Le Monde, Facebook & French Ministry of Health censor a video of
Professor Didier Raoult
Newsletter published on March 27, 2020
(1) Amiodarone for Covid-19
(2) Le Monde, Facebook & French Ministry of Health censor a video of
Professor Didier Raoult
(3) Theft of all the stocks of Chloroquine in possession of the French
government
(4) NYC hospitals 'overwhelmed' by coronavirus patients, resident warns
(5) U.S. Navy Fights to Contain Aircraft Carrier Coronavirus Outbreak at Sea
(1) Amiodarone for Covid-19
From: dmdeedee <dmdeedee@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Ministry of Truth
(Globalist MSM) brand Didier Raoult's Chloroquine cure 'Fake News'
They have been giving elderly patients with irregular heartbeats the
drug amiodarone! It totally destroys the body and permanently damages
the lungs. Patients have been dying by the thousands every day across
America. This drug has always had a black box warning and was only to
be used as a matter of life and death! CT scans show crushed glass
appearance. Patients have gone to ER and told they have pneumonia or
the flu. Patients still can't breathe and end up dying a tortured end
of life trauma as the thyroid is destroyed, the liver
(2) Le Monde, Facebook & French Ministry of Health censor a video of
Professor Didier Raoult
From: chris lancenet <chrislancenet@gmail.com> Subject: MEYSSAN Video
from Feb 25, 2020 censored by the French Ministry of Health /re Didier
RAULT
Covid-19: propaganda and manipulation
by Thierry Meyssan
March 21, 2020
The French "reference daily" (sic) Le Monde, Facebook France and the
French Ministry of Health undertook to censor a video of Professor
Didier Raoult, one of the world's most renowned infectiologists, because
by announcing the existence of a proven drug in China against Covid-19,
he highlighted the lack of a medical basis for the measures taken by
President Macron [6].
Presentation by Professor Didier Raoult to the General Assembly of the
University Hospitals of Marseille, March 16, 2020.
It is too early to say what real goal the Conte and Macron governments
are pursuing. The only thing that is certain is that it is not a
question of fighting Covid-19.
[1] The Mandate of Heaven and The Great Ming Code, Jiang Yonglin,
University of Washington Press (2011).
[2] Human Extinction and the Pandemic Imaginary, Christos Lynteris,
Routledge (2020).
[3] «Nouveau coronavirus : solidarité, collaboration et mesures
d'urgence au niveau mondial s'imposent», Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,
Organisation mondiale de la Santé, 11 février 2020.
[4] Pandemics, Science and Policy. H1N1 and the World Health
Organization, Sudeepa Abeysinghe, Plagrave Macmillan (2015).
[5] "The techniques of modern military propaganda", by Thierry Meyssan,
Translation Pete Kimberley, Voltaire Network, 18 May 2016.
[6] «"La chloroquine guérit le Covid-19" : Didier Raoult,
l'infectiologue qui aurait le remède au coronavirus», Étienne Campion,
Marianne, 19 mars 2020.
(3) Theft of all the stocks of Chloroquine in possession of the French
government
From: chris lancenet <chrislancenet@gmail.com> Subject: Why France is
hiding a cheap and tested virus cure
Why France is hiding a cheap and tested virus cure
March 26, 2020
Pepe Escobar
The French government is arguably helping Big Pharma profit from the
Covid-19 pandemic
What's going on in the fifth largest economy in the world arguably
points to a major collusion scandal in which the French government is
helping Big Pharma to profit from the expansion of Covid-19. Informed
French citizens are absolutely furious about it.
My initial question to a serious, unimpeachable Paris source, jurist
Valerie Bugault, was about the liaisons dangereuses between Macronism
and Big Pharma and especially about the mysterious "disappearance" –
more likely outright theft – of all the stocks of chloroquine in
possession of the French government.
Respected Professor Christian Perronne talked about the theft live in
one of France's 24/7 info channels: "The central pharmacy for the
hospitals announced today that they were facing a total rupture of
stocks, that they were pillaged."
With input from another, anonymous source, it's now possible to
establish a timeline that puts in much-needed perspective the recent
actions of the French government.
