NY Doctor Proved Everyone Wrong About Hydroxychloroquine

This doctor has treated 3,000 COVID-19 patients to date, with only three high-risk patients dying.

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, many doctors around the world began using the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ). Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, a practicing physician in a Jewish community in Monroe, New York, is one of them.

He gained national attention in March 2020 after telling radio host Sean Hannity that he had a near-100% success rate treating COVID-19 patients for five days with HCQ, azithromycin, and zinc sulfate. “I’ve seen remarkable results; it really prevents progression of disease, and patients get better,” he told reporters at the time.

County health officials responded by calling Zelenko’s claims “unsubstantiated” and urging residents to listen to public health officials. In this interview, he discusses how HCQ works against COVID-19 and the lies spread about the drug to prevent its widespread use. Zelenko had a very active Twitter account and would get millions of views on his tweets, but he was censored and recently removed from Twitter, like many other truth tellers in this crazy pandemic.
“When we have a large population of people that need to be treated, it has to be oral, cheap, safe and effective,” he said. “By the way, this isn’t new; this information was available in 2005 — even before that.”
There are papers with [Dr. Anthony] Fauci’s name on them, calling [HCQ] a miracle drug. Fauci called HCQ a vaccine. There’s a paper in which he called it an absolute dream treatment and vaccine.” He was diagnosed with a type of pulmonary sarcoma that is typically considered terminal in the spring of last year, and while he has improved, he is still receiving treatment for this condition.

Finding Ways to Avoid a Death Trap

Zelenko was seeing 50 to 250 patients per day as SARS-CoV-2 swept through his close-knit Jewish community. He has now treated over 3,000 patients with COVID-19-related symptoms. Only about one-third of them received the triple-drug regimen. The remaining two-thirds were classified as low-risk and did not require drug treatment.
Zelenko has only had 15 patients who needed to be hospitalized, four of whom were intubated. All were eventually extubated successfully and recovered. The remaining 11 were admitted for pneumonia treatment with intravenous antibiotics. Only three of his high-risk patients died as a result of COVID-19, putting the mortality rate for this treatment at 0.3%.
“You can’t ignore that. That doesn’t even include the risk stratification patients, whom I chose not to treat; in other words, I was able to tell these patients, ‘I know you’re going to be fine. Go home, and you’ll be fine.’ And that has value.”
If you include those, the mortality rate is even lower, and this has been replicated. You don’t have to believe me, but there are now Harvard professors of virology with 4,000 patient experiences.

Dr. George Fareed, for example, or Dr. Harvey Risch from Yale School of Epidemiology, who has shown that HCQ used in the prehospital setting is absolutely statistically proven to be absolutely effective; it’s impossible for it to be a mistake,” he says.
Why is HCQ used?
Zelenko describes how he began treating COVID-19 patients with HCQ:
“Hospitals were near capacity, and all outpatient services were closed; half my staff was sick, and I was suddenly in a war zone; I basically began learning triage medicine, trying to save as many people as possible.”
At the time, the entire world was focused on building respirators and hospital capacity, rather than emphasizing prehospital care, which I found strange because that is never what we do in medicine. We [use] common sense and intervene in the earliest stages.

A small problem is much easier to fix than a large problem. For example, if someone has cancer, we don’t wait for it to spread; we treat it as soon as possible. If someone has a small infection, we treat the infection.
If you look at the CDC, they recommend starting antiviral treatment for influenza within the first 48 hours, not the week, except when it comes to COVID-19. We were told to send patients home, and if they got sicker, to send them to the hospital, where they were likely to be intubated, especially in March and April.
At the time, the city’s mortality rate was over 80%, so it was a death sentence. None of this made sense to me, so I quickly began to brush up on my virology.
I wanted to understand how this virus works and, more importantly, what I could do about it. A YouTube series called MedCram, Episode 34, saved the world by explaining the biology behind how zinc inhibits RNA polymerase, as well as the fact that zinc can’t get into the cell, so it needs help.” Zelenko goes on to describe how he settled on HCQ, a zinc ionophore, which shuttles zinc into the cell. He made the decision to treat high-risk patients as soon as possible, which proved crucial. When it comes to COVID-19, early treatment truly saves lives. The wait-and-see strategy is not appropriate in this situation.

According to Zelenko, the viral load remains relatively stable during the first five days of SARS-CoV-2 infection. It begins to increase exponentially around Day 5, potentially overwhelming the immune system. This also meant that he couldn’t afford to wait five days for test results. Most patients would have advanced too far by then.

