{"id":87488,"date":"2021-10-02T16:36:22","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T20:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=87488"},"modified":"2021-10-02T16:37:39","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T20:37:39","slug":"under-treatment-cited-as-major-cause-for-covid-19-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=87488","title":{"rendered":"Under-treatment Cited as Major Cause for COVID-19 Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>San Juan Summit: Undertreatment Cited as Cause for Deaths<\/h1>\n<h3>Panel of doctors and scientists convene in a remarkable open forum about effective early treatment and evaluate the current one-size-fits-all approach to Covid treatment<\/h3>\n<p>PHYSICIANS AND MEDICAL SCIENTISTS<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On a balmy night on the outskirts of San Juan, Puerto Rico, a panel of doctors and scientists convened for the first Conversation on Covid, hosted by media startup Roundtable. While the conversation was far-ranging, it often hit on controversial topics around the causes, prevention strategies, and treatments for Covid.<\/p>\n<div class=\"m-detail--body-item m-detail--body-iframe-embed m-detail--body-item-inline\">\n<figure class=\"m-embed mm-embed--iframe l-inline\">\n<div><iframe class=\"m-embed--frame\" src=\"https:\/\/3speak.tv\/embed?v=pandemichealth\/raukfhng\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe are in a pandemic of undertreatment,\u201d said intensive care specialist, Pierre Kory, M.D., Former Director of the Center for Trauma and Life Support at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and winner of the British Medical Association\u2019s President\u2019s Choice Award. What drives him and the other doctors and scientists attending is the overarching principle to \u201cfirst, do no harm\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything else that we&#8217;ve discovered, everything that&#8217;s in our protocols is because we have used good clinical sense, lots of experience, and we&#8217;ve used trial and error using our best judgments of risks and benefits.\u201d For him, undertreatment and nontreatment is harm. In his view, long-haul Covid and hospitalizations are caused by undertreatment and a lack of an effective prevention strategy.<\/p>\n<p>While some of the conversation veered into the controversy around vaccinations, many of the doctors strongly emphasized they do not oppose vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have had all my childhood vaccines, as have my children. I&#8217;ve had plenty of military vaccines back in the day. I&#8217;m not anti-vaccine, never have been,\u201d said Ryan Cole, MD, a board-certified pathologist and CEO of Cole Diagnostics who once trained at the Mayo Clinic. He emphasized that he is \u201cpro good science\u201d and hoped to give a \u201cthoughtful and probing voice\u201d to a discussion that has become polarized around the Covid pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Tyson, MD stood out as a frontline physician who\u2019s treated probably more patients than anyone\u2014over 6,000 at his Urgent Care Covid Clinic in Imperial Valley, California, one of the hotbeds for Covid-19, just over the border from Mexico. He freely acknowledges kids are getting sick. But with similar viruses causing similar symptoms, he took the additional step to purchase a $100,000 PCR machine to confirm whether the illness he was seeing was actually Covid or something else.<\/p>\n<p>What he found was eye-opening. Typically a winter illness, RSV or respiratory syncytial virus causes pulmonary symptoms, pulmonary bronchiolitis\u2014not bronchitis, but bronchiolitis\u2014in the lower airways. \u201cAnd that&#8217;s why the kids are having the trouble right now,\u201d he says, \u201cnot, in my opinion, from Covid, but from RSV.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The effect of Covid on kids was an impassioned topic addressed by Mark McDonald, double board-certified child and adult psychiatrist. \u201cMy concern is that the developmental stage that children need to go through, babies, toddlers, young adults, is being foreclosed on them,\u201d he ominously observed. \u201cMy concern is that we are building a generation of young people who are so traumatized that they will never fully recover from this.\u201d He cited a study recently published by Brown University Department of Pediatrics that found a 20-point drop in the IQs of babies born after January 1, 2020 compared to those born before.<\/p>\n<p>The panel included Nobel Prize-nominee Robert Malone, M.D. who worked on the mRNA technology that the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines are built on. \u201cI think the vaccines need to be used intelligently. That\u2019s my objection,\u201d referring to his well-publicized stance on the vaccines. He believes the vaccines have a common problem. \u201cThey only have one antigen, it\u2019s the spike antigen and when they were developing them, they didn\u2019t realize that spike was biologically active.