Let's start with Yves Levy, who was the head of INSERM – the French
National Institute of Health and Medical Research – from 2014 to 2018,
when he was appointed as extraordinary state councilor for the Macron
administration. Only 12 people in France have reached this status. Levy
is married to Agnes Buzy, who until recently was minister of health
under Macron. Buzy was essentially presented with an "offer you can't
refuse" by Macron's party to leave the ministry – in the middle of the
coronavirus crisis – and run for Mayor of Paris, where she was
mercilessly trounced in the first round on March 16.
Levy has a vicious running feud with Professor Didier Raoult – prolific
and often-cited Marseille-based specialist in communicable diseases.
Levy withheld the INSERM label from the world-renowned IHU
(Hospital-University Institute) research center directed by Raoult.
In practice, in October 2019, Levy revoked the status of "foundation" of
the different IHUs so he could take over their research.
Raoult was part of a clinical trial that in which hydroxychloroquine and
azithromycin healed 90% of Covid-19 cases if they were tested very
early. (Early, massive testing is at the heart of the successful South
Korean strategy.)
Raoult is opposed to the total lockdown of sane individuals and possible
carriers – which he considers "medieval," in an anachronistic sense.
He's in favor of massive testing (which, besides South Korea, was
successful in Singapore, Taiwan and Vietnam) and a fast treatment with
hydroxychloroquine. Only contaminated individuals should be confined.
Chloroquine costs one euro for ten pills. And there's the rub: Big
Pharma – which, crucially, finances INSERM, and includes "national
champion" Sanofi – would rather go for a way more profitable solution.
Sanofi for the moment says it is "actively preparing" to produce
chloroquine, but that may take "weeks," and there's no mention about
pricing.
A minister fleeing a tsunami
Here's the timeline:
On January 13, Agnes Buzyn, still France's Health Minister, classifies
chloroquine as a "poisonous substance," from now on only available by
prescription. An astonishing move, considering that it has been sold off
the shelf in France for half a century.
On March 16, the Macron government orders a partial lockdown. There's
not a peep about chloroquine. Police initially are not required to wear
masks; most have been stolen anyway, and there are not enough masks even
for health workers. In 2011 France had nearly 1.5 billion masks: 800
million surgical masks and 600 million masks for health professionals
generally.
But then, over the years, the strategic stocks were not renewed, to
please the EU and to apply the Maastricht criteria, which limited
membership in the Growth and Stability Pact to countries whose budget
deficits did not exceed 3% of GDP. One of those in charge at the time
was Jerome Salomon, now a scientific counselor to the Macron government.
On March 17, Agnes Buzyn says she has learned the spread of Covid-19
will be a major tsunami, for which the French health system has no
solution. She also says it had been her understanding that the Paris
mayoral election "would not take place" and that it was, ultimately, "a
masquerade."
What she does not say is that she didn't go public at the time she was
running because the whole political focus by the Macron political
machine was on winning the "masquerade." The first round of the election
meant nothing, as Covid-19 was advancing. The second round was postponed
indefinitely. She had to know about the impending healthcare disaster.
But as a candidate of the Macron machine she did not go public in timely
fashion.
In quick succession:
The Macron government refuses to apply mass testing, as practiced with
success in South Korea and Germany.
Le Monde and the French state health agency characterize Raoult's
research as fake news, before issuing a retraction.
Professor Perrone reveals on the 24/7 LCI news channel that the stock of
chloroquine at the French central pharmacy has been stolen.
Thanks to a tweet by Elon Musk, President Trump says chloroquine should
be available to all Americans. Sufferers of lupus and rheumatoid
arthritis, who already have supply problems with the only drug that
offers them relief, set social media afire with their panic.
US doctors and other medical professionals take to hoarding the medicine
for the use of themselves and those close to them, faking prescriptions
to indicate they are for patients with lupus or rheumatoid arthritis.
Morocco buys the stock of chloroquine from Sanofi in Casablanca.
Pakistan decides to increase its production of chloroquine to be sent to
China.
Switzerland discards the total lockdown of its population; goes for mass
testing and fast treatment; and accuses France of practicing "spectacle
politics."
Christian Estrosi, the mayor of Nice, having had himself treated with
chloroquine, without any government input, directly calls Sanofi so they
may deliver chloroquine to Nice hospitals.
Because of Raoult's research, a large-scale chloroquine test finally
starts in France, under the – predictable – direction of INSERM, which
wants to "remake the experiments in other independent medical centers."