So, if a patient showed symptoms, especially if they reported loss of taste or smell, he’d begin treatment right away. In retrospect, approximately 90% of the tests performed on people experiencing symptoms were positive.

The HCQ and Zinc Synergy

HCQ and zinc, according to Zelenko, are analogous to a gun and a bullet. The gun that shoots the zinc into the cell is HCQ. Zinc is a magic bullet that kills viruses by inhibiting an enzyme involved in viral replication inside the cell. The antibiotic azithromycin is given to COVID-19 patients to prevent bacterial pneumonia and other secondary bacterial infections.
Of course, we now have more information, which means there are more tools available besides HCQ, zinc, and antibiotics. Steroids and blood thinners, for example, appear to be very useful, particularly for prevention. As a result, Zelenko will now tailor treatment to individual patients based on their symptoms.
“It’s not a cookie cutter approach, but what is absolutely the same is that high-risk patients must be treated as soon as possible, within the first five days from onset of symptoms, and they all survive,” he said.

The Psychological Warfare Against HCQ

Unfortunately, as Zelenko discussed, a “psychological operation” was put in place to scare people away from HCQ. Making it a political issue was a big part of that. Doctors who used the drug were threatened with losing their medical licenses from the start, which is unprecedented for a drug with such a long history of safe use.
The United States exacerbated the situation by only issuing emergency use authorization for in-hospital use and not for outpatient settings. Meanwhile, HCQ has been used to treat chronic conditions such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis for about 60 years.
“So, the hypocrisy, the loss of common sense, the outright indoctrination killed a lot of people,” Zelenko said. “The root cause is the way we educate people; higher education used to be about teaching critical thinking, deductive reasoning, and analytical analysis.”

That’s my critique of higher education, and why I think many physicians fell into the trap. Also, this country was traumatized. Even if a doctor was willing to give it, patients were afraid to take it.” The biggest reason for the fear was unfortunately due to falsified studies and trials using toxic doses. Given those facts, it’s difficult not to suspect an ulterior motive. According to Zelenko, a critical component of pandemic response, prehospital or outpatient treatment, was suppressed.
Why is this the case? One obvious reason was that it was a presidential election year, and in March 2020, then-President Trump came out in support of HCQ. His announcement sparked an immediate backlash from the media, which is notoriously hostile. “There were plenty of people willing to use every possible way to vilify the president and to discredit anything that might give him a win,” Zelenko said.

Then there were the financial considerations. Millions of dollars were being invested in new drugs, such as remdesivir, which costs more than $3,000 per treatment and is only available in hospitals.

Hospitals were also paid tens of thousands of dollars more for COVID-19 patients, so there was plenty of incentive to get people in and keep them there. Meanwhile, Zelenko’s initial outpatient treatment will cost around $20.

Distrust was fueled by fraudulent studies.

Concerning the fraudulent and misleading studies, the first to raise concerns was a VA study in Virginia, which discovered that HCQ did not prevent death. However, it was only used on patients who were already on ventilators at the end of their lives. They incorrectly extrapolated from there that it would not be useful in earlier stages, which is simply not true. Other studies simply used the incorrect dosage.

While most doctors who report success with the drug use standard doses of 200 mg to 400 mg per day for a few days or a couple of weeks, studies like the Bill & Melinda Gates-funded Recovery Trial used 2,400 mg of hydroxychloroquine during the first 24 hours — three to six times the daily dosage recommended — followed by 400 mg every 12 hours for nine more days for a total dose of 9,200 mg over ten days.

Similarly, the World Health Organization-led Solidarity Trial used 2,000 mg on the first day and a total dose of 8,800 mg over 10 days. These dosages are simply excessive. More is not always better. Too much of anything, and guess what? You could end up killing the patient. These doses, according to Zelenko, are “enough to kill an elephant.”

It’s unclear why these studies used such massive doses, given that the dosages for this drug are never that high for a variety of conditions. “All those studies did was prove that if you poison someone with lethal doses of a drug, they’re going to die,” Zelenko said.

Then there was the famous Lancet study, which was used by the World Health Organization to justify essentially outlawing HCQ. When it was discovered that the data had been completely fabricated with falsely generated data from a fly-by-night company, the study was withdrawn. It was supposed to be a meta-analysis of approximately 90,000 patients that demonstrated HCQ had lethal effects.

