There is a hidden war underlying this pandemic. Big Pharma like Gilead have big bucks staked on their antiviral drugs like Remdesivir while others have bet big-time on vaccines or antibodies. Vaccines/antibodies will take time, as both will have to go through multi-phase clinical trials to test for safety and efficacy. Remdesivir is a new drug that was designed to fight Hepatitis C, Ebola and Marburg but failed its purpose. Now, it's been revived by Gilead (and proponents like NIH head Tony Fauci) to fight Covid-19. Fauci called Remdesivir "very promising" as it was reportedly shown to decrease recovery time for Covid patients from 15 to 11 days (from a study sponsored by Gilead...talk about conflict of interest).
Who are these pharmaceutical giants up against? The cocktail of Hydroxychloroquine (or HCQ) and Zinc (and sometimes with Azithromycin to combat secondary infections). Compared to Remdesivir which costs over $1,000 a pop, the HCQ cocktail cost pennies (i.e. very cheap). Additionally, HCQ has been around since the 1950s and the WHO actually recommended its use in the fight against malaria. Since then HCQ use has been extended to fight Rheumatoid Arthritis and auto-immune diseases like Lupus...and perhaps many others. It's safety profile is very well known. As long as you don't overdose and don't take this for prolonged periods of time, the possibility of side effects are very, very miniscule.
Fast forward to April 2020, right after Trump called HCQ "very promising", all of a sudden HCQ becomes lethal and ineffective. Medical journals like the New England and Lancet have come up with retrospective studies showing that HCQ has no benefit against Covid-19 and in fact they claim it results in higher mortality. Lancet in particular have been surprisingly political in their disapproval of Trump's handling of the pandemic (even to the surprise of a contributor from the typical anti-Trump CNN who noted that it's highly unusual for a medical journal to be issuing political comments). Both the New England and Lancet have based their studies on HCQ from a shady database company called Surgisphere. More than 180 doctors/scientists/medical professors have since questioned the Lancet study, which had halted the clinical trials of HCQ on Covid-19 patients as per WHO directive. Lancet study claimed to have covered over 96,000 patients from 671 hospitals in 6 continents. And they did this in the span of a month! The company that provided the data, Surgisphere, wouldn't reveal the names of the hospitals they got their data from. You have to check the Lancet data out to see how ridiculous the data is. Dr. Didier Raoult tweeted this glaring statistic.
Medical journals have reportedly claimed that they have been getting pressures from big Pharma to get studies out that meet their agenda. In this case, HCQ was the target. Why?
The use of HCQ in this pandemic started in China. A doctor in one local hospital noticed that Lupus patients were not getting Covid-19. The one thing that Lupus patients take is HCQ. Additionally, during the first SARS outbreak (2002-2004), the NIH itself announced the laboratory study that showed HCQ (in their own words) "stopped SARS dead in its tracks"; this was in vitro. So, it makes sense that doctors started trying various HCQ cocktails on Covid-19 patients to see what works. Dr. Didier Raoult (the French infectious disease expert) was among the first to announce success in using HCQ + Azithromycin to treat Covid patients. He had 92% recovery rate in 1,600+ patients using his regimen. The other one was Dr. Vladimir Zelenko from upstate New York who treated 600 patients using HCQ + Zinc + Azithromycin and had 95% recovery rate.
The key for HCQ cocktail in defeating Covid-19 is early treatment, according to proponents like Dr. Zelenko and Dr. Didier Raoult. For the first 5 days of getting your symptoms, Sars Cov19 virus count in your body is relatively stable. On the 6th/7th day, the virus spreads like a wildfire and your body's immune system responds wildly, causing the dreaded "cytokine storm" where your immune system begins kills you. To put simply, if you have fever, some cough and you've lost your sense of smell/taste....unless proven otherwise, assume you have Covid-19 and take the Zelenko regimen.
The way HCQ and Zinc fights Covid-19 is by stopping viral replication. If you stop viral replication, the viral count remains low and your body's immune system should be able to kill the virus. Covid-19 cannot replicate itself. It needs to hijack your cell, use your cellular replication machinery (i.e. Ribosomes) to replicate itself. Somehow, either through bio-engineering by China or through natural mutation, Covid-19 was able to bind to ACE-2 receptors in the human cell wall, unlock it and then enter the cell.
What HCQ does is prevent this entry into the cell. And if you're late and the virus has already entered the cells, HCQ can still play a role. HCQ is a Zinc ionophore, meaning that HCQ opens a channel for Zinc to enter the cell and fight the virus. Zinc is known to stop viral replication. You can see how this 1-2 punch from HCQ + Zinc can neutralize Covid-19...IF YOU TREAT EARLY. If you treat late, it's like trying to use fire extinguisher on a house that's already burning wildly and then saying that fire extinguishers do not work and results in more deaths.
Many, many people have reported amazing recoveries (as in with 24 hours of taking HCQ+Zing with or without Azithromycin) like Democrat congresswoman from Michigan Karen Whitsett...there's also the case of Dr. Wang whom Larrazabal said was treated with the HCQ cocktail.
Imagine 92-95% recovery rate which is common rate found in retrospective studies from France (Raoult) and US (Zelenko). Plus, countries like India, Spain, Russia and Brazil which all have defied the WHO directive to stop HCQ administration. No wonder Big Pharmaceutical companies feel threatened. Who would need their vaccines or new antiviral drugs if we have HCQ (cheap and has been around for over 50 years) giving 92-95% recovery rate? Very few. These companies would suffer huge losses if HCQ + Zinc become standard treatment.
We are a poor country. Have the common sense to know that we can't afford these $1000 drugs or expensive new vaccines. The clinical trials on HCQ (should be with Zinc) should continue, so we can get to the bottom of this. The mainstream media has gone berserk over Trump and they've gone too far to the LEFT. How else can you explain illegal immigrants now being called migrants? How else can you explain if you say there are only two genders, you'd be called right-wing? Nowadays, they're even having these preferred pronouns. This is getting out of hand. The LEFT is driving this world to h-e-l-l in a handbasket.