\u201d Malone is not against vaccines at all, but feels they should be deployed strategically.<\/p>\n<p>Malone pushed back on the notion that this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated and that the unvaccinated are the ones driving variants. \u201cFrom a fundamental evolutionary standpoint, as a molecular virologist,\u201d he said, \u201cthis doesn\u2019t make sense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to keep seeing variants. It\u2019s normal,\u201d explained Richard Urso, M.D., scientist, sole inventor of an FDA-approved wound healing drug, and Former Chief of Orbital Oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center. \u201cWe&#8217;re vaccinating in a very narrow framework. And so when you vaccinate just the spike, you&#8217;re going to get variants, because we are doing a very specific treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Urso clarified, saying people don\u2019t die of the virus itself. Studies conducted last year were not able to culture the virus past eight days. What people die of is the effects of the virus on the body. \u201cThey die of inflammation and they die of thrombosis,\u201d according to Urso.<\/p>\n<p>Cole further emphasized, \u201cCovid is a clotting disease. Covid is a clotting disease. Covid is a clotting disease.\u201d As an active biologic molecule, he firmly believes the spike protein was the wrong molecule. He added, \u201cThe 14-G strain that we&#8217;ve made the sequence for the spike against isn&#8217;t even circulating anymore. It&#8217;s not even here. We\u2019re one, two, three, four, five variants on from that. Delta is behaving as a new virus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not one of the doctors downplayed the seriousness and deadly nature of the Covid pandemic. \u201cI&#8217;ve never, ever walked into an ICU that&#8217;s full of every patient on a ventilator with the same disease,\u201d Kory noted from last year when he responded to the call for help at his old ICU in New York City. \u201cIt was wicked back then,\u201d he recalled. \u201cWe\u2019re not in that catastrophic phase. But this is the most complex and most violent disease that I have seen and the most difficult to treat in the ICU.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kory\u2019s solution is to avoid getting to the ICU in the first place.\u00a0The notion of early treatment was a common theme among the doctors.\u00a0 \u201cThe key to everything is early treatment,\u201d said Dr. Kory. \u201cIf you institute systematically early treatment upon first symptoms,\u201d he explained, \u201cthe amount of people who would require hospital would go away. The amount of transmissions would go away.\u201d He firmly believes we can control the pandemic through effective early treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The one-size-fits-all approach that everyone get a vaccine doesn\u2019t work at all for Urso. \u201cThe Covid-recovered, which is over 30 percent of the population, has no reason to get the vaccine,\u201d he plainly stated. \u201cThey have a near-zero chance of getting reinfected. And they have a significant risk of harm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although many of the doctors on the panel have been censored and criticized on both social media and mainstream media\u2014McDonald noting he was taken down on Twitter ten days earlier simply for summarizing Dr. Kory\u2019s position on early treatment\u2014many have received strong positive recognition in the medical community prior to expressing their views around the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Also participating in the San Jose panel were\u00a0family practitioners Dr. John Littell of Florida and Dr. Heather Gessling of Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of the panel was to be a first step toward having more in-depth and open conversations around the Covid pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/globalcovidsummit.org\/news\/san-juan-panel-undertreatment-cited-as-a-cause-for-hospitalizations-long-haul-covid\">https:\/\/globalcovidsummit.org\/news\/san-juan-panel-undertreatment-cited-as-a-cause-for-hospitalizations-long-haul-covid<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Juan Summit: Undertreatment Cited as Cause for Deaths Panel of doctors and scientists convene in a remarkable open forum about effective early treatment and evaluate the current one-size-fits-all approach to Covid treatment PHYSICIANS AND MEDICAL SCIENTISTS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}