No one has to die from COVID; Effective and safe treatments exist
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz today reported that Israelis over 60 who are either unvaccinated or only partially vaccinated against COVID-19 died in significantly higher numbers last month compared to people in their age cohort who are fully vaccinated, according to official figures published by the Israeli Health Ministry.
Are infected people being treated? Are there treatments that can help? The Israel Health Ministry’s recommended treatment for people over 60 is Molnupiravir or Paxlovid, two new drugs that received FDA emergency use authorization. Health Ministry guidelines call for administering these drugs within five days of the onset of symptoms. This isn’t just good advice. The guidelines state clearly not to administer after five days of symptoms. Apparently, that could be dangerous.
Realistically, this means that few people are getting these drugs. Few people go for a test the minute they get a runny nose. By the time an infected person decides to get tested for COVID-19, that person has usually had symptoms for days. Furthermore, for a full year, we were told that there is no treatment for COVID-19 and that only vaccines can help. Health facilities were instructed to tell people to stay at home until they either recovered or experienced difficulty breathing at which point they should go immediately to the hospital. The average Israeli doesn’t know about Molnupiravir or Paxlovid. The average Israeli thinks there is no treatment beyond getting the jab (four times now).
Unfortunately, two drugs, ivermectin (IVM) and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), are not even recommended by the health ministry even though there are more than 200 studies that support treatment with HCQ and more than 60 studies supporting treatment with IVM. These two drugs have a decades long track record of safety. In fact, they are both listed in the World Health Organization’s list of essential medicines.
They are so safe that they were both available over the counter in most countries. HCQ was available OTC in France, Canada, Iran, Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama and many other countries. The CDC’s information sheet deems hydroxychloroquine safe for pregnant women, breastfeeding women, children, infants, elderly and immune-compromised patients and healthy persons of all ages.
Ivermectin, as well, has a stellar safety profile. According to an article published June 2021, in the American Journal of Therapeutics, “with total doses of ivermectin distributed apparently equaling one-third of the present world population, ivermectin at the usual doses is considered extremely safe for use in humans.” Yet, the FDA discourages its use for COVID. On its website we find, “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it.” In contrast, the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, in its only award for treatments of infectious diseases since six decades prior, honored the discovery of ivermectin, a multifaceted drug deployed against some of the world's most devastating tropical diseases.
Unlike IVM and HCQ, Molnupiravir showed safety signals so alarming that some of its codevelopers at Emory University protested its into introduction into human Phase I trials. Plaxovid is really two drugs combined in one pill, a protease inhibitor (IVM copycat) and an HIV drug. It cannot be taken with a slue of other drugs.
These are not the only medicines that have been found to be safe and effective against COVID. An Oxford University study published in February 2021, demonstrated that treatment with budesonide could reduce hospitalizations by 90 percent in low-risk patients and a publication in April 2021, showed that recovery was faster for high-risk patients, too.
Given the efficacy and safety profiles of the various inexpensive repurposed drugs that are readily available, it’s a wonder the Ministry of Health does not encourage their use. The Haaretz article and the Israel Health Ministry data that the article is based on, give the impression that there is only one solution to COVID. If you do not want to die, you must get the jab. As we’ve seen, this flies in the face of the facts. You do not need to get the jab, and no one needs to die.
