By Sheila Page, DO Following the initial 15 days to “flatten the curve”, as COVID 19 was progressively sweeping the nation, the restrictions on most of the American public were not lifted as expected. People desperately wanted to be able to save their businesses from ruin, allow their children to play sports again, and walk […]
Many are afraid to take hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) for COVID as they have been told it could kill them because of its effect on the heart. Are you worried about this? It is a fact that HCQ, azithromycin (Z-Pak™), and other drugs can prolong the QT interval on the electrocardiogram (ECG)—see image below. This could make […]
If you are old enough, you remember Grandma telling you to play outside and get fresh air and sunshine. Fresh air dilutes and dries out germs, and the ultraviolet light in sunshine kills them. We now see this advice in technical jargon in the respected American Journal of Medicine: “reduce self-reinoculation.” Authors write: “It is […]
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD Planet of the Humans, a Michael Moore vehicle, came and went with little fanfare. Perhaps it was the message that our feeble attempts at halting climate change were just that: feeble and useless. Solar panels, wind turbines, electric cars and the like were criticized as mere “band-aids” and corporate […]
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) requested by Mayo Clinic for use of plasma from patients who recovered from COVID-19 to treat hospitalized patients. “The tipping point for the agency appeared to be that ‘optimal’ patients who were treated with ‘convalescent plasma at the highest [antibody] titers’ showed […]
By Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D. The FDA denied August 10 the urgent request for emergency approval for COVID-19 outpatient preventive and early treatment use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) filed July 1 by Dr. John McKinnon’s team at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, supported by Dr. Peter McCullough’s cardiology team in Dallas. Approximately 48,000 more Americans have […]
Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, along with Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), in a letter to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Stephen Hahn, write that “the FDA’s actions regarding [hydroxychloroquine] HCQ may be directly costing lives by limiting outpatient access to this […]
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 5002 Offered August 18, 2020. Prefiled August 14, 2020 Encouraging that hydroxychloroquine should be made available for treating COVID-19. Patrons– LaRock, Cole, M.L. and Walker WHEREAS, Virginia is immersed in a public health crisis related to the COVID-19 pandemic that has resulted in significant loss of life; and WHEREAS, during the […]
On Monday the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons filed its Petition for Writ of Mandamus with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on its lawsuit to end governmental interference with public access to hydroxychloroquine (HCQ). The Respondents include the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and the Department of Health & Human […]
I’m sure you are aware of the politics surrounding the “Trump drug,” as opinions about the use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in COVID-19 seem to correlate with support or opposition to President Trump. But that’s not the main story, as Dr. Simone Gold pointed out in a Facebook-censored interview with Glenn Beck. President Trump mentioned HCQ […]