Posted on 07/06/2020 9:42:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
‘DEPART from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it’ – Psalm 34:13
It isn’t usual for a doctor to start an interview quoting from Scripture, but Dr Vladimir ‘Zev’ Zelenko sometimes does.
Someone who believes in God and orders his life according to his faith makes a bad start with the secular world. Being a ‘simple country doctor’ – his description – is another downer. A ‘Board Certified Family Practitioner’ is America’s closest equivalent to a British GP; Dr Zev has degrees in chemistry as well as medicine, but chose to practise as the family doctor to a close-living orthodox Jewish community in New York state.
When Covid-19 came to America, Dr Zev had a problem. If it took hold, he realised that it would rip through his community like measles through the native Americans. Unlike the NHS, still insisting – in defiance of the evidence – that ‘there is no treatment’, Dr Zelenko looked around for what the NHS apparatchiks say doesn’t exist, or can only be found in randomised clinical trials taking months to conclude.
He found it from Chinese and Korean reports, and from Professor Didier Raoult in Marseille, with his combination of the old anti-malarial hydroxychloroquine and the equally well-known antibiotic azithromycin, standard for chlamydia, and active also against viruses like Zika and Ebola. He also did some of the reading which the Oxford professors running the RECOVERY clinical trials failed to do.
RECOVERY’s information documents parrot this: ‘Chloroquine blocks virus infection by increasing endosomal pH required for virus/cell fusion, as well as interfering with the glycosylation of cellular receptors of SARS-CoV.’ It’s a word-for-word lift from an early February paper in Nature: Cell Research. Very likely these phenomena are indeed part of the anti-viral mechanism of hydroxychloroquine, but they missed completely something else.
By the second week in March, the idea was being openly discussed in a regular series of medical updates on the coronavirus (though unnoticed by the Oxford professors). The March 10 video now shows over a million views.
Zinc was known since 2010 to poison not just coronaviruses, but other RNA viruses too. It’s why zinc supplements are sometimes tried to prevent colds. It blocks a critical enzyme called RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, or ‘replicase’ for short. (Many enzymes are called ‘something-ase’ where ‘something’ hints at what it does). This enzyme is fundamental to the virus’s ability to copy itself. Poison the replicase: it’s ‘game over’ for the virus. There’s one snag: zinc exists in the body as a charged ion, so cannot easily cross cell membranes into the cell where it’s needed. But in 2014 it was found that chloroquine functions as a ‘zinc ionophore’, enabling zinc to cross cell membranes. The cancer researchers who discovered it weren’t thinking about viruses at all, but there it was.
Armed with those two simple facts, Dr Zev did the obvious, and added zinc supplements to the ‘Marseille cocktail’. Thus the ‘Zelenko Protocol’ (zinc, hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin) was born.
As Dr Zev now puts it: ‘Zinc is the bullet. Hydroxychloroquine is the gun.’
Some of this was outlined by Joseph Berry here on TCW in May. Azithromycin, originally there to treat bacterial infections on top of the virus, has anti-viral effects of its own, and according to the Marseille team further enhances the anti-viral effect of hydroxychloroquine.
Being possessed of a moral simplicity, Dr Zev instantly shared his results with open letters to ‘medical professionals around the world’ (March 23) with simple summaries, and to President Trump (April 7). A New York Times piece referred to him as a ‘Right-wing hero’. For the American Left, a doctor doing the best for his patients, curing an unknown disease, is now, apparently, being ‘Right-wing’. Trump’s endorsement of hydroxychloroquine set off immediate opposition to the drug from his political opponents; Dr Zev has had to live with that for months. And a full-time GP doesn’t have the time to write academic papers, so is easy to ignore.
That changed on Friday morning, when Dr Zev released a preprint of a long-awaited paper, co-authored with Professor Dr Martin Scholz of the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf, and Dr Roland Derwand, who had both previously published on zinc as a co-factor to hydroxychloroquine.
The outcomes from Dr Zev’s medical practice are now available for the world in a research paper. (Actually they always were, but some people pretend they can ignore all evidence not presented in sufficiently formal clothes).
Dr Zev has now seen some 2,200 Covid-19 patients. Having lost one lung himself to a rare arterial sarcoma, he would in the UK probably have been ordered to shelter inside. Instead he sees patients in person, without a mask, confident in the prophylaxis that he takes (hydroxychloroquine and zinc).
He doesn’t treat everyone. Young and otherwise healthy sweat it out (unless they get worse). Only 800 high-risk patients have been treated. These are not patients who would mostly recover anyway, proving nothing much about the treatment. No, they are the ones over 60, those with ‘co-morbidities’ or already short of breath, all of whom have a serious risk of ending up in hospital, or dead. Except on Dr Zev’s treatment, they usually don’t.
