{"id":165219,"date":"2020-07-20T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=165219"},"modified":"2020-12-02T10:03:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T10:03:54","slug":"a-covid-19-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/07\/a-covid-19-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"A Covid-19 Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>17 Jul 2020 &#8211; <\/em>To beat Covid-19, governments must drop ineffective strategies \u2013 including mass testing and tracing, mandatory face masks, lockdowns, or waiting for a hypothetical and experimental vaccine \u2013 and instead adopt an <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/swprs.org\/on-the-treatment-of-covid-19\/\" >early treatment and prophylaxis strategy<\/a> for people at high risk or high exposure.<\/p>\n<p>This applies both to high-prevalence countries such as the US and to low-prevalence countries such as Germany. Lockdowns during an infection wave, in particular, are the worst possible approach as they isolate infected high-risk people until they develop serious respiratory problems.<\/p>\n<p>Leading doctors from the US, Europe and Asia have reported striking success with <em>early interventions<\/em> based on zinc-chloroquine and zinc-quercetin combination protocols, including dramatic reductions in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.preprints.org\/manuscript\/202007.0025\/v1\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hospitalization<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryford.com\/news\/2020\/07\/hydro-treatment-study\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mortality rates<\/a> and improvements in the condition of patients <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eVs_EWVCVPc\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">within hours<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The effectiveness of chloroquine against coronaviruses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC1232869\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was discovered<\/a> already back in 2005 in the wake of SARS-1. The fact that zinc blocks coronavirus RNA replication <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC2973827\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was discovered<\/a> in 2010 by world-leading SARS virologist Ralph Baric. The fact that chloroquine and quercetin <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0109180\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">support<\/a> cellular zinc uptake <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/jf5014633\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was discovered<\/a> in 2014 in the context of cancer and virology research.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged or actual negative results with chloroquine in some studies were based on <a href=\"https:\/\/c19study.com\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">delayed use<\/a> (intensive care patients), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.francesoir.fr\/politique-monde\/oxford-recovery-et-solidarity-overdosage-two-clinical-trials-acts-considered\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">excessive doses<\/a> (up to 2400mg per day), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/03\/covid-19-surgisphere-who-world-health-organization-hydroxychloroquine\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">manipulated data sets<\/a> (the Surgisphere scandal), or ignored <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iss.it\/documents\/20126\/0\/Report+ISS+COVID-19_14.pdf\/8a94daca-f6eb-ae95-dad7-68b9c03c8fb6\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">contraindications<\/a> (e.g., favism or heart problems).<\/p>\n<p>The lethality of Covid-19 is <a href=\"https:\/\/swprs.org\/studies-on-covid-19-lethality\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">much lower<\/a> than initially assumed \u2013 most people develop mild symptoms at most \u2013 but people at high risk or high exposure need early or prophylactic treatment.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/covexit.com\/dr-zelenko-interview-part-1\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent two-part interview<\/a>, US primary care physician Dr. Zev Zelenko, who has successfully treated more than 2000 Covid-19 patients, explained that further ignoring this simple and effective protocol, whether for political or for commercial reasons, would be a crime against humanity.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>More:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/swprs.org\/on-the-treatment-of-covid-19\/\" >On the treatment of Covid-19 \u2192<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Note<\/strong>: Patients are asked to consult a doctor.<\/p>\n<p>__________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/swiss-policy-research-logo-300.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-161314\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/swiss-policy-research-logo-300-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/swiss-policy-research-logo-300-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/swiss-policy-research-logo-300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Swiss Policy Research<em>, founded in 2016, is an independent, nonpartisan and nonprofit research group investigating geopolitical propaganda in Swiss and international media. SPR is composed of independent academics that<\/em><em> for personal and professional reasons prefer to protect their identities,<\/em><em> and receives no external funding; t<\/em><em>here are no financial sponsors or backers. <\/em><em>Our articles have been published or shared by numerous independent media outlets and journalists, among them <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/swprs.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/assange-tweet.png\" >Julian Assange<\/a>, and have been translated into more than two dozen languages.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/swprs.org\/a-covid-19-strategy\/\" >Go to Original &#8211; swprs.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17 Jul 2020 &#8211; To beat Covid-19, governments must drop ineffective strategies \u2013 including mass testing and tracing, mandatory face masks, lockdowns, or waiting for a hypothetical and experimental vaccine \u2013 and instead adopt an early treatment and prophylaxis strategy for people at high risk or high exposure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":161314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2236],"tags":[2017,2036,244,271,1879,1829,1868,530,289,744,401,710,1937,1864,1102,723,304,1447,1956,1880,1957,339,124,1836,75],"class_list":["post-165219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid19-coronavirus","tag-airborne-contagion","tag-brain","tag-china","tag-community","tag-compassion","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-cuba","tag-economy","tag-empathy","tag-environment","tag-health","tag-lockdown","tag-pandemic","tag-public-health","tag-research","tag-science","tag-science-and-medicine","tag-semen","tag-sharing","tag-sperm","tag-trade","tag-united-nations","tag-who","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}