COVID-19

August 9, 2021 COVID-19 Articles

My last post was released in January 2021,1 and since then, many have been feeling extremely pressured to vaccinate. I hope that this edition addresses some of those concerns.

As an Introduction…

First, an apology for the tardiness of this edition. I have been feeling increasingly provoked and alienated by the top-down efforts that have been used to censor and de-platform individuals and groups expressing alternative viewpoints.2 I am now, and have been for quite some time, supportive of and closely aligned with the idea that a free exchange of information is critical to democracy and scientific progress. The research and viewpoints published by the individuals recently labeled and maligned as “the 12” 3,4 represents the work of scientifically inquisitive and broadminded individuals looking objectively and critically at medical information. I have a kinship with anyone who asks thoughtful questions and is not afraid to reflect on all possible answers. My own background is built on the premise that every assumption can and should be questioned, and that scientific inquiry is dependent on the willingness to pose difficult questions.

“Science can flourish only in an atmosphere of free speech.” -Albert Einstein

I am reluctant to wade into the treacherous waters of social media lately because I worry that my writings will be misjudged and criticized solely on the basis of topic, but frankly, as a homeopath, I am used to being unfairly judged.

American society is extremely polarized,5 a result of many factors including fearmongering6 and an agenda of blame.7 One hoax after another accuses experienced clinicians and scientists of being part of an “anti-science,” profit-driven, misinformation campaign. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Many of my colleagues and I have spent our professional lives working with patients and defending their rights to several basic health issues, including the right to choose what goes into their bodies and the bodies of their children. It is imperative to question the evidence and the paucity of science behind the current group of drugs for COVID-19. Relinquishing the right to question, or blindly accepting what media and government tell us, erodes the basic tenants of a participatory Democracy.

It has become increasingly disconcerting to witness how alternative viewpoints are attacked with lies and obfuscations by those wishing to obscure the truth. From a psychological perspective, this tendency to accuse others of exactly what one is doing, is called “projection.” This conscious or unconscious behavior has been, and continues to be, utilized effectively by the most powerful offices in this country, playing on fear, denial, and ignorance to push an agenda that discourages scientific inquiry and is laced with untruths and misinformation.

Questioning recommendations or treatments is not unscientific; rather it is the first step in science: making an inquiry. Affirming that an issue has been finally “settled” or that further inquiry is unnecessary is a social (and sometimes political) judgement, not a scientific conclusion. Once the doors of science are shut on any topic and conclusions are considered final, then scientific objectivism has been traded for opinion, “religious dogma,” or simply a means to a different end.

Society is at an extremely critical juncture with respect to public health, medicine, and the environment. Abandoning critical judgement and failing to ask inconvenient or difficult questions about the nature of this crisis may end in irrevocable harm to humankind, the environment, and the planet.

For further background information, please see my presentation on April 23, 2021, at the Joint American Homeopathic Conference (JAHC) in a lecture entitled, “Homeopathy, COVID-19 and The Human Microbiome.”8

It is fundamentally important to consider the facts behind the possibility that COVID-19 is:

  • A man-made (iatrogenic) pandemic
  • More deadly when conventional medical interventions are used to treat it
  • Enabled by another iatrogenic epidemic of chronic inflammatory illness (aka, comorbidities)

The Majority of Americans

For roughly 82% of Americans, including most women, children9 and those younger than 70 years old, COVID-19 is trivial, on par with the “common cold” or a mild-moderate bout of seasonal influenza. It produces a viral infection that is typically asymptomatic or has only mild-moderate symptoms of malaise, cough, headache, and fever. The illness frequently goes unnoticed until diagnostic testing (which is notoriously inaccurate) is performed. The death rate in immunocompetent young children, adolescents and young adults is well below 1%.10 In this population, there is no significant threat to health, quality of life or longevity, and from a public health perspective it makes no sense to mandate vaccination.

These age groups are not at significant risk of developing complications from COVID-19 infection or spreading it to others.11.12 Vaccination with these experimental drug products introduces unnecessary, untested, and unproven drugs with definite risks of immediate complications including myocarditis, pericarditis,13 blood clots, Guillain-Barré syndrome,14 prion diseases,15 severe allergic reactions (anaphylaxis), and death. We simply do not know what the long-term side effects of these vaccines are because they have not been studied.

