"Very Simple" and Highly Effective to Address COVID: Ivermectin in Conjunction with Zinc and a Second Medication

"Gastroenterologist and Professor Thomas Borody says Ivermectin used in conjunction with two other drugs is making it look like “corona is very simple to kill”."  Posted August 7, 2020 at the Herald Sun Youtube channel, here's a screen shot of the video where they're leading in to the interview with the professor and doctor. 

The simple verbage at this link if you venture to Youtube, from The Kenney Report from Australia, is welcome news to me. Since 2014, I've been keenly interested in medications used for parasites in human and veterinary medicine, because they often have an impact on viruses, fungus, and tumors, even.  I've covered the subject since early 2015 in the forums at Lumigrate, and it lead to my supporting an upstart natural disease solutions company at the products tab at Lumigrate.com.  (I'll leave that to you to navigate to if you wish.) 

IMPORTANT to note straight up, they're reporting on using it in conjunction with zinc (a mineral) and a second medication.  I transferred the quote at the top of this thread from the Youtube page at the following link WHICH I SUGGEST YOU TAKE AND watch the video interview, view the slide provided, etc. as they cover it. 

Unfortunately they're a bit incorrect saying  it's with two "medications" in addition to the Ivermetin. Zinc is not a medication, it's a mineral and often taken as a supplement which can be in pill or capsule form.  Often being encapsulated or in tablets, perhaps, lead to the inaccuracy of the written information at the link to Youtube.  The hydroxychloroquine protocols used for COVID-19 included similar approaches of lowering the dose of the medication and using it in combination with zinc.  

I've been focusing on zinc for quite some time, before COVID, because a large segment of the population has become chronically deficient in it. I go into the reasons for that elsewhere in forums at Lumigrate. For this thread, I'll keep it super simple, KISS.

To support this information further, I'm providing a link to an April 2020 topic about this research from heavy.com, which sheds some additional light on the matter heavy.com/news/2020/04/ivermectin-side-effects-coronavirus-cure/ .

At the very least, this being from April brings to mind the four months of time that elapsed from that topic being presented online to the one I'm featuring here of the video interview recently posted at Youtube (in August 2020).  A highlight from article at the link, for your ease here, and to encourage taking the link if this is interests you: 

Healthline also suggests that certain groups of people might have bad reactions to ivermectin, based off of other health conditions. These conditions include: people with asthma, people who have seizures, people with HIV, and people with liver problems.

Dr. Kylie Wagstaff, one of the scientists leading the study at Monash University, told Newsweek that ivermectin has proven to be a promising drug in the fight against coronavirus, but there’s more research to be done.

“Ivermectin is very widely used and seen as a safe drug. We need to figure out now whether the dosage you can use it at in humans will be effective—that’s the next step,” Dr. Wagstaff said. “We found that even a single dose could essentially remove all viral RNA by 48 hours and that even at 24 hours there was a really significant reduction in it.”

Now, with this groundwork laid, here's the link to the 7 minute and 27 second video at Herald Sun's Youtube channel:  

www.youtube.com/watch

(credit and thanks to my long time Facebook friend in Australia who sent me the above link, knowing I've had an interest in the many uses of common parasite medications, including fenbendazole such as Safeguard brand for livestock and other non-human animals, covered elsewhere on Lumigrate.)  

As an additional service to Lumigrate YOUsers, who sometimes prefer to read, or don't have the ability to watch videos, I'll do some transcribing and time stamping of the highlights.  If you can provide some financial support of this work, and will take the time to do so, please find the information at the bottom of this topic about "How to help".  Thank you.  

0:00 - Lead in by the anchorman about Ivermectin being used for treatment of COVID-19, including how some studies about hydroxychloroquine are dismissive and others encouraging. 

With Ivermectin it's in the relatively early stages, but it, too, is a Federal Drug Agency and World Health Organization approved drug, it's widely used around the world for parasitic infections, and is now being cited and prescribed as a treatment for COVID-19.   0:40

This high level Australian study has declared the drug inhibits the replication of the virus, and thus kills it off. In test tube experiments, in 48 hours a single treatment caused a 5,000 fold reduction.  It can be repurposed for COVID because it's widely available to treat other infections.  