This will take at least an extra six weeks – as the Elysee Palace's
scientific council now mulls the extension of France's total lockdown to
… six weeks.
If joint use of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin proves definitely
effective among the most gravely ill, quarantines may be reduced in
select clusters.
The only French company that still manufactures chloroquine is under
judicial intervention. That puts the chloroquine hoarding and theft into
full perspective. It will take time for these stocks to be replenished,
thus allowing Big Pharma the leeway to have what it wants: a costly
solution.
It appears the perpetrators of the chloroquine theft were very well
informed.
Bagged nurses
This chain of events, astonishing for a highly developed G-7 nation
proud of its health service, is part of a long, painful process embedded
in neoliberal dogma. EU-driven austerity mixed with the profit motive
resulted in a very lax attitude towards the health system.
As Bugault told me, "test kits – very few in number – were always
available but mostly for a small group connected to the French
government [ former officials of the Ministry of Finance, CEOs of large
corporations, oligarchs, media and entertainment moguls]. Same for
chloroquine, which this government did everything to make inaccessible
for the population.
They did not make life easy for Professor Raoult – he received death
threats and was intimidated by 'journalists.'
And they did not protect vital stocks. Still under the Hollande
government, there was a conscious liquidation of the stock of masks –
which had existed in large quantities in all hospitals. Not to mention
that the suppression of hospital beds and hospital means accelerated
under Sarkozy."
This ties in with anguished reports by French citizens of nurses now
having to use trash bags due to the lack of proper medical gear.
At the same time, in another astonishing development, the French state
refuses to requisition private hospitals and clinics – which are
practically empty at this stage – even as the president of their own
association, Lamine Garbi, has pleaded for such a public service
initiative: "I solemnly demand that we are requisitioned to help public
hospitals. Our facilities are prepared. The wave that surprised the east
of France must teach us a lesson."
Bugault reconfirms the health situation in France "is very serious and
will become even worse due to these political decisions – absence of
masks, political refusal to massively test people, refusal of free
access to chloroquine – in a context of supreme distress at the
hospitals. This will last and destitution will be the norm."
Professor vs president
In an explosive development on Tuesday, Raoult said he's not
participating in Macron's scientific council anymore, even though he's
not quitting it altogether. Raoult once again insists on massive testing
on a national scale to detect suspected cases, and then isolate and
treat patients who tested positive. In a nutshell: the South Korean model.
That's exactly what is expected from the IHU in Marseille, where
hundreds of residents continue to queue up for testing. And that ties in
with the conclusions by a top Chinese expert on Covid-19, Zhang Nanshan,
who says that treatment with chloroquine phospate had a "positive
impact," with patients testing negative after around four days.
The key point has been stressed by Raoult: Use chloroquine in very
special circumstances, for people tested very early, when the disease is
not advanced yet, and only in these cases. He's not advocating
chloroquine for everyone. It's exactly what the Chinese did, along with
their use of Interferon.
For years, Raoult has been pleading for a drastic revision of health
economic models, so the treatments, cure and therapies created mostly
during the 20th century, are considered a patrimony in the service of
all humanity."That's not the case", he says, "because we abandon
medicine that is not profitable, even if it's effective. That's why
almost no antibiotics are manufactured in the West."
On Tuesday, the French Health Ministry officially prohibited the
utilization of treatment based on chloroquine recommended by Raoult. In
fact the treatment is only allowed for terminal Covid-19 patients, with
no other possibility of healing. This cannot but expose the Macron
government to more accusations of at least inefficiency – added to the
absence of masks, tests, contact tracing and ventilators.
On Wednesday, commenting on the new government guidelines, Raoult said,
"When damage to the lungs is too important, and patients arrive for
reanimation, they practically do not harbor viruses in their bodies any
more. It's too late to treat them with chloroquine. Are these the only
cases – the very serious cases – that will be treated with chloroquine
under the new directive by [French Health Minister] Veran?" If so, he
added ironically, "then they will be able to say with scientific
certainty that chloroquine does not work."
Raoult was unavailable for comment on Western news media articles citing
Chinese test results that would suggest he is wrong about the efficacy
of chloroquine in dealing with mild cases of Covid-19.
Staffers pointed instead to his comments in the IHU bulletin. There
Raoult says it's "insulting" to ask if we can trust the Chinese on the
use of chloroquine. "If this was an American disease, and the president
of the United States said, 'We need to treat patients with that,' nobody
would discuss it."