Natural viable alternatives, like homeopathy, have not been tapped on a large scale during this crisis. Homeopathy has been shown to be extremely effective in preventing, treating,16 and reducing the severity of COVID-19 in all age groups and risk categories internationally17 over the past 18 months.* Through several international databases,18 the professional homeopathic community has treated19 and compared thousands of cases worldwide. This level of professional networking has enhanced efforts, reduced the burden on hospitals and improved outcome across a small subsection of the population. But the use of homeopathy is underutilized and has been actively discouraged during this pandemic.

This struggle is not without precedent: Homeopathy was successfully employed to halt a population-wide epidemic of leptospirosis in more than 2.5 million Cuban residents in 2007,20 and has been used successfully in many epidemics worldwide including Cholera epidemics in 1832 and 1854, the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918,21 Dengue,22 Malaria,23 and others.24 Homeopathy can be rapidly, easily, safely, and inexpensively deployed and disseminated over large populations with remarkable results, yet broad public recognition has been actively suppressed.25

Unfortunately, no professional, peer-reviewed medical journals or institutions in the US are interested, or (in my opinion) brave enough to explore this highly effective, inexpensive, and safe modality. Instead, they prefer to rely on orthodox measures that are slow, expensive, and inefficient (although exceedingly profitable for industry26). These groups repeatedly claim that there is no evidence to support the use of homeopathy in any health condition because they repeatedly fail to objectively analyze it under the prejudice that it is “implausible.”27

In COVID-19, the conventional medical “standard of care” advocates the use of drugs that have not demonstrated significant ability to manage, prevent, or speed recovery from COVID-19 or its variants, but often worsen it.28 Instead of admitting this, or seeking assistance from alternative sources, the mainstream has resorted to censoring the complementary, alternative, and integrative medicine (CAM) community, effectively preventing the general public from learning about or receiving any effective alternative treatments.

In addition to the standard recommendations to use potentially harmful drugs to treat COVID-19, social isolation, masks, and lockdowns may have played important roles in perpetuating this pandemic. These methods of isolation may have “flattened the curve” and reduced risk of immediate infection, thus sparing resources like hospital beds and (largely ineffective) conventional pharmaceutical medical treatments, but this approach has several long-term disadvantages since it (a) prolongs the pandemic, (b) extends the time that it takes for the virus to (inevitably) penetrate the population, (c) prevents a large portion of the population from developing robust, complete and durable natural immunity to COVID-19 and its’ variant strains, and (d) works against overall immune system health and disease resistance (to both COVID and other infections) by isolating the immune system and limiting microbiome diversity, which are critical to health.

The Microbiome and Social Isolation

Human health is dependent on the ecology of the human microbiome. The primary factors leading to allergic, autoimmune, and inflammatory disease are loss of species diversity from the human microbiome.29 Even the ability to fight infectious diseases depends upon prior history of exposure and the existing diversity of the microbiome. Damage to the microbiome leads to immune system dysregulation and increased susceptibility to a wide range of diseases of dysfunction (including COVID-19).

The microbiome depends on a continuous influx of diverse organisms, acquired through social interaction, to keep it in a healthy state. The continuous influx of viral and bacterial components normally works in concert to modulate the acute inflammatory immune response, which works to prevent chronic inflammation and autoimmunity.30 Social isolation and overly hygienic conditions limit and reduce microbiome exposure to new health-promoting organisms, which in turn atrophies the immune system and impairs the ability to respond quickly and efficiently to new challenges.

Social isolation limits the diversity of the microbiome, which promotes dysbiosis and immune system dysregulation. NASA first observed this when astronauts, even after short sojourns in space, demonstrated significantly reduced microbiome diversity enough to put them at increased risk from organisms normally present in their environment. When they returned to earth and a normal microorganism-rich environment they were susceptible to developing serious infections from the common organisms that they hadn’t reacted to before. Microbiome and immune system isolation do not improve health, just as lack of exercise doesn’t improve cardiovascular fitness, but allows it to atrophy. Susceptibility to infection and illness is increased the longer isolation extends.31

Studies on animals raised in germ-free conditions demonstrate that their immune systems weaken and atrophy, and that they become sick and die when reintroduced into “normal” diverse bacterial and viral environments. The net effects of social and hygienic isolation weaken immune system health, lower resistance to many common infections, and increase risk of developing chronic inflammation and autoimmune disease.32 Social isolation depletes the microbiome, promotes dysbiosis, and dysregulates the immune system.33

