Survey of 6,227 doctors worldwide finds HCQ is best treatment; 83%
anticipate a 2nd outbreak
Newsletter published on April 5, 2020
(1) Survey of 6,227 doctors worldwide finds HCQ is best treatment; 83%
anticipate a 2nd outbreak
(2) You want me to take cattle drench?
(3) Vitamin C revival
(4) Wife's Corona Symptoms - New York
(5) Letter from an epidemiologist
(6) German Finance minister commits suicide over Covid-19 impact on
companies and workers
(7) Must Help Mass of Poor
(8) Richard Ebright says Covid-19 probably leaked from Wuhan lab
(9) Kissinger says Covid-19 has turned Open societies back to Closed;
restates case for Globalization
(1) Survey of 6,227 doctors worldwide finds HCQ is best treatment; 83%
anticipate a 2nd outbreak
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Hydroxychloroquine is the 'most effective therapy' for coronavirus
treatment: A global survey of over 6,000 doctors shows
TechStartups Team POSTED ON APRIL 2, 2020
A global survey of more than 6,000 doctors conducted found that malarial
drug hydroxychloroquine was the most highly rated treatment against the
deadly coronavirus (COVID-19).
The survey conducted by Sermo, a global health care polling company,
found that 6,227 physicians in 30 countries found that 37% of those
treating COVID-19 patients rated hydroxychloroquine as the "most
effective therapy" from a list of 15 options..
Early this week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued
emergency use authorization of anti-malaria drug Hydroxychloroquine for
treatment of coronavirus patients. Previously available for "off-label"
use, the FDA now gives hospitals and doctors emergency permission to use
the anti-malarial drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine to treat
coronavirus patients.
The survey also found that the three most commonly prescribed treatments
are 56% analgesics, 41% Azithromycin, and 33% Hydroxychloroquine.
Below is a summary of the findings.
Hydroxychloroquine usage amongst COVID-19 treaters is 72% in Spain, 49%
in Italy, 41% in Brazil, 39% in Mexico, 28% in France, 23% in US, 17% in
Germany, 16% in Canada, 13% in UK and 7% in Japan.
Hydroxychloroquine was overall chosen as the most effective therapy from
a list of 15 options (37% of COVID-19 treaters).
75% in Spain, 53% Italy, 44% in China, 43% in Brazil, 29% in France, 23%
in US and 13% in UK.
The two most common treatment regimens for Hydroxychloroquine were:
(38%) 400mg twice daily on day one; 400 mg daily for 5 days. (26%) 400mg
twice daily on day one; 200mg twice daily for 4 days.
Outside the US, Hydroxychloroquine was equally used for diagnosed
patients with mild to severe symptoms whereas in the US it was most
commonly used for high risk diagnosed patients.
Globally, 19% of physicians prescribed or have seen Hydroxychloroquine
prophylactically used for high risk patients, and 8% for low risk patients.
Second global outbreak is anticipated by 83% of global physicians, 90%
of US physicians but only 50% of Chinese physicians.
In the US, 63% of physicians recommend restrictions be lifted six or
more weeks from now and 66% believe the peak is at least 3-4 weeks away.
Average Time for COVID-19 Test:
o On average tests in the US take 4-5 days, and in 10% of cases the wait
is more than 7 days.
o 14% of US physicians and over 50% in all of Europe and Japan report
getting test results in 24 hours; in China 73% of doctors get tests back
in 24 hours, while 8% get tests back within the hour.
Prioritizing Patient Treatment in Case of Ventilator Shortage:
o In all countries except China, the top criteria for deciding who
should receive a ventilator first was patients with the highest chance
of recovery (47%) followed by those most ill and at highest risk of
death (21%), then first responders (15%).
o In China the priorities were reversed as the most ill and highest risk
of death received ventilators.
o First responders were more important in the US.
o France, Japan, and Italy prioritized age.
o Brazil and Russia prioritized higher risk patients.
(2) You want me to take cattle drench?
From: Iskandar Masih <iskandar38@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Ivermectin, anti-parasitic drug, kills COVID-19 in lab
oh! you want me to take cattle drench?
My B.Sc. Hons research project was on Ivomec.
I would ask first, though, whether it's injected or ingested, it may
deal with viruses ok, but what else will it do within the human body?
Comment (Peter M.): I believe that it's also used to worm dogs.
