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The other day I was on Facebook. Scrolling down I noticed an interview with Dr. Richard Bartlett. He was talking about COVID-19 which we're all familiar with. While this isn't something I'd normally write about in my newsletter, I just have to share it.
Dr. Bartlett is an emergency room physician from Texas who is a Christian. He was being interviewed and sharing how he hadn't seen any COVID patients come through the ER. He was wondering what treatment to offer if he did see one.
He said the standard treatment for folks with COVID was to prescribe Tylenol and they were sent home to tough it out. Dr. Bartlett kept thinking there had to be a better treatment than that.
One day while at work he took a cat nap in between patients. While doing that he also began to pray. When he went back to see his next patient he was convinced by God that he had the winning treatment. A few weeks later he did indeed see his first COVID patient in the ER.
And what did he do? First he gave them a treatment with an inhaled steroid used for asthma patients. The brand name is Pulmacort and the generic is Budesonide. They're liquid medications. To do the treatment you use a nebulizer. This is a machine that breaks down the liquid into a mist that you inhale through a small mouth piece. A treatment takes about 5 minutes.
After the treatment he prescribed Clarithromycin, an antibiotic. This was given to prevent secondary bacterial pneumonia. Finally he prescribed Zinc which interferes with virus multiplication.
His reasoning for the inhaled steroid is that COVID is a respiratory virus that goes into the lungs. An inhaled steroid goes directly into your lungs where your problem is. The steroid reduced the inflammation in your lungs which makes it hard for you to breathe. He could use a steroid pill, but that would affect your whole body, not target your lungs.
When he was asked how many patients he'd treated he hadn't kept count but said no one had died on him. And he did have 2 examples of people he treated that had pre-existing conditions. One lady was fighting 2 forms of cancer. After Dr. Bartlett's treatment on Friday, her fever broke Saturday morning, she was back to work on Monday doing an 8 hour shift, and had tested negative twice! She told him she began to feel better after her first nebulizer treatment.
According to Dr. Bartlett, Spain, France and Italy have lost 30,000 to COVID. They did everything we've been doing such as social distancing and wearing masks. But Japan with 124 million have had under 1,000 die from this in the entire country. Taiwan has lost only 7 people and Singapore has lost only 12. He says you can find these numbers on the John's Hopkins COVID web site. Why the big difference in the numbers? Because those countries have been doing similar treatment to Dr. Bartlett's.
According to Dr. Bartlett, Budesonide has been around for 20 years. It's cheap and safe. A total treatment would run someone under $200.00. The National Institute of Health or NIH is going to do a study of this. But Dr. Bartlett says their study is designed for failure because they're treating people on their death bed. Treatment he says should begin early, not when you're dying. He's been doing this treatment since March and people have recovered.
He's writing a paper for the medical journals on this, and also planning on sending a copy to the president. I say bravo to Dr. Bartlett for praying and listening to the Lord. There's power in prayer!
If you want to listen to this interview visit my business Facebook page at Wendy's Christian Bookstore. Just scroll down and you'll see it. It's about 31 minutes long.