Frank Speidel is a retired emergency room physician who hosts “The Doctor Is In”, a public access television show on the Main Line Network in suburban Philadelphia. Recently, I was a guest on his show. The topics were COVID-19 and the public health authorities’ response to it. I found Dr. Speidel’s opening remarks and questions to be insightful, provocative and well-informed. For my part, I repeated for his viewers some of the information and points that I have presented on this blog. Together we laid out enough non-politically correct COVID-19 heresy to get us arrested by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s...
Pictured above is Pennsylvania’s Secretary of Health Rachel Levine and Governor Tom Wolf. When this duo extended the lockdown of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (where I reside) to June 4, 2020, I was prompted to write the below article which was published in yesterday’s The American Spectator. I felt that it was far past time to question the purported public health benefits of the ongoing, oppressive and destructive economic shutdowns that have been decreed by state governors across America. Here’s the article. Time to Stop the Madness | The American Spectator My maternal grandparents were Lebanese Christians who came to...
Yesterday The American Spectator published my article about the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Consortium, a group of ICU physicians who have developed a treatment protocol which they are using to successfully treat COVID-19 cases. The article is set forth below. Shortly after the article went live on TAS’ website, I received an email from one of the consortium members, Dr. Paul Marik (pictured above) who is Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School. This led to telephone calls with Dr. Marik and Dr. Joseph Varon, Professor of Acute and Continuing Care at he University...
Yesterday, The American Spectator published my article regarding Dr. Jonathan Geach and his argument for ending the COVID-19 lockdown. You can access the article along with readers’ comments on the AmSpec website by clicking on this link. Otherwise here’s the article. Hope you find it to be useful. Whither Our Nanny Police State? The Case of Dr. Jonathan Geach – The American Spectator Tennessee physician Jonathan Geach, M.D., describes himself as “a simple country Anesthesiologist with big ideas.” Working with a group of distinguished colleagues, he recently wrote a well-reasoned and compelling article calling for an end to the destructive...
All of us owe Scott Johnson at Powerline a debt of gratitude for championing the cause of Dr. Jonathan Geach, a Tennessee physician who has been waging a lonely battle against internet censorship. Dr. Geach’s article “Eight reasons to end the [COVID-19] lockdown now” was recently published on the Medium website. In it, he explained why the lockdown was medically unnecessary and counterproductive. But, after the article began to – pardon the expression – go “viral”, Medium took it down and posted this helpful notice: Hello, Due to elevated risk of potential harm to persons or public health, Medium’s Trust &...
Every day I watch President Trump and the White House COVID-19 team do battle with the committed propagandists of the mainstream media. There is a certain amount of pleasure to be derived from watching the frustration of the reporters as they set one gotcha’ forensic trap after another for the president only to have him talk past, over and around them. Occasionally Trump will point out that a reporter has asked a “nasty” question or is a “loudmouth” or “wise guy”. While this has a certain limited entertainment value, overall Trump does better when he completely ignores the trick questions...
Pictured above is world-renowned infectious disease expert Professor Didier Raoult, the head of the Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire (IHU) Méditerranée Infection in Marseille, France. Researchers under his leadership have recently conducted two clinical trials that have demonstrated the efficacy of treating COVID-19 with a combination of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and azithromycin. In the second clinical trial that drug combination reportedly cured 79 out of 80 patients. There was 1 fatality who was in his 80’s. Noting that “adverse events were rare and minor,” the researchers summarized their findings as follows: In conclusion, we confirm the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine associated with azithromycin in the treatment of...
Here’s a slightly edited and improved iteration of my article which was published in yesterday’s The American Spectator regarding the rapidly proliferating clinical and laboratory data that support the use of the inexpensive, safe and widely available antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine to treat and prevent COVID-19 infections. I hope you find it to be interesting and useful. The $20 Solution to Coronavirus: ‘Anecdotal Evidence’ Is a Life-Saver | The American Spectator Over the weekend, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an emergency authorization for the use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and chloroquine (CQ) to treat hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Simultaneously, the Department of...
I’m not a doctor, and I don’t play one on television. But I do have many friends, former clients and professional associates who are health care professionals. So, when The American Spectator asked me to write an analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic, after I finished rolling around on the floor laughing at the absurdity of me – a pre-med drop out – taking on such a complex and specialized topic, I was able to seek guidance from some very smart, knowledgeable and experienced medical professionals. With their help and five straight days of pulling my hair out as I digested a...