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I thought the other major part of the treatment was including a zinc supplement in addition to the Azithromycin and Hydroxychloroquine?

by vondur 7y ago

WilsonPaige 7y ago
Yes. One of the earliest proponents of that was Dr. Zev Zelenko: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ulqf5NXhms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ulqf5NXhms and https://twitter.com/RossFairchild/status/1242263727325483010 https://twitter.com/RossFairchild/status/1242263727325483010? "Dr Zelenko statistics – 699 cases / 0 deaths = 0% death rate PATIENTS TREATED WITH THREE DRUG REGIMEN 1- hydroxychloroquine 200mg twice a day for 5 days 2- azithromycin 500mg once a day for five days 3- zinc sulfate 220mg once a day for five days CONCLUSION – TREAT AS EARLY AND AS AGGRESSIVELY AS POSSIBLE IN THE OUTPATIENT SETTING Respectfully, Dr. Vladimir (Zev) Zelenko" But Zelenko treated his patients _early_; he didn't wait until they had pneumonia or other lung problems to administer the triad of drugs. The recent studies that "disprove hydroxychloroquine/chloroquin" differ from Zelenko's suggested treatment in that: a) they select patients where disease is in an advanced stage, i.e., in in the lungs and/or pneumonia/SARS/ARDS has developed, b) they don't administer zinc at all: they may not administer azithromycin, c) these studies usually _overdose_ the hydroxychloroquine/chloroquin. Note that Zelenko used only 200mg hydroxychloroquine twice a day. Zelenko makes it clear that his goal was to defeat the virus early (ergo the zinc sulfate + hydroxychloroquine as a zinc ionophore, which allows the zinc zn++ ion to move from the bloodstream into each cell's cytoplasm where viral replication takes polace. Zelenko also clearly notes (in other places) that the azithromycin was a trick taken from ICU doctors, a drug intended to _prevent_ opportunistic bacterial infection consequent to the virus damaging lung tissue. Waiting for pheumonia/SARS/ARDS to develop before deploying azithromycin or other antibiotics should be considered medical negligence. Even medicine can't avoid politics these days.
IAmEveryone 7y ago
Funny, your comment from 23 days ago only mentions Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22721807 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22721807

I thought the other major part of the treatment was including a zinc supplement in addition to the Azithromycin and Hydroxychloroquine?

by vondur 7y ago

I thought the other major part of the treatment was including a zinc supplement in addition to the Azithromycin and Hydroxychloroquine?

WilsonPaige 7y ago

Yes. One of the earliest proponents of that was Dr. Zev Zelenko: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ulqf5NXhms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ulqf5NXhms and https://twitter.com/RossFairchild/status/1242263727325483010 https://twitter.com/RossFairchild/status/1242263727325483010? "Dr Zelenko statistics – 699 cases / 0 deaths = 0% death rate PATIENTS TREATED WITH THREE DRUG REGIMEN 1- hydroxychloroquine 200mg twice a day for 5 days 2- azithromycin 500mg once a day for five days 3- zinc sulfate 220mg once a day for five days CONCLUSION – TREAT AS EARLY AND AS AGGRESSIVELY AS POSSIBLE IN THE OUTPATIENT SETTING Respectfully, Dr. Vladimir (Zev) Zelenko" But Zelenko treated his patients _early_; he didn't wait until they had pneumonia or other lung problems to administer the triad of drugs. The recent studies that "disprove hydroxychloroquine/chloroquin" differ from Zelenko's suggested treatment in that: a) they select patients where disease is in an advanced stage, i.e., in in the lungs and/or pneumonia/SARS/ARDS has developed, b) they don't administer zinc at all: they may not administer azithromycin, c) these studies usually _overdose_ the hydroxychloroquine/chloroquin. Note that Zelenko used only 200mg hydroxychloroquine twice a day. Zelenko makes it clear that his goal was to defeat the virus early (ergo the zinc sulfate + hydroxychloroquine as a zinc ionophore, which allows the zinc zn++ ion to move from the bloodstream into each cell's cytoplasm where viral replication takes polace. Zelenko also clearly notes (in other places) that the azithromycin was a trick taken from ICU doctors, a drug intended to _prevent_ opportunistic bacterial infection consequent to the virus damaging lung tissue. Waiting for pheumonia/SARS/ARDS to develop before deploying azithromycin or other antibiotics should be considered medical negligence. Even medicine can't avoid politics these days.

IAmEveryone 7y ago

Funny, your comment from 23 days ago only mentions Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22721807 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22721807