Dear Dr. Fauci
I would like to call your attention to something that I believe would benefit every American citizen during this pandemic. It is regarding following the science to which you espouse to consistently adhere. I would like to bring to your attention to a peer reviewed paper published in the European Journal of Epidemiology.
Their findings are nothing short of shocking to those of us who are hearing the continuing urgency for vaccination. “Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States”. The article goes on to draw some [interesting] conclusions:
The sole reliance on vaccination as a primary strategy to mitigate COVID-19 and its adverse consequences needs to be re-examined, especially considering the Delta (B.1.617.2) variant and the likelihood of future variants. Other pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions may need to be put in place alongside increasing vaccination rates. Such course correction, especially with regards to the policy narrative, becomes paramount with emerging scientific evidence on real world effectiveness of the vaccines.
This is reflective of our public health agencies sole reliance on pharmaceutical interventions which goes above and beyond this global pandemic. The findings of this research is quite shocking and yet I haven’t heard any mention of this from you or other public health agencies. Please consider the author’s profound conclusions:
At the country-level, there appears to be no discernible relationship between percentage of population fully vaccinated and new Covid-19 cases in the last 7 days. In fact, the trend line suggests a marginally positive association which that countries with higher percentage of population fully vaccinated have higher Covid-19 cases per 1 million people. Notably, Israel with over 60% of their population fully vaccinated had the highest Covid-19 case per 1 million people in the last 7 days. The lack of a meaningful association between percentage population fully vaccinated and new Covid-19 cases is further exemplified, for instance, by comparison of Iceland and Portugal. Both countries have over 75% of their population fully vaccinated and have more Covid-19 cases per 1 million people than countries such as Vietnam and South Africa that have around 10% of their population fully vaccinated.
I believe there is in fact something that can be done that would provide a significant benefit to Americans around the country as well as people around the world.
Unfortunately, medical censorship has made it almost impossible for this important information to get any attention in mainstream media as it would be defined as “disinformation” and promptly taken down from social media platforms.
There is scientific evidence that certain nutraceuticals are beneficial against Covid-19 infections. The supplements that I’m suggesting for your consideration are...
Vitamin C, Vitamin D3, Zinc, Melatonin and Quercetin. You can find the scientific literature on each below:
Quercetin as a combination with Vitamin C
Can you imagine for a moment if every American was taking these supplements daily and how that might be helpful if one’s body was exposed to Covid-19? The science supports the fact that these vitamins would provide help to the body if one were infected with this novel virus. As we know, low income individuals are often more vulnerable to severe Covid-19 infection. It has been hypothesized that perhaps this is due to the lower level of overall health and less than adequate health care that they often have available to them. In addition, we’ve come to understand that the unhealthy environments that they often find themselves living in produce toxic burdens that their bodies have to contend with.
Unfortunately, low income families might not have sufficient funds for everyone in their family to supplement with these important vitamins. I propose that these vitamins be defined as “standard of care” for prophylaxis and treatment against Covid. That would require health insurance companies to cover the costs of these nutraceuticals. If money wasn’t a factor, I believe most people would want to do something simple, like taking a few supplements, if they understood that in doing so, they could very well reduce the severity of Covid-19 should they become infected.
I remember hearing you on a show with Jennifer Garner on Instagram Live, when you were saying that you personally took Vitamin D. “If you are deficient in vitamin D, that does have an impact on your susceptibility to infection. So I would not mind recommending, and I do it myself taking vitamin D supplements,”
The science tells us that there is an association between Vitamin D deficiency and the likelihood of becoming infected with Covid-19.
Unfortunately, according to an NIH published paper:
The overall prevalence rate of vitamin D deficiency was 41.6%, with the highest rate seen in blacks (82.1%), followed by Hispanics (69.2%). Vitamin D deficiency was significantly more common among those who had no college education, were obese, with a poor health status, hypertension, low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol level, or not consuming milk daily (all P < .001). Multivariate analyses showed that being from a non-white race, not college educated, obese, having low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, poor health, and no daily milk consumption were all significantly, independently associated with vitamin D deficiency (all P < .05). In summary, vitamin D deficiency was common in the US population, especially among blacks and Hispanics. Given that vitamin D deficiency is linked to some of the important risk factors of leading causes of death in the United States, it is important that health professionals are aware of this connection and offer dietary and other intervention strategies to correct vitamin D deficiency, especially in minority groups.
Don’t you believe it would be in everyone’s best interest to take supplemental Vitamin D3 along with the previously mentioned supplements? Shouldn’t this initiative be part of our public health policy? No, the pharmaceutical companies won’t be making any profits on these nutraceuticals but lives can be saved by defining them as “standard of care”.
I urge you to take whatever action is necessary to provide these value added resources to every community, by defining nutraceuticals as “standard of care” in the prevention and treatment of Covid-19. I believe that would increase the likelihood that everyone is doing what’s in their best interest to protect against this serious virus.
The correlation between vitamin D deficiency and poor outcomes with a Covid infection has been known since spring of 2020. It boggles my mind that this hasn't been shouted from the rooftops on a daily basis. The only explanation I can come up with is that they (the public health agencies and the media) want as many of us vulnerable to poor outcomes as possible.
Thank you for your post. The supplement stack: "Vitamin C, Vitamin D3, Zinc, Melatonin and Quercetin." To which I respectfully add: Eat real food. Stay active. Maintain your core relationships, your true social network. Take time -- if not to meditate -- to de-stress, to practice a bit of gratitude, to enjoy the good that does exist in your daily life.
If we had a healthier American population, this pandemic would be largely a non-event. Instead, we have a poly-pharmaceutically dependent population. The answer to every problem we face cannot always be more and more medications, prescribed and otherwise.