Posted on 07/24/2020 7:29:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A team of Irish scientists believes that they have discovered a new way of using a drug touted by US President Donald Trump to treat COVID-19.
Trump came in for criticism in recent months when he claimed to be taking a preventative dose of hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malaria drug, to protect against COVID-19 despite expert warnings that its efficacy as a treatment was unproven and that its consumption outside the bounds of authorised prescriptions could be dangerous.
In May, the World Health Organisation (WHO) suspended trials investigating the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine as COVID-19 treatment after a study was published in medical journal the Lancet suggesting that there was a slightly higher mortality rate among coronavirus patients who received the drug.
The WHO stressed that the safety of hydroxyhloroquine as an anti-malaria drug is not in doubt.
However, an Irish team of researchers that includes chemists and pharmacists has suggested that the inhalation rather than the ingestion of hydroxychloroquine may prove more effective as a COVID-19 treatment while requiring a lower dosage.
The novel method of administering hydroxychloroquine occurred to Cork-based retired pharmacist John Farragher during the early stages of lockdown, prompting him to reach out to other scientists through the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Pharmaceuticals (SSPC).
Mr Farragher told the Irish Mirror: ‘I thought it most desirable that the dose should be lowered but wondered how we might achieve this but still retain the efficacy. It looked impossible until it struck me that the disease is initially a respiratory infection and as such it could be treated in the lungs before it spread throughout the body.
‘Lungs constitute less than 2% of body weight so if we could treat them with a low dose of HCQ, about 2% of normal dose, we could avoid the side-effects
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This is from MSN?! Censors must be asleep.
>> In May, the World Health Organisation (WHO) suspended trials investigating the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine as COVID-19 treatment after a study was published in medical journal the Lancet suggesting that there was a slightly higher mortality rate among coronavirus patients who received the drug. <<
No mention of the article being withdrawn for being presumed fake.
Who do you trust more? Brazilian researchers or Irish researchers?
Wasn’t the Lancet study withdrawn?
Wasn’t the Lancet study withdrawn?
That “unproven drug” has been in use for about a century now. It’s been theorized that areas of Africa that have largely escaped the Chinky Pox’s worst effects are places where quinine-type drugs are widely used to prevent and treat malaria. Makes sense, but Orange Man bad, so we must keep looking for other explanations and cures.
They forgot to use “dangerous” from the AssPress Style Sheet...
RE: Who do you trust more? Brazilian researchers or Irish researchers?
Heck, who do we trust more?
This Brazilian Researcher:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3868026/posts
or this Brazilian researcher:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3866669/posts
Wow, the author cites the Lancet study but never mentions it was withdrawn for incompetency and denounced even by the WHO!
Regardless, Half the countries of the world told the WHO to FO because they were going to continue using HCQ,
Doctor on EWTN said last night that the reason hydrocholorcrine did not work in some cases is because the CDC got involved and only permitted low doses.
A friend has just finished the 5 day protocol using tonic water (contains quinine, precourser to HCQ) because the clinic doctor was not aware of the Zelenko protocol.
Schwepps tonic water contains appx 80mg of quinine per liter. 3 liters= appx 240mg, just over one of the two daily doses of HCQ in the Zelenko protocol. Should have drunk 6 liters, but did have 220mg/day of zinc piccolinate lozenges. Used 10g/day of Vitamin C instead of z pack. It still worked.
On the 3rd day of tonic, vit c and 220mg zinc, smell and taste returned. The fatigue had gone within 24 hrs.
” Brazilian researchers or Irish researchers? “
Only African researchers.
The Congress voted yesterday to get rid of all evidence of Caucasian history in North America. They now allege that all scientific, artistic and political achievements were accomplished in secret by Wise Men from Wakanda.
Clearly we can look to them for the answers to the Chinese plague.
“still retain the efficacy”
So the doc admits the original efficacy.
Yikes. Six liters a day of tonic water?
You’ll gain two pounds a day from the sugar!
I drink Q-tonic and Fever Tree which are more bitter (=less sugar), but it’s still a lot. Have been planning to brew my own virtually without much sugar because I like it bitter. But even then it’s still a fair amount.
But whatever, right? It’s only a few days!
Hydroxychlorquine is a zinc ionophore (it opens cell doors for zinc entry) just like quercetin and epigallocatechin-gallate:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25050823/
Who do do you trust more — Younger, highly university-indoctrinated, SJW-type, $$$ hungry WHO ‘scientists’ or a retired pharmacist?
And — Did the WHO study include zinc with the HCQ? How far progressed was the infection in their subjects?
Who trusts WHO? Cindy Lou?
Unproven! Sort of like Remdesivir?
AKA - bartenders ;-)
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