Ukrainian doctor Vladimir Zelenko, based in the United States, who became famous for influencing then American President Donald Trump to defend the use of hydroxychloroquine, combined with azithromycin and zinc in the treatment against Covid-19, died at the age of 48 on Thursday. (30) in Dallas. The information is from The New York Times newspaper.
According to the publication, Zelenko’s wife stated that he was hospitalized with lung cancer.
Zelenko, who performed as a simple country doctor, rose to fame in the United States in March 2020 after recording a video addressed to Trump and posting it on his YouTube channel.
In the video, which was removed for violating the platform’s rules, Zelenko recounted in detail an “experience” he had been developing in Kiryas Joel, a community of 35,000 in New York state, where he took care of his patients, suggesting the combination of hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin and zinc to be used in those at risk for the new coronavirus.
At the time, the doctor claimed to have treated 700 people with the Covid kit. Of these, six required hospitalization, two progressed to pneumonia, two required intubation and one died. The dead victim, according to the doctor claimed, had abandoned treatment.
In an interview with former New York mayor and Trump attorney Rudolph Giuliani, the doctor argued that the treatment reduced the risk of hospitalization and should only be prescribed to people over 60 or those with chronic illnesses because of the effects. drug side effects.
Trump even called the treatment “very effective” and possibly “the greatest game-changer in the history of medicine.” The thesis spread among denialists in the US and in other countries, including Brazil.
In March 2021, international experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) Guideline Development Group concluded that hydroxychloroquine should not be used in the early treatment of Covid-19.
Fake news published last year claimed that Zelenko had been included in a group of doctors nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in treating the pandemic.
Fake news went viral at the time on social networks, including among advocates of the use of the Covid kit in Brazil.
During the administration of the Jair Bolsonaro (PL) government in the health crisis imposed by Covid-19, the Brazilian president, on numerous occasions, defended the use of drugs with no proven effectiveness to combat the disease, notably chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin.
The president’s insistence on this point even led to impeachment requests for a crime of responsibility against public health, in addition to a crime report for quackery.
Several studies already published in scientific journals have attested that the so-called “Covid kit” has no effectiveness in combating the virus and, on the contrary, causes serious side effects in the patient.
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