But the FDA wasn’t interested in saving lives any way possible. It apparently decided that its primary function was to protect Big Pharma profits, and that meant making sure there were no potential COVID treatments available, as Emergency Use Authorization for the mRNA jabs could only be given if there were no other treatments.
This was pointed out at the time that the attack on hydroxychloroquine went mainstream.
The way that was presented, hydroxychloroquine would kill you if you took it.
I personally knew that to be bullshit because a close relative had been taking it for seven years at the time for Rheumatoid Arthritis.
The HCQ regimen presented by Zelenko predated any supplement offering. It was laid out on YouTube and explained so any reasonably intelligent person who had taken chemistry and biology classes could understand it.
First, This was an early onset treatment, intended for use at the first sign of symptoms.
(At the time patients were being sent home from emergency rooms and doctors offices to get
really sick so they could be admitted to the hospital, awaiting test results for a week or two if they lived that long).
The strategy of the treatment regimen was for Hydroxychloroquine to act as an ionophore, to get zinc ions into the cells affected by the virus. Zinc ions had been shown to be effective against the original SARS, and later, SARS-Cov-2 (as well as a host of other viri) stopping replication of the virus
in vitro and
in vivo.
1 For that to occur effectively, At least the ionophore and the ion had to be present, and in today's "healthy" diets of chicken and fish, zinc is lacking, because the primary dietary source of zinc is red meat. Hence, supplementation. The macrolide antibiotic, azithromycin, has an idiopathic effect on the immune system, muting immune response enough to avoid a cytokine storm, but also has the basic effect of helping ward off secondary bacterial infections (which have been shown to be the culprit in a great deal of mortality in patients who were placed on ventilators and died of bacterial pneumonia).
The three, HCQ, Azithromycin, and Zinc, were to be administered in ordinary clinical doses in the Zelenko protocol, at the first sign of symptoms, because tests were taking a week or more to give results.
Interrupting viral replication as soon as possible was the key, and the body's immune system would clean up the remnants of interrupted viral replication attempts and develop antibodies against the virus, (the same 'natural immunity' decried by the NIAID/FDA/CDC, and then later acknowledged
after 200 million people had been injected with the mRNA treatments, many under threat of losing their jobs).
That was the medical strategy, and it appeared effective in the population Zelenko treated. Note that the YouTube video, explaining all of this, remained up on the site until President Trump mentioned Hydroxychloroquine in a speech (the same speech that had the network nitwits claiming he'd advocated drinking bleach).
The YouTube was subsequently censored, scrubbed from the site, and the attack on a drug that had been in common use for years across the globe, not just as an antiparasitic, but for Lupus and Rheumatoid arthritis as well as other uses, began in earnest.
Note, that the 'studies' which claimed to show HCQ as ineffective or harmful administered either only HCQ or, in rare instances HCQ and Azithromycin to patients who had been admitted to hospital (in later stages of COVID, viral replication had already peaked), and NEVER administered zinc supplementation, forcing patients (who had often been on red meat deficient diets in nursing homes or extended care or VA facilities) to rely only on whatever zinc was in their systems to combat any remaining viral replication.
This was the equivalent of sending empty landing craft to Omaha beach, as the ionophore was there (HCQ), but there were relatively few zinc ions to send. In addition, the window of opportunity for stopping viral replication had already passed.
These studies, quite arguably, were constructed to show ambivalent or negative results for the drug, and
did not include the entire regimen, which was essential to efficacy, as was timing.
One study even went so far as to administer large doses of a related drug (Chloroquine) to patients in Brazil, doses which were multiples of the LD50 of Chloroquine within a week, and predictably patients died before the study was ended (because the patients were dying) This was reported in the American media as if the two drugs were the same, and only that the study had to be halted because the subjects were dying, not that the dosages themselves may have been lethal. All of this was used to smear the protocol (HCQ/Azithromycin/Zinc) in the popular press, and even in the medical journals.
Similarly, a proven safe and effective antiviral, Ivermectin, which had won its developers a Nobel Prize and is credited with virtually eliminating River Blindness in Africa, was found to not only serve also as an ionophore for Zinc, but to have some antiviral properties a well. In a similar regimen to HCQ, with Doxycycline and Zinc supplementation, this was also found to be effective as an early onset treatment and to even have prophylactic properties in single doses weekly, for prevention of COVID infection.
Either full course of the above regimens would have marketed in the US for about $20 or less, and the IVM/Doxy/Zinc regimens were being packaged and sold in India for about US$2.25.
Hardly a moneymaker, because both drugs were available in generic form.
In similar form to the attack on Hydroxychloroquine, Ivermectin was also attacked because it had been found to reduce or eliminate parasites in mammals other than humans and widely adopted as an antiparasitic for horses and other mammals. Even the CDC got in on that act, tweeting the infamous "You are not a horse" tweet, which failed to recognize the drug (IVM) had been developed first for human use. It is no accident that the dosage for horses (0.2mg/kg) is the same as the dose for humans (as found on the Mayo Clinic website).
But the bottom line, is that so long as there was an effective treatment for the disease (and I pointed this out long ago), there could be no emergency use authorization for the novel mRNA treatments, which later the CDC expanded their definition of a "vaccine" to include.
That, the presence of an effective treatment, would have prevented certain Pharma companies from making tens of billions of dollars (each) on the new mRNA shots. (as well as having the potential for saving millions of lives). Those mRNA shots would have had to undergo full clinical trials before being granted approval, unlike drugs that had been in common use for years, if not decades.
There was significant economic motive for denying the efficacy of those two treatment protocols, and it was accomplished through a combination of MSM hype and studies constructed to show failure of the regimens (even though essential components of the regimen were not administered). Tens of Billions of dollars in profits were at stake, and there was plenty of money to go around.
Reference:
1:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7247509/ and references.
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