Of 141 patients proved to have covid-19 by specific tests, only one died, and only four were hospitalised. The rest recovered at home. Remember these were the high-risk cases, not the easy ones.
To fend off nit-pickers, only the patients with positive tests are included in the report. Not all patients needed testing; around a third had loss of smell or taste, symptoms now recognised as diagnostic for Covid, even in the UK. Not all patients could access tests (Matt Hancock will sympathise), and because results can take days to arrive, when time is of the essence, Dr Zev often starts treatment on clinical diagnosis without waiting for test results.
A bonus lies in a ‘control’ group of patients who didn’t get the ‘Zelenko Protocol’. This silences some of the criticisms routinely levelled at Professor Raoult, which are in effect that he should have deliberately not treated a random selection of his patients to compare the effect of not treating them (which Raoult considers unethical). Dr Zev likewise refuses nobody; the patients going untreated were those going to different medical practices in the same town. Public records give the outcomes. Of 384 untreated, test-positive patients, 13 died (3.4 per cent) and 58 (15.1 per cent) were hospitalised. This is all of the test-positive patients elsewhere in town, high-risk or not.
So Dr Zev’s high-risk patients almost always survive, and few go into hospital. Less than 1 per cent high-risk deaths is distinctly better than the hideous overall mortality of 175 NHS hospitals in the RECOVERY trials, approaching 24 per cent of more than 3,132 patients, or the case fatality rate for the UK, around 14 per cent of all cases.
Dr Zev’s priority is saving lives, without hospitalisation, and he usually succeeds. He knows that there is a limited window (about a week from symptoms) for knocking out the virus before the ‘inflammatory’ phase of the illness sets in. Typically he sees patients within four days of symptoms and most are treated within five days, a unique aspect of his paper.
Early treatment, within days of symptoms, has been emphasised by all successful clinicians for months. Remarkable accounts are now emerging from Brazil, where doctors recognising this have also had to fight political battles, and to be allowed to save lives. In the Amazon estuary city of Belém do Pará, an overwhelmed hospital system actually happened in early May. Patients died in vehicles outside. An early treatment policy, based on the Marseille combination, with drive-through pharmacies issuing medicine packs, transformed the apocalypse in a week.
Fewer than 5 per cent of the patients thus served turned up later at hospital.
Zelenko’s success shows the way of out of lockdowns, saving lives, squashing the epidemic, cleaning up spikes and ‘second waves’. It isn’t hospitals, intensive care beds or a vaccine that doesn’t exist yet and may never do. ‘Test and trace’, when it’s working, will help, but the missing ingredient is early treatment by GPs, using repurposed drugs whose safety is very well-known and which cost next to nothing ($20 per patient). An international petition (to the UK Parliament and Boris Johnson among others) has been started.
The UK death toll now stands at 44,198. Our fatalities are 14 per cent of all cases. Deaths per million are the second worst in the world. Excess deaths are the worst in the G7 countries. The NHS policy of ‘there is no treatment’ has patently failed.
Dr Zev has shown that it does not have to be like this.
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-Fauxi knew hydroxyxhloroquine could both cure and prevent corona viruses in 2005. Passive aggressive on HCQ in 2020. Intentional?
-”Fauxi” praised use of hydroxychloroquine in 2013 to treat the MERS corona virus. Risky drug in 2020?
COVER UP: Fauci Approved Chloroquine, Hydroxychloroquine 15 Years Ago to Cure Coronaviruses; “Nobody Needed to Die” – True Pundit
That doctor is leaving his community
https://nypost.com/2020/05/21/doctor-who-promoted-covid-cocktail-leaves-jewish-community/
“A New York doctor who rose to prominence for promoting a controversial drug cocktail as a weapon against the coronavirus announced that he is leaving the community where he treated mostly Hasidic Jewish clients for about two decades.
Dr. Vladimir “Zev” Zelenko — who promoted the use of the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine, combined with azithromycin and zinc sulfate — practiced in Monroe, near the Hasidic enclave of Kiryas Joel, according to reports.
In a video shared in Orthodox circles on Whatsapp, Zelenko said he has decided to step away from the community, according to the Forward.
“It’s with a broken heart that I have to say this, but I have decided to leave Monroe after almost two decades of working as a doctor, taking care of the community, most recently with this terrible magefah,” Zelenko said, using the Hebrew word for plague.
Zelenko said he made the decision after speaking with his family and religious advisers — “and thinking about what I want for the future, I’ve decided that it’s time for me to move on.””
here is another alternative and FDA did move some version of budesonide to OTC
https://texags.com/forums/84/topics/3122932
Thanks for posting.
