As an epidemiologist trained to make causal inference, especially from observations, I feel strongly that there is an urgent need for an open and honest debate on the ability of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) to save lives. I had not paid much attention to discussions related to the efficacy of pharmacological interventions in the treatment of Covid-19…
Tag: Covid Treatments
Medscape reports “Paul Offit’s Biggest Concern About COVID Vaccines”
Topol: Well, that gets us to the public trust and the fact that willingness to have the vaccine is important. Because if there is terrible mistrust, we won’t ever get to the level of immunity in the population. Offit: It’s hard to promote trust now absent data. Once we know the characteristics of these vaccines, it’ll be…
USA Today reports “‘We’re not your slaves’: Alternative health providers bristle at warning letters about their coronavirus treatments”
Operation Quack Hack, the federal government’s initiative to clamp down on fake coronavirus medications and cures, has exposed a health underground in America brimming with distrust not only of mainstream medicine but the government itself. It’s a Tea Party for COVID-times. Its members are angry at government warning letters that many perceive as an infringement on…
Jennifer Margulis reports “Natural Treatments for Coronavirus”
Naturopathic doctors and Chinese medicine practitioners have natural treatments for coronavirus. These remedies have been tremendously successful. But when doctors share their COVID-19 treatment protocols with their patients, via private email lists or in articles posted on the web, they’re being shut down by government censors.
Stat News reports “The U.S. government contributed research to a Gilead Remdesivir patent — but didn’t get credit”
Two documents dating back to 2015 shed further light on the role the federal government played in discovering remdesivir and its use in treating coronaviruses — work that has taken on new meaning as the Gilead Sciences (GILD) drug has gained global attention and an emergency use authorization from federal regulators to treat patients with…
Washington University reports “Boosting immune system a potential treatment strategy for COVID-19”
New findings from a team of researchers led by scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis point to another theory and suggest that patients become ill because their immune systems can’t do enough to protect them from the virus, landing them in intensive care units. They suggest that boosting immunity could be…
Washington Examiner reports “Hydroxychloroquine works in high-risk patients, and saying otherwise is dangerous”
It seems quite possible that the FDA, a third of whose funding comes from drug companies, is under intense pressure from those companies to be extremely conservative in its handling of hydroxychloroquine. If hydroxychloroquine is used widely and comes to be recognized as highly effective, the markets for expensive and patented COVID-19 medications, including intravenous drugs that…
Public Health Policy Journal reports “A Novel Approach to Treating COVID-19 Using Nutritional and Oxidative Therapies”
At present, there is no published cure, treatment, or preventive for COVID-19 except for a recent report on dexamethasone for seriously ill patients. A novel treatment program combining nutritional and oxidative therapies was shown to successfully treat the signs and symptoms of 100% of 107 patients diagnosed with COVID-19. Each patient was treated with an…
Newsweek reports “The Key to Defeating COVID-19 Already Exists. We Need to Start Using It”
As professor of epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, I have authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications and currently hold senior positions on the editorial boards of several leading journals. I am usually accustomed to advocating for positions within the mainstream of medicine, so have been flummoxed to find that, in the midst of a…
Lew Rockwell reports “The Pharmaceutical Narrative is Failing”
And a group of doctors is helping push it over the edge What follows is a brief summary of the key points made by the group America’s Frontline Doctors at their press conference last week. I will not comment on the validity of their claims, however founder Dr. Simone Gold has provided support for much of what…