By R.C.
Tue, Mar 24, 2020 10:03 p.m.New York Hospitals Treating Coronavirus Patients with Vitamin C: NY Post 3-24-2020
Seriously sick coronavirus patients in New York state's largest hospital system are being given massive doses of vitamin C — based on promising reports that it's helped people in hard-hit China, The Post has learned.
Dr. Andrew Weber, a pulmonologist and critical-care specialist affiliated with two Northwell Health facilities on Long Island, said his intensive-care patients with the coronavirus immediately receive 1,500 milligrams of intravenous vitamin C.
Identical amounts of the powerful antioxidant are then re-administered three or four times a day, he said.
Each dose is more than 16 times the National Institutes of Health's daily recommended dietary allowance of vitamin C, which is just 90 milligrams for adult men and 75 milligrams for adult women.
The regimen is based on experimental treatments administered to people with the coronavirus in Shanghai, China, Weber said.
"The patients who received vitamin C did significantly better than those who did not get vitamin C," he said.
"It helps a tremendous amount, but it is not highlighted because it's not a sexy drug."
A spokesman for Northwell — which operates 23 hospitals, including Lenox Hill Hospital on Manhattan's Upper East Side — said that vitamin C was being "widely used" as a coronavirus treatment throughout the system, but noted that medication protocols varied from patient to patient.
"As the clinician decides," spokesman Jason Molinet said.
About 700 patients are being treated for coronavirus across the hospital network, Molinet said, but it's unclear how many are getting the vitamin C treatment.
The vitamin C is administered in addition to such medicines as the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, the antibiotic azithromycin, various biologics and blood thinners, Weber said.
As of Tuesday, New York hospitals have federal permission to give patients a cocktail of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin to desperately ill patients on a "compassionate care" basis.
President Trump has tweeted that the unproven, combination therapy has "a real chance to be one of the biggest game changers in the history of medicine."
Weber said vitamin C levels in coronavirus patients drop dramatically when they suffer sepsis, an inflammatory response that occurs when their bodies overreact to the infection.
"It makes all the sense in the world to try and maintain this level of vitamin C," he said.
A clinical trial into the effectiveness of intravenous vitamin C on coronavirus patients began Feb. 14 at Zhongnan Hospital in Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the pandemic.
2 comments:
I was watching my local news,give their usual,overwhelmingly liberal slant to the COVID -19 virus tonight.
Examples:All the hardship cases,people who need money,need food,are losing jobs etc.They all get 5 minute,in depth, airtime to tell their "stories".
WZZM topped themselves,by doing a story on homeless individuals,and focusing on two organizations that are letting the homeless come in to eat.
First they reported that a lot of food is being donated to Mel Trotter and DeGage Ministries for serving.Fine.But then they showed a roomful of people,crammed together at tables eating this food.
Is that stupid--or what?
This can't be true--can it?But the video showed and the reporter inferred such an occurrence was happening.Meals donated and served in a cafeteria straight out of "Cool Hand Luke".
What's the point of the rest of us staying at home in quarantine,when others are rubbing elbows with each other at homeless shelters--and then going out amongst the public?Not only that,but the workers who cook and serve the food are exposed to the virus(via the homeless)--who then go home or out to shopping centers--spreading whatever disease the homeless folks have in their bodies.
Another insane plan has various jails around the country,releasing prisoners out into the public to avoid a "prison pandemic"--which seems inevitable anyways.
These two ideas seem to be running neck and neck for "the most idiotic ideas thought up" in this entire process.
I thought the goal was to STOP the community spread of COVID-19--but maybe not.
Here's the story:
(WZZMTV) Less than two blocks away, Dégagé Ministries recently received large food donations that would have otherwise gone unused after Gun Lake Casino closed and Starbucks was forced to downscale their operations.
"That got us through days and days of feeding people," said Marge Palmerlee, the executive director of Dégagé. "We can spread that out and serve a lot of people."
"I'm just praying that we're able to continue to do that as we move forward. I know we're working closely with Mel Trotter and other agencies in the neighborhood," Palmerlee said.
On the lakeshore, leaders from the Muskegon Rescue Mission say they have seen more of a need as people continue to lose their jobs during this pandemic.
"On average we serve about 3,000 meals a week, so we go through food very, very quickly," said executive director Dan Skoglund. "We expect that number is going to continue to grow over the next several weeks."
As we go through this pandemic, leaders from all three organizations are hoping people will keep West Michigan's homeless population in mind as well.
GRA:3,000 meals a week?In one room?Unbelievable.That's just in Grand Rapids--what's happening in all the other cities' homeless shelters?
--GRA
Since humans do not produce vitamin C in their own bodies and must rely on an external source and that the virus reduces the natural level of C already in the body, this treatment does make sense even to the layman.
Humans and other simians do not produce vitamin C in the their own bodies. Almost all animal species do.
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