By TATIANA PROPHET

In July, the World Health Organization highlighted the success of two former Covid danger zones in India, Dharavi and Worli in south Mumbai, as examples that Covid can be “controlled.” Secretary General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus cited the government’s aggressive action as key in the outcome. But he left out a key component that has been absent from other areas around the world that have not seen as dramatic a drop in cases and deaths: the use of anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine plus zinc and vitamin D given to thousands of residents and first responders in those slums.

Read the sources directly:
Hydroxychloroquine success in south Mumbai slums
April 2020, Times of India
Government to provide HCQ in slums
June 2020, Tribune India
Police force using HCQ as prevention
Hindustani Times
Trump-backed drug to be tested on thousands
June 2020, Hindustani Times
Cases falling in earlier hot spots
July 2020
WHO says Covid can be controlled, cites Mumbai’s Dharavi as example
August 2020
Northern Mumbai slums now adopting model of Dharavi and Worli

While double-blind, randomized trials have not yet been published on HCQ’s effectiveness against the virus that causes Covid-19, a statistically significant amount of patients have recovered quickly using a combination of the drug (harvested from the bark of the cinchona tree for centuries) and the antibiotic Z-Pack plus zinc. Further, several studies showing no benefit or a harmful cardiac event have been recently shown to be using an unnecessarily high dosage as well as being administered in a hospital setting — when all advocates for the drug say it’s too late.

All epidemiologists and board-certified doctors who have spoken out advocating for early treatment in an outpatient setting before the virus enters the cells, formerly well-respected in their fields, have been silenced, maligned, smeared and fired from their jobs. Why is this?

Dr. Harvey Risch, a prominent cancer researcher as well as head epidemiologist at Yale University, examined all of the studies to date involving HCQ and offered a full-throated advocacy for using HCQ early and in a moderate dosage, to save 80,000 lives he predicts will be lost by the most at-risk if the drug is not adopted as standard of care.

Yet world health officials, media and social media faithful have participated in censoring any benefit of this drug, even though Risch showed via an Oxford University study that 47 out of 100,000 patients experienced a cardiac event due to HCQ, and 9 out of 100,000 died. That’s a percentage of .47 percent who had arrythmia without dying, and .009 percent of all who took the drug and experienced a fatal event.

It seems odd that all those laughing at, clapping back at or shouting down HCQ with zinc are concerned about risk of fatal heart attack associated with the therapy while throwing up their hands about the thousands of vulnerable patients who could be taking the therapy early on and in a safe dosage. It simply defies logic, and frankly, is criminal. At the very least, the censorship and opposition, while indubitably foolhardy, is evidence of a deep ignorance on the part of laymen throughout the world, as well as an undeserved trust in the loudest, officially sanctioned scientists. We trust these “scientists” at our peril.

Read Dr. Risch’s latest op-ed, in the Washington Examiner, published Wednesday, August 12.

Even if you scoff at this simple therapy as being the Trump drug, and therefore a joke, you owe it to yourself to learn the details of what works and what doesn’t, as well as the retractions that have been conducted on the studies showing harm or no benefit.
Lancet retraction (note: The Lancet was careful to say they couldn’t verify their data. But the flaws in the negative studies go beyond non-verification. They are setting the drug up to fail).
You have to dig deep to get Veterans Administration chief Robert Wilkie’s full statement on the VA Hospital study (again, a records review of hospitalized patients administered the drug when it was too late), but here it is:
VA chief Wilkie’s statement on HCQ study

Politicization of use of hydroxychloroquine continues internationally. In Brazil, the government is investigating the study using a harsher form of the drug in high dosages at a late stage, but journalists are characterizing this investigation as an “attack on science.” See Science Mag, June 22:
It’s a nightmare: How Brazilian scientists became ensnared in chloroquine politics

The CDC’s advisory regarding travel to malaria-prone countries is still up:
Who can take hydroxychloroquine? Adults and children of all ages

Meanwhile, people are dying needlessly of Covid in the United States and in our headquarter city of Los Angeles; our children are not in school; our economy is gasping for air; and the canonical liturgy of approved science continues to hold its iron grip on our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.

We are asking you to please share this article with everyone you know. The science is on the side of this therapy. The joking and the snickering is not. It’s political. And it will one day be viewed with deep regret.