The pediatric population is particularly vulnerable to the effects of social isolation and over-hygiene since their microbiomes are in the formative stages of expansion. Loss of microbiome diversity at an early age has profound effects on the maturation of the immune system and establishes patterns of chronic inflammation that can persist into adulthood.34

Childhood years are critical for expanding the microbiome, and isolation directly contributes to elevated risk of developing chronic inflammatory diseases like allergies and asthma.35 The trade-off between encountering simple harmless acute viral infections (like COVID-19) in childhood, versus the risks of social isolation and the failure to develop a diverse microbiome, can mean the difference between developing a competent immune system capable of mounting and controlling inflammation versus an immune system suffering from dysregulation that fails to control inflammation and autoimmunity.36 At the very least, parents should be informed of the trade-off and given the opportunity to choose. This is a fundamental ingredient of “informed consent.”

Benefits of Viral Infections

There are risks of acquiring COVID-19, discussed below, but there are also benefits. The SARS-CO V-2 virus is not the universal “killer” that has been portrayed in the media. This is a potentially dangerous virus for a subset of the population, but for most, it is a germ that rapidly provokes a robust, complete, durable, and permanent immune response providing long-term protection from COVID-19 and its’ variants.37 Supporting the microbiome and the immune system before and during illness lowers the risk suffering adverse reactions, which is why homeopathy (and some other alternatives) are beneficial and why many conventional treatments are not.

There may be benefits of natural infection and recovery from infection not provided by vaccination. These may include: (1) Immunity after natural infection and recovery tends to be robust, permanent, and superior to the temporary protection provided by vaccines,38 (2) Natural immunity tends to protect against or reduce disease severity once re-exposure to COVID-19 or the myriad of inevitable variants occurs. (3) Natural recovery tends to promote the reestablishment of microbiome integrity, which augments immune-mediated tolerance and resolution of inflammation, lowering the risk of chronic inflammatory illnesses (like Long COVID) and other autoimmune conditions.39 (4) Natural immunity can be transferred, in the form of convalescent plasma, to provide significant survival advantages to immunocompromised patients with blood cancers.40

Most viral infections provide benefits by strengthening the immune response and providing a multitude of other benefits41 including protection against certain illnesses like cancers and chronic inflammatory diseases.42 Studies on the Human Virome demonstrate that viruses boost overall immunity,43 reduce breast cancer tumor size, fight melanoma,44 prevent bacterial infections,45 increase immune intelligence,46 and enhance long-term immunosurveillance.47

Acquiring viral infections, particularly at a young age, provokes immune development, resistance to related infections, and can prevent chronic inflammatory, autoimmune, and neoplastic conditions later in life.48 Vaccines, on the other hand, increase the risk of developing chronic inflammation and autoimmunity,49,50 while failing to provide beneficial protection from other closely related conditions.51 While vaccines provoke chronic inflammation and autoimmunity,52,53 they may also increase evolutionary pressure on viruses to evade vaccine-induced immunity favoring the emergence of variants (like the Delta variant), similar to antibiotics which drive bacterial resistance.

Natural immunity resulting from SARS-CO V-2 viral infection is long-lasting, robust, complete, and durable. It has been shown to last more than a year and immunological markers suggest that it may last indefinitely.54 The fragile immunity resulting from COVID vaccination has resulted in many breakthrough infections, hospitalizations, and deaths. Vaccine induced immunity has been shown to wane significantly after only 6 months.55 The number of variants will likely increase as more people become vaccinated.56 At best, multiple doses, and semiannual boosters57 will be required indefinitely, unless permanent immunity is generated by the immune system.

High Risk Populations

For most people, COVID-19 is rarely hazardous (as discussed above), and it may even impart benefit under certain circumstances. The SARS-CoV-2 virus can be particularly dangerous for some, particularly those who have multiple comorbidities:

  1. Those suffering from (and being treated with conventional pharmaceutical medicines to suppress the symptoms of) one of many chronic inflammatory conditions that are currently epidemic58 in the US and in many developed nations worldwide,†
  2. Men
  3. Those over 70 years old
  4. Anyone taking conventional pharmaceutical drugs to treat or suppress the symptoms of inflammation associated with COVID-19.

