A study from Oxford University has confirmed the remarkable effectiveness of common asthma treatment Budesonide for treating COVID-19.
First published as a pre-print in February and now as a peer-reviewed paper in the Lancet, the STOIC phase 2 randomised study found that inhaled Budesonide given to patients with COVID-19 within seven days of symptom onset reduced the relative risk of requiring urgent care or hospitalisation by 90%. It also resulted in a quicker recovery time for those who experienced fever and other symptoms and fewer persistent symptoms after 28 days, suggesting it could help to reduce the incidence of ‘long Covid’ in those given it as an early treatment.
Budesonide is a corticosteroid used in the long-term management of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The study, which is supported by the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) and AstraZeneca, involved 146 people, half of whom took 800 micrograms of the medication twice a day while half were on usual care. It was confirmed to be safe (unsurprising for an established medicine), with only five (7%) participants reporting self-limiting adverse events.
Professor Mona Bafadhel of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Medicine, who led the trial, said: “I am heartened that a relatively safe, widely available and well studied medicine such as an inhaled steroid could have an impact on the pressures we are experiencing during the pandemic.”
The trial came into being because clinicians noted early on in the pandemic that patients with chronic respiratory disease, who are often prescribed inhaled steroids, were significantly under-represented among those admitted to hospital with COVID-19, despite the condition being a likely risk factor.
Budesonide is unusual because, unlike Vitamin D, Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin, it has not (yet) been (unfairly) rubbished in the mainstream press and medical literature. For those other potential treatments you can see the studies for yourself here and read a fair overview here.
If a highly effective early outpatient treatment for COVID-19 becomes available then that may change everything in terms of vaccine programmes and exit strategies. The COVID-19 vaccines are currently authorised not under ordinary marketing licences but under temporary emergency approval. This approval is conditional on there being a current medical emergency. In the EU emergency approval can only be for an “unmet medical need”, and the approval is reviewed annually. In the US there must be no “adequate, approved, and available alternatives”. In the UK a disease must be a “serious risk or potentially serious risk to human health”, though there is no requirement to review the temporary approval.
An efficacy in reducing serious disease by 90% would rival the reported efficacy of the vaccines. The trial did not include many in high risk groups such as the elderly or those with underlying conditions, but vaccine effectiveness is also reduced in these groups.
As proven effective treatments like Budesonide come online, will the Government’s case for draconian interventions and coerced vaccinations, even on its own twisted terms, fall away?
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At this point there are more proven, effective treatments with next to no side effects and high success rates then there are vaccines. Makes you wonder why we’re using vaccines that do not work to protect you or the ones around, that have serious side effects, and are basically unproven, when we have access to proven, safe, working treatment. Almost like this isn’t about curing people at all.
If there were found to be non-vaccine treatments treatments that work, then the unlicensed Covid “vaccines”, which to date have been issued for emergency use only, would have to be withdrawn from use.
The globalists and their puppets in governments have already done everything they can to rubbish anything that might threaten their precious but obviously flawed vaccines. So if Budesonide actually works, it will face the same treatment.
Those interested in nebulising, in regard to respiratory infections, might want to watch the discussion between with Drs Brownstein and Mercola. It is an eye opener.
https://rumble.com/val5xr-dr.-mercola-interviews-dr.-brownstein.html
Because vaccine passports are the first step towards digitising us, and that means microchips for all.
I wonder how quickly the ‘powers that be’ will trash this one too. Another highly effective and safe treatment, it will be dismissed one way or the other. An unfettered way must be cleared for the vaccines! An experimental vaccine that is killing people who likely would still be with us (and their families) today had they not been encouraged to take it. Sick.
It’s interesting how when it comes to the virus the policy must be 0 deaths, but when it comes to the vaccine, some deaths are acceptable.
For quite a large value of “some”
The authors need to be careful or they will find themselves committing suicide by shooting themselves twice in the back of their heads then locking themselves into a suitcase
The reasons are ‘patently’ clear. No money to be made out of patent free or under license medicines that can be made in India or Thailand for pennies.
Hopeful, BUT a very small trial!
As opposed to leaky vaccines with an absolute risk reduction of less than 1%?
I think I’d prefer to get treated by safe medicines that have a good track record, if and when I contract illness, rather than believe in fairies and when I’m not ill.
Given that we were told that the world faced a medical emergency then any trail, no matter how small, that showed promising results using drugs that had been shown to have very limited side effects should’ve led to widespread emergeny use while larger studies were undertaken. It’s very hard to believe that certain groups, e.g. big pharma, left wing control freaks, governments etc. didn’t try their hardest to make the pandemic as bad as possible for reasons of ideaology/financial gain. If there is ever a proper reckoning, highly unlikely as it may be, a lot of people should go to prison for the rest of their lives as they are guilty of crimes against humanity.
More important than the study was the low occurrence of asthma sufferers on this steroid in ICU wards. This was picked up in other countries as well. But a true study does require control groups and will likely have to wait for next winter in the UK when case counts are manageable enough to monitor.
About effin’ time.
One of the biggest and deadly crimes in this plandemic was and is to not put ANY resources into researching treatment options properly but focussing on rubbishing them instead.
