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<\/div>\n\nHippocrates, Galen, Pliny the Elder and others believed willow bark could ease aches and pains and reduce fevers. It has long been used in Europe and China for the attempted treatment of these conditions. This remedy is also mentioned in texts from ancient Egypt, Sumer, and Assyria. The first \u201cclinical trial\u201d was reported by Reverend Edward Stone, a vicar from Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire, England, in 1763 with a successful treatment of malarial fever with the willow bark. . . .<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\nThe active extract of the bark, called salicin, after the Latin name Salix, was isolated to its crystalline form in 1828 by Henri Leroux, a French pharmacist, and Raffaele Piria, an Italian chemist, who then succeeded in separating out the acid in its pure state. Salicylic acid, like aspirin, is a chemical derivative of salicin<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\nSo the effective pain-killing ingredient of aspirin was in white willow bark all along. Was it rational, then, to use white willow bark for pain, before aspirin was available (and before modern science and medicine existed)? Again, of course<\/strong><\/em> it was. The proof\u2019s in the pudding.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nIt\u2019s the same with hydroxychloroquine. We can know (in some sense besides the rigidly scientific) that it works from doctors\u2019 case studies and hundreds of anecdotal reports, even before it is scientifically verified under the usual strict, controlled conditions.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nThe only reason, I submit, anyone thinking rationally about this would conclude otherwise<\/em>, is because they have been drawn into the political hogwash surrounding anything within a thousand miles of being associated with the dreaded, despised, abhorred Donald Trump.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nBut if Trump says \u201c2 + 2 = 4,\u201d it still equals four, doesn\u2019t it? Likewise, if he says, \u201chydroxychloroquine works to heal many people with coronavirus,\u201d it still remains true if<\/em><\/strong> real formerly virus-plagued people are out there with their medical case histories, who have in fact recovered due to taking it. And it is true even though evil, wicked Trump (Vlad the Impaler and Attila the Hun rolled into one) agrees with the statement. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nA thing is not true<\/em> simply because someone (however famous or notable) said<\/em> it was (genetic fallacy), nor is it untrue<\/em> simply because a widely despised<\/em> person said it was true (the same logical fallacy in reverse).<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\nI\u2019m only saying what hundreds of doctors are already<\/em> saying (as the nine articles below document). I would never pretend to be an expert on medical issues such as this without that back-up. I have never told anyone \u2014 including coronavirus patients \u2014 to go against what their doctors say, and I have supported the shutdown, based on the experts\u2019 opinions. The doctors are massively prescribing this drug now<\/em><\/strong>: in New York and my Michigan, where it is presently the worst in the US.
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\u201cDr. Anthony Fauci: No clash with Trump on malaria drug for coronavirus\u201d<\/a> (Tom Howell, Jr., The Washington Times<\/em>, 3-22-20). Excerpts:<\/p>\n
Anthony Fauci, the main scientist in the U.S. coronavirus response, says combining a malaria drug with certain antibiotics shows \u201canecdotal\u201d promise for COVID-19 patients and that his push for more proof doesn\u2019t mean he is clashing with President Trump.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think there\u2019s this issue of trying to separate the two of us. There isn\u2019t fundamentally a difference there,\u201d Dr. Fauci, the director of the told CBS\u2019s \u201cFace the Nation\u201d on Sunday. \u201cHe\u2019s coming at it from a hope-layperson standpoint. I\u2019m coming at it from a scientific standpoint.\u201d . . .<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not disagreeing with the fact, anecdotally, they might work,\u201d Dr. Fauci told CBS. \u201cBut my job is to prove definitely from a scientific standpoint that they do work.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\u201cGovernor Andrew Cuomo Coronavirus Briefing Transcript March 23\u2033 (Rev.com<\/em>, 3-23-20; [link<\/a>] ). Excerpt:<\/span><\/p>\n
I also asked for the FDA to expedite the approval of an experimental drug that we are working on here in the state of New York, which I\u2019ll tell you more about in a moment. The President also did that. The FDA gave the New York State Department of Health approval to use on a compassionate care basis a drug that we think has real possibility. On the drug therapy, Tuesday we\u2019re going to start the hydroxy chloroquine with the Zithromax. That\u2019s the drug combination that the President has been talking about. The FDA approved New York State Department of Health to proceed with an experimental drug, again on a compassionate care basis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\u201cDr. Stephen Smith on effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine: \u2018I think this is the beginning of the end of the pandemic'\u201d<\/a> (Talia Kaplan, Fox News<\/em>, 4-2-20). Excerpts:<\/p>\n
