Freezer trucks store dead bodies in hospital parking lots. But Dr
Brownstein's Holistic Medicine saves Jeremiah - at home
Newsletter published on April 2, 2020
(1) US doctors use social media to appeal for help; freezer trucks store
dead bodies in hospital parking lots
(2) US was not prepared - Ebola lessons forgotten
(3) Ventilator shortage? Hospitals wrong treatment
(4) Dr Brownstein's Holistic Medicine saves Jeremiah, at home (video).
Need Nebulizer, Vit A,C,D, aqueous Iodine, food-grade Hydrogen Peroxide
(5) Brownstein's covid 19 video (about Christopher) suppressed?
(6) Chinese report attests efficacy of HCQ
(7) FDA permits CQ and HCQ to be used for Covid-19 (March 28) -
vindicating Trump over Fauci
(8) Fauci depicted as "deep state", agent of Hillary; given protection,
after threats
(9) 'Shoot them dead': Duterte threatens those who violate Lockdown
(10) Wuhan Lockdown, just before Chinese New Year, saved China
(11) Olive Leaf extract plus Turmeric 'a cure for Coronavirus'
(12) Israel short of ventilators, protective clothing, masks & test kits
(13) Robert J. Samuelson says West probably in Depression already
(1) US doctors use social media to appeal for help; freezer trucks store
dead bodies in hospital parking lots
In other words, doctors are bypassing the MSM, which takes the line
peddled by bureaucrats at the top of federal agencies. Doctors are
trying to get the public to change public policy, overruling the
bureaucrats. Clearly, a lot of incompetents are at the top, and probably
protected by 'unfair dismissal' laws. Those laws should be jettisoned.
Incompetent people in official bodies should be sacked without
compensation; and for serious incompetence, they should lose their
pension too. It's also time to get tough on white collar crime; bankers
and Big Pharma beware. - Peter M.
US doctors go online to reveal 'bold, loud' coronavirus truths
Healthcare workers turn to social media to raise awareness, lobby for
more supplies and build support during pandemic.
by Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
01 Apr 2020 16:20 GMT
Screengrabs of Twitter posts [Courtesy of @MasksForDocs,
@uche_blackstock and @drdanchoi]
Dr Ming Lin says they were reasonable requests.
Set up a triage system outside the hospital, check the temperatures of
all patients, visitors and staff before they can go inside, and give
healthcare workers scrubs so that they do not risk taking the novel
coronavirus home with them, were high on his list.
But about 10 days after the emergency physician made those
recommendations for how to improve his hospital's response to the
COVID-19 pandemic - sharing several posts publicly on Facebook and
speaking to a local newspaper - he says he was fired.
"I was surprised. I got a couple of warnings, and then the next thing
you know, about 10 days later, I got terminated," says Lin, who had
worked for 17 years at PeaceHealth St Joseph Medical Center, a hospital
in Bellingham, Washington state.
He told Al Jazeera that he felt he needed to voice his concerns on
social media in order to protect his patients and colleagues from
COVID-19, which has ravaged Washington state, among other places in the
United States and around the world.
"Healthcare providers and healthcare workers are often silenced," he
said. "We, as healthcare providers, take an oath to do no harm, and that
includes pointing out any deficiency that may cause harm to patients. If
we speak out, we can be reprimanded and terminated."
PeaceHealth did not respond to Al Jazeera's request for comment by the
time of publication. TeamHealth, which has a contract with PeaceHealth
to provide staff at the hospital, said in a statement that Lin was not
terminated by TeamHealth and that the group is "committed to engaging
with him to try to find a path forward".
Lin's case highlights a growing trend of healthcare workers sharing
their experiences and concerns around the response to the coronavirus
pandemic on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and other social media sites,
drawing attention to the often grim pictures they are seeing inside the
hospitals.
Lack of equipment
Their sometimes harrowing accounts circulate online daily, from freezer
trucks set up in hospital parking lots to store dead bodies, to
physicians having to tell families their loved ones died over FaceTime
and desperate pleas for more personal protective equipment.
As the pandemic grips the US, where the death toll is steadily climbing,
social media has become the easiest way for some healthcare
professionals to raise awareness and get people to take the contagious
virus seriously.
Today.
I told a 28 year old that he needs intubation. He was scared.
Couldn't breathe.
I told the wife of a 47 year old that he is dying over FaceTime.
I bronched a #COVID19 patient who mucous plugged. It saved his
life. Risked mine.
— Anna Podolanczuk (@AnnaPodolanczuk) March 29, 2020
In some instances, social media has also become a tool to lobby
government and other officials to get them the tools they need, while it
can also help build a sense of community and support amid a fraught
pandemic response. A lack of masks, gowns, gloves and other equipment is
one of the main issues that doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers
are speaking out about.
