Dr. Howard Smith Reports

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/Dqb0BCXeVUc

I’m mad as hell that a US health agency is waffling on its recommendation due to corrupt political pressure.

The timeline:

March 30 - FDA issues an Emergency Use Authorization for HCQ/CQ.

April 24 - FDA cautions against use of HCQ/CQ for CoVid19 outside of a hospital setting or within the context of a controlled study.  Warning about serious and life-threatening cardiac rhythm disturbance.  Reminder that these drugs have no proven benefit for CoVid19 infections.

Then, suddenly, May 19 - FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn MD reverses the agency’s position on these drugs and states to multiple media outlets including CNBC and The Hill that the decision about using HCQ/CQ should be made by the patient and his or her physician.

 Multiple studies ongoing or completed in France and China confirm that these drugs do not improve outcomes for patients hospitalized for CoVid19.  Use of the drugs over the years for both malaria and autoimmune diseases have shown that both drugs trigger electrocardiographic changes and dangerous arrhythmias.

That the FDA Commissioner has succumbed to political pressure from the executive branch to soften the agency’s recommendations about these drugs is dishonest, corrupt, and a violation of his physician Hippocratic Oath.  Don’t follow this flawed medical recommendation to pressure your doctor into prescribing these drugs.  They will not help you and they could kill you.

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-daily-roundup-march-30-2020

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-cautions-against-use-hydroxychloroquine-or-chloroquine-covid-19-outside-hospital-setting-or

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.14.20101774v2.full.pdf

#fda #hahn #hydroxychloroquine #chloroquine 

fda, hahn, hydroxychloroquine, chloroquine

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/Dqb0BCXeVUc

I’m mad as hell that a US health agency is waffling on its recommendation due to corrupt political pressure.

The timeline:

March 30 - FDA issues an Emergency Use Authorization for HCQ/CQ.

April 24 - FDA cautions against use of HCQ/CQ for CoVid19 outside of a hospital setting or within the context of a controlled study.  Warning about serious and life-threatening cardiac rhythm disturbance.  Reminder that these drugs have no proven benefit for CoVid19 infections.

Then, suddenly, May 19 - FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn MD reverses the agency’s position on these drugs and states to multiple media outlets including CNBC and The Hill that the decision about using HCQ/CQ should be made by the patient and his or her physician.

 Multiple studies ongoing or completed in France and China confirm that these drugs do not improve outcomes for patients hospitalized for CoVid19.  Use of the drugs over the years for both malaria and autoimmune diseases have shown that both drugs trigger electrocardiographic changes and dangerous arrhythmias.

That the FDA Commissioner has succumbed to political pressure from the executive branch to soften the agency’s recommendations about these drugs is dishonest, corrupt, and a violation of his physician Hippocratic Oath.  Don’t follow this flawed medical recommendation to pressure your doctor into prescribing these drugs.  They will not help you and they could kill you.

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-daily-roundup-march-30-2020

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-cautions-against-use-hydroxychloroquine-or-chloroquine-covid-19-outside-hospital-setting-or

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.14.20101774v2.full.pdf

#fda #hahn #hydroxychloroquine #chloroquine 

fda, hahn, hydroxychloroquine, chloroquine

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/wM-r8Xjl4tc

A huge global study shows that hydroxychlorquine (HCQ) or chloroquine (CQ), with or without Zithromax, can double your risk of dying with CoVid.  These drugs also drive up your chances of suffering deadly ventricular heart arrhythmias 20 fold.

Just published in The Lancet and helmed by Harvard investigators, the analysis tabulates data from nearly 15,000 treated patients and 81,000 controls.  After adjusting for other confounding risk factors, these drugs and drug combinations all jeopardized patient survival.  The increased risks of dying: HCQ - 90%; HCQ+Zithromax-250%; CQ-70%; CQ+Zmax-238%.

Do not take these drugs.  There is no evidence that they prevent CoVid.  If you do get infected, they reduce your survival chances.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31180-6/fulltext

#hydroxychloroquine #chloroquine #covid #arrhythmia

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/wM-r8Xjl4tc

A huge global study shows that hydroxychlorquine (HCQ) or chloroquine (CQ), with or without Zithromax, can double your risk of dying with CoVid.  These drugs also drive up your chances of suffering deadly ventricular heart arrhythmias 20 fold.

Just published in The Lancet and helmed by Harvard investigators, the analysis tabulates data from nearly 15,000 treated patients and 81,000 controls.  After adjusting for other confounding risk factors, these drugs and drug combinations all jeopardized patient survival.  The increased risks of dying: HCQ - 90%; HCQ+Zithromax-250%; CQ-70%; CQ+Zmax-238%.

