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Please feel free to copy and paste this post into emails, Internet forums, Facebook or any other venues you come across. Threads that regard treatment for COVID-19 could result in saved lives through timely administering of the Zelenko protocol of HCQ+AZ+Z, immediately upon suspicion of COVID symptoms.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/zBZn9AtctNnC/

To first put this into perspective its important to recognize the massive conflicts of interest among the members on the government panel doing the investigation:
https://www.covid-19forum.org/index.php?topic=173.0

For months Dr. Fauci has touted the experimental new drug Remdesivir for treating COVID-19 patients. The FDA even granted this experimental new drug - with substantial short term side effects and unknown long term side effects - Emergency Use Authorization, about which an NIH study suggested that the "difference in mortality was not statistically significant", while the Emergency Use Authorization for hydroxychloroquine has been rescinded even though it enjoys a 65-year established safety profile that suggests it is safer than aspirin, Tylenol or Benadryl, while it has been shown to be up to 99% effective even in elderly and high risk COVID patients when treatment is started immediately upon presentation of symptoms or clinical suspicion of COVID infection.
https://aapsonline.org/patients-need-ability-to-choose-hydroxychloroquine-states-aaps/

Certainly the makers of Remdesivir are happy about the Emergency Use Authorization because they peddle Remdesivir for around $3,200 per course of treatment (no surprise this is the same company that charged $84,000 per course of treatment for their Hep C drug).
The FDA is happy because they receive millions of dollars from pharmaceutical companies during the process of approving drugs, and it is reported that even individual researchers involved can bank over a million dollars personally, in the process.
https://www.covid-19forum.org/index.php?topic=35.0

Television, print and even internet media certainly aren't going to complain, since the U.S. and New Zealand are the only two countries in the world that allow direct-to-consumer-advertising of prescription medications, which makes pharmaceutical advertising a huge part of the mass media's income - so they are likely to avoid biting the hand that feeds them.

Medical journals won't complain because some receive 97%-99% of their advertising revenue (and a good bit of their "studies") from Big Pharma.

Are politicians and PACs that receive large campaign contributions from Big Ag and Big Pharma multi-national corporations, going to complain? Big Pharma ponies up double what the next closest industry - the oil industry - contributes to political campaign finances.

Might it even be worth risking a fraudulent "study" larded with board members that have conflicting financial interests?
https://www.covid-19forum.org/index.php?topic=111.0

What about the hospital industry that dispenses this IV administered drug, that as a result cannot be used in an outpatient setting, who even receive extra income and reimbursements for COVID-19 patients?

So who is left to bleed for the taxpayer who finances this through Medicare and Medicaid, or the poor schlub whose health insurance premiums reflect this kind of profligate spending?

Certainly the patient doesn't have room to complain - or do they?
Did their doctors tell them everything they knew about Remdesivir before administering it?
When was the last time you heard Dr. Fauci admit that according to the study done by his own NIH, the "difference in mortality was not statistically significant" between patients treated with Remdesivir compared to those in the control group that weren't?
Will the doctors explain to the deceased patient's loved ones that the medicine that was administered could not have been expected to result in a "statistically significantly" chance of their dying?
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/peer-reviewed-data-shows-remdesivir-covid-19-improves-time-recovery

So did they admit that Remdesivir does not significantly reduce the death rate and then relegate it to the dustbin of history? No. Could they be expected to admit to their drug's disappointing results any more than Fauci will, or the FDA, or the politicians that have been parroting false warnings about hydroxychloroquine for months, or members of the mass media that have been demonizing the life saving, time tested, safe drug hydroxychloroquine for many months? No. Could they be considered directly responsible for the unnecessary deaths of tens of thousands of Americans? Instead, they plan on adding baricitinib, in an effort to put lipstick on their Remdesivir pig, which at this point should be at the unsurprising cost of $2,374 for a supply of 30 tablets.

After all, who stands to gain from an effective 65-year old drug that cannot be patented, that has a safety profile that rivals that of aspirin, that can be up to 99% effective among even elderly and high risk patients when administered immediately upon suspicion of COVID-19 symptoms, that only costs $3.33 per course of treatment? (and even when the all important zinc and azythromycin are added, the protocol still totals $14-20 per course of treatment).
"Newly Published Outpatient Study Finds that Early Use of Zinc, Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin Is Associated with Less Hospitalizations and Death
The study reports a survival rate of over 99% in patients with confirmed positive cases of COVID-19"

https://www.covid-19forum.org/index.php?topic=53.0

The very drug that Fauci has been repeatedly warning about, in what would seem a continuing effort to frighten uninformed citizens and - CYA rather than patient-care interested - doctors away from, by misrepresenting its 65-year proven safety profile that, contrary to false information being propagated, is being dispensed safely with little to no side effects observed by treating physicians all around the world. Particularly when used in the highly successful Zelenko protocol by physicians treating COVID-19 patients, at the same daily rate over the 5 day Zelenko treatment protocol, as it is taken routinely by Lupus and rheumatoid arthritis sufferers daily over the course of many years of their lives.