Since you have some experience with this chemical, you would be the
ideal person to do further research, eg on whether they used tablets or
a liquid form, dosage etc.
Given that Covid-19 is likely to spread further in the next few weeks,
including to rural areas and in the third world, the more information
people have about effective cures, especially ones they might have at
hand, they more they can rest easy and avoid panic.
Perpahs other wormicides would be effective too.
(3) Vitamin C revival
Comment (Peter M.): I often vet videos before I send the links, but I
have not seen these ones.
From: Thomas Seidler <tom@seidler.co.uk>
Subject: some more stuff for you...
Vitamin C
the dosage is crazy…!
(4) Wife's Corona Symptoms - New York
From: C in New York
Subject: Wife's Corona Symptoms.
Weakness, listlessness, sleeplessness, some flu like aches, some trouble
breathing, dry cough, but we started azithromycin through our own
prescribing nurse connections right away. Did not have access to
Chloroquine or Meflaquine. Fever of 102 F for ten days, weakness, pain
in various parts of the body one after the other, kidneys, liver,
including lower back pain.
Treatment: Everyday gave twice a day Quercetin, Olive leaf, Vitamin D,
Vitamin C, and a combination of Calcium, Magnesium, zinc, which was the
only zinc we had, no other zinc was available in the pharmacies, and we
did not have quinine. Acetaminophen for pain and fever. Have no idea if
medications beside Azithromycin did anything. It was not apparent.
The second day she went for a swab test for corona at local walk-in
urgent care center. They did not offer Rx for Azithromycen or quinine
until results of swab would come back. The center thought they would
have results five days later and they would call us to let us know. They
never called and would not answer until thirteenth day. Results came
back ten days later after it was all over and while they then sent a
letter, the letter did not mention the results in writing. only gave
general advice. WE WAITED TWELVE DAYS FOR RESULTS OF THE TEST until
after it was over. (And that center was not busy but did not answer
their phone for days!)
I had a very mild case in early February after return from Italy. Didn't
connect the symptoms at the time. My resistance may be due to BCG
tuberculosis vaccine as a child. I always tested positive for TB skin
test but x rays always showed no TB in lungs. But I had pneumonia four
times and plurisy. Including walking pneumonia twelve years ago. Ten
years ago I had pneumionia vaccine, also shingles vaccine and yearly flu
vaccine for at least twenty three years. I have talso had smallpox
vaccine three times, in my life and polio vaccine three times (Salk,
Sabine, and live virus twenty two years ago for travel in Asia.) (Also,
Yellow fever, typhus typhoid. rabies and many more since I worked for
the government in Africa.)
My wife is a nurse and although her operating unit has closed down for
the duration, she is considering volunteering for hospital work now
because of her presumed immunity. I too am a respiratory therapist but
have no clinical skills to offer since I only worked in sleep apnea. I
never intubated, never took arterial blood, never adjusted a hospital
ventilator (only simple home ones).
Comment: Dr Brownstein and Dr Ng advise against taking Acetaminophen and
other painkillers to stop the fever. They say that the fever is part of
the cure.
(5) Letter from an epidemiologist
From: E in USA
Hello,
I’m intrigued by your research. I’m an epidemiologist. A lot of what you
said aligns with what I’ve been reading. There are too many missing
pieces and unanswered questions.
Some points i would love your input on concerning the current state of
the US healthcare system - we have a lot of people with chronic
conditions here and an aging population that is costing the US gov a lot
of money. 90% of the nations 3.5 TRILLION dollar healthcare expenditures
are for people with chronic health conditions and mental illness
Trump is all worried about the "numbers" that get published. Meanwhile
China is lying about their numbers as well.
Also - why the german finance minister kills himself over this... not
sure how this overwhelmed him to that extent. What was he foreseeing
Thank you for all your research ??
Gives me some clarity in this time of utter confusion.
(6) German Finance minister commits suicide over Covid-19 impact on
companies and workers
German minister commits suicide after ‘virus crisis worries’
EURACTIV.com with AFP
30-03-2020
Thomas Schaefer, the finance minister of Germany’s Hesse state, has
committed suicide apparently after becoming "deeply worried" over how to
cope with the economic fallout from the coronavirus, state premier
Volker Bouffier said Sunday (29 March).
Schaefer, 54, was found dead near a railway track on Saturday. The
Wiesbaden prosecution’s office said they believe he died by suicide.