A photo of nurses at a New York hospital wearing rubbish bags as
protective gear to treat COVID-19 patients went viral last week. "NO
MORE GOWNS IN THE WHOLE HOSPITAL," read a caption on the photo on
Facebook. "NO MORE MASKS AND REUSING THE DISPOSABLE ONES."
Dr Richard Loftus, an internist in Rancho Mirage, California, also spoke
out about the lack of equipment for healthcare workers on the front
lines, comparing it to sending ill-equipped troops into battle in World
War II.
"Your front-line troops right now wear medical scrubs, and they do not
have helmets and they do not have weapons," he said in a video shared on
Twitter on Sunday.
'Bold, loud truths'
In an interview with Al Jazeera, Loftus said he chose to speak out
publicly after he realised that the public was not taking the threat of
COVID-19 seriously enough, and that local government was not doing much,
either. He said he raised serious concerns in February with his hospital
leaders about the potential impact of the virus.
"I told them at the time, this is going to be a one-in-500-years event,
like an asteroid hitting the earth. And I am sure they thought I was
histrionic. Of course, now looking at what's happening in the world, my
analogy was apt," he said.
Dr. Rick Loftus describes the dire lack of #PPE facing American
doctors & nurses. "I welcome any support from any citizens who are
enterprising enough to figure out creative means to get protective gear
to the front line doctors and nurses. Our needs are DIRE."
#MillionMaskMayday pic.twitter.com/XdSzVsSBHx
— MasksForDocs (@MasksForDocs) March 29, 2020
Officials from Eisenhower Health, the hospital where Loftus works, did
not respond to Al Jazeera's request for comment.
He said many doctors and nurses on the front lines of the COVID-19
response feel like "cannon fodder" because they are being told to work
without the masks, gowns and other equipment they need to do their jobs
safely.
In that way, the pandemic has exposed fissures between front-line
workers and administrators who are trying to control the messaging
around COVID-19, Loftus said. "Those of us who are front-line care
workers know how much danger we're in and when we get told stupid things
like you're not allowed to wear a mask it makes us angry because we know
better."
He added that he believes "bold, loud truths is how we save the most
lives" - and so that is what he will continue to do. "As a front-line
doctor I can say things that my hospital cannot say," he told Al Jazeera.
A support network
Dr Uche Blackstock works at an urgent care centre in Brooklyn, New York,
which has been hardest hit by the pandemic in the US. Like a walk-in
clinic, the facility typically treats patients with moderate health
problems, such as a cough or runny nose, or a laceration to an arm.
But last week, Blackstock said she noticed people were coming in with
more serious respiratory issues - and many of their symptoms were
similar, irrespective of age or medical history.
On March 27, she tweeted that "one patient after another came in with
fever, cough, shortness of breath and muscle aches" and that she had to
call an ambulance for three patients who had difficulty breathing.
Blackstock told Al Jazeera that's when she realised that COVID-19 really
had arrived.
"During that shift, it really struck me that COVID-19 is here and it's
rearing its ugly head. And if anyone in the public had any doubt that
this was serious - it's very, very serious," she said in an interview
this week. "It's been incredibly surreal, and it was also very sobering."
I just finished an almost 13-hour urgent care shift in central
#Brooklyn where one patient after another came in with fever, cough,
shortness of breath and muscle aches. #COVID2019 is here. I called EMS
for 3 patients in respiratory distress. #NewYorkers, please #StayHome.
pic.twitter.com/RydlAaOvfm
— uché ‘STAY HOME & SAFE’ blackstock (@uche_blackstock) March 28, 2020
Dr Daniel Choi, a spinal surgeon practising on Long Island, New York,
said doctors also have been sharing their concerns around COVID-19 in
private group chats on WhatsApp and Facebook, which he said have become
"a source of solidarity and community" for many.
In a WhatsApp chat seen by Al Jazeera, someone wrote that their
emergency room in New York City intubated nine patients in 13 hours, and
that seven of them were likely to be COVID-19 positive. All the patients
were under age 50, the person wrote.
Report from front lines NYC borough hospital 3/29
"Our whole ED is now #COVID, as is our ICU + Overflow ICU, + CCU,
we're about to open an ED ICU on an empty floor.
And we're on surge call, so other specialty staff attendings are
likely gonna start getting called this week"
— Daniel PLEASE STAY HOME Choi, MD (@drdanchoi) March 29, 2020
While Choi is not on the front-lines of the COVID-19 response, he said
he feels compelled to amplify the voices of his colleagues that are. He
regularly tweets out messages he has received from other physicians
related to the crisis.
While doctors typically shy away from sharing their views publicly -
often in fear of retribution - the coronavirus pandemic has changed
things, Choi told Al Jazeera. "A lot of those fears and worries have
kind of gone out the window … because doctors [are] feeling a pressing
need to tell the public what's going on."
That was echoed by Blackstock, who said social media had become a
platform for healthcare workers to have their voices heard and share
their expertise on what needs to be done to combat the virus.
