Mistaken E-Mail Leads To Federal Inquiry Of False Claims By Dr Zelenko About Hydroxychloroquine

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NEW YORK (VINnews) – A Washington Post report revealed that a preliminary inquiry had been opened by a federal prosecutor into whether a New York doctor who won White House attention by claiming he could treat the coronavirus broke the law by falsely claiming that a hospital study of drugs he had promoted had won FDA approval.

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The prosecutor, Aaron Zelinsky, came upon his investigation accidentally after he was mistakenly e-mailed the information by Jerome Corsi, a conservative commentator who figured in the special counsel’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election. After a quick check, Zelinsky revealed that the doctor, Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, had wrongly claimed that the Food and Drug Administration had backed a study of a drug cocktail that he asserts is effective in treating Covid-19.

Zelinsky then demanded that Corsi transfer to him all of his communications with the doctor. Corsi complied and spoke about the investigation in his podcast Thursday, stating that “All these emails this morning and all my text messages, we have copied and sent to Zelinksy. Everything Zelinksy wants to see, we are voluntarily handing over to him as quickly as we can. … If he wants my computers, he can have them; my cell phones, he can have them.”

Corsi told CNN on Friday he was certainly surprised when he realized he had emailed Zelinsky. He reiterated that he has cooperated with Zelinsky’s requests.

“I’ve done nothing wrong,” Corsi said.

Zelenko has drawn attention from the Trump administration for experimenting with hydroxychloroquine to treat coronavirus. Zelenko claimed that using the drug with a cocktail including the antibiotic azithromycin and zinc could effectively combat the virus. He said that he had successfully treated numerous coronavirus patients with 100 percent success using the cocktail of drugs and added that he saw the symptom of shortness of breath resolved within four to six hours after treatment.

President Donald Trump has touted the use of the drug as a potential treatment. But the FDA has said the drug has not been shown to be “safe and effective” for treating the illness, and its usage for coronavirus patients has risks of severe complications, even death, the FDA has said recently.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has said it is continuing to use the anti-malarial drug to treat coronavirus cases in a manner “consistent with current FDA guidance.” The FDA said on April 24 that hydroxychloroquine and the related medication chloroquine should be used for coronavirus only in clinical trials and for treating certain hospitalized patients.

In a New York Times interview on Friday, Dr. Zelenko said that he was guilty of nothing more than sloppy wording.

“I’m a clinician, not a researcher,” he said. “I don’t understand fully the language of clinical research.”

He said the misunderstanding stemmed from a lecture he gave last month to a group of physicians over the videoconferencing app Zoom, which Mr. Corsi attended. During the lecture, Dr. Zelenko claimed that the clinical trial he was helping organize, sponsored by St. Francis Hospital in New York, had been approved by the F.D.A. In fact, only the hospital’s internal review board had approved it.

Dr. Zelenko said he had the impression that his study had the government’s seal of approval because he had spoken with Stephen M. Hahn, the F.D.A.’s commissioner, who discussed his treatment with him and helped him locate medicine for the trial, he said.

“In my mind, that led me to think it was F.D.A.-approved,” Dr. Zelenko said. “In reality, it was a mistake.”


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Jay
Jay
3 years ago

This prosecutor should go after the hospitals that have neglected and killed patients. That will be more clever.

Chatzkel
Chatzkel
3 years ago

Poor guy, once the prosecuters start with you, they turn your life upside down, they don’t stop until they bury you

Phineas
Phineas
3 years ago

This actually sounds like an honest mistake. I didn’t think he should have made those statements but it doesn’t sound like he intended to deceive.

Ptcha
Ptcha
3 years ago

His mistake was that he voiced support for President Trump. Hashem should help him and keep him safe from all harm and not become the next korban of liberal hate.

Aleph
Aleph
3 years ago

Everything trump crooks touch turns to drek. Wow.

henry reitzenstein
henry reitzenstein
3 years ago

what a joke. An idiot president who wants to tout an unproven (but now proven to be ineffective) drug relies upon a nobody doctor in Brooklyn as “scientific” support for the presidents fraud. November cant come soon enough.

