Dismissal of Safe Outpatient Drugs Caused Needless Deaths, according to 'Dissenting Doctors'

For the first nine months of the COVID-19 pandemic, there were no officially approved outpatient treatments for combating the disease.

Although an estimated 12% to 38% of prescriptions are written for FDA-approved drugs used "Off-label", Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, declared early on that providers should dispense only medicines proven to be safe and effective for COVID patients through "Randomized, placebo-controlled trials." These can take months or years to conduct, and often at great cost.

Dr. Brian Tyson, a primary care physician and former hospital intensivist in Imperial County, Calif., who has championed outpatient treatment, explained the calculation: "If I'm wrong with the treatment I'm giving, people are still going to die. If I'm right, how many lives have we saved? How many can be saved? Why are we erring on the side of death instead of treatment?".

Few used the same cocktail; there is no consensus about which drugs worked best, though some were adamant about the benefits of specific agents; but all insisted the treatments proved most effective when administered as early as possible in the course of illness.

Dr. George Fareed, an Imperial, Calif.-based former National Institutes of Health virology researcher and Harvard Medical School grad who with his primary care colleague, Dr. Tyson, reports an early outpatient treatment track record of 7,000 COVID patients with only seven deaths.

Dr. Fernando Valerio, a former Dartmouth trainee who came to national prominence in Honduras for pioneering inpatient and outpatient protocols eventually implemented nationwide.

Anti-inflammatory drugs - such as colchicine, the choice of Dr. DeMello in Mumbai - could have been administered at clinicians' discretion.
 

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