"To be able to control the narrative of what we think are the important
points to make, what the priorities of the situation are, what our
concerns are, is incredibly invaluable and social media definitely does
that for us."
(2) US was not prepared - Ebola lessons forgotten
NYC doctor who survived Ebola: People are dying from coronavirus
'because we weren't prepared'
By Julia Musto | Fox News
April 1, 2020
American citizens are dying from coronavirus because the United States
was not prepared to handle the scale of the pandemic, Columbia
Presbyterian Medical Center Dr. Craig Spencer said Wednesday.
In an interview on "America's Newsroom" with host Ed Henry, Spencer --
who was the first Ebola patient in New York City during the outbreak --
said that a lot of the lessons learned surrounding fighting the Ebola
virus just six years ago seem to have been forgotten.
"What I think has happened is that it's left us all vulnerable to a
pandemic like coronavirus. And, what we're seeing on the front lines,
it's dire and it really amplifies the lack of preparation," he stated.
"People, unfortunately, are dying because we weren't prepared and I just
want to share the message that we're seeing this here in New York City."
"This is going to roll across the United States and everyone still has
more time to prepare than we did," Spencer asserted.
In addition, Spencer noted that his time spent working in the middle of
an East African civil war feels "quite similar" to the havoc, chaos, and
mental anxiety of this virus' impact in New York.
"I'm not a politician. I'm a physician and this is what we're seeing,"
he explained.
"The empty streets do not really reflect the reality here in New York.
Times Square may be empty, but our emergency rooms and our ICUs are not.
We have had the highest number of ambulance calls ever, including on
9/11. One of my colleagues found a 49-year-old otherwise healthy
[person] diagnosed with coronavirus dead in a chair. My first two
patients yesterday...were respiratory arrest put on a mechanical
ventilator from coronavirus complications," Spencer added.
"We're already talking about how we consider palliative care and
withdrawing care in the emergency department because we're concerned. We
know that, hopefully, we're starting to peak in terms of our numbers
sometime soon in the next few weeks," he continued further. "But, new
case numbers do not reflect the number of people inside emergency rooms
and ICUs."
Spencer told Henry that while New York City still clearly has a hard
road to travel, it "doesn't say anything about the other places in the
country that are just starting to see an uptick in cases now."
The United States is expected to surpass 200,000 confirmed coronavirus
cases on Wednesday. New York City has over 43,000 of those cases with
over 1,000 deaths reported. All 50 states and Washington D.C. now have
at least 100 cases each of the virus.
"And, I just want all of my colleagues around the country to be ready
for the same and I want everyone to do their part. Stay inside. Take
these messages seriously. Listen to your public health professionals,"
he concluded. "Because we're trying to share what's happening on this
front line and it's dire."
Julia Musto is a reporter for Fox News Digital. You can find her on
Twitter at @JuliaElenaMusto.
(3) Ventilator shortage? Hospitals wrong treatment
From: C in New York
Subject: Save yourself the bother
Ventilator shortage?
Chinese data: 86% of the virus patients who went on a ventilator died.
Seattle, WA, USA data: 70% of the virus patients who went on a
ventilator died.
Or is there an effective treatment shortage?
(4) Dr Brownstein's Holistic Medicine saves Jeremiah, at home (video).
Need Nebulizer, Vit A,C,D, aqueous Iodine, food-grade Hydrogen Peroxide
There Is Still Hope Out There IV: It Hit Me Very Hard and Fast…..I Had
To Lay Down. I was Exhausted.
'It (fever) hit me very hard and fast last Saturday night…..I had to go
laydown. I was exhausted …..'
These are the words of my cousin and good friend, Jeremiah Freedman, who
is a chiropractor in Ohio. Last weekend Jeremiah had shortness of
breath, which is one of the symptoms of COVID19. He also had flu-like
symptoms.
Watch my interview to learn how Jeremiah recovered by taking high doses
of vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin D & iodine and nebulization.
To All Our Health! ~DrB
Watch Jeremiah's testimonial on YouTube!
Brownstein advice: Vitamin A, C, D, Iodine; Nebulise food grade H2O2.
There Is Hope Out There lV:"It (fever) hit me very hard & fast..I had to
lay down. I was exhausted."
31 Mar 2020
David Brownstein
These are the words of my cousin and good friend, Jeremiah Freedman, who
is a chiropractor in Ohio. Last weekend Jeremiah had shortness of
breath, which is one of the symptoms of COVID19. He also had flu-like
symptoms. Watch my interview to learn how Jeremiah recovered by taking
high doses of vitamin A, C, D & iodine, along with nebulizing.
Advice to Jeremiah:
Vitamin A 100,000 units a day
Vitamin D 50,000 units a day
continue Vitamin C
+ Iodine at least 50 ml
+ Nebulise food grade Hydrogen Peroxide which is 35%; dilute it down to
3% (a 10 to 1 dilution). Mix that in a Saline solution: 1 teaspoon of
salt in a cup of water. Let the particles fall down and skim off the
top. Use that as our Nebuliser solution. Put 3cc of Saline and 3cc of
Hydrogen Peroxide into the Nebuliser and start nebulising.
