Madison Area Lyme Support Group

Brownstone Journal

Article Excerpts:

Early January of 2024, Americans learned about the publication of an article from Elsevier’s Journal of Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy overseen by Dr. Danyelle Townsend, a professor at the University of South Carolina College of Pharmacy’s Department of Drug Discovery and Biomedical Sciences. As Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Townsend reviewed, approved, and published the article titled: “Deaths induced by compassionate use of hydroxychloroquine during the first COVID-19 wave: An estimate.”

The article was always a hypothesized estimate of people that might have died, but now even that estimate has been retracted.  The reason for the retraction was that the Belgian dataset that was one of the bases for the piece was found to be ‘unreliable’ (but in reality was fraudulent). The article also repeatedly referenced the New England Journal of Medicine’s 2020 RECOVERY Trial.  The Recovery trial is well known to be a deeply flawed study which, in addition to implementing late treatment in severely ill COVID patients, used extremely high doses of HCQ.

In addition to being a hypothesized estimate, the article also attacked the legendary safety of HCQ, contradicting centuries of the safety of quinolines as a class.

HCQ, chloroquine and quinine are structurally and pharmaceutically/mechanistically related, sharing the same quinoline structural group. The original iteration of quinine was a very fortunate discovery that dates back to the 1600s (at least) as a medicinal tipple used by Jesuit missionaries in South America. It is naturally found in the bark of the Cinchona tree (also called a “Quina-Quina” tree).

Quinine is still available today both as a prescription drug, for similar indications as HCQ including malaria…and as a Covid-19      treatment.

Quinine is so safe that it may be unique in that the FDA simultaneously permits its use without a prescription, as an ingredient in tonic waters. (See link for article)

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**Comment**

The truth always comes out.

The HCQ scandal is widespread, as is the ongoing ivermectin scandal, proven to be effective for COVID yet still denied by mainstream medicine.

Dr. Didlier Raoult stated the RECOVERY trial was “the Marx Brothers doing science.” The person in charge of the trial (Professor Landray from Oxford University) used the “usual” dosage for amoebic dysentery, but HCQ is not even the usual treatment for this. He does not understand anything about infectious diseases or anti-infection drugs but led an international trial anyway.

HCQ:

• https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2025/02/13/new-review-paper-on-hcq-for-covid/
• https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/16/trump-holds-meeting-with-recovered-covid-19-patients-first-one-has-chronic-lyme-disease/
• https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/03/27/the-truth-about-hydroxychloroquine-plaquenil-in-the-treatment-of-covid-19/
• https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2022/09/27/how-a-false-hcq-narrative-was-created-new-study-shows-hcq-blocks-covid-virus-entry/
• Dr. Zelenko, a New York doctor, who’s successfully treated 1,450 COVID-19 patients with a 99% success rate using a cocktail of hydroxychloroquine, Zinc Sulfate and Azithromycin:  https://techstartups.com/2020/04/21/dr-vladimir-zelenko-now-treated-1450-coronavirus-patients-2-deaths-using-hydroxychloroquine-99-99-success-rate-latest-video-interview/  Video with Zelenko in link.

Ivermectin:

• https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2025/09/17/fda-belatedly-admits-ivermectin-works-for-covid-but-red-cross-suppresses-malaria-cure-since-2012/
• https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2023/09/06/appeals-court-rules-fda-exceeded-its-authority-by-advising-public-against-use-of-ivermectin-to-treat-covid/
• https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2022/08/31/the-truth-about-ivermectin/
• https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2021/11/26/another-patient-saved-another-doctor-suspended-in-the-world-of-ivermectin/