OPINION:
We are at the threshold of a new year, yet we seem no further ahead in managing COVID-19. We continue to have the majority of mainstream elitists pitted against those frontline physicians who choose alternative treatment regimens because they have seen them successfully prevent death and hospitalization in patients.
These doctors’ efforts are laudable, yet they are disparaged and viewed with skepticism. We must not close the door on areas of contention because they deviate from rigid definitions. There are serious flaws in our ethics when physicians are persecuted for seeking to alleviate suffering. It is far more cost-effective to catch, treat and prevent a medical problem in its initial stages than it is to try to treat it after it metastasizes.
Theories are neither proven nor unproven with a closed mind. We must not draw premature conclusions to alternative therapeutics before we understand the innermost depths of this virus. Where would science be without Par, Semmelweis, Jenner, Hunter and Koch, all of whom were met with skepticism?
CLARE GILETTI RITTER
Potomac, Md.
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