"That nebuliser made a huge difference. It opened up my lungs. I did
that twice yesterday. the first time I felt a little bit of burning in
my throat as I did it., for a few minutes, and it caused me to cough a
few times. ... I was able to walk around. About an hour later we did it
again; we diluted it a little bit further and nebulised again, and took
a hot bath, with salts - a salt bath. By evening my pulse had gone from
96-7 to 100.
Next morning, breathing was easier. I've done the nebulising three more
times today. I feel like I can take a deep breath now. I'm still
fatigued. I still don't feel back to normal, but I'm getting my energy
back, and I feel I can breathe all the way in to my lungs, for the first
time in days. That takes a lot of the fear away."
Dr B:
Conventional medicine has nothing to offer for this. If you go to
hospital for this, they'll put you on a ventilator. Most people they put
on a ventilator do not survive.
The above natural therapy can work, we've been doing this for 20+ years,
this stuff does work
Jeremiah: My pulse has been better today, consistently 98, I'm breathing
better, the panic has gone away, and my body is starting to heal.
Previously, my lungs could not expand more than 50%, now I can take a
full breath. After the nebulising, my cough went away.
Dr B: If Jeremiah had been closer, I would have had him come in, and
would have given him intravenous (IV) Hydrogen Peroxide, an Ozone IV,
and Vitamin C IV. These therapies work; we see them work in our
practice. Find a holistic doctor.
(5) Brownstein's covid 19 video (about Christopher) suppressed?
From: "Tom and Kathy" <kdtd007@charter.net> Subject: RE: Recovery at
Home - from Death's door in 4 days of natural therapies - Dr David
Brownstein
Hi Peter,
Thanks for this info about Doc Brownstein. I live in UP Michigan and my
doctor, Matthew Doughty (Marquette, MI), is a friend and colleague of
Brownstein's (Bloomfield Hills, MI). Doc Doughty's care is far removed
from the mainstream medical community. Balancing hormones is foremost
in his focus of care. Supplements are used as medicine. When I was in
the mainstream medical community, all the doctors just pushed statins.
I tried two different types and had severe reactions to both. My doctor
tried bullying me into remaining on the meds. She would roll her eyes
when I told her the side effects. That's when I started to search for
another way and found Doc Doughty.
> christopher video 1
By the way, when I did a search on YouTube for Brownstein's covid 19
video, I couldn't find it. The only way to watch it was through this
email. I even went to Dr. David Brownstein's YouTube channel and
couldn't find it there. I'm guessing that YouTube is suppressing it.
Thanks for all your work.
Best regards,
Katherine D.
(6) Chinese report attests efficacy of HCQ
From: leo schmit <leoschmit@yahoo.com>
Subject: Dr Raoult
Peter,
This link comes from a Tweet from Dr Raoult.
Efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in patients with COVID-19: results of a
randomized clinical trial
Zhaowei Chen, Jijia Hu, Zongwei Zhang, Shan Jiang, Shoumeng Han, Dandan
Yan, Ruhong Zhuang, Ben Hu, Zhan Zhang
most authors from Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University; Ben Hu from Wuhan
Institute of Virology
Abstract
Aims: Studies have indicated that chloroquine (CQ) shows antagonism
against COVID-19 in vitro. However, evidence regarding its effects in
patients is limited. This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of
hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in the treatment of patients with COVID-19.
Main methods: From February 4 to February 28, 2020, 62 patients
suffering from COVID-19 were diagnosed and admitted to Renmin Hospital
of Wuhan University. All participants were randomized in a
parallel-group trial, 31 patients were assigned to receive an additional
5-day HCQ (400 mg/d) treatment, Time to clinical recovery (TTCR),
clinical characteristics, and radiological results were assessed at
baseline and 5 days after treatment to evaluate the effect of HCQ.
Key findings: For the 62 COVID-19 patients, 46.8% (29 of 62) were male
and 53.2% (33 of 62) were female, the mean age was 44.7 (15.3) years. No
difference in the age and sex distribution between the control group and
the HCQ group. But for TTCR, the body temperature recovery time and the
cough remission time were significantly shortened in the HCQ treatment
group. Besides, a larger proportion of patients with improved pneumonia
in the HCQ treatment group (80.6%, 25 of 32) compared with the control
group (54.8%, 17 of 32). Notably, all 4 patients progressed to severe
illness that occurred in the control group. However, there were 2
patients with mild adverse reactions in the HCQ treatment group.
Significance: Among patients with COVID-19, the use of HCQ could
significantly shorten TTCR and promote the absorption of pneumonia. ...
Funding Statement
This study was supported by the Epidemiological Study of COVID-19
Pneumonia to Science and Technology Department of Hubei Province
(2020FCA005). [...]
