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Dr. Pierre Kory: Ivermectin was not enough for 'late' Delta

In a recent interview with journalist Greg Hunter, Dr. Pierre Kory of the Frontline Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance stated that during the omicron variant phase last December, there was also a strain of Delta that was ‘brutal.’

While he said he has always advocated a multi-therapeutic approach, he is probably best known for talking about the anti-parasite drug ivermectin, widely claimed to be merely a veterinary drug to deworm horses.

Former NYT science writer exposes conflict of interest favoring Wuhan wet market theory

By Tatiana Prophet

Nicholas Wade has written for Science, Nature, The New York Times, and now the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. The origin of SARS-Cov-2 — a topic Wade pinpointed with the accuracy of a laser and the density of a schematic — is a perfect fit for the Bulletin, which was founded after Hiroshima and Nagasaki to monitor existential threats to humanity and the planet.

In his tome, “The origin of COVID: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan?” Wade demonstrated that the “wet market” theory has still not been proven, and that the possibility that SARS2 instead escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology is not a conspiracy theory — as asserted vigorously during the last 18 months — but a possible result of the deliberate enhancement of a bat coronavirus in the very same city.. See “Ignore the conspiracy theories: scientists know Covid-19 wasn't created in a lab,” by Peter Daszak, president of Eco Health Alliance.

Texas Pharmacy Board reverses rule on hydroxychloroquine, no longer restricting 'off-label' use

By TATIANA PROPHET

A rule adopted March 20 by the Texas State Board of Pharmacy restricting the prescribing of anti-malaria and lupus drug hydroxychloroquine has been reversed, after a Dallas physician gained national attention for her difficulty in prescribing the drug for her Covid-19 patients.

“I have patients that recovered within 48 hours,” Dr. Lozano told fellow protesters May 9 at the “Set Texas Free” event in Dallas. She went on to describe how CVS pharmacy was refusing to fill her prescriptions.

The rule, which applied to chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin, prohibited the dispensing of the medication without a written diagnosis “consistent with the evidence for its use.” Further, it limited prescriptions to a 14-day supply and required “no refills,” according to the taxpayer watchdog site Texas Scorecard.

Zinc/Z-pack and HCQ show promise in NYU study

An NYU study that involved 100 mg of zinc sulfate added to hydroxychloroquine, shows that people given that combo, with azithromycin, are 45 percent less likely to die from Covid-19, 46 percent less likely to be transferred to intensive care, and 38 percent likely to be put on a ventilator. But once a patient is transferred to intensive care, the odds of survival go way down even with the HCQ cocktail.

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Spectrum's 24-hour New York City cable channel, NY-1, has been one of the few outlets following hydroxychloroquine (two articles so far on the Langone trials). And more studies will be coming out of NYU — including double-blind and randomized, as well as the University of South Dakota, and Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles.