APPROVED ON JULY 21, 2021 BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AT THE WEEKLY BUSINESS SESSION
WEEKLY BUSINESS SESSION— July 14, 2021 9: 00 a. m.— Anne Basker Auditorium 600 N. W. Sixth Street, Grants Pass, OR 97526
Present: Daniel E. DeYoung, Chair; Herman E. Baertschiger Jr., Vice-Chair; and Darin J. Fowler, Commissioner; Trish Paredes, Recorder
These are meeting minutes only. Only text enclosed in quotation marks reports a speaker' s exact words.
Pursuant to notice through the media and in conformance with the Public Meeting Law, Daniel E. DeYoung, Chair, called the meeting to order at 5: 30 p.m.
Items discussed were as follows:
1. PUBLIC HEARING: In the Matter of Annexations to the JOSEPHINE COMMUNITY LIBRARY DISTRICT by Petition of Landowner, Without Election
Order Number Petitioner Assessor Map/ Tax Lot Acres
2021- 030 HARVEY, Carlton& COBB, Rebecca 36- 06- 13- A0-000502- 00 5. 01
2021- 031 MARR Kevin& Constance 36- 05- 21- DA- 000200- 00 1. 66
2021- 032 MENKEE, Julie& Aurora 37- 05- 19- D0- 000900- 00 75
Commissioner DeYoung opened the Public Hearing at 5: 32 p. m. Kate Laskey, Josephine Community Library District, explained that these three annexations are voluntarily opting into the district to support the library and to be allowed to vote on the Library District Board members.
REQUESTS/ COMMENTS FROM CITIZENS: ( Each person will be given three( 3) minutes to speak) None heard.
Commissioner Fowler made a motion to approve Order No. 2021- 030; Order No. 2021- 031; Order No. 2021- 032; In the Matter of Annexations to the Josephine Community Library District by Petition of Landowner, Without Election, seconded by Commissioner Baertschiger. Upon roll call vote, motion passed 3- 0; Commissioner Fowler— yes, Commissioner Baertschiger yes and Commissioner DeYoung—yes. Commissioner DeYoung closed the Public Hearing at 5: 34 p. m.
2. ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIONS IN CONSIDERATION OF:
BOARD DECISIONS UNDER ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIONS WERE MADE AFTER PUBLIC COMMENT WAS RECEIVED
a. Approval of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees ( AFSCME) Collective Bargaining Agreement
JJ Scofield, Human Resource Director, explained that this bargaining agreement is for the duration of three years and includes a COLA adjustment, CPI adjustment, and administrative changes to codify State laws among other amendments. A comprehensive wage analysis was used to make any adjustments in salaries.
3. REQUESTS/ COMMENTS FROM CITIZENS: (Each person will be given three( 3) minutes to speak) Judy Hinkel, O' Brien, spoke in opposition to the Covid- 19 vaccine and the dangers it poses to the health of those take it. Craig Hinkel, O' Brien, spoke in opposition to Oregon State mandates that shut down businesses due to Covid- 19. Guenter Ambron, Illinois Valley, submitted documents concerning Covid- 19 scams by Anthony Fauci( Exhibit 1). Mark Seligman, Illinois Valley, spoke in support of the Covid- 19 vaccine and spoke in opposition to censorship. Judy Ahrens, Josephine County, spoke in support of Josephine County staying open. David Darnell, Cave Junction, spoke in opposition to the River Democracy Act and any land locks by the government. Catherine Austin, Cave Junction, spoke in opposition to the methods the government is taking to vaccinate and control citizens through the Covid- 19 pandemic. Leo Goodley, Cave Junction, spoke in opposition to the Covid- 19 tactics that the government has taken to inoculate and control citizens.
4. BOARD MAY REVIEW PUBLIC COMMENTS/QUESTIONS:
The Board addressed public comments. Weekly Business Session July 14, 2021 Page 2
Board Discussion and Action— Agenda Item 2( a)
Commissioner Baertschiger moved to approve American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees ( AFSCME) Collective Bargaining Agreement, seconded by Commissioner Fowler. Upon roll call vote, motion passed 3- 0; Commissioner Fowler—yes, Commissioner Baertschiger—yes, and Commissioner De Young—yes.
5. APPROVAL OF CONSENT CALENDAR:
a. Minutes( Draft minutes are availablefor viewing in the Board' s Office) Weekly Business Session— July 7, 2021 b. Resolution No. 2021- 030; In the Matter of Appointments to the Josephine County Charter Review Commission One original Resolutionfiled with the County Clerk)
Board Discussion and Action:
Commissioner Fowler moved to approve the Consent Calendar Agenda Items 5( a) through 5( b) as listed, seconded by Commissioner Baertschiger. Upon roll call vote, motion passed 3- 0; Commissioner Fowler—yes. Commissioner Baertschiger— yes, and Commissioner DeYoung—yes. 6. OTHER: ( ORS 192. 640( 1)) ". . . notice shall include a list ofthe principal subjects anticipated to be considered at the meeting, but this requirement shall not limit the ability ofa governing body to consider additional subjects.')
None reported.
7. MATTERS FROM COMMISSIONERS: Commissioner Fowler announced a free vaccine clinic in Jubilee Park this upcoming Saturday and spoke about meetings he had attended. Commissioner DeYoung reminded citizens that Back to the 50' s will be held this year and urged citizens to attend if in town.
Weekly Business Session adjourned at 6: 40 p. m.
Trish Paredes, Recorder
Entered into record:
Exhibit 1 — Guenter Ambron' s documents ADDRESS TO JOSEPHINE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS JULY 14TH By Guenter Ambron, Cave Junction, www.ivemedia. orq/ 541- 415- 1929
Greetings Dan, Herman, and Darin
Pardon my departure in getting back to you. Our Neighborhood, organizing, and Fire Season preparations have taken all my time.
I' ve reviewed your last two Business Sessions, great to see the commissioners in the Anne Baxter. I will join you there on the 14th of July.
I have two items to cover:
One. Illinois Valley Neighborhood Watch: We continue to experience an escalation in crime and theft. I' ve seen my very first MS- 13 member at Shops Smart yesterday. We are having a meeting at Wild Rivers Pizza, Cave Junction, July 12th, 5PM. And a Fire Watch Incident Drill in Takilma Thursday, July 8, at 1 PM
We are grateful, and extend our thanks to Sheriff Dave Daniel, his Deputies, the task force, and to the commissioners for the illegal grow enforcement action taken.. and for it being highly publicized.
Two. On COVID- 19 and Anthony Fauci: I continue to source, prepare documents and information with the best science, data, and professional testimony possible. I have a publication paper issue almost complete which includes remedies by frontline doctors treating patients with ( claimed) COVID- 19. I have coupled it with our WebSite www.ivemedia. org ( where we have considerable material posted).
NIAID Director Tony Fauci is in the hot seat as you may know, regarding his recent questioning at congressional hearings. There is considerable evidence of conflict of interests, and interlocking directives. But the problem stands with indictment and prosecution, as our justice system, today, is so politicized, including the Corporate Media which is tailored to a predetermined narrative.
Dr. David E. Martin, director/ creator of M- CAM, has completed extensive investigations on the SARS coronavirus", the patenting of, and suspected chimeric weaponization activities — as gain of function" of biogenic materials. Dr. Martin and M- CAM provides international services with intelligence reports to governments and investors. He has followed Dr. Fauci since 1999. Dr. Martin released the " Fauci/ COVID- 19 Dossier" to the public in January of 2021 , "for the sake of humanity" he says. "The Fauci/COVID- 19 Dossier" contains substantial business referenced documentation of funding, collaboration, patents, grants, partners, and the lead- up to the Wuhan Lab incident. It' s been sent to the US AG Bill Barr (6/ 20), and to several State AGs. The Dossier will speak for itself. Dr. Martin encourages everyone who examines it to bring it before the authorities. There is also the CoronaVirus Investigative Committee in Germany. Rinner Fullmich with an international group of lawyers are addressing the fraud that has occurred. There are 100s of other organizations that are on the march to expose the truth, and growing. The full narrative of what has occurred is being revealed. You can follow an introduction to this subject matter and the Dossier by Dr. Martin at: www.ivemedia. org/ law
Much of Dr. Martin' s material on the Pandemic is still on youtube. Due to his international
credibility
FYI
NOT TO BE READ for commissioners only.
There is a substantial series of Groups, and Municipalities, States, and Countries that are uncoupling. This is where the importance of the courtesy notice of liability comes in. The States and the Fed have large sums of credit they can conjure from their plastic banking system of fractional lending. When American's justice system is restored to accountability, it will order the balance be brought back to People first, money second.
The currency in any country, of a free land, can only be issued by its people, through its congress. An honest one.
The Money Barons have been running things for a long time. https://youtu. be/ DlfvfMgGDEg
An Ordinance, specifically place as law, can order the following of US Constitution and State Constitutional law, as abiding in the union, in history of the agreements and the compacts of men, and the law they stood under and by, during that contract, and, Secondly: A Government protecting their constituents. The County places the safety and welfare of it' s people as its first priority. We live in a sea of unchecked government. The law is not being applied. No court in the land is doing anything about it. They are a part of the Official Narrative. Especially at the Fed level.
But never the less, government can' t do much about it until the people stand for it, and make it happen with them.
This time is nearly at hand.
Thanks Commissioners.
I will continue to search and sort out, with everyone' s help, what is the real story. We owe it to ourselves.
Guenter Ambron Ivy Dr. Cave Junction 541- 415- 1929 The Fauci/ COVID- 19 Dossier
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This work was supported, in part, by a fund-raising effort in which approximately 330 persons contributed funds in support of the New Earth technology team and Urban Global Health Alliance. It is released under a Creative Commons license CC- BY-NC-SA. Any derivative use of this dossier must be made public for the benefit of others. All documents, references and disclosures contained herein are subject to an AS- IS representation. The author does not bear responsibility for errors in the public record or references therein. Throughout this document, uses of terms commonly accepted in medical and scientific literature do not imply acceptance or rejection of the dogma that they represent.
Background:
Over the past two decades, my company— M• CAM— has been monitoring possible violations of the 1925 Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous, or other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare the Geneva Protocol) 1972 Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, and Stockpiling of Bacteriological and Toxin Weapons and Their Destruction( the BTWC). In our 2003- 2004 Global Technology Assessment: Vector Weaponization M• CAM highlighted China' s growing involvement in Polymerase Chain Reaction PCR) technology with respect to joining the world stage in chimeric construction of viral vectors. Since that time, on a weekly basis, we have monitored the development of research and commercial efforts in this field, including, but not limited to, the research synergies forming between the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention( CDC), the National Institutes for Allergies and Infectious Diseases( NIAID), the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill( UNC), Harvard University, Emory University, Vanderbilt University, Tsinghua University, University of Pennsylvania, many other research institutions, and their commercial affiliations.
The National Institute of Health' s grant A123946- 08 issued to Dr. Ralph Baric at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill( officially classified as affiliated with Dr. Anthony Faucis NIAID by at least 2003) began the work on synthetically altering the Coronaviridae( the coronavirus family) for the express purpose of general research, pathogenic enhancement, detection, manipulation, and potential therapeutic interventions targeting the same. As early as May 21, 2000, Dr. Baric and UNC sought to patent critical sections of the coronavirus family for their commercial benefit.' In one j of the several papers derived from work sponsored by this grant, Dr. Baric published what he reported to be the full length cDNA of SARS CoV in which it was clearly stated that SAR CoV was based on a composite of DNA segments.
Using a panel of contiguous cDNAs that span the entire genome, we have assembled a full-length cDNA of the SARS- CoV Urbani strain, and have rescued molecularly cloned SARS viruses( infectious clone SARS- CoV) that contained the expected marker mutations inserted into the component clones."'
On April 19, 2002— the Spring before the first SARS outbreak in Asia— Christopher M. Curtis, Boyd Yount, and Ralph Baric filed an application for U. S. Patent 7, 279, 372 for a method of producing recombinant coronavirus. In the first public record of the claims, they sought to patent a means of producing, " an infectious, replication defective, coronavirus." This work was supported by the NIH grant referenced above and GM63228. In short, the U. S. Department i of Health and Human Services was involved in the funding of amplifying the infectious nature of coronavirus between 1999 and 2002 before SARS was ever detected in humans.
U. S. Provisional Application No. 60/ 206, 537, filed May 21, 2000 2 https:// www.pnas. org/ content/ 100/ 22/ 12995
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Against this backdrop, we noted the unusual patent prosecution efforts of the CDC, when on April 25, 2003 they sought to patent the SARS coronavirus isolated from humans that had reportedly transferred to humans during the 2002- 2003 SARS outbreak in Asia. 35 U. S. C.§ 101 prohibits patenting nature. This legality did not deter CDC in their efforts. Their application, updated in 2007, ultimately issued as U. S. Patent 7, 220,852 and constrained anyone not licensed by their patent from manipulating SARS CoV, developing tests or kits to measure SARS coronavirus in humans or working with their patented virus for therapeutic use. Work associated with this virus by their select collaborators included considerable amounts of chimeric engineering, gain- of-function studies, viral characterization, detection, treatment both vaccine and therapeutic intervention), and weaponization inquiries.
In short, with Baric' s U. S. Patent 6,593, 111( Claims 1 and 5) and CDC' s' 852 patent( Claim 1), no research in the United States could be conducted without permission or infringement.
We noted that gain- of-function specialist, Dr. Ralph Baric, was both the recipient of millions of dollars of U. S. research grants from several federal agencies but also sat on the World Health Organization' s International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses( ICTV) and the Coronaviridae Study Group( CSG). In this capacity, he was both responsible for determining" novelty" of clades of virus species but directly benefitted from determining declarations of novelty in the form of new research funding authorizations and associated patenting and commercial collaboration. Together with CDC, NIAID, WHO, academic and commercial parties( including Johnson& Johnson; Sanofi and their several coronavirus patent holding biotech companies; Moderna; Ridgeback; Gilead; Sherlock Biosciences; and, others), a powerful group of interests constituted what we would suggest are" interlocking directorates" under U. S. anti- trust laws.
These entities also were affiliated with the WHO' s Global Preparedness Monitoring Board ( GPMB) whose members were instrumental in the Open Philanthropy-funded global coronavirus pandemic" desk-top" exercise EVENT 201 in October 2019. This event, funded by the principal investor in Sherlock Biosciences and linking interlocking funding partner, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation into the GPMB mandate for a respiratory disease global preparedness exercise to be completed by September 2020 alerted us to anticipate an" epidemic" scenario. We expected to see such a scenario emerge from Wuhan or Guangdong China, northern Italy, Seattle, New York or a combination thereof, as Dr. Zhengli Shi and Dr. Baric' s work on zoonotic transmission of coronavirus identified overlapping mutations in coronavirus in bat populations located in these areas.
This dossier is by no means exhaustive. It is, however, indicative the numerous criminal violations that may be associated with the COVID- 19 terrorism. All source materials are referenced herein. An additional detailed breakdown of all the of individuals, research institutions, foundations, funding sources, and commercial enterprises can be accessed
upon request.
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35 U. S. C. § 101 5
18 U. S. C. § 2339 C et seq. — Funding and Conspiring to Commit Acts of Terror 7
18 U. S. C. § 2331 §§ 802— Acts of Domestic Terrorism resulting in death of American Citizens 10
18 U. S. C. § 1001— Lying to Congress 12
15 U. S. C. § 1- 3— Conspiring to Criminal Commercial Activity 16
15 U. S. C. § 8— Market Manipulation and Allocation 20
15 U. S. C.§ 19— Interlocking Directorates 21
35 U. S. C. § 200- 206— Disclosure of Government Interest 23
21 C. F. R. § 50. 24 et seq., Illegal Clinical Trial 25
The Commercial Actors 27
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35 U. S. C. § 101
From Justice Clarence Thomas' opinion for the majority
Section 101 of the Patent Act provides: " Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful... composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title." 35 U.S. C.§ 101.
We have " long held that this provision contains an important implicit exception(:] Laws of nature, natural
phenomena, and abstract ideas are not patentable." Mayo, 566 U.S., at_, 132 S. Ct., at 1293( internal quotation marks and brackets omitted). Rather, "' they are the basic tools of scientific and technological work"' that lie beyond
the domain of patent protection. Id., at , 132 S. Ct., at 1293. As the Court has explained, without this exception, there would be considerable danger that the grant of patents would" tie up" the use of such tools and thereby" inhibit
future innovation premised upon them." Id., at_, 132 S. Ct., at 1301. This would be at odds with the very point of patents, which exist to promote creation. Diamond v. Chakrabarty, 447 U.S. 303, 309, 100 S. Ct. 2204, 65 L. Ed. 2d 144 1980)( Products of nature are not created, and"' manifestations... of nature[ are] free to all men and reserved exclusively to none"'). 3
In their majority opinion in 2013, the U. S. Supreme Court made it abundantly clear that the Court had " long held" that nature was not patentable. Merely isolating DNA does not constitute patentable subject matter. In their patent, the CDC made false and misleading claims to the United States Patent& Trademark Office by stating that, " A newly isolated human coronavirus has been identified as the causative agent of SARS, and is termed SARS- CoV." 4 No " causal" data was provided for this statement.
When they filed their patent application on April 25, 2003 their first claim ( and the only one that survived to ultimate issuance over the objection of the patent examiner in 2006 and 2007) was the genome for SARS CoV.
While this patent is clearly illegal under 35 U. S. C. 5101, not only did the CDC insist on its granting over non- final and final rejections, but they also continued to pay maintenance fees on the patent after the 2013 Supreme Court decision confirmed that it was illegal.
In addition, the CDC patented the detection of SARS CoV using a number of methods including reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction( RT- PCR). With this patent, they precluded anyone outside of their licensed or conspiring interest from legally engaging in independent verification of their claim that they had isolated a virus, that it was a causative agent for SARS, or that any therapy could be effective against the reported pathogen.
It is important to note that the CDC' s patent applications were also rejected in non- final and final rejections for ineligibility under 35 U. S. C. 5 102 for being publicly disclosed prior to their own filing. In the first non-final rejection, the USPTO stated that the CDC' s genome was published in four Genbank accession entries on April 14, 18, and 21, 2003 with identity ranging from 96.8% to 99.9% identical sequences.' Dr. Fauci knew, and failed to disclose evidence that the CDC patent was illegal, based on work he had funded in the years leading up to the SARS outbreak.
After seeking an illegal patent, petitioning to override the decision of an examiner to reject it, and ultimately prevailing with the patent' s grant, the CDC lied to the public by stating they were controlling the patent so that it would be publicly available". 6 Tragically, this public statement is falsified by the simple fact that their own publication in
Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., 569 U. S. 576( 2013) 4 U. S. Patent 7, 220, 852 USPTO Non- Final Rejection File# 10822904, September 7, 2006, page 4. 6 https:// apnews.com/ article/ 145b4e8d156cddc93e996ae52dc24ec0
Fauci/ COVID- 19 Dossier CC- BY- NC- SA Dr. David E. Martin 5 Genbank had, in fact, made it public domain and thereby unpatentable. This fact, confirmed by patent examiners, was overridden by CDC in a paid solicitation to override the law.
While not covered under 35 U.S. C.§ 101, Dr. Fauci' s abuse of the patent law is detailed below. Of note, however, is his willful and deceptive use of the term" vaccine" in patents and public pronouncements to pervert the meaning of the term for the manipulation of the public.
In the 1905 Jacobson v. Mass case, the court was clear that a PUBLIC BENEFIT was required for a vaccine to be mandated. Neither Pfizer nor Moderna have proved a disruption of transmission. In Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U. S. 11( 1905), the court held that the context for their opinion rested on the following principle:
This court has more than once recognized it as a fundamental principle that' persons and property are subjected to all kinds of restraints and burdens in order to secure the general comfort, health, and prosperity of the state..."
The Moderna and Pfizer" alleged vaccine" trials have explicitly acknowledged that their gene therapy technology has no impact on viral infection or transmission whatsoever and merely conveys to the recipient the capacity to produce an S1 spike protein endogenously by the introduction of a synthetic mRNA sequence. Therefore, the basis for the Massachusetts statute and the Supreme Court' s determination is moot in this case. Further, the USPTO, in its REJECTION of Anthony Fauci' s HIV vaccine made the following statement supporting their rejection of his bogus" invention"
Application/ Control Number: 09/ 869, 003 Page 5
Art Unit: 1648
These arguments are persuasive to the extent that an
antigenic peptide stimulates an immune response that may produce
antibodies that bind to a specific peptide or protein but is not
persuasive in regards to a vaccine. The immune response
produced by a vaccine must be more than merely some immune
response but must be protective. As noted in the previous
Office Action, the art recognizes the term " vaccine" to be a
compound which prevents infection. Applicant has not
demonstrated that the instantly claimed vaccine meets even the
lower standard set forth in the specification, let alone the
standard art definition, for being operative in this regards.
Therefore, claims 5, 7, and 9 are not operative as an anti- HIV- 1
vaccine and therefore lack patentable utility.
Fauci/ COVID- 19 Dossier CC- BY- NC- SA Dr. David E. Martin 6 18 U. S. C. § 2339 C et seq. — Funding and Conspiring to Commit Acts of Terror
Indirectly, unlawfully and willfully provides or collects funds with the intention that such funds be used, or with the knowledge that such funds are to be used, in full or in part, in order to carry out— A) an act which constitutes an offense within the scope of a treaty specified in subsection ( e)( 7), as implemented by the United States, or B) any other act intended to cause death or serious bodily injury to a civilian, or to any other person not taking an active part in the hostilities in a situation of armed conflict, when the purpose of such act, by its nature or context, is to intimidate a population, or to compel a government or an international organization to do or to abstain from doing any act....
By no later than April 11, 2005, Dr. Anthony Fauci was publicly acknowledging the association of SARS with bioterror potential. Leveraging the fear of the anthrax bioterrorism of 2001, he publicly celebrated the economic boon that domestic terror had directed towards his budget. He specifically stated that NIAID was actively funding research on a SARS Chip" DNA microarray to rapidly detect SARS( something that was not made available during the current pandemic") and two candidate vaccines focused on the SARS CoV spike protein.' Led by three Chinese researchers under his employment– Zhi- yong Yang, Wing- pui Kong, and Yue Huang– Fauci had at least one DNA vaccine in animal trials by 2004.8 This team, part of the Vaccine Research Center at NIAID, was primarily focused on HIV vaccine development but was tasked to identify SARS vaccine candidates as well. Working in collaboration with Sanofi, Scripps Institute, Harvard, MIT and NIH, Dr. Fauci' s decision to unilaterally promote vaccines as a primary intervention for several designated " infectious diseases" precluded proven therapies from being applied to the sick and dying. 9
The CDC and NIAID led by Anthony Fauci entered into trade among States( including, but not limited to working with EcoHealth Alliance Inc.) and with foreign nations( specifically, the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Chinese Academy of Sciences) through the 2014 et seq National Institutes of Health Grant R01A1110964 to exploit their patent rights. This research was known to involve surface proteins in coronavirus that had the capacity to directly infect human respiratory systems. In flagrant violation of the NIH moratorium on gain of function research, NIAID and Ralph Baric persisted in working with chimeric coronavirus components specifically to amplify the pathogenicity of the biologic material.
By October 2013, the Wuhan Institute of Virology 1 coronavirus S1 spike protein was described in NIAID' s funded work in China. This work involved NIAID, USAID, and Peter Daszak, the head of EcoHealth Alliance. This work, funded under R01A1079231, was pivotal in isolating and manipulating viral fragments selected from sites across China which contained high risk for severe human response. 10
By March 2015, both the virulence of the 51 spike protein and the ACE II receptor was known to present a considerable risk to human health. NIAID, EcoHealth Alliance and numerous researchers lamented the fact that the public was not sufficiently concerned about coronavirus to adequately fund their desired research."
Dr. Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance offered the following assessment:
https:// www.ncbi. nlm. nih. gov/ pmc/ articles/ PMC3320336/ 8 https:// www.ncbi. nlm. nih. gov/ pmc/ articles/ PMC7095382/ https:// www.ncbi. nlm. nih. gov/ pmc/ articles/ PMC1232869/ 1° Ge, XY., Li, JL., Yang, XL. et al. Isolation and characterization of a bat SARS- like coronavirus that uses the ACE2 receptor. Nature 503, 535- 538 2013).Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events; Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, and Translation; Forum on Microbial Threats; Board on Health Sciences Policy; Board on Global Health; Institute of Medicine; National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Rapid Medical Countermeasure Response to Infectious Diseases: Enabling Sustainable Capabilities Through Ongoing Public- and Private- Sector Partnerships: Workshop Summary. Washington( DC): National Academies Press( US); 2016 Feb 12. 6, Developing MCMs for Coronaviruses. Available from: https:// www. ncbi. nlm. nih. gov/ books/ NBK349040/
Fauci/ COvID- 19 Dossier CC- BY- NC- SA Dr. David E. Martin 7 Daszak reiterated that, until an infectious disease crisis is very real, present, and at an emergency threshold, it is often largely ignored. To sustain the funding base beyond the crisis, he said, we need to increase public understanding of the need for MCMs such as a pan-influenza or pan- coronavirus vaccine. A key driver is the media, and the economics follow the hype. We need to use that hype to our advantage to get to the real issues. Investors will respond if they see profit at the end of process, Daszak stated."'
Economics will follow the hype.
The CDC and MAID entered into trade among States( including, but not limited to working with University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) and with foreign nations( specifically, the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Chinese Academy of Sciences represented by Zheng-Li Shi) through U19A1109761 ( Ralph S. Baric), U19A1107810( Ralph S. Baric), and National Natural Science Foundation of China Award 81290341( Zheng- Li Shi) et al. 2015- 2016. These projects took place during a time when the work being performed was prohibited by the United States National Institutes of Health.
The public was clearly advised of the dangers being presented by NIAID-funded research by 2015 and 2016 when the Wuhan Institute of Virology material was being manipulated at UNC in Ralph Baric' s lab.
The only impact of this work is the creation, in a lab, of a new, non-natural risk," agrees Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist and biodefence expert at Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey. Both Ebright and Wain-Hobson are long-standing critics of gain-of-function research.
In their paper, the study authors also concede that funders may think twice about allowing such experiments in the future. "Scientific review panels may deem similar studies building chimeric viruses based on circulating strains too risky to pursue," they write, adding that discussion is needed as to " whether these types of chimeric virus studies warrant further investigation versus the inherent risks involved".
But Boric and others say the research did have benefits. The study findings " move this virus from a candidate emerging pathogen to a clear and present danger", says Peter Daszak, who co- authored the 2013 paper. Daszak is president of the EcoHealth Alliance, an international network of scientists, headquartered in New York City, that samples viruses from animals and people in emerging-diseases hotspots across the globe.
Studies testing hybrid viruses in human cell culture and animal models are limited in what they can say about the threat posed by a wild virus, Daszak agrees. But he argues that they can help indicate which pathogens should be prioritized for further research attention."'
Knowing that the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services( through CDC, NIH, NIAID, and their funded laboratories and commercial partners) had patents on each proposed element of medical counter measures and their funding, Dr. Fauci, Dr. Gao( China CDC), and Dr. Elias( Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) conspired to commit acts of terror on the global population— including the citizens of the United States— when, in September 2019, they published the following mandate:
Countries, donors and multilateral institutions must be preparedfor the worst. A rapidly spreading pandemic due to a lethal respiratory pathogen( whether naturally emergent or accidentally or deliberately released) poses additional preparedness requirements. Donors and multilateral institutions must ensure adequate investment in developing innovative vaccines and therapeutics, surge manufacturing capacity, broad-spectrum antivirals and appropriate non- pharmaceutical interventions. All countries must develop a system for immediately sharing genome sequences of any
1213 Ibid.https:// www.nature.com/ news/ engineered- bat-virus-stirs-debate-over-risky-research-%201.18787 Fauci/ COVID- 19 Dossier CC- 8Y- NC- SA Dr. David E. Martin 8 i
new pathogen for public health purposes along with the means to share limited medical countermeasures across
countries.
Progress indicator(s) by September 2020
Donors and countries commit and identify timelines for: financing and development of a universal influenza vaccine, broad spectrum antivirals, and targeted therapeutics. WHO and its Member States develop options for standard procedures and timelines for sharing ofsequence data, specimens, and medical countermeasures for pathogens other than influenza.
Donors, countries and multilateral institutions develop a multi-year plan and approach for strengthening R& D research capacity, in advance of and during an epidemic.
WHO, the United Nations Children' s Fund, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, academic and other partners identify strategies for increasing capacity and integration of social science approaches and researchers across the entire preparedness/ response continuum." 14
As if to confirm the utility of the September 2019 demand for" financing and development of" vaccine and the fortuitous SARS CoV- 2 alleged outbreak in December of 2019, Dr. Fauci began gloating that his fortunes for additional funding were likely changing for the better. In a February 2020 interview in STAT, he was quoted as follows:
The emergence of the new virus is going to change that figure, likely considerably, Fauci said. " I don' t know how much it's going to be. But I think it's going to generate more sustained interest in coronaviruses because it's very clear that coronaviruses can do really interesting things."" 15
14 https:// apps. who. int/ gpmb/ assets/ annual_ report/ GPMB_ annualreport_2019. pdf( page 8) 15 https:// www.statnews.com/ 2020/ 02/ 10/ fluctuating-funding-and- flagging- interest- hurt-coronavirus- research/
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As a result, over 160k people were Dr. Vladimir Zelenko nominated for Nobel Peace Prize says: hospitalized and died unnecessarily. Let's Dr. Vladimir Zelenko has been included in a group treatment available and end make life saving of doctors nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for criminals to the pandemic. Let's bring these their role in addressing the coronavirus pandemic. justice. The list of this year's nominees includes 43 Dr. Zelenko is a Hasidic Jewish doctor and a board- candidates. certified family practitioner in New York. We Dr. Zelenko achieved worldwide prominence for first wrote about him in March after he reportedly treating COVID- 19 patients with hydroxychloroquine treated coronavirus patients with a 99% success rate and zinc, finding that mortality dropped 8-fold with zinc. Back in Dr use of those two substances. He says treatment with using hydroxychloroquine and July, Zelenko reported that he had treated over 1, 500 hydroxychloroquine and zinc within the first 5 days coronavirus patients using a cocktail of the three- reduces death rates by 85%. drug regimen. Basically, the main element of this treatment Dr. Zelenko is one of the several doctors who said the approach is zinc," he said in an interview. 'Zinc deaths of thousands of Americans could have been inhibits a very important enzyme called RNA prevented if they had been treated with dependent RNA polymerase or replicase. It basically hydroxychloroquine. In August, another doctor, stops the virus from replicating or copying its genetic renowned epidemiologist and Yale professor Dr material, essentially reducing the amount of virus. Harvey Risch accused Dr. Fauci and the FDA of However, zinc doesn' t get into the cell of the viruses, of thousands of causing the `deaths of hundreds they need a way to get the zinc into the cell, and that's Americans' that could have been saved by the role of hydroxychloroquine in the outpatient hydroxychloroquine. Dr. Zelenko has since taken his setting. Hydroxychloroquine has four other, fourfold fight for justice to social media. In the early days of mechanisms of action, but those are relevant in the coronavirus, he created a Twitter account and also later stages of the disease. launched a website to promote what he called the And 3rd component of this was the antibiotic I Zelenko Protocol' for the treatment of coronavirus was using azithromycin, based on the work of Dr. patients. Raoul, and it turns out that azithromycin has both Yesterday, Dr. Zelenko led a White House petition to antiviral properties and antibacterial properties, and investigate Drs. Fauci, Redfield, Birx, and Bright for seem to prevent pulmonary complications. Crimes Against Humanity and Mass Murder' and also But it turns out, very simple: If you wait more than make the life- calling on the White House to saving five, six days, that's when all the lung damage and the treatment available to end the pandemic.... blood clots happen. So it's very important to intervene Dr. Anthony Fauci is not the first public figure to be as soon as possible, as soon as you see the patient called to be investigated for `Crimes Against Humanity and you have clinical suspicion. And it's very easy to and Mass Murder.' Back in July, over 600, 000 people make the diagnosis." signed a petition to investigate Bill Gates Foundation for `crimes against humanity and medical malpractice' "https://
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1 Political Opposition To HCQ Life- Saving WHY with so many frontline doctors speaking up COVID Treatment on their success treating Covidl9 with a 65-year- old FDA-approved malaria drug, many wonder As his treatment protocol was portrayed by what would motivate our top health officials and mainstream media as an unsuccessful, dangerous social media platforms to silence their voices." drug regimen, Dr. Zelenko had been saving his Watch: In New Interview, Dr. Zelenko Says: patients' lives with his " Zelenko Protocol" since March HCQ Deniers Are " Guilty of Mass Murder" 2020. The site says: I can give you reasons why there' s resistance, it' s As the Covid- 19 treatment Hydroxychloroquine very simple. It' s called politics, profit, arrogance, and continues to be portrayed by MSM as an fear," he said. Dr. Zelenko did not stop there, however, unsuccessful, dangerous drug, Vladimir Zelenko, but flatly called hydroxychloroquine/ zinc efficacy MD saved his patients' lives with his Zelenko deniers " guilty of mass murder". He led a White Protocol' since March. Del goes in depth with House petition that Dr. Fauci and asking Anthony Zelenko about how he developed his protocol, three others be charged and brought to justice for the attack against the drug, and how his letter to crimes against humanity/ mass murder". On April 7th, 2020, Dr. Zelenko wrote a detailed the President might have changed history." See Do Senate Hearings Show COVID- 19 letter to President Donald Trump, saying: Vaccine Use Illegal? 1. Based on my front-line experience, it is essential to start treatment against Covid- 19 immediately upon clinical diagnosis of the infection and not to wait for AFLDS Held HCQ Press Conference July 27, 2020 confirmatory testing. There is a very narrow window of America' s Frontline Doctors (AFLDS), led by Dr. opportunity to eliminate the virus before pulmonary Simone Gold, held a press conference on July 27. complications begin. Delaying treatment is the Their message was that Americans need not be afraid essence of the problem. My treatment regime is listed of COVID- 19 because HCQ is had saved the lives of below and please know that as of today it has saved over 200, 000 American COVID patients. Read 383 patients without complications or negative side the transcript of their press conference.
effects. America' s Frontline Doctors site said:
2. Based on my front- line experience, the emphasis American life has fallen casualty to a massive must be on preemptive treatment for high- risk patients disinformation campaign. We can speculate on how in the outpatient setting — primary care and urgent this has happened, and why it has continued, but the care settings. It makes no sense to wait until a patient purpose of the inaugural White Coat Summit is to
is admitted to a hospital and put on a ventilator. High- empower Americans to stop living in fear. If Americans
risk patients are those over the age of 60, those with continue to let so-called experts and media underlying health conditions or compromised immune personalities make their decisions, the great American
systems, and anyone with symptoms and shortness of experiment of a Constitutional Republic with breath. Representative Democracy, will cease." In addition, we should consider immediate Dr. Gold is the author of I Do Not Consent: My Fight prophylactic treatment of very high- risk individuals. Against Medical Cancel Culture. The Amazon description says: Very high- risk individuals are front-line health care providers, nursing home residents, police officers, The bumper-sticker directive to `follow the science' etc." was actually an evasion of responsibility. It let people He concluded his letter to the President: off the hook for their bad decisions in a crisis." Any bureaucratic/man- made obstacles that interfere Fauci Knew COVID- 19 Was Just a with doctors' ability to treat their patients with these Seasonal Flu well-known, field-tested, inexpensive and life- saving medications in my humble opinion is inexcusable and Dr. Fauci published Covid- 19— Navigating the should be treated as a crime against humanity." Uncharted in March 2020 in the New England Dr. Zelenko Says: HCQ Deniers Are Journal of Medicine. The article says the overall clinical consequences of Covid- 19 may of Mass Murder" Guilty ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal In Doctors Love It. Fauci Hates It. Why?, Del influenza ( which has a fatality rate of approximately Bigtree, host of The Highwire, discusses Fauci' s 0. 1)... rather than a disease similar to SARS or MERS, strange opposition to HCQ, a proven inexpensive which have had case fatality rates of 9 to 10% and cure for COVID- 19! The show says: 36%, respectively".
2 r UK Research Group Concludes Covid- 19 Vaccines Are " Unsafe for Humans" Due to Adverse Reactions by Captaindaretofly, The Daily Expose July 12, 2021
Since the Covid- 19 vaccines were rolled out across the UK, there has been a disturbing trend with the number of adverse reactions being reported to the Yellow Card reporting system. The latest numbers show that there have been over 1, 037,376 adverse reactions to the Covid vaccines ranging from mild to severe, and 1, 440 deaths, as of 30th June 2021 .
To many, this shows that these experimental gene therapies, which have been labeled as vaccines are causing incredible harm and damage to the British public. Yet big pharma and the government are looking to roll out the vaccines for children in late summer or autumn... Despite this, the UK government has encouraged the public to report "suspected side effects to medicines, vaccines or medical device and diagnostic adverse incidents used in coronavirus treatment to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency to ensure safe and effective use." Although, many of those who have reported having an adverse reaction to the vaccine have shared experiences where doctors or nurses have refused to report their side effects to Yellow Card. However, a group of scientists and doctors from the Evidence- based Medicine Consultancy ( EBMC), which is based in Bath, UK, has examined the data reported to Yellow Card and wrote to the UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency ( MHRA) with concerns about the disturbing number of injuries and deaths as a result of the Covid jabs. In her letter to the MHRA, Dr Tess Lawrie, the Director of the EMBC, pointed out that between the 4th January and 26th May 2021 there were 1 , 253 deaths and 888, 196 adverse reactions reported during this period. Whilst her team cannot directly correlate this with the vaccine, Lawrie and the EMBC have strong concerns regarding the safety of those receiving the Covid jab. In an interview with TrialSiteNews. com, Lawrie said: " The total number of cases is concerning and each person that's reported should be followed up on to ensure there are no further problems. The scope of morbidity is striking, evidencing a lot of incidents and what amounts to a large number of ill." Lawrie said that the Yellow Card reporting system is incredibly "opaque" and in no way transparent. For example, she stated that researchers aren' t able to cross- reference safety incidents by age, gender, or other data attributes, making it difficult to determine the full impact of the vaccines across all groups. However, she estimates that in the UK about 60%+ of all vaccines are AstraZeneca' s while the remainder Pfizer' s jab. i Throughout the letter, Lawrie examines the numbers of each reaction from blood clots, autoimmune reactions, to neurological damage, and concluding that "the MHRA now has more than enough evidence on the Yellow Card system to declare the Covid- 19 vaccines unsafe for use in humans." The letter concludes with an ominous warning: " Preparation should be made to scale up humanitarian efforts to assist those harmed by the COVID- 19 vaccines and to anticipate and ameliorate medium to longer-term effects. As the mechanism for harms from the vaccines appears to be similar to COVID- 19 itself, this includes engaging with numerous international doctors and scientists with expertise in successfully treating COVID- 19." Finally, Lawrie states that there are " at least 3 urgent questions that need to be answered by the MHRA: How many people have died within 28 days of vaccination? How many people have been hospitalised within 28 days of vaccination? How many people have been disabled by the vaccination?" Whilst groups such as the EBMC investigate the dangers of the Covid vaccine and seek to find answers, the UK government and media work hard to hide the countless injuries whilst encouraging the population to roll up their sleeve and submit to this cruel experiment.
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World News & Views Posts under World News & Views come from assorted information sources around the web or from printed publications. The specific source will always be identified at the top of the post. Everything posted on this site is done in the spirit of conversation. Please do your own research and trust yourself when reading and giving consideration to anything that appears here or anywhere else. CD- 19 Treatments recommendations for HCQ for prophylaxis of SARS- CoV- 2 infection for selected individuals. Long Haul" COVID- 19 Definition: Wellness Protocol Refers to people who continue to have symptoms weeks after Dr. Teryn Clark @MdTeryn having COVID- 19. The symptoms are nonspecific. This can be frustrating for both patients THIS IS NOT MEDICAL ADVICE. Every situation is and doctors. Long- haul symptoms can occur with other unique and every person must check with his or her viruses- it is not unique to the SARS- CoV-2 virus. own physician, especially if you are taking any other medication. Symptoms: mild shortness of breath, mild chest tightness, moderate Age > 15 fatigue, chills or sweats, mild body aches, dry cough, low fever, mild headache, brain fog/ Quercetin 500 mg. twice daily, Zinc 50 mg daily, Vitamin concentration challenges, insomnia. Should you believe D 2000 lu daily, Melatonin 3- 6 mg. nightly( exclude if< 25) this might be your situation, the evidence is that Age < 15 accumulating Ivermectin may be very helpful. Telemedicine physicians can assist you if this is your Elderberry and Zinc gummies situation. Treatment: The dosage can vary but Ivermectin 0. 2- 0. 3 mg/ kg for 2- 5 days or sometimes higher 0. 4 mg/ kg as Treat patients based on clinical suspicion as soon as long as seven days may help. In addition some protocols possible, preferable within the first 5 days of symptoms. recommend adding aspirin 325 mg. once or twice per Perform PCR testing but do not withhold treatment If pending results. day. respiratory symptoms continue, a few days of oral prednisone or inhaled budesonide may help. If chronic fatigue or muscular Risk Stratify Patient symptoms continue, adding HCQ, Zinc, Vitamin B may help. Low- risk patient Younger than 60, no comorbidities, and lvermectin 0. 2- 0. 4 mg/ kg duration 2- 7 days no serious symptoms. Aspirin 325 mg. once or twice per day High- risk patient Older than 60, younger than 60 with Prednisone or budesonide( if respiratory) comorbidities, or serious symptoms. HCQ 200 twice per day 3- 5 days( if chronic fatigue, muscular aches) Treatment Options Zinc, Vitamin B ( if chronic fatigue, muscular aches) Low- risk patient 1. Rest, oral fluids, Tylenol as needed The treatment 2. protocols listed below outline Vitamin C 1 gm once a day for 7 days methods 3. for treating COVID- 19. For more Quercetin 500 mg. twice a day for 7 days 4. specific questions about your unique Elemental Zinc 50 mg. once a day for 7 days 5. Close follow up with a doctor situation, please consult a physician. High- risk patient 1. Rest, oral fluids Prophylactic HCQ Protocol 2. Tylenol as needed Dr. Simone Gold info@aflds. com 3. Elemental Zinc 50 mg. once a day for 7 days This is not medical advice. Every situation is unique, 4. and Hydroxychloroquine( HCQ) 200 mg twice a day for every person must check with his or her own 5 to 7 days physician, if you especially are taking any other 5. Azithromycin 500 mg. once a day for 5 days or medication. doxycycline 100 mg twice a day for 5 to 7 days Hydroxychloroquine 400 mg. twice a day on the first Note if HCQ is inaccessible then use Quercetin 500 mg. day + elemental zinc 50 mg. daily then three times a day in place of HCQ. If HCQ becomes Hydroxychloroquine 400 mg. weekly + zinc 50 accessible, then switch to HCQ. mg. daily Hydroxychloroquine tablets in the USA are 200 mg. Two Additional treatment options. Should be custom can be taken together at the same time or separated by tailored for every patient. hours- days, as as a long person takes 400 mg. weekly. 1. lvermectin 6 mg. twice a day for 1 day Currently there are studies to if 2. underway see 200 mg Budesonide 1 mg/ 2cc solution via nebulizer twice weekly is sufficient. a day for 7 days This protocol is used across the world. For example, see 3. Dexamethasone 6 mg. once a day for 5 to 7 days the country of India in the White Paper( reference 19). In 4. Blood thinners (i. e. Eliquis or Xarelto) this example, the National Task for the COVID- 19 5. Home 02 constituted by Indian Council of Medical Research 6. Home IV fluids White Paper on Hydroxychloroquine Dr. Simone Gold, MD, JD
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Introduction: General Consensus HCQ is safe 1 Rheumatologists Cardiologists Ophthalmologists Safety Studies 4 2000-2020 (twenty years) study FDA Database( fifty years) CDC Statement American Heart Association 7 Efficacy Studies( sample) February 19, 2020 March 4, 2020 March 20, 2020 March 22, 2020 March 22, 2020 April 11, 2020 April 13, 2020 April 17, 2020 April 21, 2020 April 24, 2020 April 30, 2000 May 15, 2020 May 16, 2020 June 6, 2020 June 20,2020 June 29, 2020 June 29, 2020 June 30, 2020 July 3, 2020 Corruption of the Scientific Journals 1 1
Corruption of the Media 12 Censorship of the Public" Town Square"& Surgisphere 13 Excessive& Punitive Regulations at the State Level& Off-Label Use 13
Misstatements at the Federal Level 15 Why Has HCQ Been Maligned 19 Implications for the USA if restrictions on HCQ are not lifted immediately 21 Conclusion 28 Synopsis:
This white paper is to draw the reader' s attention to the indisputable safety of hydroxychloroquine( HCQ), an analog of the same quinine found in tree barks that George Washington used to protect his troops. The modern version has been FDA approved for 65 years, has shown remarkable efficacy against SARS- CoV-2 and its use is being wrongly restricted despite the immediate danger to the American people and the rest of the world.