At first I thought you were referring to Mercola’s nebulized and inhalated hydrogen peroxide, but I’ll inhale that as well, much rather than getting a gene therapy jab.
lots of studies done re both prevention and treatment – but were censored or suppressed because they don’t suit a vaccines only agenda.
You’re absolutely right about the suppression of (whatever the ultimate outcome) lines of research into effective treatments. As with the wider suppression of wider general research and the voices of contrarians, it screams ‘Conflicted interests and Propaganda!’
I think that suppression is actually the key marker of dangerous propaganda – far more dangerous than misinformation.
Doctors who had successfully treated patients with covid and brought them to full recovery using various protocols were told to stop delivering those treatments or have their licence to practice removed. That, in my book, counts as suppression. Happened in the US and was reported on Malcom Kendrick’s blog via the letter written by the Belgian doctors.
This is why it will sink like the other cheap, safe and effective treatments:
https://therealslog.com/2021/04/11/world-covid-exclusive/
Good find! Thank you.
“… will the Government’s case for draconian interventions and coerced vaccinations, even on its own twisted terms, fall away?”
Well – I wouldn’t put money on that one : the leaky vaccines have too much invested in them.
Yes the investment in these dodgy experimental vaccines makes no sense qhatsoever. There has to be another agenda and it’s one that’s not too well hidden, if people do the research.
Uh oh the world’s biggest ‘philanthropist’ isnt going to like this. Cue research from Imperial and the other bodies who have received massive funding from ‘The Foundation’ in the very near future that rubbishes this piece of research.
The “other bodies” which include the WHO, MHRA, EMA, BBC Media Action, the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, Oxford University, BioNTech, CureVac, Tony Blair Institute etc etc.
So how many people have died because of the Government’s and NHS’s tardiness in using cheap and effective treatments such as Budesonide and Ivermectin? Compare that tardiness with the alacrity with which lockdowns, social distancing, respirators, test and trace, masking, and vaccines were embraced and promoted.
haven’t seen this on the BBC yet.
nor are you likely to
Took them this long? Why?
Yes. It’s taken them TEN MONTHS. Why?
So now we’ve got multiple effective treatments, several vaccines, barely any “cases”… and we’re still all in lockdown with masks etc? Interesting
It’s never been about public health epythymy, apart from the benefit of minimising longer-term welfare exposures; it was never about the ‘best’ or cheapest prophylactic treatments for protecting the elderly or vulnerable either, hence those controversial ‘do not resuscitate notes’.
It was always about shifting folk onto new expensive gene therapy products that would move them quickly into the digio-bio-security immuno update matrix which trap-n-trace is just the opening salvo of.
Think of it as Windows 10 for humans, that needs to be updated perhaps three or four times a year?
The mistake was to ever think the new normal, was just a few weeks to flatten the curve.
BUILD BACK BETTER for them = a personal liberty, DNA and freedoms disaster for you.
I couldn’t have put it better myself. You are absolutely right. Our Government are complicit in a horrendous humanitarian crime against the British people for the sake of ingratiating the governments global masters.
It was never about the virus, it’s control, masks are just a symbol of subservience.
Budesonide was announced in June/July last year by Dr Richard Bartlett as a “covid silver bullet”, after he experienced good results with several of his patients.
However, because there wasn’t a proper study this was labelled a myth by fact checking sites everywhere and his ‘covidsilverbullet.com’ website was forcibly shut-down. It is important that those same fact-checkers now retract their inaccuracies with as much vigour and fanfare as when they debunked it.
Since this is a very cheap, apparently non-harmful drug why didn’t someone attempt its use before now? It might have had some impact during the winter.
Effective treatment options were officially shunned from the beginning, in order to rack up the death rate. One smelled a rat when public figures known for their rabid promotion of abortion, euthanasia, and assisted suicide shed fake tears over measures needing to be imposed to SAVE JUST ONE LIFE!
Where conscientious doctors were able act with independence they figured out any number of useful treatments. A nurse at a university hospital here on the East Coast tells me they saw the best results treating patients last March (2020) with the “Trump cocktail,” before suddenly its use was banned.
Ban it right now, and nuke it from orbit. What could be more dangerous (to the project)?
“ Budesonide is unusual because, unlike Vitamin D, Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin, it has not (yet) been (unfairly) rubbished i n the mainstream press and medical literature”
Not doubt it’ll be targeted. There is a difference though to the aforementioned treatments. Both Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine are only effective when taken as a course alongside others. From what I have seen, the pushbacks have targeted them both in isolation but here we have a ubiquitous inhaler freely and cheaply available that works alone. Hopefully this gives it a better chance to thwart the bastards.
I have an Ivermectin’kit’ in readiness and I’ll try an procure an inhaler too ‘cuz no needle is coming anywhere near me!
Great stuff! Thank you.
We discussed Budesonide on here in February and, doubtless, many times before that.
It is important because, unlike targeted vaccines, it has broad applicability for respiratory infections, particularly the 160 plus common cold viruses, more deadly to the elderly and infirm than influenza.
