In my July 6th edition of VCPC News, I included information about Dr. Richard Bartlett, a 28 year emergency room physician from Texas, who is successfully treating high-risk Covid-19 patients with inhaled budesonide. In the America Can We Talk? interview below with host, Debbie Georgatos, Dr. Bartlett discusses his protocol; why we should not be afraid of Covid-19; and why a vaccine is not the solution.

Please read, watch and share. Knowledge about protocols like Dr. Bartlett's, Dr. Vladimir Zelevko's and Frontline Covid-19 Critical Care Working Group just might help "flatten the fear" surrounding Covid-19; and could save your life or the life of someone you care about.

What you will learn in "The (Undercover) Epicenter Nurse" is disturbing. Please watch and share. Many thanks to Journeyman Pictures for their excellent "Perspectives on the Pandemic" series. Links to other videos in the series at end of this post.

Fear is a primal biological response to a perceived threat to our survival. Fear triggers momentary paralysis and then a fight or flight reaction before the brain can rationally analyze and calibrate our response to a perceived threat.

Right now, people around the world are living in fear of being infected or infecting someone else with a new coronavirus that can kill those most vulnerable without warning. Along with confusion and uncertainty, which prolongs fear, many of us are traumatized by the authoritarian measures governments have taken in response to the COVID-19 pandemic that began in China in late 2019.

The “new normal” is disorienting, like we have taken a hit to the gut and then to the head that we didn’t see coming. Maybe that is why so many Americans, who value freedom of speech, religion, assembly, privacy and the right to work, have given those constitutional rights up, without stopping to think through the ramifications of the larger precedent being set.
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We are slowly coming out of shock five months after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control declared a public health emergency on January 31, which escalated six weeks later into a social distancing lockdown when the World Health Organization declared a COVID-19 pandemic on March 11.  Read more.

On April 23, 2020, I shared information about the Frontline COVID-19 Critical Care Working Group and their life-saving treatment protocol in the post, "People are dying needlessly..." Despite FLCCC's intense efforts to spread the word, which includes getting information to the White House on three different occasions; and a testimony at the May 6th U.S. Senate Committee Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Hearing (see videos below), the MATH+ COVID-19 Early Intervention Protocol has met with pushback from the NIH and CDC. Public health experts and the media are not talking about the protocol; few hospitals have adopted the protocol; and people are STILL dying needlessly from COVID-19.

"We just want to save lives and we know how to do it..."

Read and watch the videos in "People are dying needlessly..." Visit the FLCCC Working Group website. Listen to Dr. Pierre Kory's powerful testimony below; learn where the physicians and hospitals using the MATH+ protocol are located; and most importantly, share this information with others. It just might save your life or the life of someone you love.

"We're experts in our field. This is what we do. We know how to take care of patients. Let us take care of these patients. We know that these medicines are sound... We know the safety profile. Everything in our protocol is safe, FDA approved, has been used for decades. Yes it's off label but we do off label stuff everyday..."
- Dr. Pierre Kory, FLCCC Working Group -

​"...this is absolutely a calamity that's going on in medicine...I have to emphasize that the timing of initiation of this therapy is critical. The world needs to know this. What happened here in New York is that initial surge caused so many terrible reports...the population is scared. They're not coming to the hospital early enough; and now when they're coming, they're so far advanced, that the medicines don't  work as well; and so we need to get the word out that things are better on the ground. We're definitely much more stable in the hospitals... We're much more resourced. We're regrouped. We're ready to take care of patients; but the patients have to come. If they wait at home with these symptoms, we're not going to be able to save them..."

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​"I know I can treat this; but you got to let me do it...This will change the economy."

Click here and here for more videos and resources from
​Frontline Covid19 Critical Care Working Group.

Click here to read "We've  Cracked the COVID-19 Code.”
​(And Why No One is Listening.)

Face Masks Pose Serious Risks to the Healthy
by Russell Blaylock, MD, Global Research, May 12, 2020

"By wearing a mask, the exhaled viruses will not be able to escape and will concentrate in the nasal passages, enter the olfactory nerves and travel into the brain." Read more.

Can surgical masks protect you from getting the flu
by Manal Mohammed, The Conversation (Medical X press), October 17, 2019

Surgical masks are sometimes referred to as courtesy masks, suggesting that some people wear them for the same altruistic reason surgeons wear them: to stop others getting their germs. But as the studies in operating theatres show, this benefit is dubious. Read more.

We Do Not Consent
by Simone Gold, MD, JD, ABEM, Board Certified Emergency Physician, Stanford Educated Attorney, June 26, 2020

It is clear to me as a physician-lawyer that the disinformation about both Covid-19 and the Constitution has caused us to turn a medical issue into a legal crisis. The scientific usefulness of a mask has been so aggressively overstated, and the foundational importance of the Constitution has been so aggressively understated, that we have normalized people screaming obscenities at each other while hiking. The Covid virus was supposed to be contained in the kind of lab where people wear astronaut suits and go through triple sealed doors. It is a con of massive proportion to assert that now, having escaped those environs, a bandana will magically do the trick. Read more

Do Masks and Respirators Prevent Viral Respiratory Illnesses? An Interview with Professor Denis Rancourt
by Kim Petersen, June 15, 2020

...Rancourt is wedded to the evidence, and he is unafraid to make known his conclusion even though it goes against the mainstream consensus. His article, “Masks Don’t Work: A review of science relevant to COVID-19 social policy,” is Rancourt at his iconoclastic finest. He concludes, "No RCT [randomized control trial] study with verified outcome shows a benefit for HCW [health care workers] or community members in households to wearing a mask or respirator. There is no such study. There are no exceptions." Read more.