"We are in shock, we are in disbelief and above all we are immensely
sad," Bouffier said in a recorded statement.
Hesse is home to Germany’s financial capital Frankfurt, where major
lenders like Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank have their headquarters. The
European Central Bank is also located in Frankfurt.
A visibly shaken Bouffier recalled that Schaefer, who was Hesse’s
finance chief for 10 years, had been working "day and night" to help
companies and workers deal with the economic impact of the pandemic.
"Today we have to assume that he was deeply worried," said Bouffier, a
close ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel.
"It’s precisely during this difficult time that we would have needed
someone like him," he added.
Popular and well-respected, Schaefer had long been touted as a possible
successor to Bouffier.
Like Bouffier, Schaefer belonged to Merkel’s centre-right CDU party.
He leaves behind a wife and two children.
Der Tod von Finanzminister Thomas Schäfer erschüttert die
Landespolitik. Ministerpräsident Volker Bouffier spricht davon, dass die
Sorgen um die Zukunft den Minister „erdrückt" haben könnten.
— FAZ Rhein-Main (@FAZ_RheinMain) March 29, 2020
(7) Must Help Mass of Poor
From: Eric Walberg <walberg2002@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Don't have a Nebulizer? Try a bowl of boiling water and a towel
over your head
Corona perfect leveler: rich and would-be globe trotters are cause.
In depression, must help mass of poor. Forces masses into spotlight.
Millions unemployed spells trouble. Can’t ignore.
Meanwhile china has ‘won’ this ‘war’. Minimized damage and now in
control of world recovery, as saviour.
but who led the attack? Who ‘started the war’?
china caused the 'war'. they eat bats and pangolins. the bats infected
pangolins ...
that is disgusting! we must be vegans.
and chinese fascination with exotic eats must end!
Comment (Peter M.):
If Covid-19 devastates poor countries, there will be an exodus of boat
people and migrants seeking to escape.
Cancelling Third World Debt would go a long way towards helping poor
countries deal with this crisis.
Poor countries are poor because rich countries use Tax Havens. That is,
companies based in the West ostensibly have their head office located in
a Tax Haven, and arrange their transactions so that third-would
countries get paid little for their resources, although they are sold
for high prices in the West. As a result, they are in debt.
Tax Havens and Transfer Pricing are an invisible form of piracy. My
remedy is that countries should repudiate debt owed to entities based in
Tax Havens, and deny the legitimacy of asset ownership based there.
Nicholas Shaxson wrote in his book Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the
Men who Stole the World (2011):
{quote}
Tax havens are the most important single reason why poor people and poor
countries stay poor. They lie at the very heart of the global economy,
with over half the world trade processed through them. ... Nobody
disagrees that Britain sits, spider-like, at the centre of a vast
international web of tax havens, hoovering up trillions of dollars'
worth of business and capital from around the globe and funnelling it up
to the City of London. Despite some vigorous efforts, nobody has come
close to overturning the research or analysis showing the sheer scale of
the harm wreaked on the world by these elitist, criminal-infested
libertarian paradises; these silent battering rams of tax-cutting and
financial deregulation.
{endquote}
The people who operate the Tax Havens are the 1% of the West, the Ruling
Class. The Open Borders policy they push threatens the livelihood of the
99% in the West. The Identity Politics they promote, with the
co-operation of the 'Progressive' Left, keeps the 99% divided.
Therefore to fix the crisis Covid-19 has exposed, Third-world debt must
be cancelled, and the Tax Haven network dismantled.
(8) Richard Ebright says Covid-19 probably leaked from Wuhan lab
How did covid-19 begin? Its initial origin story is shaky.
By David Ignatius
April 2, 2020 at 6:56 PM EDT
The story of how the novel coronavirus emerged in Wuhan, China, has
produced a nasty propaganda battle between the United States and China.
The two sides have traded some of the sharpest charges made between two
nations since the Soviet Union in 1985 falsely accused the CIA of
manufacturing AIDS.
U.S. intelligence officials don't think the pandemic was caused by
deliberate wrongdoing. The outbreak that has now swept the world instead
began with a simpler story, albeit one with tragic consequences: The
prime suspect is "natural" transmission from bats to humans, perhaps
through unsanitary markets. But scientists don't rule out that an
accident at a research laboratory in Wuhan might have spread a deadly
bat virus that had been collected for scientific study.