Introduction of Sidney gastroenterologist, Professor Thomas Borody (1:20). He's invited by the anchor to talk about the availability of the drug and what he's seen with it's use on coronovirus patients.  

1:30  Dr. Borody states you wouldn't want to use it alone, you'd reduce the dose as was done in the test tube, and you add other things to it, such as doxycycline and zinc.  "And because I'm involved in development of this in the US where all the patients are, there are a number of studies that are amazingly successful".  Close to 100%, as a matter of fact, he says, there's not been a result under 100% so far.

2:11  The anchor asks him to talk about any Australian cases he's seen this work on.  

2:20  The doctor/professor states they've not started using it in Australian patients, they've used it in the US and the access that he has had for testing included in 

Bangladesh, 100 out of 100 cured

In China they tried to reproduce it and had 60 out of 60 cured

So I'm behind the (combined use of these three ) because it has very few side effects and is a real killer of coronavirus.  (2:46)    Photo image, below, from the video around this point.

2:46  Anchor asks about Ivermectin being prescribed in Australia for other problems, the doctor responds that yes, for instance in scabies, and it's been used overseas, particularly in South America and Africa for various parasites. 

3:00 In South America, for example, they will treat the whole block of people in the city and not one person in the block catches coronavirus, other blocks do.  He goes on the advocate for treating people in Victoria with it, for those testing positive, for frontline workers, and they'll have an answer very rapidly without having to do long and twisted trials.  

3:45 The anchor asks for clarification: You're saying this drug both as a preventative for infection and as a cure for people who are already suffering symptoms.  (Doctor responds that is correct.)  ....and what you're saying is that since this drug is available and proven safe, you'd like to see it adopted now without clinical trials. 

The doctor responds that there's so much published on trials, and since there are deaths happening (from COVID), setting up Victoria to treat residents as well as bring in those from other states and identify those testing positive, then those around them, give half dose preventative treatment.  Those on the frontlines, they should all be on the preventative because the side effects are so miniscule.  He doesn't see why they haven't started treating with it before.  

4:40 The anchor brings hydrocychloroquine into the conversation again, the doctor responds that hydroxychloroquine and zithromycin versus Ivermectin " is apples and oranges."  He only supports Ivermectin (not hydroxychloroquine). 

5:10 Anchor asks for the doctor to talk about any support or other medical organizations pushing for this, are governments listening because there is a sense of urgency, in Victoria in particular. 

5:23 Doctor responds it's used a lot in India, the government of (an area of) Australia has talked to them about treating the recent spike that occurred (in inaudible location).  He doesn't understand why with a 100% cure rate and small side effects -- 4% had headache reported -- there are so many in the US that take it but that doesn't come out in the news (although he can talk to physicians in the US who get COVID, they get headache, fevers, sore throats, lose their sense of smell / taste, and within 24 hours of treatmenht the fevers, headaches and sore throats disappear.)  It's a very rapidly acting treatment in clinical medicine.  (6:15). 

It strikes me as surprising that we haven't heard more about this (the anchor says), and doctor says there's no big pharmaceutical company behind it. Nobody's going to make a lot of money from it.  It's cheap, it's rapidly available now, we won't run out of it like hydroxychloroquine", and with the increasing cases in Victoria at this time he says:  "We need to give people hope", in conclusion.

They say thank you to each other and end the interview.  

And that ends this topic.  I encourage you to continue reSearching on your own, using the Internet and search words that you find here, such as those I've bolded.

 Another source, also from Australia from the same timeframe (August 10th, this link was posted at the Youtube channel of Sky News Australia

www.youtube.com/watch

which uses some of the same interview footage early on with Dr. Borody, similarly mistakenly says there are two other "drugs" used in combination, when one of them is a nutritional supplement (zinc), and then from there it goes on from there with unique information which is worthy of watching.  It is, from my view, substantiation on the "teeter totter" of information, offsetting what is in mainstream.  

To say it another way, if I were to tune to mainstream for information on COVID-19, I likely would see similar information on more than one channel, or website, or social media page. So to share here multiple sources that are providing similar information balances the mainstream -- substantiation, as I said.  

When you're going "against the grain" it's more important even than when going with the grain, to provide the range of information to people to consider, and remind them to not get out of balance drinking from one trough more that the other.