< 20 years old – 99.98%
20-50 years old – 99.97%
50-70 years old – 99.5%
> 70 years old – 95%
Those numbers are even better if your are following a ketogenic or carnivorous lifestyle.
Sadly, I’ve had patients over age 70 tell me “pneumonia is an old man’s best friend.” It is very true that pneumonia, the common cold, influenza and COVID-19 can all cause death in the older frail adult. This is not something new, though if you listen to CNN you may think death should never occur.
But, thousands of physicians and over 200 different journal articles within the last 11 months demonstrate that if you are treated with azithromycin and either hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin plus Zinc, Vitamin D, Niacin, Vitamin C and Melatonin, you improve your risk of survival of a COVID-19 infection by an additional 10-40%. 75% of those studies demonstrated significant improvement even when hydroxychloroquine was started late. Africa has a mortality rate (1.3 per 100,000) that is 100 percent lower than the US (120 per 100,000) because they have hydroxychloroquine available over-the-counter and many people take it “every Sunday” as preventative medication for malaria.
Mind you, these medications were never FDA approved for treatment with COVID-19. But, we as licensed physicians have the autonomy to use medication “off-label” as long as we have discussed the risks, side-effects and expectations of these medications and you are aware that they were never FDA approved.
I have treated hundreds of patients with these combinations with great success in my clinic over the last 11 months.
Yet, in the last two weeks Fry’s Pharmacies (Kroger Pharmacies) are now refusing to dispense hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin for any COVID related virus. Why? Because they can make a huge profit on the Experimental COVID-19 vaccine. Why dispense a generic medication when you can make twice the profit from a vaccine? However, this experimental vaccine’s effectiveness is still yet to be confirmed, and probably less effective on newer strains as stated by the Surgeon General this last week (https://news.yahoo.com/us-surgeon-general-covid-19-184157789.html).
In my opinion, this is malpractice on the part of Fry’s Pharmacy and malfeasance on the part of the pharmacist.
Until they issue a public apology to you and me, I recommending you and I stop using Fry’s Pharmacy all together. Any company that mandates the use of an Experimental Vaccine with a side effect profile experienced by up to 20% of those who receive it, and at the same time refuses to provide access to proven treatments overseen by a physician should not receive the business or the trust of the public. If your pharmacist refused to dispense these medications with a valid prescription from your doctor, please let me know.
The pharmacists claim they won’t dispense hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin “because the FDA has not approved their use for viral infections.” Yet, these drugs are safe enough to be over the counter in many other countries and because of the vaccine, this is all political. Both of these drugs have been use very safely for decades with millions of people around the world for multiple disease processes.
The FDA issued it’s updated statement on the use of ivermectin. “Ivermectin is an antiparasitic drug that is approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of onchocerciasis and strongyloidiasis. Ivermectin is not FDA-approved for the treatment of any viral infection. In general, the drug is well tolerated. It is currently being evaluated as a potential treatment for COVID-19.” These drugs are considered “generally safe” for multiple disease processes used over long periods of time, and yet, the politics and finances of this issue have now become more important than your health. Neither the FDA or the NIH has stated that these drugs are contrindicated, they just have not been approved, and because of that “they are not recommended.”
As of January 14, 2021, the NIH has stated that ” currently there are insufficient data to recommend either for or against the use of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19. Results from adequately powered, well-designed, and well-conducted clinical trials are needed to provide more specific, evidence-based guidance on the role of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19.” Similar statements have been issued on hydroxychloroquine. However, “well conducted clinical trials” will not occur for some time, as these types of studies take years to be designed, funded and put into place. Because ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine are generic drugs, there is no incentive for any pharmaceutical company to run these types of studies. The FDA will never change it’s position for this same reason.
Any physician, organization or pharmacy that places politics and finances over your health and wellbeing and tries to get between the doctor and patient should experience you and I protesting with our wallets and our feet.
Two essential things come out of this. First, the CDC, FDA and NIH have shown us as a nation how untrustworthy they are. Second, if you and I are not vigilant, mandates for the use of an experimental and potentially dangerous vaccine will be come the “new normal.”
I recommend you go to https://stopmedicaldiscrimination.org/ and sign the petition to prevent travel companies, airlines and other businesses from mandating this and any other experimental vaccine. And, then tell Fry’s Pharmacy and any other pharmacist that plays politics with your health where they can put the rest of their medications.
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