We speak in support of immediately reversing the massive, irresponsible disinformation campaign that is literally preventing doctors from dispensing HCQ, advocating as well that it be made available over the counter in the United States. This is logistically easy to do in a manner that ensures the supply and appropriate dispensation.
Introduction:
The purpose of this white paper is to dispassionately present the evidence regarding the safety and efficacy of hydroxychloroquine and determine its proper role in the current pandemic.
General Consensus that Hydroxychloroquine is Safe
Hydroxychloroquine ( HCQ) has been FDA approved for over 65 years and has been used billions of times throughout the entire world without restriction. For many decades it has been given to: pregnant women, breastfeeding women, children, elderly patients, immune compromised patients and healthy persons.
In the USA it is used most often in three situations: systemic lupus erythematosus ( SLE), rheumatoid arthritis ( RA), and as malaria prophylaxis for travelers. These three situations happen to represent three different types of populations.
Patients with SLE are immune compromised. Patients with RA are elderly. Travelers are younger and typically healthy.
Although all doctors can and do prescribe HCQ, because it is most commonly used for SLE and RA, rheumatology specialists are the physicians in America who prescribe it the most. Although it is in the safest category of medication and it is virtually always safely used, the two most common possible complications fall under the specialty of cardiology and ophthalmology.
So let us see what these three types of specialties say.
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What do the Rheumatologists Say?
The physicians who prescribe HCQ the most are rheumatologists. Patients who need HCQ typically are on the medication for years or decades. Therefore rheumatologists have extensive experience with this medication. They make decisions daily regarding this medication. They decide who can get the medication, is safe or unsafe, how much to give, how often to dose, when to increase/decrease the dose, what testing if any should be done prior to starting the medication, can the medicine be taken with other medicines, when to stop the medication, what the side effects are. To help them with such decisions, rheumatologists can check with their professional society: American College of Rheumatology( ACR.)
The ACR website:
Hydroxychloroquine typically is very well tolerated. Serious side effects are rare. The most common side effects are nausea and diarrhea, which often improve with time. Less common side effects include rash, changes in skin pigment( such as darkening or dark spots), hair changes, and muscle weakness. Rarely, hydroxychloroquine can lead to anemia in some individuals. This can happen in individuals with a condition known as G6PD deficiency or
porphyria.
In rare cases, hydroxychloroquine can cause visual changes or loss of vision. Such vision problems are more likely to occur in individuals taking high doses for many years, in individuals 60 years or older, those with significant kidney or liver disease, and those with underlying retinal disease. At the recommended dose, development of visual problems due to the medication is rare. It is recommended that you have an eye exam within the first year of use, then repeat every 1 to 5 years based on current guidelines.
Additional rare reports of changes in the heart rhythm have been reported with the use of hydroxychloroquine, particularly in combination with other medications. While monitoring for this risk is not typical in the office setting, it has been indicated in hospitalized and critically ill patients to evaluate for interactions with other medications.'
In other words the professional society of the physicians who prescribe this drug the most, for years have said the following: 1. serious side effects are rare 2. visual changes can happen in people taking high doses for years 3. heart rhythm changes are so uncommon that there is no monitoring pre-use
https:// www.rheumatology.org/Portals/0/Files/ Hydroxychloroquine-Plaquenil-Fact- Sheet.pdf?ver= 2020- 04- 30- 154904- 073
2 In an interview with Dr. Mehmet Oz, prominent Los Angeles rheumatologist, Professor of Medicine, Associate Director of the Rheumatology Dept. Cedars Sinai Medical Center Dr. Daniel Wallace said the following:2
Dr. Oz: Is HCQ safe? A: In 42 years of clinical practice I' ve treated several thousand lupus patients and I would like to emphasize that all rheumatologists have a great deal of experience with this drug. Regarding safety, since it came out 70 years ago, several million patients have taken the drug. There have not been any reported deaths from using this agent as monotherapy or taken only by itself.
Dr. Oz: Q: arrhythmia, heart issues? A: It is a problem with CQ, which is its first cousin. And it was a problem with HCQ in the 1950' s and 1960' s when doctors were using 2-3x its usual dose. In the current recommended dose it really does not occur. 400 mg/day.
What do the Cardiologists Say?
Next let us consider the alleged complication that has dominated the news, which is a potential heart problem. Those specialists are cardiologists. Heart rhythm problems are so rare with HCQ that it is common practice not to do an EKG prior to starting the medication. It' s the opposite of the truth to claim that there is a heart risk when the specialty professional organization denies that, and when it is not what has been done for decades prior to this pandemic. In addition, the American Heart Association has demonstrated it is safe during Covid- 19, which will be discussed below.3
Prominent Los Angeles cardiologist Dr. Daniel Wohlgelernter states:
Over the last 30 years I have had several hundred patient visits specifically to discuss the toxicity of hydroxychloroquine. During that time, not a single patient has been taken off of this drug for cardiac toxicity.4
The largest meta analysis published in 2018, revealed only 50 cardiac deaths attributed to hydroxychloroquine in 60 plus years.5
The largest database analysis that examined this issue stated the following:
The results on the risk of severe adverse events associated with short- term ( 1 month) HCQ treatment as proposed for COVID- 19 therapy are reassuring, with
2 https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=htyCEeq_YVI 3 https:// www.ahajournals.org/doi/ 10. 1161/ CIRCEP. 120.008662 4 http:// www.santamonicacardiology.com/wohlgelernter.php 5https:// pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29858838/? from term= Hydroxychloroauine+ and+ cardiac& fro m pos= 1
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no excess risk of any of the considered safety outcomes compared to an equivalent therapy.6
What do the Ophthalmologists Say?
In an interview with Laura Ingraham, Dr. Richard Urso, ophthalmologist said this:
I have had several thousand patient visits to specifically discuss the toxicity of this drug over my last 30 years. It' s a super safe drug. It' s safer than Tylenol, aspirin, Motrin.7
There is no visual risk for short courses of HCQ. No one ever even suggests such a thing. The people who use HCQ for a short period of time are travelers. Even the CDC website does not suggest an eye exam. Rheumatologists and ophthalmologists who are familiar with the rare visual problems all say the same thing. There is a rare risk of retinopathy that is possible when a patient has been on the medication for many years. The risk of retinal toxicity at five years of continuous use is zero. The risk of retinal toxicity at ten years of continuous use is 1%. It gets higher after ten years of continuous use." 8
Toxicity can be seen in the macula and electrical conduction of the heart, after years of use. Typically patients who have ingested 1/ 2 to 1 kilo in their lifetime become more susceptible to these issues. Over a short-term course it is never seen.9
To put the amount that is needed to even possibly be at risk for retinopathy in perspective, that is many years of using daily.
Safety Studies
It is self-evident that HCQ is safe from the fact that it has been FDA approved for 65 years and has been used many billions of times all over the world and it is over the counter in most of the world, certainly pre-2020. It is the # 1 most used medication in India, the second most populous nation on the planet with 1. 3 billion people. If an American travels to a location where malaria is endemic, per the CDC, they would start HCQ before they left for their trip. There has never been an allegation that HCQ is not safe until 2020.
The only allegations of HCQ not being safe relate to a potential heart problem. The media has stated this so often that many people, including physicians, think there is a potential heart problem. However the evidence is overwhelming that HCQ is very low risk.