Not only does the presence of one or more of these major comorbidities (including obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and heart failure), but ongoing treatment with conventional pharmaceutical medicines, particularly those that damage the microbiome and/or suppress the immune system (which members of every class of conventional drugs has been shown to do59) increases the risk of suffering complications or dying from COVID-19.60 A degraded or dysfunctional immune system appears to be the main determinant of serious, fatal reactions to COVID-19, SARS, and influenza viral infections.61

The incidence of chronic inflammatory conditions has increased exponentially in all developed nations over the last century, driven by several factors including the overuse of conventional pharmaceutical medications beginning in pregnancy, infancy, and early childhood, and by the eradication of many common viral and bacterial infections that previously programmed and trained the immune system to prevent chronic inflammation.62

Overtreatment with pharmaceutical drugs damages the microbiome and impairs the immune system, leaving it more susceptible to infection and more prone to develop chronic inflammation. Pharmacologic treatment can impede the acute immune inflammatory response making it incapable of mounting adequate defenses and leaving it unable to spontaneously terminate even the most common acute viral infections. As a result of the inability to resolve simple acute infections and a greater tendency to develop chronic inflammatory conditions, the incidences of both have skyrocketed in every segment of the population, particularly children, where chronic conditions like asthma, allergies and atopy have more than doubled in frequency since 1980.63 Similar patterns have been observed in every industrialized-developed nation that relies heavily on these drugs.

According to estimates from many groups, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (sic), more than 60% of Americans (including children) currently suffer from one chronic inflammatory disease, and 40% suffer from two or more of these conditions, which is unprecedented in human history.64

Most deaths (92%) from the SARS-CoV-2 virus are in those who already suffer from multiple chronic inflammatory conditions (comorbidities), but there are a few cases (less than 1%) that don’t seem to fit this pattern. These take place in “seemingly healthy” individuals who have unexpectedly succumbed to illness. This extremely rare and unusual event is commonly overreported by the press, perhaps as a method of increasing fear, anxiety, and institutional compliance.65 Media sources rarely provide adequate information to understand how the myriad of factors contribute to these adverse outcomes, but they are likely the result of a combination of genetic and environmental influences that compromise the microbiome and impair the immune system.

Microbiome damage impairs the immune system leading to greater risk of complications, death or “Long Haul” COVID-19.66 The role of conventional pharmaceutical medicines in the etiology of these outcomes cannot and should not be overlooked. Conventional drugs increase the risk of dying or suffering from Long Haul COVID-1967 and those who develop this chronic inflammatory condition are more likely to have been hospitalized or to have used more conventional drugs than those who did not develop chronic symptoms.

COVID-19 emerged against a backdrop of the epidemic of chronic inflammatory illness in the US,68 and an epidemic of pharmaceutical medication overuse.69 Never in human history have more people taken as many medications that damage their microbiomes and impair their immune systems. Never have so many people suffered from chronic medication induced injuries or died because of the medicines that are routinely prescribed according to conventional “standards of care.” The average elderly American takes more than 5 conventional drugs daily and suffers a “worse health status compared with those on less medications and appear[s] to be a vulnerable population.”70

Even under normal circumstances (i.e., pre-COVID) conventional drugs, taken as prescribed, kill hundreds of thousands of people annually, cause millions of hospitalizations and long-term serious adverse events, and are the 5th leading cause of death in the US.71

Given the propensity of most Americans to self-medicate (and physicians to overprescribe),72 overuse and abuse anti-inflammatory, antibiotic, and antipyretic drugs (all of which damage the microbiome73 and impair the immune system), it is likely that they contribute significantly to many of the otherwise unexplained injuries and deaths in this pandemic.

The overuse of conventional drugs used to manage and prevent viral symptoms may play a significant role in worsening outcome from this pandemic. In preclinical studies, these medicines impair immune functioning and increase vulnerability to viral infections like COVID-19.74

Wherever conventional medical care is most heavily utilized, outcomes are worse: The risk of Long-Haul syndrome doubles after hospitalization and the risk of dying from COVID-19 (one month after diagnosis) is 46 times higher after hospitalization and discharge than in those who were never hospitalized at all. 75 The greater the use and implementation of conventional medical interventions for COVID-19, the greater the subsequent risk of suffering chronic complications or dying. It may not be the SARS-CO V-2 virus alone that is causing harm, but the use of microbiome damaging, immune system dysregulating drugs that increase the risk of complications and death.

Conventional pharmaceutical drugs damage the microbiome and dysregulate the immune system leading to two different problems: (1) increased risk of suffering from a chronic co-morbidity, and (2) increased risk of suffering an acute suppression, both of which increase susceptibility to COVID-19.

