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My colleagues and I use medical ozone extensively in veterinary practice for severe infectious disease, and are trying to spread the word on using ozone therapy for the current pandemic. Right now, successful pilot studies in Italy and Spain have moved on to wider, government approved, controlled studies— in brief, they are using an auto sanguine procedure (200 cc of the patient’s blood gently mixed with ozone then re-injected IV) with excellent results. In most reported cases, patients recover enough to be discharged after only 3-5 daily treatments, and in a group of 36 severely affected patients, only one required intubation (see media reports from Italy and Spain on resource page linked below).

Medical ozone is used world-wide by doctors, dentists and veterinarians, and has 30+ years of published peer reviewed literature. (See a resource page with downloadable journal articles I put together: https://plenacuraevets.com/medical-oxidative-therapies-for-covid19-resource-page/) In particular, there are multiple studies showing that ozone therapy protects organs like the liver and kidneys from endotoxic shock. There are articles about using it against Hep C and some case reports of successfully using it against Ebola virus, which I know you have considerable experience with. There are studies on ozone for auto-immune disease, in particular, preventing cytokine storms. The treatments being done in Italy and Spain, unlike the extracorporeal oxygenation procedure being reported now, are minimally invasive, and require only an inexpensive ozone generator. We have a colleague in NYC, Dr. Claudia Cooke, who is trying to coordinate with researchers at Columbia P&S to test the protocols that are being used in Europe and Brazil. With so few treatment options, none of them a sure thing, we really need to get this information to doctors on the front lines. Listening to the hospital rounds in your podcast— every patient had hypoxic dyspnea secondary to coronavirus infection. What could make more sense than a treatment that hyper-oxygenates the system?

Also, for the terrible risks that first responders and health care workers are facing— there are some easily implemented suggestions that could make a profound difference. Ozone is widely used for industrial water disinfection, because it is a known virucide. Ozone gas can be used to quickly disinfect PPE for re-use, ozonated water drunk or gargled can wipe out virus in the mucus membranes of the throat, and ozonated saline can be misted into the eyes and into the nasal cavities. This are simple, inexpensive methods to radically reduce the risk of infection. We have just released a video showing first responders how to disinfect their PPE with ozone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiZv9pLbW6g.

We think that this can save lives, but are knocking our heads against the wall to get any traction, because people associate ozone with pollutants and the ozone layer. Can I put you in touch with Dr. Cooke in NY, who is very active in the work? Of course, Dr. Gellman and I would be happy to speak to you as well. The ER and ICU doctors have NOTHING, and this is something that is safe, effective and affordable.

Thank you,

Margo Roman