Michael Capuzzo is an American journalist and author whose adult daughter Grace was infected with SARS-CoV2 and quarantined in a Covid hotel with homeless people and travellers.
“The locks on her room door were removed. Nurses prowled the halls to keep her in her room and wake her up every night to check her vitals—not to treat her, because there is no approved treatment for COVID-19; only, if her oxygen plummeted, to move her to the hospital, where there is only a single effective approved treatment for COVID-19, steroids that may keep the lungs from failing.
Fortunately, I knew of an early treatment for Grace. It’s a cheap generic drug, safer than Tylenol, FDA-approved to treat scabies and lice in children and the elderly, with many other uses that make Ivermectin a “wonder drug.” In fifty-five clinical trials with 445 scientists and 17,730 patients around the world, Ivermectin has been shown to be the most powerful drug to eradicate COVID-19 in all stages of the disease, including prevention and early treatment.”
Since Covid-19 began and New Zealand cowered like scaredy cats behind closed doors waiting for the disease to go away, doctors in overseas Covid hotspots did what they are trained to do: Healing people and saving lives.
“Grace researched Ivermectin and was surprised that it is not FDA-approved as an anti-viral to treat COVID-19, although it is FDA-approved as an anti-parasitic agent. This would be an “off-label use,” a routine thing in medicine comprising some 20 percent of all prescriptions— aspirin to prevent heart attack or stroke, for instance, is “off label.”
“This is called doctoring. And it was routine until COVID-19, when a big pharma-dominated health system tried to eliminate all generic competition to protect its biggest payday of all time.”
In May 2020 Capuzzo and his wife Teresa heard Dr Pierre Kory testify to the US Senate about the first breakthrough by the nonprofit medical research group Frontline COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance, a steroid treatment saving 95 percent of COVID-19 patients when 80 percent were dying in New York City and the world was in panic.
“To our surprise, as longtime journalists—we met at The Philadelphia Inquirer—Dr. Kory was cancelled by a global news blackout. Was not a treatment that could save the world news?”
Capuzzo believes the media monsters can still redeem themselves.
“We live in a remarkable media age where a positive story on CNN, perhaps more so than a peer review in The New England Journal of Medicine, will instantly encourage doctors in two hundred countries to use a perfectly safe and legal drug and save humanity.
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I call on my fellow colleagues, including former colleagues and friends at The Washington Post and The New York Times, to open their hearts and minds to legitimate, unreported doctors and therapies and write about all sides of the Ivermectin story, like journalists always have. It is a historic opportunity. For the first time in the long journey from Gutenberg to Google, journalists may be the ones to save the world.”
Media aren’t considering their redemption just yet.
Capuzzo researched and wrote “The Drug That Cracked Covid” but despite his credentials as a New York Times best-selling fiction author the only editor who would publish his work was his wife Theresa, publisher and editor of Mountain Home.
Although Capuzzo lauds Ivermectin, he also reports on effective Covid treatment plans developed by Dr Paul Marik, “the second most published critical care doctor in the history of medicine, with more than 500 peer-reviewed papers and books, 43,000 scholarly citations of his work, and a research “H” rating higher than many Nobel Prize winners.”
“[The] “Marick Cocktail” [is] a revolutionary cocktail of cheap, safe, generic, FDA-approved drugs that dramatically reduces death rates from sepsis by 20 to 50 percent anywhere in the world—whether you’re in a hospital in Zurich or Zimbabwe, Chicago or Chengdu—down to near zero, when given soon after presentation to hospitals. Since he published what he calls the “HAT Therapy” (Hydrocortisone, Ascorbic Acid [intravenous Vitamin C] and Thiamine) in 2016 in the most prestigious peer- reviewed journal in the field, Marik has received worldwide publicity…”
But the monsters dictate the Covid-19 narrative.
“The global death toll was more than 3.3 million as this story went to press, and scientists are still scrambling. The NIH and WHO are still recommending Tylenol and water in 2021. There is still no approved treatment for all stages of COVID-19. Even with the rollout of vaccines, they are “not the whole answer,” Dr. Francis Collins, director of the NIH, said recently on 60 Minutes, with variants that threaten to defeat vaccines in rich countries constantly sweeping the Earth after mutating in that majority of poor 7.9 billion humans who won’t get a big pharma jab any time soon.”
While overseas doctors are heroes using whatever cheap and safe drugs are readily available, but not approved to treat Covid-19, NZ doctors have not been put to the test yet.
Will they be monsters or heroes or scaredy cats? Hopefully many will follow their overseas counterparts and save lives despite monstrous disapproval. The argument that insufficient large trials have been carried out to demonstrate the safety of hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin or other treatments can be compared to the safety of experimental vaccines rolled out at unseemly speed.
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