COVID-19 Vaccines

Currently, I do not recommend any of the available COVID-19 emergency use experimental vaccines for human use because of my experience directly treating both COVID-19 infections and the side-effects of vaccines. So far, I have found the vaccine induced side-effects to be harder to treat and resolve than the actual SARS-CoV-2 viral infections. The benefits of vaccination provide less than 1% absolute risk reduction (ARR) of becoming infected with COVID-19, which means that more than one hundred people would need to be vaccinated (NNV) to prevent one single case of COVID-19. If the vaccines were harmless, then a legitimate argument might be made to justify their use, but this is simply not the case.76

Using vaccines to prevent COVID-19 is problematic for several reasons:

These vaccines are experimental, and have not been approved by the FDA for anything other than emergency use:

  1. The mRNA technology has never received full safety testing in humans
  2. The long-term consequences of these vaccines are unknown77
  3. According to data reported to VAERS, these are among the most dangerous vaccines ever used
  4. They do not prevent infection from COVID-19
  5. They do not prevent infections from different strains, like the Delta variant78
  6. They may increase evolutionary pressure on the SARS-CO V-2 virus to mutate and evolve into new variants, in a similar way that antibiotics drive antibacterial resistance
  7. Natural recovery from COVID-19 infection tends to impart robust and durable immunity, suggesting that vaccination of this group may be unnecessary79

As an example, Israel is currently one of the most highly vaccinated countries on earth with at least 81% of the adult population (and more than 59 percent of its overall population) fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The country is currently in the throes of a massive resurgence of illness with 70% of the cases caused by the Delta variant and half of those cases are in those who are already fully vaccinated.80

Early epidemiologic studies from Poland suggest that 2 deaths are caused by vaccines for every 3 lives saved from COVID infection, which is not a terrific trade.81 Vaccination might be useful in high-risk populations, but in low-risk populations (which includes most people in the US) these vaccines put more people at unnecessary risk of vaccine injury than they were from SARS-CO V-2 viral adverse reactions.

The experimental COVID vaccines have not been approved for routine use, nor have they been fully tested for safety in clinical trials. Conditional approval for emergency use by the FDA bypassed safety testing (and eliminated control groups), making the long-term risk-profiles of these experimental drugs unknowable. In less than 8 months of use, these vaccines have already caused more than 11,000 deaths, 48,000 serious injuries, 30,000 hospitalizations, triggering thousands of cases of Bell’s Palsy, heart attacks, and myocarditis,82 and a host of other injuries including autoimmune diseases like Grave’s Disease.83,84These vaccines have injured more healthy people than the combined effects of every other vaccine on the market over the last 17 years,85 and the adverse event reports account for more than 30% of all the reports made to the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS).

Even more unsettling is a study performed by the Harvard Pilgrim Group (commissioned by the CDC) which demonstrated that less than 1% of all serious adverse events and deaths are even reported to the VAERS voluntarily sourced database.86

So far, not even the Federal Government has mandated the use of these experimental “vaccines”‡ or demanded their forced administration. Perhaps, this is because they realize that they are untested, unapproved, experimental drug products, and mandating their use would violate fundamental principles of “informed consent” as well as the codes established in Nuremburg Germany following the atrocities of World War II, meant to protect individuals from involuntary participation in medical experiments.87

One of the reasons why manufacturers may have been so keen to classify this new class of genetic engineering drugs as “vaccines” is to obtain blanket product liability protection from civil lawsuits resulting from injuries. As a result of 42 U.S. Code § 300aa–22 – Standards of Responsibility, vaccine manufacturers bear no liability for injury, a condition that should be deeply disturbing to anyone contemplating their voluntary or involuntary use.88

Perhaps the most important reason why I don’t currently recommend these experimental vaccines is because of my direct experience treating cases of COVID-19. These infections have been simple, straightforward, and responsive to homeopathic treatment (combined with supportive lifestyle measures and the avoidance of conventional pharmaceutical drugs, when possible). Integrating these strategies has been completely effective in treating many thousands of cases encountered in my practice, and the practices of my peers both nationwide and worldwide over the past 18 months.

Finally, I simply do not trust the way that this entire pandemic has been handled from the start: scientific evidence has been withheld; guidelines have been inconsistent and fickle; threat, fear and misinformation have been used to frighten the public and to enforce harmful measures; information on life-saving alternative modalities and treatments has been suppressed; the vaccine agenda has been elevated and promoted above all else; large corporate profits have been generated; and the public has been coerced and manipulated by an undisclosed agenda eliminating many basic human rights and personal freedoms.