Chusid
Chusid
3 years ago

Everybody knows hydroxychloroquine works and for some reason the FDA and the CDC wants us dead (as we have seen in the hospitals) so they won’t approve it, he help people and saved lives that’s why they’re going after him

Educated Boro parker
Educated Boro parker
3 years ago

The democRATic swamp is still alive and kicking. It’s amazing these progressive bums have not been able to kill our great president Trump. President Trump needs to go after these deomocRATic slime balls with a vengence. First he needs to increase conservative judges all over. Then as soon as that witch leaves this world to gehinom, he should replace her with a strong conservative judge. Then he can do away with the whole liberal agenda from euthanasia to gay marriage. Otherwise these sick liberals will keeping torturing him.

Jake
Jake
3 years ago

These prosecutors are mad with power. He’s a doctor treating patients the best way he knows how. Pull up his results. Is he killing them or curing them? One email with loose wording is meaningless. This is anti-Trump psycho hatred.

ha
ha
3 years ago

Zelinsky vs Zelenko Sounds like they are both Rusishe. Can it be that Russia is changing sides and will work against Trump. What did they get from him? $15 Oil. Russias only export. China is clearly working against Trump if Russia follows he is done.

Sam
Sam
3 years ago

You are just mentally ill trump hater you should get help

Dave
Dave
3 years ago

One liberal Jewish Russian lawyer going after another Jewish Russian doctor. This is way too stereotypical.

The liberals (and conservatives) really need to get lives. People are dying left and right, and these hyperpartisan morons are kvetching about semantics.

This Corsi guy seems like a sick individual. He’s quite proud of how quickly he threw Zelenko to the dogs. May he got in the deepest abyss, and may anyone who expedites his journey (in accordance with halacha) be blessed. There is nothing worse than a Moser.

Moishe
Moishe
3 years ago

Dr. Zelenko stepped out of his place from the beginning. He is has a family practice and should not be advising the masses, and certainly not the President on how to treat patients with Covid-19. A small dose of humility would go a long way for him.

I experienced it...
I experienced it...
3 years ago

I can say for certain that my friend and my husband and I were all in very bad shape sick with coronavirus, and my friend was on her way to the emergency room having severe shortness of breath, but turned around and drove back home ’cause she didnt want to die all alone in the hospital’ and all 3 of us recovered fully right after starting hydroxychloroquine and zithromax. (Took an ekg first to make sure didnt have heart issues before starting it) so I can definitely say it saves lives. Worth trying when there’s nothing else to try!!!

Shlomo Z.
Shlomo Z.
3 years ago

Here is a link to the investigational study of Dr. Vladimir Zelenko’s early-Covid-19 illness treatment regimen, structured to avoid unnecessary hospitalization and subsequent risks of pneumonia and intubation. His patient treatment plan is now undergoing a formally instituted scientific medical investigation. The National Institutes of Health: U.S. National Library of Medicine: ClinicalTrials.gov makes its detailed description available to the scientific community and the public through this URL:

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The formal title of this study of the methodology Dr. Zelenko has devised is:

“Hydroxychloroquine and Zinc With Either Azithromycin or Doxycycline for Treatment of COVID-19 in Outpatient Setting”.

It also can be found under: ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04370782.

Those who might wish to disparage Dr. Vladimir Zelenko’s potential contribution to the saving of lives and limiting of individual suffering might wish to withhold their judgment on its potential efficacy until the scientists conducting this study have analyzed their findings. Preliminary findings are estimated to be completed by September 30, 2020. The estimated completion date for the study is December 31, 2020.

Nyemt
Nyemt
3 years ago

U all should take a look on CDC’S site regarding the use of Hydroxychloroquine, and u all will
C how much the left will go of their way to mock and discredit anything that comes out of Trumps mouth יחי המלך TRUMP 2020

BillyW
BillyW
3 years ago

It’ll be OK. Al Sharpton…I mean Dov Hikind will make a video slobbering how investigating a Jew is how Holocausts start. He’ll throw in the required, “Where does all this hate come from?” lines and “This is like 1930’s Germany” and all will be fine. It’s worked so well in the past…

Avi Kaye
Avi Kaye
3 years ago

The Doctor posted daily WhatsApp statuses that went viral. He brought it upon himself. I don’t know if the drug works or not but he should have practiced medicine not social media.

Elephant
Elephant
3 years ago

They want to save Medicare and social security that’s why they want all elderly dead.

Dewey, Cheatem, & Howe
Dewey, Cheatem, & Howe
3 years ago

Where does some two-bit snake oil salesman lawyer come to start an investigation on somebody just because of a mistake email he received.

Do you all realize how close you are to being investigated for something if this is the case? This lawyer needs to be taken and hung from the street lamps of his local town. He needs to be disbarred NOW.