Dr. Simone Gold

• The Gold Opinion : Facts Lead, Opinions Follow - Five Minutes with a Doctor-Lawyer - Conventional Wisdom Debunked  (https://thegoldopinion.com/)

"Simone Gold, MD, JD, FABEM, is a board certified emergency physician. She graduated from Chicago Medical School before attending Stanford University Law School to earn her Juris Doctorate degree. She completed her residency in Emergency Medicine at Stony Brook University Hospital in New York. Dr. Gold worked in Washington D.C. for the Surgeon General, as well as for the Chairman of the Labor & Human Resources Committee. She works as an emergency physician on the frontlines whether or not there is a pandemic. Her clinical work serves all Americans: from urban-inner city, to suburban, to the IHS. Her legal work has focused on conflicts between hospitals and insurers. She writes on a number of policy issues relating to law and medicine. She always leads with the facts."—(from Dr. Gold's website)

Important Notes

• Nothing said in this podcast should be understood as medical advice. Please consult your doctor before taking any medications.

• Please also understand that, although Dr. Gold suggests legally obtaining hydroxychloroquine in advance of contracting COVID-19, she does NOT recommend taking it without a doctor's supervision.

Update (05.07.2020):

• A listener kindly drew my attention this clinical trial—https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04370782—with the title: "A Randomized Study Evaluating the Safety and Efficacy of Hydroxychloroquine and Zinc in Combination With Either Azithromycin or Doxycycline for the Treatment of COVID-19 in the Outpatient Setting". To my untrained eye, it looks hopeful. The doses look reasonable (to me), zinc is included and the study is in an outpatient setting, so prior to hospitalisation. When the results are published (possibly near December 31, 2020), I hope that this study will receive the same kind of media attention as those we discussed in the interview. (Thank you, Pauline, for sending the link.)
  
  

Items mentioned in / relevant to the conversation

• Simone Gold, "The Politicization of HCQ", thegoldopinion.com (18 June 2020)

•  TMR 245 : Dr. Mobeen Syed : Food Supplements & COVID-19

• Professor Didier Raoult (http://didierraoult.com/)

• "Bill Gates: We Won’t Go Back To “Normal Until” A Vaccine Has “Gotten Out To The Entire World”, collective-evolution.com (07 April 2020)

• Meryl Nass, MD, "How a false hydroxychloroquine narrative was created, and more", anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com (27 June 2020)

• The Lancet article: "RETRACTED: Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without a macrolide for treatment of COVID-19: a multinational registry analysis", The Lancet (22 May 2020)

• The NEJM article: "RETRACTED: Cardiovascular Disease, Drug Therapy, and Mortality in Covid-19", New England Journal of Medicine (18 June 2020)
  

• The JAMA article: "Effect of High vs Low Doses of Chloroquine Diphosphate as Adjunctive Therapy for Patients Hospitalized With Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Infection", Journal of the American Medical Association (24 April 2020)

• Surgisphere [JC: This was going to be a link to the Surgisphere website, which I've looked at in previous weeks, but it no longer exists.]

• Interview with Dr. Sapan Desai on TRT World Now (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVoYZXPUS7w) [JC: Maybe this will also no longer exist soon.]

• "Surgisphere: governments and WHO changed Covid-19 policy based on suspect data from tiny US company", The Guardian (03 June 2020)

• Former French Health Minister Blows Whistle on Lancet Study [JC: How long this YouTube video will last I have no idea, but it wouldn't surprise me if it gets memory-holed soon.]

• Philippe Douste-Blazy [Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Douste-Blazy]

• "Healthcare workers & SARS-CoV-2 infection in India: A case-control investigation in the time of COVID-19", IJMR (20 June 2020)

• " ‘It’s a nightmare.’ How Brazilian scientists became ensnared in chloroquine politics", sciencemag.org (22 June 2020)

• Bruno Riou, et al, "Treatment of Severe Chloroquine Poisoning", NEJM (1988)
  

• "Exclusive: Indonesia, major advocate of hydroxychloroquine, told by WHO to stop using it", Reuters (26 May 2020)

• "EU governments ban malaria drug for COVID-19, trial paused as safety fears grow", Reuters (28 May 2020)

• COPCOV: "Chloroquine/ Hydroxychloroquine Prevention of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) in the Healthcare Setting (COPCOV)", ClinicalTrials.gov (2020)

• Video of Professor Nick White (https://vimeo.com/407942087)

• RECOVERY Trial (https://www.recoverytrial.net/)

• "Oxford Professor Horby Claims Professor Landray was Misquoted – France-Soir Newspaper Denies It", CovExit.com (11 June 2020)

• A portion of Dr. Martin Landray's interview with Paris-Soir (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31VEJlRyB2c)

• Solidarity Trial (WHO) (https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/global-research-on-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov/solidarity-clinical-trial-for-covid-19-treatments)

• "ICMR writes to WHO disagreeing with HCQ assessment, officials say international trial dosage four times higher than India", The New Indian Express (29 May 2020)

• Myron S. Cohen, MD, "Hydroxychloroquine for the Prevention of Covid-19 — Searching for Evidence", The New England Journal of Medicine (03 June 2020)

• David Boulware, et al, "A Randomized Trial of Hydroxychloroquine as Postexposure Prophylaxis for Covid-19", The New England Journal of Medicine (03 June 2020)

• "The first high-quality study of malaria pill hydroxychloroquine just found it doesn't help prevent coronavirus infections",  Business Insider (03 June 2020)

• "AAPS Sues the FDA to End Its Arbitrary Restrictions on Hydroxychloroquine", AAPS (02 June 2020)

• "Yale Epidemiology Professor Urges Hydroxychloroquine & Azithromycin Early Therapy for COVID-19", CovExit.com (28 May 2020)

• Elizabeth Woodworth, "The Media Sabotage of Hydroxychloroquine Use for COVID-19: Doctors Worldwide Protest the Disaster", globalresearch.ca

• "Hydroxychloroquine lowers COVID-19 death rate, Henry Ford Health study finds", Detroit News (02 July 2020)

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