‘I think we’ve shown that anyone who presents with COVID symptoms should be given a steroid inhaler.”
‘The research team……is preparing to look for more uses for the treatment which they believe has application for a range of diseases including many strains of the flu and even the common cold.
“We’ve never had a good treatment for the common cold, it does make people sick, especially older people, and perhaps this could be it,” Professor Nicolau said.
“These pandemics are now coming every five years or so, and this treatment should work for the next one, because hyper-inflammation is not particular to COVID, it happens with all respiratory infections.”
Also really important for the developing world, so badly damaged by the bungled response of the developed world to SARS CoV 2
‘“Take Yemen, for example, that country has no working hospitals at the moment due to the war there. A vaccine will never get there. But this is an over-the-counter medication in most parts of the world”
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/over-the-counter-inhalers-suppress-severe-covid-symptoms-trial-finds-20210210-p5716m.html
More on Budesonide here:
https://budesonideworks.com/validation-2/
There also seems to be an increasingly strong case for reintroducing BCG vaccination for all youngsters:
‘Introduction of BCG in developed countries is associated with reduction of mortality that cannot be explained by a specific disease protection.’
‘A recent retrospective observational study carried out in healthcare workers in Los Angeles demonstrated that history of BCG vaccination was associated with an altered seroprevalence and infection with SARS-CoV-2…..BCG vaccinated healthcare workers were less likely to suffer COVID-19 related symptoms…..Overall, these finding suggest that BCG vaccination may mitigate sickness associated with COVID-19 infection and ongoing clinical trials are aimed at specifically address this question.’
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2021.632478/full
A combination of universal BCG vaccination, with early use of Budesonide for the aged, immunosuppressed, may very well be the way forward for prevention/treatment of common cold viruses including the now endemic common cold coronavirus, SARS CoV 2.
A doctor in Brisbane started this research off when he noticed that asthmatics were very under-represented in serious cases of Covid-19. The trials were ‘outsourced’ to Oxford because of the larger number of cases available in the UK.
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/over-the-counter-inhalers-suppress-severe-covid-symptoms-trial-finds-20210210-p5716m.html
Regarding ‘Vaccine Passports” I have seen examples which say “Vaccinated OR undergoing prophylactic treatment against Covid-19”.
Anyone else notice this form of ‘certificate’/phone app?
Sorry, that’s not going to work because the government and their handlers are only interested in jabbing everyone!
Here come the human microchips we warned about!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9460389/Pentagon-scientists-invent-microchip-senses-COVID-19-body-symptoms.html
I guess the last question is meant to be rhetorical, but the obvious answer is ‘yes’. If it’s true, it could become unlawful to carry on with the mass ‘vaccination’ programme for the time being. Might even open the door for legal action against certain other ideas that are being promoted, as well. After all, ‘coercion’ has only recently become a specific criminal offence ( https://www.gov.uk/government/news/coercive-or-controlling-behaviour-now-a-crime ).
Not criticising, but it’s no surprise that new techniques for effective treatment of real problems are emerging. They are all learning, as they go along.
I’m sorry but you seem to have missed the point that there was a lot of information out there AT THE VERY START OF THE PANDEMIC – things like the “sepsis protocol” – which could have saved lives – and if I could find out about them and I’m not medically qualified, then doctors treating covid patients could have used them and didn’t. They were deterred from using those measures in some cases, because that didn’t suit the narrative : loads of deaths, pictures of doctors and nurses garbed up in PPE up to the eyeballs in ICU’s to create a climate of enough fear to coerce the public into accepting a vaccination agenda. So it is not the case “They are all learning, as they go along.” To say that lets them off the hook.
Lockdown sceptics should start wearing these inhalers as necklaces wherever we go. Maybe with a sticker of some kind saying we want an end to this madness and an end to the Emergency Use Authorisation for these gene therapy “vaccines”.
If enough of us do it the public will start asking questions.
A long standing treatment for respiratory disease is effective against……..a respiratory disease! Shocker! No doubt Wancock’s razor sharp medical brain is working on a debunk as we speak, complete with falsified graphs and infinitesimally small side effect examples.
In July 2020 Dr Richard Bartlett claimed he was having 100% success in treating covid patients with inhaled steriods. I have not heard anything more about this until now. It has most definitely been covered up in the last ten months.
“The treatment plan is inhaled, generic budesonide,” Bartlett said. “Using some generic antibiotics to protect from a secondary bacterial infection. Using zinc, which interferes with virus replication. It’s common sense. It’s intuitive.”
Budesonide is a steroid, that can be inhaled directly to the lungs using a nebulizer.
https://www.cbs7.com/2020/06/19/west-texas-doctor-claims-to-have-silver-bullet-for-covid-19/
One of the major factors in our elevated death count is that we told those with a positive test or symptoms to not worry about it until their lips turn blue or other serious issue arises. At that point the body is working from behind and the cytokine response has begun. For those with any risk factor this steroid (which my wife has used for years due to problem with other asthma meds) could have and should have been prescribed. Makes you wonder how many is the 100k+ deaths could have been prevented.
Maybe next pandemic.