Do not take these drugs.  There is no evidence that they prevent CoVid.  If you do get infected, they reduce your survival chances.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31180-6/fulltext

#hydroxychloroquine #chloroquine #covid #arrhythmia

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/hMEHBR2pb08

Men with greater androgen signaling and abundant circulating androgens have more severe CoVid infections with accompanying lung, heart, and kidney damage.  A collaborative Yale, Harvard, and UC-San Francisco study of 454 hospitalized CoVid positive British patients.

The free androgen level was significantly associated with viral susceptibility and disease severity in men but not in women.  Androgens are known to increase expression of the ACE2 molecule in human tissues, and it is this protein that binds CoVid19 permitting it to enter and infect cells.

The researchers suggest that already FDA approved androgen inhibiting drugs such as dutasteride and finasteride may have potential for inhibiting CoVid19 infections.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.12.091082v2.full.pdf

#covid #pandemic #ace2 #androgens #5alphareductaseinhibitor #dutasteride #finasteride

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/hMEHBR2pb08

Men with greater androgen signaling and abundant circulating androgens have more severe CoVid infections with accompanying lung, heart, and kidney damage.  A collaborative Yale, Harvard, and UC-San Francisco study of 454 hospitalized CoVid positive British patients.

The free androgen level was significantly associated with viral susceptibility and disease severity in men but not in women.  Androgens are known to increase expression of the ACE2 molecule in human tissues, and it is this protein that binds CoVid19 permitting it to enter and infect cells.

The researchers suggest that already FDA approved androgen inhibiting drugs such as dutasteride and finasteride may have potential for inhibiting CoVid19 infections.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.12.091082v2.full.pdf

#covid #pandemic #ace2 #androgens #5alphareductaseinhibitor #dutasteride #finasteride

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/DT4OhxtiDow

Organic Pure Oil is recalling is Wintergreen Essential Oil and W8 Distributing is recalling its Jade Bloom Wintergreen ad Birch Sweet Essential Oils.  Both products fail to meet federal child-resistant packaging requirements.  This shortcoming puts children in the home at risk for poisoning.  If you have these products, return them to the points of purchase for refunds.  You may contact Organic Pure Oil at 1-657-600-8100 or W8 Distributing/Jade Bloom at 1-844-787-3645.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2020/organic-pure-oil-recalls-wintergreen-essential-oil-due-to-failure-to-meet-child

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2020/w8-distributing-recalls-jade-bloom-wintergreen-and-birch-sweet-essential-oils-due-to

#recall #essentialoils,  #childsafe

recall, essentialoils, childsafe

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/DT4OhxtiDow

Organic Pure Oil is recalling is Wintergreen Essential Oil and W8 Distributing is recalling its Jade Bloom Wintergreen ad Birch Sweet Essential Oils.  Both products fail to meet federal child-resistant packaging requirements.  This shortcoming puts children in the home at risk for poisoning.  If you have these products, return them to the points of purchase for refunds.  You may contact Organic Pure Oil at 1-657-600-8100 or W8 Distributing/Jade Bloom at 1-844-787-3645.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2020/organic-pure-oil-recalls-wintergreen-essential-oil-due-to-failure-to-meet-child

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2020/w8-distributing-recalls-jade-bloom-wintergreen-and-birch-sweet-essential-oils-due-to

#recall #essentialoils,  #childsafe

recall, essentialoils, childsafe

Indoor CoVid Transmission Predominately Via Surfaces

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/RzSesPsN54o

If you are in a room with a CoVid19 carrier, asymptomatic and unaware of their infection, you are more likely to contract the virus from surfaces than from the air.  Israeli biomathematicians draw this conclusion from theie mathematical models of viral transmission through the air versus surface-hand-face transfer.

Using real life data, the investigators estimate that 60-80% of virus is transmitted via direct contact, 20-40% is transmitted via indirect contact with contaminated surfaces, and less than 1% via the air.

This data predicts that the combination of frequent hand washing, avoiding direct physical contact, and periodic surface disinfection will reduce the risk of person-to-person viral transmission by 85%.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.12.20099085v1.full.pdf

#covid #pandemic #transmission #droplets #aerosols #fomites

Indoor CoVid Transmission Predominately Via Surfaces

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/RzSesPsN54o

If you are in a room with a CoVid19 carrier, asymptomatic and unaware of their infection, you are more likely to contract the virus from surfaces than from the air.  Israeli biomathematicians draw this conclusion from theie mathematical models of viral transmission through the air versus surface-hand-face transfer.

Using real life data, the investigators estimate that 60-80% of virus is transmitted via direct contact, 20-40% is transmitted via indirect contact with contaminated surfaces, and less than 1% via the air.

This data predicts that the combination of frequent hand washing, avoiding direct physical contact, and periodic surface disinfection will reduce the risk of person-to-person viral transmission by 85%.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.12.20099085v1.full.pdf

#covid #pandemic #transmission #droplets #aerosols #fomites