Lack of access to HCQ was a major factor in covid deaths, a new study finds

A study published yesterday in the journal Science, Public Health Policy & the Law found that countries which restricted access to hydroxychloroquine (“HCQ”) had higher covid fatalities.

“Estimates indicate that if all countries where HCQ access was restricted had made HCQ available, covid-19 fatalities would have been reduced by about 520,000,” the study authors stated.

The study also found that policies such as lockdowns, travel restrictions or mask requirements had no effect on covid fatalities.

When HCQ is mentioned as a treatment we cannot help but remember the late Dr. Vladimir Zelenko who treated thousands of coronavirus patients in 2020 using hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin and zinc sulphate with a 99.9% success rate (2 deaths).  Dr. Zelenko’s treatment protocol was adopted by President Donald Trump and then undermined by Anthony Fauci.

Further reading:

• Dr Zelenko Testifies Before Israeli Rabbinical Court, The White Rose, 11 August 2021
• A Patent Issued for The Purpose of Contact Tracing All Vaccinated Humans Worldwide – “Wake up stupid little sheep. You are being led to your slaughter”, The Exposé, 16 October 2021
• The Plan to Tag Us for the New World Order Slave System, The Exposé, 18 January 2022
• Withholding Early Covid Treatments Is Criminal, The Exposé, 29 January 2022
• Doctors testify that Covid-19 Vaccines cause Cancer and AIDS, The Exposé, 24 February 2022

Deadly Policy: Peer-Reviewed Cross-Country Study Finds That Routine Hydroxychloroquine Access May Have Prevented Over 520,000 Covid-19 Deaths

By James Lyons-Weiler

Countries that restricted access to hydroxychloroquine had higher fatalities. National lockdowns had no effect on fatalities.

A comprehensive cross-country analysis to identify the factors affecting covid-19 infections and fatalities found that lack of access to hydroxychloroquine was a major factor in driving covid-19 deaths.

The study, ‘Access to Hydroxychloroquine Is Associated with Reduced COVID-19 Mortality: A Cross-Country Analysis’, which was published yesterday in the Public Health Policy Research section of the IPAK PHPI open-access journal Science, Public Health Policy & the Law, controlled for other variables like obesity, urbanisation, age, healthcare infrastructure, and policy responses such as lockdowns and travel restrictions.

A key finding of the studies included was a robust negative relationship between access to HCQ and covid-19 fatalities. Countries that restricted access to hydroxychloroquine had higher fatalities. The analysis model resulted in an estimate that around 520,000 fatalities could have been avoided if HCQ had been made widely available in countries where it was restricted.

The study also found that obesity, older populations, fewer hospital beds, and less sunshine were associated with higher rates of infection and fatalities.

In contrast to these factors, which were significant across multiple models, national lockdowns were never significantly associated with lowered mortality rates, and local lockdowns were only significantly associated with lowered mortality rates in one model. The study therefore found that policies like lockdowns, travel restrictions, and mask mandates were generally not associated with a reduction in fatalities. PCR testing was, positively associated with reported infections, but not with fatalities, which the authors attribute to the high false positive rate of the use of non-quantitative PCR testing to assess covid-19 diagnostic status.

A strong point in the study’s design is the author’s address of the issue of endogeneity. The authors used malaria prevalence as an instrumental variable for HCQ availability and found the result was robust and not due to confounding variables. Endogeneity in this context refers to the potential problem that the relationship between HCQ availability and covid-19 fatalities might be confounded by unobserved variables or reverse causality. The authors found that endogeneity was not an issue for the relationship between HCQ and fatalities.

Public Health and Policy Implications

The negative association between HCQ availability and fatalities is an important one. Policies on HCQ availability and use should be reconsidered given these results, which should be interpreted in light of the massive compilation of studies that show a net protective effect of early use of hydroxychloroquine in the covid-19 public health and clinical settings (now 552 studies; c19hcq.org). Countries that have restricted the use of HCQ in the past should now abandon the deadly policy.

HCQ for covid-19: real-time analysis of all 552 studies (c19hcq.org)

The totality of evidence available on hydroxychloroquine efficacy provides a good starting point for further research and policy discussion.

About the Author

James Lyons-Weiler is a research scientist and author of the books ‘Cures vs. Profits’, ‘Environmental and Genetic Causes of Autism’, and  ‘Ebola: An Evolving Story’.  He shares his research and interpretation on the IPAK Knowledge website and through courses offered by IPAK Edu.  He also publishes articles on his Substack page ‘Popular Rationalism’ HERE.