible explanations to explain the apparent HCQ dilemma.

One – Dr. Zelenko is a liar and a fraud.

Or two – Dr. Zelenko is right on, and the deceitful behavior and lies by those who know best were because of political and monetary reasons.

I would put my money on the credibility of Dr. Zelenko any day of the week!

BTW: I just spoke to the Wisconsin woman who had Covid and was treated with the “Zelenko” protocol. Now about two weeks out, she is feeling wonderful with only a mild residual cough.

2/8/22