Dr. Stephen Smith<\/a>, founder of The\u00a0Smith Center for Infectious Diseases and Urban Health, said on \u201cThe Ingraham Angle<\/a>\u201d on Wednesday night that he is optimistic about the use of antimalarial medications\u00a0and antibiotics\u00a0to treat\u00a0COVID-19<\/a>\u00a0patients, calling it \u201ca game-changer.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI think this is the beginning of the end of the pandemic. I\u2019m very serious,\u201d Smith, an infectious disease specialist, told host\u00a0Laura Ingraham<\/a>. . . .<\/p>\n
Smith, who is treating 72 COVID-19 patients, said that he has been treating\u00a0\u201ceverybody with\u00a0hydroxychloroquine<\/a>\u00a0and azithromycin [an antibiotic]. We\u2019ve\u00a0been doing so for a while.\u201d<\/p>\n
He pointed out that not a single COVID-19 patient of his that has been on the hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin regimen for five days or more has had to\u00a0be intubated.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe chance of that occurring by\u00a0chance, according to my sons Leon and Hunter who\u00a0did some stats for me, are .000-something,\u201d he said, adding that \u201cit\u2019s ridiculously low.\u201d<\/p>\n
Smith explained that \u201cintubation means\u00a0actually putting a tube down into your trachea\u00a0and then you\u2019re placed on the\u00a0ventilator for respiratory\u00a0support.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\u201cHydroxychloroquine rated \u2018most effective\u2019 coronavirus treatment, poll of doctors finds\u201d<\/a> (Natalie, O\u2019Neill, New York Post<\/em>, 4-2-20). Excerpt:<\/p>\n
Of the\u00a02,171 physicians surveyed, 37 percent [i.e., 803 doctors] rated hydroxychloroquine the \u201cmost effective therapy\u201d for combating the potentially deadly illness,\u00a0according to the results released Thursday<\/a>. . . .<\/p>\n
The medicine was most widely used in Spain, where 72 percent of physicians said they had prescribed it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\u201cAfter mocking Trump for promoting hydroxychloroquine, journalists acknowledge it might treat coronavirus\u201d<\/a> (Gregg Re, Fox News<\/em>, 4-3-20)<\/p>\n
\u201cFrench researcher Dr. Didier Raoult has now treated 1000 coronavirus patient with 99.3% success rate\u201d<\/a> (Tech Startups<\/em>, revised 4-6-20). Excerpt:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\nIn a follow-up study, which has a larger sample size of 80 COVID-19 patients, the team found a\u00a0clinical improvement in all but one 86 year-old patient who died, and one 74-year old patient still in intensive care unit.\u00a0The team also found that, by administering hydroxychloroquine combined with\u00a0azithromycin, they were able to observe an improvement in all cases, except in one patient who\u00a0arrived with an advanced form, who was over the age of 86, and in whom the evolution was\u00a0irreversible,\u00a0according to a new\u00a0paper<\/a>\u00a0published today in IHU M\u00e9diterran\u00e9e Infection.<\/p>\n
We now have new updates. Tonight, Dr. Oz said during an interview that Dr. Raoult is about to publish the results of his new study. Dr. Oz announced that Dr. Didier Raoult has now treated 1000 coronavirus patient with 99.3% success rate.\u00a0Of the 1000 patients treatments, 20 patients went to the ICU and 7 patients died.\u00a0<\/strong>Dr. Raoult said the side effects were trivial things like rash etc.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cNavarro: \u201cVirtually Every\u201d COVID-19 Patient In New York Is Given Hydroxychloroquine\u201d<\/a> (Tim Hains, Real Clear Politics<\/em>, 4-6-20). Excerpt:<\/div>\n\n\nWhite House economic adviser Peter Navarro said President Trump was correct to talk about \u201cthe possibility\u201d that the long-used anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine can treat some symptoms of the coronavirus. . . .<\/p>\n
\u201cYou may find this interesting,\u201d he told the CNN host [John Berman]. \u201cIn the city that you live in, in New York, in the New York health and hospitals system, virtually every patient now that comes in presenting COVID-19 symptoms is given a cycle of hydroxychloroquine, and when I discussed this last night with Mitch Katz, who is the head of that system, I asked him, are you doing that because the federal government is telling you or because you think it may work? And he said quite clearly that it may work.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\u201cNew updates from Dr. Vladimir Zelenko: Cocktail of Hydroxychloroquine, Zinc Sulfate and Azithromycin . . . \u201c<\/a>\u00a0(Tech Startups<\/em>, revised 4-7-20). Excerpt:<\/div>\n\nOver the past three weeks, we\u2019ve been\u00a0sharing<\/a>\u00a0with you the great work Dr. Zelenko,\u00a0a board-certified family practitioner in New York,\u00a0has been doing in the treatment of COVID-19 patients in New York. In our last piece,\u00a0Dr. Vladimir Zelenko treated 700 coronavirus patients treated with 99.9% success rate using Hydroxychloroquine, 1 outpatient died after not following protocol. In the meantime,\u00a0more doctors are seeing success with hydroxychloroquine and Zinc Sulphate in treating coronavirus patients<\/a>, according to one report from ABC News.