- That's a very controversial

kind of Trump drug

that they've come out

or initially a bunch of studies

that said it worked,

and then the powers that be

came out with some other studies

that said it didn't work.

But there are many, many studies

and many doctors whoI've talked to personally

that are on the front lines

that use it all the time and it works.

The problem with it is

the powers that be, like the FDA

are trying to shut doctors down

from using hydroxychloroquine.

We know it works.

Again, you have to use it very early.

The studies that said it didn't work,

they were hospitalizedpatients that were very sick.

So some of the studies are observational,

but if you read the literature,

even The Lancet and The NewEngland Journal of Medicine

had to retract their articles

downplaying the use of hydroxychloroquine.

And it's odd that physicians such as me,

a board-certified family physician,

the other day I tried to call a Z-pack in

for one of my patients who had bronchitis.

And the pharmacist asked me if I was using

that for COVID-19.

I found that odd because

why would they question

what I was using itfor in the first place?

I'm telling you, the powersthat be are trying to control

what physicians do.

It's no time for that.

There's an art to medicine,as well as a science.

And you don't need a double-blind,placebo-controlled trial

to know that certain things work.

You have two ends, you know

one, should you treat

with some of these medicineswe know probably work,

we know work, because we use them.

But we don't have the studies yet.

It's become so politicized that

the FDA, Dr. Fauci,

they want a double-blind,placebo-controlled trial

on everything that is recommended.

Unfortunately we don't have the time

to do a double-blind,placebo-controlled trial

so you have to use common sense,

talk to other doctors who are doing it.

I know a lot of frontline doctors

friends of mine who havegone to New York City.

They're getting ready to go to Florida.

They use this routinely asa prophylactic themselves

to prevent catching the virus.

So it's been kind of maligned as a drug,

but hydroxychloroquine, which we used

to treat malaria for 50 years,

it's dirt cheap, you can getit over the counter in Africa.

We also use it for lupusand rheumatoid arthritis.

We've used this medicinefor many, many years.

They're claiming that it maycause a cardiac arrhythmia,

which is rare as hens teeth.

I've never seen that.

I've talked to rheumatologists

who use it daily for decades.

They've never seen it.

So it's kind of become politicized.

But the truth is there'smany, many studies.

There's the Yale epidemiologist,

you can look at his stuff on it.

There's a professor at UCLA out of Harvard

that uses it on his patients.

And it really does work in my opinion

if you use it early.

Not for everybody,

but in this world that we have,

we know so much more abouthow to treat COVID-19,

and the mass media's portraying this

like a death sentence

so they have everybody scared

thinking there's no treatment,

you could just end up at the hospital

or die on a ventilator.

That couldn't be further from the truth.

The truth is that the incidence rates

are going up, especiallyin Tennessee, where I am.

But the death rates re plummeting

because we know more about early treatment

and things you can do in the hospital

if you really do get sick.

There's other things we cando like convalescent plasma,

remdesevir, IV vitamin C,

things like that.

So, I'm encouraged

I don't think we're losingthis battle of COVID 19

like the mass media's portraying it.

In fact I think we're winningit or we're gonna win it.

People then need to do thosethings like social distance

probably wear masks, you know

and not go to large events

take your vitamins for sure.

Especially the vulnerable population.

If you look at who's reallyhaving problems with COVID 19,

and dying of it,

obesity comes out number one for me.

And in my research and observation,

diabetics, hyper cancers.

Now, I'm a Christian

and my faith reallycarries me through everyday

in caring for people for all these years.

And there's a couple ofthings I will tell you

one is, there's another verypowerful thing that works

against any disease or illness,

and it's called prayer.