There are too many glaring conflicts-of-interest surrounding the origins of this virus, which were originally posted by “the 12” (and have only recently reached mainstream publications like The Wall Street Journal89,90 and Vanity Fair91). Using fear, misinformation, and ostracism, scientists and journalists have been kept from investigating the possibility that this virus was weaponized by “gain of function” research in US funded laboratories. The American public may have been deeply deceived. They deserve far better health care oversight than what has been provided in the last 18 months.

COVID-19 and Climate Change: “As above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul…”§

It is difficult not to compare the COVID-19 pandemic with the crisis of planetary climate change. There are striking parallels between the external environmental crisis (resulting from a flagrant disregard for the dynamics of systems ecology), and the loss of species biodiversity in the human microbiome (resulting from flagrant overuse of conventional pharmaceuticals). Both are crises of ecology associated with failed stewardship of complex ecosystems. Some of the same dynamics govern both planetary and human microbiome ecology, albeit on different scales. Disruption of either of these ecosystems puts the health of the larger planet/organism at risk. When planetary ecology is disturbed by ecosystems collapse, and climate changes, then mega-storms develop across the globe. When the ecology of the human microbiome is disturbed, and the human immune system is affected, then chronic inflammation, autoimmunity, and “cytokine storms” develop internally.

Is it any wonder that what happens in nature is reflected in the human body?

Most disturbing is that both of these are both man-made, iatrogenic crises, resulting from indiscriminate, reckless destruction of the macro and micro ecosystems.

Climate change may be a wake-up call to to alter the course of ecosystems management, while COVID-19 offers a similar perspective on the management of the human ecosystem in health and illness. Luckily, there are viable, sustainable choices and alternatives available both in environmental management and pubilc health maintenance, including homeopathy.

In Summary…

The SARS-CoV-2 virus was weaponized by the overuse and abuse of conventional pharmaceutical medicine: (1) through both chronic and acute damage to the human microbiome and the immune system, and (2) perhaps through “gain of function” research in the laboratory.92,93 The main factors associated with poor outcome from COVID-19 relate to the degree of microbiome damage and immune system dysfunction, which are directly correlated with the overuse of conventional pharmaceutical medicines.

Destruction of the human microbiome by conventional drugs is mirrored by largescale damage to planetary ecology, the loss of species diversity, global warming, and rising carbon emissions, caused by unsustainable industrial guardianship.

The COVID-19 pandemic is a result, not just of a single viral mutation, but a combination, or a “perfect storm” of microbiome and immune system injuries, leading to widespread susceptibility and vulnerability.

COVID-19 is a “wake-up call” indicating that science must be approached openly and without prejudice or fear. Much more scientific investigation needs to be taking place free from partisan politics.

Currently, I don’t recommend any of the COVID-19 vaccines, but I do continue to recommend treatments, like homeopathy, that support the diversity of the human microbiome, the resilience of the immune system, and the sustainable ecology of the planet.

 

Ronald D. Whitmont, MD is a Board-Certified Internist practicing Classical Homeopathic Medicine and gardening organically in Rhinebeck, New York. He is Clinical Assistant Professor of Family and Community Medicine at New York Medical College and Medical Advisor to Americans for Homeopathy Choice. Dr. Whitmont is former president of the American Institute of Homeopathy, the oldest extant national medical association in the United States (established in 1844), and former president of the Homeopathic Medical Society of the State of New York, founded in 1862.

 

* In my own practice, I have managed numerous confirmed (and unconfirmed) cases of COVID-19 over the past 16 months and have found this condition to be one of the easiest and straightforward conditions to treat (even in “complicated” cases with multiple comorbidities) of any illness that I have successfully managed (over the last 33 years of practice.) Many of my peers have expressed the same sentiment.

† It is critical to note that these “comorbidities,” are chronic inflammatory conditions that, for the most part, are man-made, iatrogenic illnesses resulting from damage to the microbiome and the immune system related to the overuse of conventional pharmaceutical drugs. For a full discussion see: Whitmont RD. The Human Microbiome, Conventional Medicine, and Homeopathy. Homeopathy 2020;109(4):248-255. doi: 10.1055/s-0040-1709665.

‡ Technically, these drugs do not meet the definition of vaccines since they do not “provide immunity against” any disease, nor have they been shown to prevent infection or transmission of COVID-19.

§ Hermes Trismegistus

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