Dr Zev also did a recent interview with Dr Drew Pinsky, regarding this protocol.
Dr Pinsky admitted that he was not a HCQ believer, to begin with, but is, now.
Here’s a link to that 7/4/20 interview...that goes over the Dr Z protocol, alternative prophylaxis treatment/dosages, as well as his own ‘trial’ results, the politicizing of this protocol, and more....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=466&v=3ywj-PZTt4g&feature=emb_logo
According to an interview from 7/4/20, Dr Z is still in the same community. He made no mention of leaving, although that doesn’t mean he is not planning to leave.
He has consulted with FIVE countries on his COVID/China Flu treatment protocol....Brazil, Isreal, parts of Russia, Ukraine and Guatemala, per his interview (linked at post # 8).
RE: Here’s a link to that 7/4/20 interview...that goes over the Dr Z protocol, alternative prophylaxis treatment/dosages, as well as his own ‘trial’ results, the politicizing of this protocol, and more....
Thanks for the link. Will watch it with interest...
bttt
You’re welcome. The interview portion is about 30 mins...not the entire, one hour podcast time :)
His appearance and credentials may seem short but his countenance is more of history and his mind is brilliant.
Dr. Zelenko was tops in his class in chemistry and readily accepted into many medical schools according to his high IQ where he could have pursued any medical specialization he deemed fit.
But he suddenly, after leading a secular existence, he found how important God is. So he put off medical school and instead went to Yeshiva in Israel to study for a year. This changed his life causing him to decide that he would best serve God by becoming a doctor to a conservative orthodox Jewish community.
In short, his looks, credentials, position lead him to be severely underrated. But those appearances are deceiving.
I became interested in following Dr. Zelenko after I saw him to be an honorable person who was viciously attacked by fake news and fake science in the same manner that I saw someone else viciously attacked in 2015 until the present. This latter person was Donald Trump.
Then I learned Dr. Zelenko had arrived at age 4 from Ukraine and grew up in Brooklyn. In interviews where he was questioned about the irrational attacks on his character and on his results with Hydroxychloroquine and Zinc Sulfate in treating the coronavirus and COVID-19, I saw his Brooklyn street attitude come out fighting for medical integrity just as Donald Trump fights to drain the Swamp.
Dr. Zelenko is a fighter with a Brooklyn edge while at the same time fighting for all Americans and remaining respectful to God. He won’t sell out. I love it.
Dr. Zelenko has done dozens of interviews and consultations with notable people including the President of Brazil, Israel’s PM Netanyahu, many other world leaders, and several guest appearances with President Trump’s lawyer and longtime confidant Rudy Giuliani who Dr. Zelenko calls “Mr. Mayor”.
Dr. Zelenko has spent this year solving the treatment puzzle of the coronavirus SARS-COV-2 and its disease state COVID-19 in the lungs. But he has a lung problem of his own.
In very recent years he was diagnosed with a very rare and always fatal lung disease which resulted in removing one of his lungs and for which he still is being treated.
That he has survived such a fatal disease prompted him in an interview with Rabbi Katzin to question why God had spared him.
To believers I think the answer is clear. He was selected by God to be to the coronavirus what Donald Trump is to the Swamp.
Re: here is another alternative and FDA did move some version of budesonide to OTC
https://texags.com/forums/84/topics/3122932
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Good information.
Budesonide is a steroid with relatively low toxicity, much safe than other gluco-steroids. It is used for pregnant women and children.
At this point I believe only the nasal spray is available OTC.
Thank-you
Good Information about Dr Zelenko.
I believe it was Rudy Giuliani who brought him to Trump’s attention.
bttt
Do you happen to know what kind of difference there is between prescription and what this Dr uses in terms of delivery method? Like 100 times more effective because it shoots it in further or whatever. I dont know anything about it because never use any of it.
I only did a quick search. One thing I saw was that the OTC would be same strength when moved over. IIRC, Rhinocort????
But obviously delivery method will make a difference
He did leave but not without a lot of heartbreak.
The back story is early in the pandemic he pushed the town’s medical administrator to get the town’s administrator to close the schools and synagogues. He was rebuffed and the result was 14 people in the community died of COVID-19 and he blamed them for these deaths.
MDs butting heads with medical administrators is commonplace in the medical community. Health administrators more often treat MDs like hired help rather than as medical authorities. Health administrators focus on the bottom line, MDs focus as they should on health. MDs carry liability, health administrators do not.
In his interview (w/Pinsky) I believe he says he’s also head of EMO, if I heard him, correctly.
And, he still refers to his community as ‘his’ community.
Not sure what is up.
Did you happen to watch the interview?
He said he was leaving his practice in Kiryas Joel. I believe he still practices in NYC.
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