5. Azithromycin
Azithromycin is an antibiotic used for the treatment of a number of bacterial infections. This includes middle ear infections, strep throat, pneumonia, sexually transmitted diseases, traveler’s diarrhea, and certain other intestinal infections.
You should know that antibiotics are not effective against viral diseases, but azithromycin has been mentioned in the context of COVID-19 as possibly being effective if an infected patient also develops bacterial pneumonia, says Dr. Poland.
However, take note that while people who have the flu sometimes also develop bacterial pneumonia, this has not been the case in COVID-19 patients.
“It is not like pneumonia with influenza, which is a complicating bacterial infection,” says Dr. Schaffner. “This looks primarily like a viral pneumonia due to Covid-19, along with an overly exuberant inflammatory response.” This means that azithromycin (and other antibiotics) would not be helpful.
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It is not true that the long-proven Cathcart Titration Method is either dangerous (it has never harmed anyone) nor that it has ever failed with any Corona virus. Various desperate trials have shown promise despite the failure of medical efforts to utilize the actual treatment. Trials by physicians with “megadoses” have not used the correct amounts (200-300 grams per day) but instead tiny fractions of the needed amounts (never reported, but almost certainly), and have still saved lives according to the NYT. It is an ongoing crime by physicians and researchers that has cost millions of lives over tge 42 years since Cathcart’s research was first published (ChemTech, Feb 1978).