"Bring it to Victoria immediately"

Could there be a cheap, effective treatment, even a cure for COVID19? And if there is, why aren’t we hearing about it? Does the battle to get an effective COVID-19 treatment identified mirror the battle that Nobel Laureate Professor Barry Marshall endured when he and Dr Robin Warren proved that H. pylori infections caused peptic ulcers? Professor Thomas Borody is an internationally regarded physician with four FDA approved drugs on the US and Australian markets. He is renowned for developing the triple therapy that cured peptic ulcers after Barry Marshall and Robin Warren proved that they were caused by H. pylori infections. He saved more than 18,000 lives in Australia and millions internationally.

Professor Borody has reviewed key antiviral scientific research and identified that two available drugs (Ivermectin and Doxycycline) approved by the TGA and FDA, when combined with zinc, effectively treat, even cure patients who test positive to COVID-19. He says that the treatment is available in tablet form that can be taken at home as a preventive treatment by high risk individuals, or by those who test positive to minimise need for hospitalisation at the higher curative dose.

Desperate to get to Victoria, Professor Borody says distribution teams could be deployed to Victoria’s hot spots to treat COVID positive patients immediately, and that people exposed or at risk could be take a preventative dose.

But, he says, without the support of Big Pharma, lobbying government and the relevant authorities is proving very difficult. "I am totally amazed and surprised that seemingly educated people will not say ‘hey we’ve got deaths happening here’…anyone in their right mind would immediately say ‘let’s get some teams to treat the infected patients in Victoria’ ”.

He tells Jane that "the analogy between Helicobacter and COVID is very similar".

Ivermectin was discovered in the 1970's and is on the World Health Organization (WHO) list of essential medicines.

Professor Borody has used the same data and research methodology with the COVID-19 Ivermectin Triple Therapy as he used when he developed the world’s first cure for peptic ulcers saving millions of lives around the globe.

He says this combination of Ivermectin, zinc and Doxycyline, all  “off the shelf” drugs could be the answer to Australia’s #COVID19 crisis.

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