(7) FDA permits CQ and HCQ to be used for Covid-19 (March 28) -
vindicating Trump over Fauci
From: chris lancenet <chrislancenet@gmail.com>
On 28 March 2020, the (FDA) issued an emergency use
authorization (EUA) to allow hydroxychloroquine
On 28 March 2020, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an
emergency use authorization (EUA) to allow hydroxychloroquine sulfate
and chloroquine phosphate products donated to the Strategic National
Stockpile (SNS) to be distributed and used for certain people who are
hospitalized with COVID-19.[37][38]
Malaria Drugs Get FDA 'Emergency Use Authorization' For COVID
Over the weekend, the Food and Drug Administration granted two malaria
drugs "emergency use authorization" for the treatment of COVID-19. The
move makes it easier to add the medicines to the strategic stockpile,
which can be drawn upon in the current public health emergency.
The drugs — chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine — have been identified as
potential COVID-19 treatments based on lab tests and small, limited
studies in humans.
But gold standard clinical trials in the United States only just got
underway. Preliminary results from those studies aren't expected for
weeks or months.
One thing is for sure, the FDA decision doesn't reflect an official
determination that the drugs work against the coronavirus.
"This is not FDA approval of hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine for the
treatment of COVID-19," says infectious diseases physician Rajesh
Gandhi, who is leading Massachusetts General Hospital's COVID-19
treatment task force. "There's an epidemic of misinformation out there,
and we need to combat that."
The emergency use authorization only applies to the supply of these two
drugs in the Strategic National Stockpile, the government's storehouses
of emergency medical supplies located in warehouses throughout the country.
Hospitals would need to request access to the drugs through their
states, and the medicines would only be distributed to patients who have
been hospitalized and tested positive for COVID-19, but for whom a
"clinical trial is not available, or participation is not feasible,"
according to the FDA.
"It's nice to know that they have it in the event we're running low or
going to run out," says Onisis Stefas, chief pharmacy officer at
Northwell Health in New York, where doctors are already using the drug
for patients who can't be enrolled in clinical trials. "It's good to
have this as backup."
The emergency use authorization won't affect patients seeking this drug
from their local pharmacies, where shortages have been reported.
(8) Fauci depicted as "deep state", agent of Hillary; given protection,
after threats
Anthony Fauci's security is stepped up as doctor and face of U.S.
coronavirus response receives threats
By Isaac Stanley-Becker, Yasmeen Abutaleb and Devlin Barrett
April 1, 2020 at 8:11 PM EDT
Anthony S. Fauci, the nation's top infectious-diseases expert and the
face of the U.S. response to the novel coronavirus pandemic, is facing
growing threats to his personal safety, prompting the government to step
up his security, according to people familiar with the matter.
The concerns include threats as well as unwelcome communications from
fervent admirers, according to people with knowledge of deliberations
inside the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of
Justice.
Fauci, 79, is the most outspoken member of the administration in favor
of sweeping public health guidelines and is among the few officials
willing to correct President Trump's misstatements. Along with Deborah
Birx, the coordinator for the White House's task force, Fauci has
encouraged the president to extend the timeline for social-distancing
guidelines, presenting him with grim models about the possible toll of
the pandemic.
"Now is the time, whenever you're having an effect, not to take your
foot off the accelerator and on the brake, but to just press it down on
the accelerator," he said Tuesday as the White House's task force made
some of those models public, warning of 100,000 to 240,000 deaths in the
United States.
The exact nature of the threats against him was not clear. Greater
exposure has led to more praise for the doctor but also more criticism.
Fauci has become a public target for some right-wing commentators and
bloggers, who exercise influence over parts of the president's base. As
they press for the president to ease restrictions to reinvigorate
economic activity, some of these figures have assailed Fauci and
questioned his expertise.
Last month, an article depicting him as an agent of the "deep state"
gained nearly 25,000 interactions on Facebook — meaning likes, comments
and shares — as it was posted to large pro-Trump groups with titles such
as "Trump Strong" and "Tampa Bay Trump Club."
Alex Azar, the HHS secretary, recently grew concerned about Fauci's
safety as his profile rose and he endured more vitriolic criticism
online, according to people familiar with the situation. In recent
weeks, admirers have also approached Fauci, asking to him sign
baseballs, along with other acts of adulation. It was determined that
Fauci should have a security detail. Azar also has a security detail
because he is in the presidential line of succession.
Asked Wednesday whether he was receiving security protection, Fauci told
reporters, "I would have to refer you to HHS [inspector general] on
that. I wouldn't comment."
The president interjected, saying, "He doesn't need security. Everybody
loves him."
HHS asked the U.S. Marshals Service to deputize a group of agents in the
office of the HHS inspector general to provide protective services for
the doctor, according to an official with knowledge of the request. AD
The U.S. Marshals Service conveyed the request to the deputy attorney
general, who has authority over deputations for the purpose of providing
protective services, with the recommendation that it be approved,
according to the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to
reveal sensitive plans that the person was not authorized to discuss.
