Posted on 03/25/2020 7:40:21 AM PDT by Kaslin
Coronavirus is frightening.
I'm working from home, practicing "social distancing." Experts say it'll help "flatten the curve" so fewer people will be infected simultaneously. Then hospitals won't be overwhelmed.
But the infection rate grows. Doctors and hospitals may yet be overwhelmed.
It didn't have to get to this point.
Coronavirus deaths leveled off in South Korea.
That's because people in Korea could easily find out if they had the disease. There are hundreds of testing locations -- even pop-up drive-thru testing centers.
Because Koreans got tested, Korean doctors knew who needed to be isolated and who didn't. As a result, Korea limited the disease without mass quarantines and shortages.
Not in America. In America, a shortage of COVID-19 tests has made it hard for people to get tested. Even those who show all the symptoms have a difficult time.
Why weren't there enough tests?
Because our government insists on control of medical innovation.
That's the topic of my new video.
When coronavirus appeared, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made its own tests and insisted that people only use those CDC tests. But the CDC test often gave inaccurate results. Some early versions of the test couldn't distinguish between coronavirus and water.
Private companies might have offered better tests, and more of them, but that wasn't allowed. The World Health Organization even released information on how to make such tests, but our government still said no. Instead, all tests must go through the government's cumbersome approval process. That takes months. Or years.
Hundreds of labs had the ability to test for the virus, but they weren't allowed to test.
As a result, doctors can't be sure exactly where outbreaks are happening. Instead of quarantining just sick people, state governors are forcing entire states to go on lockdown.
At the same time, many people who show no symptoms do have COVID-19. Without widespread testing, we don't know who they are, and so the symptomless sick are infecting others.
A few weeks ago, the government finally gave up its monopoly and said it was relaxing the rules. There would be quick "emergency use authorizations" replacing the months- or years-long wait for approval. But even that took so long that few independent tests were approved.
So President Donald Trump waived those rules, too.
Now tests are finally being made. But that delay killed people. It's still killing people.
Other needlessly repressive rules prevented doctors and hospitals from trying more efficient ways to treat patients.
For example, telemedicine allows doctors and patients to communicate through the internet. When sick people consult doctors from home, they don't pass on the virus in crowded waiting rooms.
But lawyers and bureaucrats claimed such communications wouldn't be "secure," and would violate patients' privacy.
Only last week did officials announce they would allow doctors to "serve patients through everyday communications technologies."
Americans shouldn't have to ask permission to use "everyday" technologies.
Now doctors fear that as more people get sick, hospitals won't have enough beds for the critically ill.
But the bed shortage is another consequence of bad law. Critical access hospitals in rural areas are not allowed to have more than 25 beds. Trump has now announced that he's waiving those rules.
In some states, there's a shortage of doctors or nurses. That, too, is often a product of bad law -- state licensing laws that make it illegal for professionals licensed in one state to work in another. Trump said he would waive "license requirements so that the doctors from other states can provide services to states with the greatest need." Then it turned out that he could only allow that for Medicare; he didn't have the power to override stupid state licensing rules.
Fortunately, many states finally waived harmful licensing laws on their own.
It's good that governments finally removed some rules.
But the time that took killed people.
Once coronavirus passes, America should leave those regulations waived.
And we should repeal many others.
Yup.
Nevada governor outlawing malaria medicine.
Biomerica 10 minute $10 test sent overseas but not allowed here at home
and on
All those billions spent after 9/11 and they didn’t plan for a bio-emergency.
What an idiot, but than he is a rat, so it’s not surprising.
He wants all his infected people to leave the state so that only healthy people remain
It is brutally apparent that the CDC is nothing more than an extension of BigPharma, controlled by lobbyists and campaign donations.
Not ACCURATE.
While what they say is TRUE, they are not comparing equally.
South Korea was ahead of us getting the virus. They were better prepared, true, but we have caught up and surpassed them with testing, treatment, and supplies.
In other words, the race is staggered, like runners on a circular track. We started way back on the inside lane, but only half way through the race we are already ahead of the outside lane.
Why? Because we are a better runner. We have the will, the expertise, the training, the facilities, the coaching staff, the git R done attitude, we’re AMERICANS!
“That’s because people in Korea could easily find out if they had the disease. There are hundreds of testing locations — even pop-up drive-thru testing centers.”
I don’t get why we’re not using whatever tests worked in South Korea. Boggles the mind!
Many have made a big deal that the CDC did not use the WHO test. What they don't say or know is the CDC would have to manufacture those tests. CDC could very well have munged the production of that test too.
Joann fabrics has patterns and directions to make gowns and masks. I’d not thought they’d do that, but they have.
The MyPillow guy is making masks.
Successful therapy against Covid-19 virus from New York State:
Dr. Vladimir (Zev) Zelenko Board Certified Family Practitioner 501 Rt 208, Monroe, NY 10950 845-238-0000
March 23, 2020
To all medical professionals around the world:
My name is Dr. Zev Zelenko and I practice medicine in Monroe, NY. For the last 16 years, I have cared for approximately 75% of the adult population of Kiryas Joel, which is a very close knit community of approximately 35,000 people in which the infection spread rapidly and unchecked prior to the imposition of social distancing.
As of today my team has tested approximately 200 people from this community for Covid-19, and 65% of the results have been positive. If extrapolated to the entire community, that means more than 20,000 people are infected at the present time. Of this group, I estimate that there are 1500 patients who are in the high-risk category (i.e. >60, immunocompromised, comorbidities, etc).
Given the urgency of the situation, I developed the following treatment protocol in the pre-hospital setting and have seen only positive results:
1. Any patient with shortness of breath regardless of age is treated.
2. Any patient in the high-risk category even with just mild symptoms is treated.
3. Young, healthy and low risk patients even with symptoms are not treated (unless their circumstances change and they fall into category 1 or 2).
My out-patient treatment regimen is as follows:
1. Hydroxychloroquine 200mg twice a day for 5 days
2. Azithromycin 500mg once a day for 5 days
3. Zinc sulfate 220mg once a day for 5 days
The rationale for my treatment plan is as follows. I combined the data available from China and South Korea with the recent study published from France (sites available on request). We know that hydroxychloroquine helps Zinc enter the cell. We know that Zinc slows viral replication within the cell. Regarding the use of azithromycin, I postulate it prevents secondary bacterial infections. These three drugs are well known and usually well tolerated, hence the risk to the patient is low.
Since last Thursday, my team has treated approximately 350 patients in Kiryas Joel and another 150 patients in other areas of New York with the above regimen.
Of this group and the information provided to me by affiliated medical teams, we have had ZERO deaths, ZERO hospitalizations, and ZERO intubations. In addition, I have not heard of any negative side effects other than approximately 10% of patients with temporary nausea and diarrhea.
In sum, my urgent recommendation is to initiate treatment in the outpatient setting as soon as possible in accordance with the above. Based on my direct experience, it prevents acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), prevents the need for hospitalization and saves lives.
With much respect,
Dr. Zev Zelenko
cc: President Donald J. Trump; Mr. Mark Meadows, Chief of Staff
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