\u00a012 French doctors have also\u00a0filed a petition<\/a>\u00a0calling on French Prime Minister and Minister of Health to urgently make hydroxychloroquine available in all French hospital pharmacies<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\nToday, we have new and encouraging updates from Dr. Zelenko.\u00a0In a one-hour video,\u00a0Dr. Zelenko provides a detailed medical explanation about why his\u00a0cocktail of Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate, Zinc and Azithromycin (not Z-Pak) works, and why the three-drug combination are really needed in killing coronavirus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\u201cReports Are In: Malaria Drug Saves Lives in Coronavirus Crisis, Doctors and Patients Say\u201d<\/a> (Tyler O\u2019Neil, PJ Media<\/em>, 4-7-20).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nReports are in: Hydroxychloroquine is saving lives and President Donald Trump deserves praise for advocating the malaria drug as a potential cure for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. A\u00a0small study in France<\/a>\u00a0laid the groundwork for using the drug in treatment. Doctors and patients across America have reported positive results, despite constant naysaying from left-leaning media outlets. . . .<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nDr. Anthony Cardillo, the CEO of Mend Urgent Care in Los Angeles, said he is witnessing \u201csignificant success\u201d in prescribing hydroxychloroquine to coronavirus patients.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery patient I\u2019ve prescribed it to has been very, very ill and within eight to twelve hours, they were basically symptom-free,\u201d Cardillo told ABC News.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
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Formerly a campus missionary, as a Protestant, Dave was received into the Catholic Church in February 1991, by the late, well-known catechist and theologian, Fr. John A. Hardon, S. J. Dave\u2019s articles have appeared in many influential Catholic periodicals, including \"This Rock\" (now called \"Catholic Answers Magazine\"), \"Envoy Magazine\" (Patrick Madrid), \"The Catholic Answer,\" \"The Coming Home Journal,\" \"Gilbert Magazine\" (American Chesterton Society), and \"The Latin Mass.\" He also writes a featured column for every issue of \"The Michigan Catholic\": published by the archdiocese of Detroit, and was editor for most of the apologetics tracts published by the St. Paul Street Evangelization apostolate. Dave\u2019s apologetics and writing apostolate was the subject of a feature article in the May 2002 issue of \"Envoy Magazine.\" He served as the staff moderator at the Internet discussion forum for The Coming Home Network, from 2007-2010. Dave has been interviewed on many nationally syndicated Catholic radio shows, including \"Catholic Answers Live\" (twice), \"Faith and Family Live\" (Steve Wood), \"Kresta in the Afternoon,\" \"Son Rise Morning Show,\" \"Catholic Connection\" (Teresa Tomeo), and \"The Catholics Next Door.\" His large and popular website, \"Biblical Evidence for Catholicism,\" was online from March 1997 to March 2007, and received the 1998 Catholic Website of the Year award from \"Envoy Magazine.\" His blog of the same name (now transferred to Patheos), begun in February 2004, contains more than 1,500 papers, at least 500 debates or dialogues, and over 50 distinct \"index\" web pages. Unsolicited correspondence has indicated many hundreds of conversions (or returns) to the Catholic faith as a result, by God's grace, of these writings. Dave's conversion story was published in the bestselling book \"Surprised by Truth\" (edited by Patrick Madrid; San Diego: Basilica Press, 1994). Sophia Institute Press has published six of his books: \"A Biblical Defense of Catholicism\" (Foreword by Fr. John A. Hardon, S. J., 1996 \/ 2003), \"The Catholic Verses\" (2004), \"The One-Minute Apologist\" (2007), \"Bible Proofs for Catholic Truths\" (2009), \"The Quotable Newman\" (editor: 2012), and \"Proving the Catholic Faith is Biblical\" (2015). He is co-author (with Dr. Paul Thigpen) of the inserts for \"The New Catholic Answer Bible\" (Our Sunday Visitor: 2005), and editor for \"The Wisdom of Mr. Chesterton: The Very Best Quotes, Quips, and Cracks from the Pen of G. K. Chesterton\" (Saint Benedict Press \/ TAN Books: 2009). \"100 Biblical Arguments Against Sola Scriptura\" was published by Catholic Answers in May 2012. His \"Quotable Wesley\" compilation was published by (Protestant \/ Wesleyan publisher) Beacon Hill Press in April 2014. Several of his 49 books are bestsellers in their field. Dave maintains a popular personal Facebook page, a Facebook author page, and has a Twitter account as well. He offers almost all of his books in e-book form on his own Biblical Catholicism site (http:\/\/biblicalcatholicism.com\/), at a permanent deep discount: only $2.99 for ePub, mobi, and AZW, and $1.99 for PDF. His writing has been enthusiastically endorsed or recommended by many leading Catholic apologists, authors, and priests, including Dr. Scott Hahn, Fr. Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Marcus Grodi, Patrick Madrid, Steve Ray, Tim Staples, Devin Rose, Mike Aquilina, Al Kresta, Karl Keating, Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Brandon Vogt, Marcellino D'Ambrosio, and Fr. John A. Hardon, S. J. Dave has been happily married to his wife Judy since October 1984. 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