"Good science, bad safety" is how Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) put this
theory in a Feb. 16 tweet. He ranked such a breach (or natural
transmission) as more likely than two extreme possibilities: an
accidental leak of an "engineered bioweapon" or a "deliberate release."
Cotton's earlier loose talk about bioweapons set off a furor, back when
he first raised it in late January and called the outbreak "worse than
Chernobyl."
President Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo added to the bile
last month by describing the coronavirus as the "Chinese virus" and the
"Wuhan virus," respectively.
China dished wild, irresponsible allegations of its own. On March 12,
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lijian Zhao charged in a tweet: "It
might be [the] US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan." He retweeted
an article that claimed, without evidence, that U.S. troops might have
spread the virus when they attended the World Military Games in Wuhan in
October 2019.
China retreated on March 22, when Ambassador to the United States Cui
Tiankai told "Axios on HBO" that such rumors were "crazy" on both sides.
A State Department spokesman said Cui's comment was "welcome," and Trump
and Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged in a March 27 phone call to
"focus on cooperative behavior," a senior administration official told me.
To be clear: U.S. intelligence officials think there's no evidence
whatsoever that the coronavirus was created in a laboratory as a
potential bioweapon. Solid scientific research demonstrates that the
virus wasn't engineered by humans and that it originated in bats.
But how did the outbreak occur? Solving this medical mystery is
important to prevent future pandemics. What's increasingly clear is that
the initial "origin story" — that the virus was spread by people who ate
contaminated animals at the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan — is shaky.
Scientists have identified the culprit as a bat coronavirus, through
genetic sequencing; bats weren't sold at the seafood market, although
that market or others could have sold animals that had contact with
bats. The Lancet noted in a January study that the first covid-19 case
in Wuhan had no connection to the seafood market.
There's a competing theory — of an accidental lab release of bat
coronavirus — that scientists have been puzzling about for weeks. Less
than 300 yards from the seafood market is the Wuhan branch of the
Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Researchers from that
facility and the nearby Wuhan Institute of Virology have posted articles
about collecting bat coronaviruses from around China, for study to
prevent future illness. Did one of those samples leak, or was hazardous
waste deposited in a place where it could spread?
Richard Ebright, a Rutgers microbiologist and biosafety expert, told me
in an email that "the first human infection could have occurred as a
natural accident," with the virus passing from bat to human, possibly
through another animal. But Ebright cautioned that it "also could have
occurred as a laboratory accident, with, for example, an accidental
infection of a laboratory worker." He noted that bat coronaviruses were
studied in Wuhan at Biosafety Level 2, "which provides only minimal
protection," compared with the top BSL-4.
Ebright described a December video from the Wuhan CDC that shows
staffers "collecting bat coronaviruses with inadequate [personal
protective equipment] and unsafe operational practices." Separately, I
reviewed two Chinese articles, from 2017 and 2019, describing the
heroics of Wuhan CDC researcher Tian Junhua, who while capturing bats in
a cave "forgot to take protective measures" so that "bat urine dripped
from the top of his head like raindrops."
And then there's the Chinese study that was curiously withdrawn. In
February, a site called ResearchGate published a brief article by Botao
Xiao and Lei Xiao from Guangzhou's South China University of Technology.
"In addition to origins of natural recombination and intermediate host,
the killer coronavirus probably originated from a laboratory in Wuhan.
Safety level may need to be reinforced in high risk biohazardous
laboratories," the article concluded. Botao Xiao told the Wall Street
Journal in February that he had withdrawn the paper because it "was not
supported by direct proofs."
Accidents happen, human or laboratory. Solving the mystery of how
covid-19 began isn't a blame game, but a chance for China and the United
States to cooperate in a crisis, and prevent a future one.
(9) Kissinger says Covid-19 has turned Open societies back to Closed;
restates case for Globalization
The terms 'Open' and 'Closed' do not appear in this article. But he
talks of the 'Walled City' means 'Closed'; he calls it's 'an
anachronism'. He says world leaders need to 'manage the crisis while
building the future'. This sounds like a reaffirmation of Globalization
i.e. the Open Society. - Peter M.
The Coronavirus Pandemic Will Forever Alter the World Order
The U.S. must protect its citizens from disease while starting the
urgent work of planning for a new epoch.
