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Ten cents a dance: Or twenty cents to fight the virus

W. Gifford-Jones MD & Diana Gifford-Jones

June 16, 2020

BY W. GIFFORD- JONES MD & DIANA GIFFORD- JONES

How many readers recall, during World War II, seeing military personnel dancing with women for “ten cents a dance”? Today, we face a different foe, coronavirus (COVID-19). But individuals can decrease the risk of infection and death from the virus, and companies, the loss of employees and the chaos that will create. The cost? Just twenty cents a day. So, why is it not being done?

By now, you have heard over-and-over the many ways to practice sound hygiene. Like washing your hands frequently. Keeping distance from people. No more hugging and kissing. Coughing into your sleeve. Avoiding large public gatherings.

But more, COVID-19 is changing our way of life. We will be quarantined if we travel, assuming we can even cross the borders. Cruise ships are verboten. Schools are closed and employers are reeling.

What boggles the mind is that government health authorities, infectious disease experts, and media outlets that do investigative reporting have not mentioned that vitamin C can help to tame COVID-19.

It amounts to professional misconduct for those who should be doing better research. It’s outright negligence by medical authorities. Particularly, when its been known for over 80 years that deaths from coronavirus are caused by pneumonia.

For instance, in 1936, researchers Gander and Niederberger reported that vitamin C lowered fever and reduced pain in pneumonia patients. In 1944, Slotkin and Fletcher showed the therapeutic value of vitamin C in restoring normal pulmonary function in patients suffering from pneumonia, lung abscess and purulent bronchitis.

In 1984, Hunt and other researchers reported in the International Journal Vitamin Nutrition this astonishing fact. A mere 200 milligrams of vitamin C decreased the mortality rate in elderly patients with severe pneumonia by 80 percent!

So, when is the COVID-19 epidemic predicted to end? Possibly a massive global shut-down will help to tame the infection. Possibly the warmer months ahead will subdue it some more. Perhaps, this virus, that you can only see with an electron microscope, will die in time, having run its course. But no one knows.

Dr. Frederick Klenner proved years ago that high-dose intravenous vitamin C cured polio, pneumonia, meningitis and other viral diseases. He wrote in frustration, “Some doctors would rather stand by and see their patient die because in their finite minds it exists only as a vitamin.” Decades later this thought persists among medical personnel and this denial it is resulting in needless deaths. This is medical negligence that could be labelled as murder.

Patients must always take the advice of their own physician. But for twenty cents a day, one gram of oral vitamin C taken three times a day will help to build up immunity and decrease the risk of developing COVID-19. It can prevent dying from it.

Some enlightened health authorities in China have now recommended that COVID-19 be treated with high doses of intravenous vitamin C. But will North American doctors and media listen? Or will companies get the message that they have a cheap option for protecting their employees? To repeat, one gram (1,000 milligrams) of oral vitamin C taken three times a day can decrease the risk of employees developing COVID-19. Imagine the chaos when all or many are unable to work.

Today, there would certainly be a sharp consequence for asking a woman to dance for ten cents! But for twenty cents a day, you would be making a rewarding investment in your health.

My thanks to international medical experts at the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service (see orthomolecular.org), who provided research for this column.

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Written By W. Gifford-Jones MD & Diana Gifford-Jones

Dr. W. Gifford-Jones, MD is a graduate of the University of Toronto and the Harvard Medical School. He trained in general surgery at Strong Memorial Hospital, University of Rochester, Montreal General Hospital, McGill University and in Gynecology at Harvard. His storied medical career began as a general practitioner, ship’s surgeon, and hotel doctor. For more than 40 years, he specialized in gynecology, devoting his practice to the formative issues of women’s health. In 1975, he launched his weekly medical column that has been published by national and local Canadian and U.S. newspapers. Today, the readership remains over seven million. His advice contains a solid dose of common sense and he never sits on the fence with controversial issues. He is the author of nine books including, “The Healthy Barmaid”, his autobiography “You’re Going To Do What?”, “What I Learned as a Medical Journalist”, and “90+ How I Got There!” Many years ago, he was successful in a fight to legalize heroin to help ease the pain of terminal cancer patients. His foundation at that time donated $500,000 to establish the Gifford-Jones Professorship in Pain Control and Palliative Care at the University of Toronto Medical School. At 93 years of age he rappelled from the top of Toronto’s City Hall (30 stories) to raise funds for children with a life-threatening disease through the Make-a-Wish Foundation. Diana Gifford-Jones, the daughter of W. Gifford-Jones, MD, Diana has extensive global experience in health and healthcare policy. Diana is Special Advisor with The Aga Khan University, which operates 2 quaternary care hospitals and numerous secondary hospitals, medical centres, pharmacies, and laboratories in South Asia and Africa. She worked for ten years in the Human Development sectors at the World Bank, including health policy and economics, nutrition, and population health. For over a decade at The Conference Board of Canada, she managed four health-related executive networks, including the Roundtable on Socio-Economic Determinants of Health, the Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management, the Canadian Centre for Environmental Health, and the Centre for Health System Design and Management. Her master’s degree in public policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government included coursework at Harvard Medical School. She is also a graduate of Wellesley College. She has extensive experience with Canadian universities, including at Carleton University, where she was the Executive Director of the Global Academy. She lived and worked in Japan for four years and speaks Japanese fluently. Diana has the designation as a certified Chartered Director from The Directors College, a joint venture of The Conference Board of Canada and McMaster University. She has recently published a book on the natural health philosophy of W. Gifford-Jones, called No Nonsense Health – Naturally!

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