In China, he adds, there were "enough elements so the Chinese government
and all Chinese experts who know coronaviruses took an official position
that 'we must treat with chloroquine.' Between the moment when we have
the first results and an accepted international publication, there is no
credible alternative among people who are the most knowledgeable in the
world. They took this measure in the interest of public health."
Crucially: if he had coronavirus, Raoult says he would take chloroquine.
Since Raoult is rated by his peers as the number one world expert in
communicable diseases, way above Dr. Anthony Fauci in the US, I would
say the new reports represent Big Pharma talking.
Raoult has been mercilessly savaged and demonized by French corporate
media that are controlled by a few oligarchs closely linked to
Macronism. Not by accident the demonization has reached gilets jaunes
(yellow vest) levels, especially because of the extremely popular
hashtag #IlsSavaient ("They knew"), with which the yellow vests stress
that French elites have "managed" the Covid-19 crisis by protecting
themselves while leaving the population defenseless against the virus.
That ties in with the controversial analysis by crack philosopher
Giorgio Agamben in a column published a month ago, where he was already
arguing that Covid-19 clearly shows that the state of exception –
similar to a state of emergency but with differences important to
philosophers – has become fully normalized in the West.
Agamben was speaking not as a doctor or a virologist but as a master
thinker, following in the steps of Foucault, Walter Benjamin and Hannah
Arendt. Noting how a latent state of fear has metastasized into a state
of collective panic, for which Covid-19 "offers once again the ideal
pretext," he described how, "in a perverse vicious circle, the
limitation of freedom imposed by governments is accepted in the name of
a desire for security that was induced by the same governments that now
intervene to satisfy it."
There was no state of collective panic in South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan
and Vietnam – to mention four Asian examples outside of China. A dogged
combination of mass testing and contact tracing was applied with immense
professionalism. It worked. In the Chinese case, with the help of
chloroquine. And in all Asian cases, without a murky profit motive to
the benefit of Big Pharma.
There hasn't yet appeared the smoking gun that proves the Macron system
not only is incompetent to deal with Covid-19 but also is dragging the
process so Big Pharma can come up with a miracle vaccine, fast. But the
pattern to discourage chloroquine is more than laid out above – in
parallel to the demonization of Raoult.
(4) NYC hospitals 'overwhelmed' by coronavirus patients, resident warns
By Frank Miles, Cyd Upson | Fox News
NEW YORK CITY -- As New York City has become an epicenter of the global
coronavirus pandemic, the staff of its hospitals have become "overwhelmed."
"Things are pretty severe. I haven't seen anything like this before.
It's brand new and we're still trying to figure out how to treat it, so
there are no ‘best practices' in place. Things are changing daily and
weekly," a third-year internal medicine medical resident who is treating
COVID-19 patients at NYU Langone Medical Center Tisch and Bellevue
Hospitals told Fox News. "We are overwhelmed with new COVID-19 patients.
People still have heart attacks. We have to be able to treat them too."
Some hospitals in the biggest city in New York state have been so
overrun with dying patients that they've brought in refrigerated trucks
to handle the bodies.
At Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, 13 people succumbed to the virus in one day.
The resident confirmed as "100 percent true" the horrors coming out of
the Queens hospital from a doctor he went to medical school with, a
third-year emergency medicine medical resident: "I urge people to stay
home. We are still at a point where this is getting bigger each day."
One doctor from NYU Langone said Bellevue has been in much worse shape,
running out of ventilators. She said that at least one teenager without
underlying medical conditions was on a ventilator for COVID-19.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, again pleading for help in dealing with the coming
onslaught, attributed the cluster to the city's role as a gateway to
international travelers and the sheer density of its population, with
8.6 million people sharing subways, elevators, apartment buildings and
offices.
"Our closeness makes us vulnerable," he said. "But it's true that your
greatest weakness is also your greatest strength. And our closeness is
what makes us who we are. That is what New York is."
City ambulances have seen a surge in calls, responding to nearly 5,800
on Thursday alone.
The city's mayor, Bill de Blasio, tweeted Thursday evening: We're
dealing with an unprecedented crisis in New York City. We are losing
people every day. There are now 23,112 COVID-19 cases in New York City
and 365 deaths. The next few months will be painful and stress our
health care system like never before."