A Justice Department official signed paperwork Tuesday authorizing HHS
to provide its own security detail to Fauci, according to an
administration official.
An HHS spokesperson declined to discuss details of the doctor's security
but said: "Dr. Fauci is an integral part of the U.S. Government's
response against covid-19. Among other efforts, he is leading the
development of a covid-19 vaccine and he regularly appears at White
House press briefings and media interviews."
At the briefings, Fauci, who has advised presidents of both parties as
director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,
has spoken authoritatively about the spread of the coronavirus and the
sacrifices involved in mitigating its effects.
He has at times corrected the president, in particular when prompted by
reporters. After Trump said a covid-19 vaccine would be available in a
couple of months, Fauci said it would in fact be available in about a
year to a year and a half, at best.
His role has turned him into a hero for some. When he was absent from a
briefing last month, followers who had grown accustomed to his frank
assessments of the outbreak were alarmed that he might have been
sidelined for his forthrightness. Many took to Twitter to ask, "Where is
Dr. Fauci?" causing the question to trend on the platform. AD
He gained viral attention two days later when he placed his hand in
front of his face in a gesture of apparent disbelief as Trump referred
to the State Department as the "deep state department" from the White
House briefing room.
Fauci has also given several interviews in which he has tempered praise
for the president with doubts about his pronouncements, including about
the viability of anti-malarial drugs as a treatment for the novel
coronavirus. Most notably, he told the journal Science that he attempts
to guide Trump's statements but "can't jump in front of the microphone
and push him down."
These moves have inspired fandom. But they have also drawn scorn from
some of the president's most vocal supporters, even as both men have
sought to tamp down the appearance of tension.
"The president was right, and frankly Fauci was wrong," Lou Dobbs said
last week on his show on the Fox Business Network, referring to the use
of experimental medicine. AD
Right-wing news and opinion sites have gone further, launching baseless
smears against the doctor that have gained significant traction within
pro-Trump communities online.
Outlets such as the Gateway Pundit and American Thinker seized on a 2013
email — released by WikiLeaks as part of a cache of communications
hacked by Russian operatives — in which Fauci praised Hillary Clinton's
"stamina and capability" during her testimony as secretary of state
before the congressional committee investigating the attacks in
Benghazi, Libya.
The headline in the American Thinker referred to Fauci as a "Deep-State
Hillary-Clinton-loving stooge". The author, Peter Barry Chowka, didn't
respond to requests for comment. When asked about the relevance of
Fauci's emails to his role in advising the White House's coronavirus
response, Jim Hoft, the editor of the Gateway Pundit, said, "I don't
have a problem with more information being shared about the doctor." AD
The outlet has continued to criticize Fauci in recent days, saying that
by offering new predictions about the possible death toll, Fauci and
others were "going to destroy the U.S. economy based on total guesses
and hysterical predictions."
Several senior administration officials said that Trump respects Fauci
and that the two generally have a good working relationship. Trump
heeded the guidance of Fauci and Birx this week when he announced his
administration would extend social-distancing guidelines for another 30
days. Last week, many health officials and experts grew worried when
Trump said he hoped to reopen the country by Easter, even as coronavirus
cases in the United States continue to rapidly climb.
The immunologist, who graduated first in his class from Cornell's
medical school, has been the director of the National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984. Between 1983 and 2002, he
was the 13th-most-cited scientist among the 2.5 million to 3 million
authors worldwide and across all disciplines publishing in scientific
journals, according to the Institute for Scientific Information.
(9) 'Shoot them dead': Duterte threatens those who violate Lockdown
'Shoot them dead': Duterte warns against violating lockdown
Warning from Philippine president comes after slum dwellers stage
protests over lack of food supplies.
01 Apr 2020 18:17 GMT
Filipino street dwellers rest in a restaurant that was turned into a
makeshift evacuation centre in Quezon City, the Philippines [Eloisa
Lopez/Reuters]
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has warned he would order the
country's police and military to shoot dead anyone "who creates trouble"
during a month-long lockdown of the island of Luzon enforced to halt the
spread of the coronavirus.
"Let this be a warning to all. Follow the government at this time
because it is critical that we have order," he said in a late-night
televised national address on Wednesday.
"And do not harm the health workers, the doctors ... because that is a
serious crime. My orders to the police and the military, if anyone
creates trouble, and their lives are in danger: shoot them dead."
Duterte's warning came after residents of a slum in Manila's Quezon City
staged a protest along a highway near their shanty houses, claiming they
had not received any food packs and other relief supplies since the
lockdown began more than two weeks ago.
Village security officers and police urged the residents to go back to
their homes, but they refused, a police report said.
Police broke up the protest and arrested 20 people, the report added.
Health authorities in the Philippines have recorded 2,311 cases of
COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. At least 96 people have
died.
