Over the past two years many Americans found themselves in this situation: diagnosed with COVID-19, they were not feeling horribly ill, yet not feeling great either. Turning to their doctors for advice, what most heard was the equivalent of, “Stay home, and if you turn blue, call 911.” If they inquired about “unapproved” therapies to prevent themselves from getting sicker, doctors often reacted with dismissiveness and even scorn. Beyond rebuffing their patients’ honest questions, many doctors also failed to recommend basic antiviral remedies such as vitamin C, zinc, quercetin, and vitamin D.
We will never know how many lives were lost because of doctors’ refusal to think independently, to consider each patient as a human being deserving of individualized assessment, and to make their patients aware of the risks and benefits of the full range of early preventative therapies.
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