$3 Ozone Therapy Might Beat Covid-19. Why Won’t Anyone Listen?

Lindastasi
5 min readApr 3, 2020

As a veteran, award-winning journalist, I was excited when I got a tip two weeks ago from a very trusted source. “Ever hear of Ozone therapy for Coronavirus,” he asked. I had a bit of personal experience in a completely different way with it myself, so I at least, skeptically I admit, heard him out.

What he told me was interesting enough for me to contact his source, Robert Rowen, MD, a California doctor who graduated a cum laude from Johns Hopkins and received his medical training at the University of California, San Francisco.

Since we have no known treatment for some viruses (such as Ebola, etc.), Dr. Rowen tol me he’d traveled, during the Ebola epidemic to Africa on his own dime and at the invitation of the president of Sierra Leone. There he successfully treated patients with cheap Ozone therapy.

He’s used this therapy on viruses, (has treated countless thousands of patients with Ozone therapy for various ills), yet, he can’t get anyone in power to believe him in the USA about it’s potential for treating COVID-19. This, even though it has worked, he claims, for influenza, Epstein Barr, Measles, Herpes Zoster, Ebola.

More telling still, is that the very prestigious peer reviewed medical journal, Journal of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology has recently published his paper on the potential of this inexpensive treatment for Covid-19. https://clinmedjournals.org/articles/jide/journal-of-infectious-diseases-and-epidemiology-jide-6-113.php?jid=jide

I managed to get both his article and his personal contact info into the hands of the highest authorities in both New York City and New York State. But after a few phone calls, Dr. Rowen was left hanging without any answers. I couldn’t get any media for whom I’ve worked for decades to give me the go-ahead for a story either. I was shocked.

“I am not surprised that American authorities have not moved on this,” Dr. Rowen told me in an email. “Their brains have been frozen by the current medical paradigm and the concept that it is better to let people die than try something out of the box (not FDA approved).

“Our method of ozone (DIV) is dirt cheap, leaves no medical waste, and should work just as fast as any method. And, I cannot get any media to look into this while people are dying. It is craziness.”

That might change soon however. Seventeen hospitals in Italy are using it, several in China and elsewhere around the world and the success rate has been very impressive.

A report by Antonio Gaspari, Direttore Orbisphera, (an Ozone therapy provider in Italy) states: “From the first report of one of the 17 hospitals where ozone therapy is being performed according to the protocol of the SIOOT (Scientific Society of Ozone Ozone Therapy), 10 patients in serious or very serious conditions have had a rapid and decisive improvement.

After just five treatment sessions, of the five intubated, one has improved to the point of being extubated and the others are improving significantly.

The patient in less serious conditions, after a few sessions of Oxygen Ozone Therapy, recovered and returned home.

The group’s only deceased was in widely compromised conditions, ozone therapy was practiced as an extreme attempt, but there was nothing more to do.

After 5 treatments with Ozone Ozone Therapy as per SIOOT protocol, the patients are all much better.”

After practicing Oxygen Ozone Therapy, doctors found the following evidence: “A general improvement in clinical conditions; a normalization of body temperature (that is, patients are suffocated); a reduction in Reactive Protein C (PRC); a normalization of the heart rate;an improvement in saturation and reduction of oxygen support; a normalization of renal function (creatine).”

Clinical ozone methods for medical treatment include both intravenous and via syringe.

I wouldn’t have believed such an inexpensive treatment could work, BUT it so happens I’ve had a bit of experience with it myself. My experience was unrelated to Dr. Rowen whom I’d never met before this tip came my way.

I’d had disastrous foot surgery last January, which developed into a bone infection. I was subsequently isolated in a room at a different hospital, the Hospital for Special Surgery (five times) in NYC, to save my foot and kill the infection. The treatment there included surgery to remove infected bone and skin, and 24 hour round the clock IV antibiotics.

When the doctors thought they had finally killed off the infection in December, I went to our house in the Dominican Republic. But because the skin around the area in my foot was so necrotic from the ongoing infection, it opened up again. Within a day, it again became so infected I couldn’t wear shoes.

But I was so far from home.

Desperate, I went to what turned out to be an excellent medical facility in Punta Cana, DR, and they put me on an out-patient regimen of cleansing with $5 OTC Oxygenated water (Ozone), and $5 OTC powder which was over-the-counter, in the pharmacy. Within four days the open wound began to close, and in a week, it was totally closed and not infected. I couldn’t believe it — especially after a year, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in hospitalizations and medications including a picc line in my heart at home. All it took in the end was $10 worth of oxygenated drug store products.

MY HSS doctors were thrilled when I returned home. An infectious wound care specialist even told me, “I wish we could get that here, but the FDA is too tied up in red tape.”

So i gave him my stash for personal use.

I’m not saying this is a cure for Coronavirus — but damn! — it’s worth a look at the data and at Dr. Rowen’s theory.

“If you had a 10-cent cure for cancer, you’d be thrown out,” Rowen told me. “We have a $3 cure for infectious diseases and it’s being ignored,” he said.

Ain’t that the truth, brother, ain’t that the truth?

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Lindastasi

An award winning journalist, and best selling author, who has been a columnist for The New York Post and the New York Daily News.