The Imperial Valley is a place most Californians are only vaguely aware of. Many residents of the big coastal cities might be hard pressed to even find it on a map.
It is a farming region tucked into the southeastern corner of the state, smack dab on the border with Mexico.
And in the early months of 2020, it turned into a Covid-19 hot zone. More cases, more hospitalizations, more deaths—adjusted for population—than any other county in California.
Enter two physicians, Dr. Brian Tyson and Dr. George Fareed, whose extraordinary success in treating Covid-19 patients in the early stages of their illness has generated national and international attention—but also censorship, medical establishment scorn, and attacks on their reputation and license to practice medicine.
Twitter has banned him. YouTube has taken down videos posted by him and his colleague Fareed, a 77-year-old family medicine specialist and graduate of Harvard Medical School who has also taught at that university. (Not to be outdone, the two have reposted the videos.)
When Tyson spoke on the steps of the Supreme Court in the fall of 2021 with a group of other physicians advocating for early Covid treatment, the video generated 200,000 views on Facebook. Facebook deleted it off its site.
Tyson’s and Fareed’s new book, Overcoming the Covid Darkness: How Two Doctors Successfully Treated 7,000 Patients, is their latest effort to maneuver around the censors and the indifference of the general media and continue to tell their “amazing story.” Current events have already made the book’s subtitle out of date; in an interview with California Weekly in late February, Tyson estimated that the number of Covid-positive patients they’ve seen at his clinics now approaches 10,000.
10,000 Covid patients with only seven deaths. That is their clinical track record.
And of the seven who died under their care, all were very ill when they arrived at the clinics, and all of them only began to be treated in the second week after they contracted the virus.
One of their Covid success stories was 106 years old. Another was a woman two months pregnant. Over the past two years a river of humanity—nursing home residents and their caregivers, migrant farmworkers, meat packing plant workers, prison guards, Border Patrol agents, teachers, doctors, nurses, sheriffs, hundreds of members of a local Baptist church—has poured into the clinic and outside in the parking lot where they set up tents to handle the overflow. All needed help, and all got it.
This is why some have dubbed Tyson’s and Fareed’s work “the miracle of Imperial Valley,” although both men would concede it’s not a miracle at all. It’s a practical affirmation of an almost banal medical truism: catching a disease or illness early is the best way to fight it.
In the beginning of Covid they administered an early treatment protocol of hydroxychloroquine, zinc and antibiotics, the so-called “HCQ cocktail.” Since then they have added Ivermectin to the mix and fine-tuned other elements based on what they have learned from their patients and the reports and experiences from other front-line physicians around the world.
“We would not accept there was no early outpatient treatment available,” says Tyson. “When people got sick they went to the hospital. Then they were told to go home and wait without being offered treatment. Then when they can’t breathe anymore and they’re in crisis, they’d come back to the hospital in a panic. To me it’s absolutely criminal.”
He adds, not mincing his words:
“This has been the biggest public health failure in the history of medicine. The decisions are not being made in the best interests of health, but in the best interests of power and money.”
The overall mortality rate for Imperial County is 3.6 percent, he says. At his urgent care clinics where early treatment is the rule, the rate is .04 percent. Some claim that the stark difference in the success rate is owing to the fact that they see healthier patients—a criticism Tyson dismisses.
“The argument that we’re not taking care of the sickest patients like the hospital does, it’s just not true. Same population, same demographics. We have no exclusion criteria whatsoever.”
From the height of the pandemic when they were seeing 300 patients a day, the clinics have seen a recent drop-off in Covid cases. “Omicron burnt through the valley like a wildfire out here,” he reports. Although the crisis may be backing off somewhat, for the moment, Tyson himself is not. Last month he announced his candidacy for the 25th District of the U.S. Congress to represent the Imperial Valley region in Washington.
Tyson and his wife Fabiola, a nurse-practitioner, have seven children—two from his previous marriage, two from hers, and three they adopted together. One night while the two of them were watching TV she gave him a piece of advice that he took to heart. “Stop yelling at the TV because they can’t hear you,” she told him. “Do something about it or shut up.”
Tyson is doing something about it. And clearly, he is not going to stay quiet about it either.
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Source: 10,000 Covid Patients, Almost Zero Deaths | Principia Scientific Intl.