Unfortunately, before it was withdrawn, the WHO (or, as Zelenko put it, the “world homicide organization”) imposed a moratorium on the use of HCQ, which did not improve public trust in the drug. Even more heinous, the US. Even though the study had already been retracted, the Food and Drug Administration used it as one of the reasons for withdrawing HCQ’s emergency use authorization.
Tens of thousands of people were killed needlessly as a result of the HCQ ban.
As he puts it, “HCQ is the safest medication in the history of medicine, azithromycin is one of the most common antibiotics used in medicine, and zinc is a mineral that’s well-known and well-tolerated. These drugs were affordable and available to take at home, which was very important. And they worked.”
“If you approach the virus correctly, it is not dangerous.” If you treat it correctly, it’s no different than a bad flu. You’ll be fine.” Dr. Vladimir Zelenko
Zelenko and two co-authors published a study on June 30, 2020, demonstrating that treating COVID-19 patients with confirmed positive test results “as early as possible after symptom onset” with zinc, low dose HCQ, and azithromycin reduced the odds of hospitalization by 84% and all-cause death by 500% compared to no treatment at all.
Surprisingly, despite going to great lengths to share his clinical findings with the White House and the National Institutes of Health, Zelenko received no support and was told that they had no use for it.
“What’s happened over the last 20 years is that the academic elite and pharmaceutical industry have bred a monopoly on medical truth,” he said.
“They believe that only data generated through randomized control trials, pharmaceutical sponsored trials, or those coming out of major academic institutions should be considered true, and that anything coming from a frontline country doctor must be anecdotal.”
That is the crime here, and they erected artificial barriers to the flow of common sense and lifesaving information. Do you know which countries took it seriously? See, this is a disease of affluence because the rich countries could afford the waste of money, whereas the poor countries, like Honduras, had no choice.

They couldn’t afford respirators and didn’t have enough hospital capacity, so they gravitated toward the cheap generic approaches, which have the best outcomes.” Zelenko cites Uganda, which has a population of about 50 million people but only 325 deaths. “I think this was a genocide against the elderly and a crime against humanity,” he said. “There are plenty of people who have blood on their hands, including the media.”

Coordination of Harmful Efforts

He also emphasizes that the pandemic response, including HCQ suppression, was clearly a global collaborative effort.
“You have to ask yourself, who benefits from a destabilized world? Who benefits from chaos on the streets, anarchy, financial despair, psychological trauma?” “Suicide rates are up 600% in some parts of this country.”
When I talk to my colleagues in emergency rooms, they tell me about the amount of child and spousal abuse they’ve seen, as well as the amount of collateral damage from preventable illnesses like heart disease and cancer that are on the rise because people don’t have access to routine care.
The virus is not dangerous if approached correctly. If treated in the right timeframe, it’s no different than a bad flu. You can deal with it. You don’t have to shut down the world.”

It is no longer necessary to live in fear.

Zelenko, who was born in a communist country and grew up under communist and fascist rule, is acutely aware of the signs of authoritarian regimes. He tells a story from Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s book “The Gulag Archipelago.”
Stalin wished to construct a canal connecting Moscow and St. Petersburg. The work, done in the dead of winter, resulted in the deaths of 400,000 prison workers because they were not provided with appropriate clothing or tools. The bodies were thrown into the cement, becoming an indelible part of the canal.
“No ship ever used the canal because it was too shallow. So, the question was, why was this canal built? And the answer is: So that 400,000 people would die,” he explains.

“I’m not attacking the vaccine; I’m attacking the need for the vaccine. I don’t have enough information to say whether it’s good or bad, and I don’t like to guess. But what I can tell you is that 99.98% of young and healthy people under the age of 45 recover with no treatment.”
I also know for a fact, based on my own real-world battle-tested evidence, which has now been replicated on hundreds of thousands of patients, that if you intervene early, you essentially eliminate hospitalization and death… I’ve now treated two waves, and I haven’t seen a single patient who had COVID-19 in the first wave get it again…
So there is no need for the vaccine. It has been artificially conflated… offering people an artificial false hope solution in order to enslave them to be codependent on government. You know why my approach is so dangerous? Because it not only treats COVID-19, but it also treats anxiety. It tells people they don’t need to worry.
My message to the American people or whoever is listening is: Return to normal life. You don’t need to worry. And, by the way, there are nonprescription options… that can replace HCQ if your government or doctor are too stupid or vicious to give it to you. So, you don’t have to rely on them. You can buy over-the-counter things that will save your own life.