Even in the hospital setting (where all COVID treatments become increasingly less effective particularly after the cytokine storm has begun), rather than when administered early, hydroxychloroquine has been shown to reduce the death rate by about 50% (though in the Ford study it was administered early - "82% within 24 hours and 91% within 48 hours of admission). And I didn't notice if zinc was even used in the Henry Ford, or Mt. Sinai study that had the same result.

"In a large-scale retrospective analysis of 2,541 patients hospitalized between March 10 and May 2, 2020 across the system’s six hospitals, the study found 13% of those treated with hydroxychloroquine alone died compared to 26.4% not treated with hydroxychloroquine."
https://www.covid-19forum.org/index.php?topic=120.0
https://www.henryford.com/news/2020/07/hydro-treatment-study
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« Last Edit: September 02, 2020, 12:11:22 PM by Administrator »
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Might want to think twice if you value your liver and kidneys.
"• Case 5 — A 70-year-old man with a history of chronic obstructive bronchopneumopathy was admitted with acute respiratory distress syndrome. Remdesivir was given for two days and discontinued because he suffered acute kidney injury, requiring a kidney transplant. His disease progressed and he died."
https://healthy-headlines.com/2020/07/24/remdesivir-treatment-stopped-due-to-side-effects/

Remdesivir Safety Forecast: Watch the Liver, Kidneys
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/86582

Wouldn't taking a safe 99+% effective early outpatient 65-year old medication to keep one out of the hospital be preferable to hospitalization and damage or death?
https://www.covid-19forum.org/index.php?topic=18.0
« Last Edit: September 18, 2020, 11:06:53 AM by Robert »
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We've gone to the next level of evil:
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/covid-19-update-fda-broadens-emergency-use-authorization-veklury-remdesivir-include-all-hospitalized

"For Immediate Release:
    August 28, 2020

Today, as part of its ongoing efforts to fight COVID-19, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration broadened the scope of the existing emergency use authorization (EUA) for the drug Veklury (remdesivir) to include treatment of all hospitalized adult and pediatric patients with suspected or laboratory-confirmed COVID-19, irrespective of their severity of disease.

In May 2020, the FDA issued an EUA that authorized Veklury for the treatment of hospitalized adult and pediatric patients with severe COVID-19. As noted in the initial issuance of the EUA, the emergency use of Veklury was limited to those patients with severe disease, which was defined as patients with low blood oxygen levels or needing oxygen therapy or more intensive breathing support such as a mechanical ventilator."

So in late August they bumped it up from patients with severe COVID, "to include treatment of all hospitalized adult and pediatric patients with suspected or laboratory-confirmed COVID-19, irrespective of their severity of disease."

In other words a child or adult with mild symptoms that would have as high as a 99+% chance of survival with HCQ+zinc+AZ, (particularly since the Henry Ford and Mt. Sinai studies showed a 50% reduction in mortality even in hospitalized "INpatients") gets put on Remdesivir instead that the NIH's own study indicated did not "result in a statistically significant reduction in mortality".

Yet in the same paper above, the same admission continues:  "The odds of improvement with the 10-day treatment group when compared to those receiving only standard of care were numerically favorable, but not statistically significantly different. At Day 28, mortality was less than or equal to 2 percent in all treatment groups."

So the majority of them likely didn't need, or benefit from, it. It's a cinch their livers and kidney's didn't.

Oh yes, and not to forget:  "Important information about using Veklury in treating COVID-19 is available in fact sheets to health care providers and patients, which include dosing instructions, potential side effects and drug interactions. Possible side effects include: increased levels of liver enzymes, which may be a sign of inflammation or damage to cells in the liver; and infusion-related reactions, which may include low blood pressure, nausea, vomiting, sweating, and shivering."

HCQ not only outperforms it under many circumstances, but doesn't have the nasty side effects.
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"What Are the Side Effects of Remdesivir?
According to BioSpace, though, serious side effects from remdesivir affect a quarter of patients negatively. They report, “About 25% of patients receiving it have severe side effects, including multiple-organ dysfunction syndrome, septic shock, acute kidney injury, and low blood pressure. Another 23% demonstrated evidence of liver damage on lab tests.”
https://heavy.com/news/2020/04/what-are-side-effects-of-remdesivir/
« Last Edit: October 06, 2020, 12:43:00 PM by Robert »
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