6 https:// www.medrxiv.org/content/ 10. 1101/ 2020.04.08.20054551v2 Dr. Richard Urso, ophthalmologist on Laura Ingraham July 10, 2020. 8 Dr. Daniel Wallace, rheumatologist on Dr. Oz April 8, 2020 https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=htyCEeq_ YVI 9 Dr. Richard Urso, ophthalmologist on Laura Ingraham July 10, 2020
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I. In the largest study to date on the subject, HCQ has been shown to not increase heart cardiac) risk.10 This study was across a multinational, distributed database network. It studied all the data for 20 years, from January 9, 2000 — 2020 on patients who were prescribed HCQ. The study had two goals: to understand the safety of HCQ by itself and its safety when paired with the antibiotic azithromycin. This paper was authored by scientists from 33 countries and companies across the world.
The paper is titled " Safety of hydroxychloroquine, alone and in combination with azithromycin, in light of rapid widespread use for COVID- 19: a multinational, network cohort and self-controlled case series study." In plain English, the authors found that over a twenty-year period, looking at almost one million patients, those taking HCQ did not have an increased risk of heart problems. It says:
This is the largest ever analysis of the safety of such treatments worldwide, examining over 900,000 HCQ and more than 300,000 HCQ + azithromycin users respectively. The results on the risk of serious adverse events associated with short-term ( 1 month) HCQ treatment as proposed for COVID- 19 therapy are reassuring, with no excess risk of any of the considered safety outcomes compared to an equivalent therapy.
II. The FDA database shows a total of 640 deaths attributable to HCQ over fifty years. To put this in context " Each year the FDA receives over one million adverse event reports associated with the use of drug products" " This concerns the entirety of HCQ use over more than 50 years of data, likely millions of uses and of longer-term use than the five days recommended for Covid- 19 treatment." 11 The 640 deaths represented 0.034% of all the deaths( 1, 910,212) attributable to medications.
10 https:// www.medrxiv.org/content/ 10. 1101/ 2020.04.08.20054551v2. The authors include scientists from: University of Oxford, Fundacio Institut Universitari per a la recerca a I' Atencio Primaria de Salut Jordi Gol I Gurina, University of Sao Paulo, Massachusetts General Hospital, King Saud University, Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Veterans Affairs, University of Utah School of Medicine, University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, Islamic University of Gaza, New York Presbyterian Hospital, National Institute for Health and Care UK, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Erasmus Medical Center, Vanderbilt University, University of Arizona College of Medicine, University of Dundee Scotland, Institute of Medicine Sweden, Ajou University South Korea, National University of Singapore, UCLA, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Peking Union Medical College, University of Melbourne, Janssen Research, Real World Solution, Actelion Pharmaceuticals, Real- World Evidence Spain, AstraZeneca, RTI Health Solutions, Bayer Pharmaceuticals US Food& Drug Administration. FDA Adverse Events Reporting System( FAERS) Public Dashboard. https:// fis.fda.gov/sense/ app/ d 1 Obe6bb-494e-4cd2-82e4- 013 5608ddc 13/ sheetJ7a47a261- d5 8b- 4203- a8aa- 6d3021737452/state/ analysis
5 III. The CDC has an information sheet about HCQ. That sheet includes the following questions/ answers.12
Q: Who can take hydroxychloroquine? A: Hydroxychloroquine can be prescribed to adults and children of all ages. It can also be safely taken by pregnant women and nursing mothers.
Q: Who should not take hydroxychloroquine? A: People with psoriasis should not take hydroxychloroquine.
Q: How should I take hydroxychloroquine? A: Both adults and children should take one dose of hydroxychloroquine per week starting at least one week before traveling... They should take one dose per week while there, and for four consecutive weeks after leaving. The weekly dosage for adults in 400 mg.
Q: What are the potential side effects of hydroxychloroquine? A: Hydroxychloroquine is a relatively well tolerated medicine. The most common adverse reactions reported are stomach pain, nausea, vomiting, and headache. These side effects can often be lessened by taking hydroxychloroquine with food. Hydroxychloroquine may also cause itching in some people.
Q: How long is it safe to use hydroxychloroquine? A: CDC has no limits on the use of hydroxychloroquine for the prevention of malaria. When hydroxychloroquine is used at higher doses for many years, a rare eye condition called retinopathy has occurred. People who take hydroxychloroquine for more than five years should get regular eye exams.
IV. It is well established that there is no scientific basis for the claim that HCQ is risky on its own. The only credible theory as to why there has even been a concern, is that since the beginning, possible treatment options of COVID- 19 have always included HCQ in combination with the antibiotic azithromycin. Because each medication independently can cause the same rare heart rhythm disturbance, there has been an academic concern whether the two drugs could be risky when taken together. The particular heart rhythm problem is called " QT prolongation" and it is a known side effect of hundreds of drugs. If the " QT prolongation" is severe it can lead to a fatal rhytlun problem called Torsades de Pointes. Even though it is rare, this has been alleged to be of serious and frequent enough concern that people should not use HCQ for Covid- 19. The American Heart Association has now answered this specific question. (April 29, 2020)
In the largest reported cohort of coronavirus disease 2019 to date treated with
chloroquine/ hydroxychloroquine +/- azithromycin, no instances of Torsades de Pointes or arrhythmogenic death were reported.l3
2 https:// www.cdc.gov/parasites/ malaria/index.html 13 https:// www.ahajournals.org/doi/ 10. 1161/ CIRCEP. 120.008662
6 In plain English: Taking HCQ even in combination with the antibiotic azithromycin does not cause an increased risk of fatal heart rhythm problems.
The most comprehensive study on the subject was authored by Dr. Harvey Risch, MD, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, and published in affiliation with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.14 Dr. Risch who has 39,779 citations on Google Scholar, reviewed five outpatient studies, and shows with specificity how the results have been misinterpreted, misstated and misreported. He notes the following.
1. When examining the data on safety, Dr. Risch notes that early evidence of safety was being ignored. " Lack of any cardiac arrhythmia events in the 405 Zelenko patients or the 1061 Marseilles patients or the 412 Brazil patients."
2. When examining the data on safety, Dr. Risch demonstrates that the negative conclusions drawn by various professional organizations are not based upon science. " It is unclear why the FDA, NIH, and cardiology societies made their [ negative] recommendations about HCQ+AZM use now, when the Oxford study analyzed 323, 122 users of HCQ+ AZ ... that the combination of HCQ+AZ has been in widespread standard- of-care use in the US and elsewhere for decades ... this use predominantly in older adults with multiple comorbidities, with no such strident warnings about the use given during that time." 15
Efficacy
There are only two things that must be considered regarding a medication: is it safe and does it work? HCQ is amongst the safest of all prescription drugs in USA and that is why across much of the world it is sold over the counter. And at a time when the world has become seized with panic over a virus without a specific cure, the question of effectiveness is almost moot. If a drug is safe and might work, and if there are no other options, v e must try it.
The safety record of HCQ is indisputable. But now seven months into the pandemic there is overwhelming evidence accumulating that HCQ is also effective for Covid- 19. There are dozens of studies demonstrating its effectiveness from all around the world. From China to France to Saudi Arabia to Iran to Italy to India to New York City to Michigan to Brazil. This is not surprising. As far back as, chloroquine ( CQ) the first cousin of HCQ and previously known to be effective against SARS-CoV- 1, was stated by China to be a treatment for Covid- 19.
February 19, 2020 China: " The drug [ chloroquine] is recommended to be included in the next version of the Guidelines for the Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Pneumonia Caused by COVID- 19 issued by the National
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