The crime against humanity’s psyche is unbelievable, and I’m screaming to humanity: “Don’t be scared! Be cautious. Be smart. Use common sense, but don’t be scared. Return to life. Reengage in life.”
HCQ Action Mechanisms and Alternatives
Over-the-counter substitutes for HCQ include EGCG (green tea extract) and quercetin, both of which are zinc ionophores and thus work similarly to HCQ. Quercetin works best when combined with vitamin C, as the vitamin C helps activate it. Zelenko suggests combining it with 1,000 milligrams of vitamin C.
HCQ has other mechanisms of action besides being a zinc ionophore, so it’s a better choice, but if you can’t find it, EGCG or quercetin are viable substitutes. HCQ also has the following advantages:
Changing the pH to prevent viral entry into the cytoplasm
Anti-inflammatory properties inhibit cytokine storms
Red blood cell stabilization, which improves oxygenation
“Since it has four different mechanisms of action, it’s a very effective drug, and it has a half-life of 50 days in plasma,” Zelenko said. “But if you can’t get it, you can’t get it. So, I’ll take quercetin or EGCG.”
The caveat here is that you must carry out this treatment within the appropriate timeframe. It can be beneficial to recognize that we are essentially dealing with two diseases or stages of disease here.

The first is a viral infection, and the second is an immune over-response that results in the release of inflammatory cytokines and agents that can cause blood clots. The key is to keep the first stage from progressing to the second.

Prescription Assistance Is Available

Zelenko, like many others who have dared to run the HCQ promotion gauntlet, has been attacked from multiple angles. His character has been assassinated in the press, his medical credentials have been called into question and he has been threatened online.
“I had no media experience prior to March 2020; I am a quiet doctor who was taking care of his patients and living a serene life when this all exploded on me…

I was on Twitter, getting 10 million impressions per tweet, but they shut me down last month for platform manipulation, which I have no idea what that means. So, I had to create my own website, which is free and has my protocols in 20 different languages.” There are protocols for both early treatment and prophylaxis, as well as studies that document the rationale for each of the treatment components and patient testimonials.
His website also provides access to telemedicine through “Speak With an MD,” which can deliver your medication overnight. “So, if you live in a state that’s tyrannical, you can have a consultation with Dr. Fields,” Zelenko said. “I had to develop this because there were patients around the country who didn’t have access [to HCQ].”

At this point, most people in the United States should be able to obtain HCQ, but it does require a prescription, and some doctors are still unwilling or resistant to do so. At times, pharmacies can be a hindrance. “It may take some diligence but none of my patients goes without the medication written for them,” he said.

Early treatment helps to avoid ‘long-term’ side effects.

Finally, it’s worth noting that when you treat early, your chances of developing long-term side effects, also known as “long-haulers,” are virtually nil. None of Zelenko’s patients who received treatment within the first five days of symptom onset later developed long-term symptoms.
“I had patients who were long-haulers, but they came to me after that window had passed, and they were already advanced in the inflammatory process; the cytokine storm had already taken hold; they had developed blood clots, and some of them had pulmonary infarcts, or strokes.”
Others developed ARDS or catastrophic lung damage and pneumonias, and others are simply not themselves; I don’t know how to describe it, but it ate away a piece of their souls; they’re not the same people. There’s depression, there’s a lack of energy, and there’s a psychological impact.

So it’s not that I don’t deal with long-haulers; I do; but the best way to prevent long-hauler syndrome is to intervene in high-risk patients within the first five days with appropriate antiviral medication, which is 100% effective,” he says.

The Light of Truth Will Shine Through

Zelenko describes the COVID-19 pandemic and everything that surrounds it as an information war, a propaganda war, and his primary goal and agenda in this war is to educate and speak the truth.
“There’s a lot of false narrative being pumped into the heads of people, to create fear,” he said. “In the Psalms of David, it says, ‘With crooked people, you have to deal crookedly.’ It also says you should learn from a thief.”
So I learned from the enemy and use their tactics to counter them, the main tactic being to spread truth, which is no longer dependent on me; I have second, third, and fourth generation leaders who have taken on the mission and are truly spreading the knowledge globally.
They can try to slow it down, and they are, but the truth will come out. The truth is coming out, and when it does, the people who try to obstruct it and use lies to slaughter will be destroyed by it, God willing.
Life was very confusing. You didn’t know what was good, what was bad. Now, it’s very clear. There’s much more bad, that’s true, but I know where it is. I know where the enemy is. And I know where the good is. And a little light pushes away a lot of darkness.”