While the city has meticulously tracked the outbreak, officials say they
do not have numbers on how many health care workers are sick or dying.
Hospital operator Northwell Health said 155 of its 72,000 employees have
tested positive for coronavirus. The New York State Nurses Association
said at least 67 nurses had been infected. The union for the city's EMS
workers said more than 50 had tested positive and more than 400 are
showing symptoms.
The number of people around the world who have contracted coronavirus
has surged past 500,000, and the United States tops the list, according
to a Johns Hopkins University tally.
That comes as U.S. deaths from the pandemic have now topped 1,100, in
another grim milestone for a global outbreak that is taking lives and
wreaked havoc on economies and established routines of life. Worldwide,
the death toll climbed past 23,000, according to Johns Hopkins' running
count.
The resident told Fox News that a lack of medical supplies is adding to
treatment delays.
"We have two masks that we use: the N95 and the regular surgical masks.
We use the N95 for intubating patients with COVID-19 and we use them for
48 hours. The surgical masks are used for checking temperatures etc. and
we use the same one for an entire week."
The resident said about the masks they use: "We're storing both types of
masks in paper bags between patients and using them for as long as
they'll last. In the past, we typically used a new mask for each patient
although this isn't strictly necessary for N95s."
The unnamed resident concluded: "I want to give a shout out to the NYC
medical students who started the group PPE 2 NYC to help people donate
unused Personal Protective Equipment or PPE to hospitals we are in great
need."
Fox News' Tamara Gitt in New York City contributed to this report.
Frank Miles is a reporter and editor covering geopolitics, military,
crime, technology and sports for FoxNews.com. His email is
(5) U.S. Navy Fights to Contain Aircraft Carrier Coronavirus Outbreak at Sea
Kristina Wong
26 Mar 2020
The U.S. Navy is fighting to contain a coronavirus outbreak at sea in
the Pacific Ocean, aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt.
Navy officials have confirmed at least eight positive cases discovered
aboard the ship of more than 5,000 sailors, according to the Chief of
Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday.
"We are taking this threat very seriously and are working quickly to
identify and isolate positive cases while preventing further spread of
the virus aboard the ship. No Sailors have been hospitalized or are
seriously ill," he said in a statement on Thursday.
He said the medical team aboard the ship is performing testing for the crew.
"We are isolating those who test positive. Testing will continue as
necessary to ensure the health of the entire ship's crew. In addition,
the medical staff will continue to actively monitor the health of the
crew. Deep cleaning of the ship's spaces is also ongoing," he said.
The ship is headed to Guam for a previously-scheduled port visit, Navy
officials said. There, sailors will continue to be tested, isolated, and
treated if necessary.
Gilday said the Navy expects more positive tests and that sailors will
be brought to U.S. Naval Hospital Guam for further evaluation and
treatment if necessary. Other sailors will be restricted to a pier.
"We're taking this day by day. Our top two priorities are taking care of
our people and maintaining mission readiness. Both of those go hand in
glove," Gilday said.
"We are confident that our aggressive response will keep USS Theodore
Roosevelt able to respond to any crisis in the region."
Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly said Thursday that the entire crew
will be tested for coronavirus.
He said the first three sailors who were identified as positive and
flown off the ship earlier this week "are currently doing fine," and
none of them have required hospitalization.
"Their symptoms are very mild, they are aches and pains and those types
of things, sore throats, but nothing that required hospitalization. So
they are in quarantine now on Guam," he said.
Modly said five more sailors were flown off after that and several
others are in isolation. The Daily Beast reported on Thursday that there
were 23 positive cases aboard the Roosevelt.
Navy officials said they are looking into how the sailors contracted the
coronavirus.
The Roosevelt had stopped in Vietnam 15 days ago, but Gilday said
earlier this week that when the sailors were allowed off the ship, there
were only 16 positive cases of coronavirus in Vietnam that were further
north up the coast from where the sailors had docked in Da Nang.
The U.S. Navy has four large deck ships at sea. So far, the Roosevelt is
the first ship at sea to have cases of coronavirus aboard.
Navy officials say that sailors are practicing social distancing aboard
ships and that going forward, Gilday said every port visit has been
canceled except for ships that need to pull in for maintenance or resupply.
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