Jocy Lopez, 47, who led the group of residents, said they were forced to
stage the protest because they did not have any food due to the lockdown.
"We are here to call for help because of hunger. We have not been given
food, rice, groceries or cash. We have no work. Who do we turn to," she
said before being arrested.
Activist groups condemned the arrest and urged the government to fast
track the release of cash assistance promised under a 200 billion peso
($4bn) social protection programme to help poor families and those who
lost work amid the lockdown.
"Using excessive force and detention will not quell the empty stomachs
of Filipinos who, up to this day, remain denied of the promised ... cash
aid for the poor," said women's rights group Gabriela.
Other residents later held a rally to demand the release of those
arrested, holding posters that read "mass tests not mass arrests".
The main northern Philippine region of Luzon is home to more than 50
million people and under a month-long lockdown.
(10) Wuhan Lockdown, just before Chinese New Year, saved China
China's coronavirus lockdown may have prevented 700,000 deaths,
scientists say
By James Rogers | Fox News
China's coronavirus lockdown may have prevented 700,000 deaths from
COVID-19, says an international team of researchers.
The coronavirus first emerged in December in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
Scientists believe that China's travel ban and national lockdown within
the first 50 days of the epidemic played a critical role in preventing
its spread. China implemented a travel ban on Wuhan residents on Jan. 23.
"The number of confirmed cases in China by day 50 (February 19) of the
epidemic, was around 30,000," said Christopher Dye, visiting professor
of zoology and visiting fellow at the Oxford Martin School, University
of Oxford, in a statement. "Our analysis suggests that without the Wuhan
travel ban and the national emergency response there would have been
more than 700,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases outside of Wuhan by that
date. China's control measures appear to have worked by successfully
breaking the chain of transmission -- preventing contact between
infectious and susceptible people."
Researchers analyzed case reports, human movement data and public health
intervention information, according to a statement released by Penn
State, which participated in the project. The movements of 4.3 million
people out of Wuhan before the travel ban were analyzed, as well as the
types and timing of control measures in cities across China and the
daily numbers of COVID-19 cases reported in each city.
"One fascinating aspect of our work is that it shows the power of novel
data streams such as cell phone mobility data," said Ottar Bjornstad,
distinguished professor of entomology and biology at Penn State, in the
statement. "Since the time period we studied included the Spring
Festival holiday and Chinese Lunar New Year, we were able to compare
patterns of travel into and out of Wuhan during the outbreak with cell
phone data from two previous spring festivals. The analysis revealed an
extraordinary reduction in movement following the travel ban of January
23, 2020. Based on this data, we could also calculate the likely
reduction in Wuhan-associated cases in other cities across China."
Experts also said that the Wuhan lockdown delayed the arrival of
COVID-19 in other Chinese cities for several days.
(11) Olive Leaf extract plus Turmeric 'a cure for Coronavirus'
From: mary ardley <marya8639@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Raoult interview on HCQ. Turmeric in demand as a remedy for
Coronavirus
Peter...about turmeric ...it is a good antibiotic, (and antiseptic and
anti inflammatory and more )
but to my brief experience it cannot alone cure Corona Virus.
Quinine (in olive leaves) alone also does not cure it . but a
combination of both actually does cure it...
as I discovered not very long ago. This simple blend may be similar to
what Didier Raoult discovered as a cure...
(12) Israel short of ventilators, protective clothing, masks & test kits
This refutes Benjamin Fulford's claim that Covid-19 is an Israeli plot.
- Peter M.
Mossad, Netanyahu's secret weapon against the coronavirus
Ben Caspit
April 1, 2020
Israel's Mossad received instructions to get ventilators and coronavirus
test kits from wherever it can, at whatever price and by whatever means.
Yossi Cohen, head of Israel's Mossad, has learned a very interesting
lesson over the recent weeks: It is easier to "steal" the Iranian
nuclear archives and transfer them to Israel than to procure medical
ventilators and bring them to Israel's hospitals. Cohen, who
orchestrated in 2018 the unbelievable operation in which Mossad agents
went off with the Iranian files under the noses of the regime in Tehran,
now heads the unprecedented effort to bring to Israel ventilators,
medical equipment and more in the war against the coronavirus. Cohen now
heads a secret undercover operations room that was created in the Sheba
hospital. Hundreds of his people are combing every corner of the globe
for vital equipment and technology. They don't have a limit on their
budget, and the order they received was to do everything and anything to
guarantee that Israel will be able to cope with the virus under optimal
conditions.
Israel correctly responded to the coronavirus early in the game. The
initial decisions to close Israel's airspace and limit entrance to
people from China and other places were made just in time. This gave the
country some breathing space before the virus actually erupted. But
almost nothing was done with regard to anti-coronavirus equipment until
the virus inhabited the country and began to spread. The Israeli health
system was caught unprepared; it had been subject to ongoing budget
cutbacks, as well as general neglect, in the last decade.