By Henry A. Kissinger | The Wall Street Journal
April 3, 2020 6:30 pm ET
The surreal atmosphere of the Covid-19 pandemic calls to mind how I felt
as a young man in the 84th Infantry Division during the Battle of the
Bulge. Now, as in late 1944, there is a sense of inchoate danger, aimed
not at any particular person, but striking randomly and with
devastation. But there is an important difference between that faraway
time and ours. American endurance then was fortified by an ultimate
national purpose. Now, in a divided country, efficient and farsighted
government is necessary to overcome obstacles unprecedented in magnitude
and global scope. Sustaining the public trust is crucial to social
solidarity, to the relation of societies with each other, and to
international peace and stability.
Nations cohere and flourish on the belief that their institutions can
foresee calamity, arrest its impact and restore stability. When the
Covid-19 pandemic is over, many countries' institutions will be
perceived as having failed. Whether this judgment is objectively fair is
irrelevant. The reality is the world will never be the same after the
coronavirus. To argue now about the past only makes it harder to do what
has to be done.
The coronavirus has struck with unprecedented scale and ferocity. Its
spread is exponential: U.S. cases are doubling every fifth day. At this
writing, there is no cure. Medical supplies are insufficient to cope
with the widening waves of cases. Intensive-care units are on the verge,
and beyond, of being overwhelmed. Testing is inadequate to the task of
identifying the extent of infection, much less reversing its spread. A
successful vaccine could be 12 to 18 months away.
The U.S. administration has done a solid job in avoiding immediate
catastrophe. The ultimate test will be whether the virus's spread can be
arrested and then reversed in a manner and at a scale that maintains
public confidence in Americans' ability to govern themselves. The crisis
effort, however vast and necessary, must not crowd out the urgent task
of launching a parallel enterprise for the transition to the
post-coronavirus order.
Leaders are dealing with the crisis on a largely national basis, but the
virus's society-dissolving effects do not recognize borders. While the
assault on human health will—hopefully—be temporary, the political and
economic upheaval it has unleashed could last for generations. No
country, not even the U.S., can in a purely national effort overcome the
virus. Addressing the necessities of the moment must ultimately be
coupled with a global collaborative vision and program. If we cannot do
both in tandem, we will face the worst of each.
Drawing lessons from the development of the Marshall Plan and the
Manhattan Project, the U.S. is obliged to undertake a major effort in
three domains. First, shore up global resilience to infectious disease.
Triumphs of medical science like the polio vaccine and the eradication
of smallpox, or the emerging statistical-technical marvel of medical
diagnosis through artificial intelligence, have lulled us into a
dangerous complacency. We need to develop new techniques and
technologies for infection control and commensurate vaccines across
large populations. Cities, states and regions must consistently prepare
to protect their people from pandemics through stockpiling, cooperative
planning and exploration at the frontiers of science.
Second, strive to heal the wounds to the world economy. Global leaders
have learned important lessons from the 2008 financial crisis. The
current economic crisis is more complex: The contraction unleashed by
the coronavirus is, in its speed and global scale, unlike anything ever
known in history. And necessary public-health measures such as social
distancing and closing schools and businesses are contributing to the
economic pain. Programs should also seek to ameliorate the effects of
impending chaos on the world's most vulnerable populations.
Third, safeguard the principles of the liberal world order. The founding
legend of modern government is a walled city protected by powerful
rulers, sometimes despotic, other times benevolent, yet always strong
enough to protect the people from an external enemy. Enlightenment
thinkers reframed this concept, arguing that the purpose of the
legitimate state is to provide for the fundamental needs of the people:
security, order, economic well-being, and justice. Individuals cannot
secure these things on their own. The pandemic has prompted an
anachronism, a revival of the walled city in an age when prosperity
depends on global trade and movement of people.
The world's democracies need to defend and sustain their Enlightenment
values. A global retreat from balancing power with legitimacy will cause
the social contract to disintegrate both domestically and
internationally. Yet this millennial issue of legitimacy and power
cannot be settled simultaneously with the effort to overcome the
Covid-19 plague. Restraint is necessary on all sides—in both domestic
politics and international diplomacy. Priorities must be established.
We went on from the Battle of the Bulge into a world of growing
prosperity and enhanced human dignity. Now, we live an epochal period.
The historic challenge for leaders is to manage the crisis while
building the future. Failure could set the world on fire.
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