The Cult of the Mask
​by Susan Claire Potts, PhD, June 9, 2020

​“We’d better open our eyes to the indoctrination that’s going on here. We’re being corralled into a collective unconsciousness. Wearing a mask has nothing to do with disease.

COVID-19 Fact Sheet - Face Masks​
Posted by GMI Reporter, May 27, 2020, Originally published by Roman Bystrianyk

"It's clear that the current directive to wear masks by the general public isn't scientifically supported. Even in the case of the flu, here is no conclusive evidence of their efficiency in controlling flu virus transmission. Also, the use of masks can be creating more spread of diseases than it prevents. Personal observations seem to indicate that most people don't know how to correctly put on, wear, or dispose of face masks, and this is causing more harm than good. Moreover, the fear that has been generated by everyone wearing masks because many believe that everyone else is going to cause them to get sick and possibly die and the resultant impact on their psyche and immune system cannot be underestimated." Read more.

Should Healthy People Be Wearing Masks During This COVID-19 Crisis?
by Patricia Neuenschwander, M.S.N., R.N., C.P.N.P.-P.C, May 2020

For decades, we have known that masks have not been shown to be effective in preventing influenza transmission. How is it that masks don’t work for this virus, but they magically work for the COVID virus?…Fear is driving this recommendation for healthy people to wear masks, not science. Read more.

Universal Masking in Hospitals in the Covid-19 Era
This article was published on April 1, 2020, at NEJM.org, (The New England Journal of Medicine.)

We know that wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection. Public health authorities define a significant exposure to Covid-19 as face-to-face contact within 6 feet with a patient with symptomatic Covid-19 that is sustained for at least a few minutes (and some say more than 10 minutes or even 30 minutes). The chance of catching Covid-19 from a passing interaction in a public space is therefore minimal. In many cases, the desire for widespread masking is a reflexive reaction to anxiety over the pandemic.​ Read more.

​There have been extensive randomized controlled trial (RCT) studies, and meta-analysis reviews of RCT studies, which all show that masks and respirators do not work to prevent respiratory influenza-like illnesses, or respiratory illnesses believed to be transmitted by droplets and aerosol particles...By making mask-wearing recommendations and policies for the general public, or by expressly condoning the practice, governments have both ignored the scientific evidence and done the opposite of following the precautionary principle. Read more.

The Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Working Group consists of eight U.S. physicians, including five leading critical care specialists, who have developed a protocol for treating COVID-19 patients. Despite the fact that their protocol is saving lives, it has been met with resistance by those who cling to a more "established" medical paradigm that is resulting in needless deaths. Watch the video below, read the supporting materials and please share this important information with others.

"This video describes the work of five critical care specialists who are treating coronavirus patients at academic centers and other major hospitals across the United States. Through their current work, past research, and studying the findings of the Shanghai expert protocols, they have concluded that a combination of corticosteroids, high dose intravenous ascorbic acid (vitamin C), and anticoagulants, given early in the ER or hospital, can prevent the progression of the disease and reduce the need for mechanical ventilators. Their findings have not yet been widely adopted in the U.S. and they want to get the word out
​to save lives now."

Video recorded April 5, 2020.

On March 31, 2020, Cameron Kyle-Sidell, MD a NYC emergency room/critical care physician on the front lines working with COVID-19 patients released a video that has been shared widely on social media; although, to my knowledge, not via mainstream media*. I urge you to listen to what Dr. Kyle-Sidell has to say. Several related resources are listed below including an April 9th webinar from "thinking critical care" entitled COVID-19 Webinar: Respiratory Management, where you will hear Dr. Kyle-Sidell and several physicians from Italy, U.S. and Canada, openly discuss the issues that Dr. Kyle-Sidell has brought to the forefront. Printed excerpts from that webinar are included below. As I was about to publish this post, I discovered a brief update from thinking critical care entitled, "C'EST N' EST PAS ARDS" i.e., "IT'S NOT ARDS." Click here for audio.

EVMS MEDICAL GROUP
EVMS CRITICAL CARE
COVID-19 MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL
Developed and updated by Paul Marik, MD Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA April 6th 2020

“We have zero success for patients who were intubated. Our thinking is changing to postpone intubation to as long as possible, to prevent mechanical injury from the ventilator. These patients tolerate arterial hypoxia surprisingly well. Natural course seems to be the best.”
This is not your “typical ARDS”. Mechanical Ventilation may be doing harm. We need to think of alternative treatment strategies.
Read more here.
​This resource includes a
"Suggested approach to prophylaxis and treatment of COVID-19."