The Israeli health system as a whole is viewed as successful and
efficient. Israel has a National Health Insurance Law that provides free
health coverage to all its citizens and a network of family and
community clinics that are among the world's most developed. On the
other hand, the numbers of nurses and intensive-care beds per capita are
among the lowest in the West. The rates of death from infection within
the hospitals are increasing and viewed as one of the highest in the West.
The coronavirus caught Israel with less than 2,000 ventilators and a
chronic shortage of protective clothing, surgical masks, N95 masks,
coronavirus test kits, special swabs and more. The Health Ministry's
worst-case scenario talks about a million coronavirus carriers in the
month of May; this translates into about 10,000 patients in serious
condition who will need ventilators. Netanyahu's nightmare is to see
thousands of coronavirus patients die due to a lack of ventilators.
(13) Robert J. Samuelson says West probably in Depression already
For the first time in my life, I think a depression is conceivable
By Robert J. Samuelson
April 1, 2020 at 5:26 PM EDT
When I began writing about economics in the early 1970s, I made a
private vow that I would never use the word "depression" in describing
the state of the economy. The economists and politicians who
occasionally did so were, I thought, engaged in partisan hyperbole.
Their game was to scare people into thinking the end of the world was at
hand or to pressure Congress to enact a favored piece of economic
legislation.
Well, times change. I revoke my vow.
It's not that I've concluded that we're already in a depression. But we
could be. For the first time in my life, I think it's conceivable. This
obviously would be a big deal. It implies permanently higher levels of
unemployment (though joblessness would still fluctuate), greater
economic instability and a collision between democracy and the economic
system.
Since World War II, business cycles have been — with a few notable
exceptions — mild and relatively brief. From 1945 to 1990, there were 10
recessions averaging about 10 months each, according to the National
Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), an academic group that dates
recessions and recoveries. Some slumps were severe. The monthly postwar
unemployment rate peaked at 10.8 percent in late 1982; gluts of workers
and products put an end to double-digit inflation.
But even the harshest postwar recessions were tame compared with the
Great Depression of the 1930s. There are at least three characteristics
that define the Depression and set it apart from postwar recessions.
First was the scale of economic havoc and human suffering. In 1933, the
unemployment rate averaged 25 percent. For the entire decade,
joblessness was in the double digits. There is some technical argument
among today's economists about the precise level of unemployment, but
there's no disagreement that it was huge. From 1929 to 1933, gross
domestic product (the economy's output, or GDP) fell about 25 percent.
Defaults on farms and homes were widespread. Industrial output plummeted.
Second, there was an intellectual vacuum in the sense that economists
lacked a widely accepted theory to explain the Depression. The
prevailing wisdom held that economic downturns would be largely
self-correcting. Labor costs and commodity prices would fall, restoring
companies' profitability and enabling them to expand output. But the
economy didn't behave as expected. The Depression kept worsening.
Business and political leaders felt powerless. The loss of
self-confidence amplified doubts that the economy could recover.
And third, there was, at the outset, no social safety net to cushion the
human costs of the economic collapse. As the Depression deepened, one
response was to blame the jobless themselves, as historian Robert S.
McElvaine notes in his exhaustive "The Great Depression." The attitude
was "there must be something wrong with a fellow who can't get a job."
For decades, it has been gospel among economists that another Depression
could not happen, because all the underlying causes have been
successfully addressed. Yes, economists disagree on some points. Still,
there is a broadly accepted theory to control business cycles. Call it
modified Keynesianism, after the famous economist John Maynard Keynes.
In a recession, cut interest rates and expand the government's budget
deficit.
These steps will stimulate spending and production, preventing an
economic free fall. For those who are still unemployed, there is a
sizable safety net (unemployment insurance, food stamps, Medicaid) to
reduce personal suffering. Public attitudes have shifted. People feel
"entitled" to government social protections. This has replaced the sense
of shame.
Whatever you think of these policies, they seem to be losing their
therapeutic power. We've been reducing interest rates and increasing
budget deficits for years without protecting ourselves from ever-larger
bursts of instability. The Great Recession and current downturn are more
virulent than previous postwar recessions. In 2009, we were saved by
Congress's nearly $1 trillion stimulus package and the Federal Reserve's
creation of multiple channels to lend money to besieged borrowers.
Now comes the coronavirus crisis, which makes those efforts seem paltry.
Congress has passed a rescue package of about $2 trillion — there are
various cost estimates — and the Fed created even more lending programs,
presumably channeling more trillions into credit markets. All this has
been done in record time. You have to ask yourself: What's the rush? The
answer seems to be that the sheer magnitude of these efforts will
reassure the public and financial markets that everything will be okay.
Will it? I don't know, and probably no one does. But the confidence we
once had in our ability to imagine and control the future is fading. Our
situation increasingly resembles the early 1930s, when past certitudes
no longer match present realities. The dividing line between a
depression and a severe recession is murky at best. If we aren't there
yet, we're closer than at any time since World War II.
