Wasting Precious PPE on Junk: The AANP Wants to Treat Covid-19 Patients with IV Vitamin C

here, Linus Pauling be praised!  Naturopathic ideology marches on when instead, worthwhile contributions could be made without wasting scarce personal protective equipment:

001. the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians writes in the press release "The American Association of Naturopathic Physicians Urges Physicians and Hospitals to Utilize IV Vitamin C to Combat the COVID-19 Pandemic" [dated 2020-04-01; 2020 archived]:

"[regarding vitamin C] the Association calls for increased use of this effective and affordable intervention [...]":

effective for what in what way?  How plausible is it that worldwide, IV vitamin C has been overlooked by all except for the naturopaths so so long?  Instead, I see a fetish looking to be exercised... 

"the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians [...] representing 8,000 licensed naturopathic doctors (NDs) in the United States, encourages healthcare practitioners on the front lines of treating moderate to severe cases of COVID-19 to utilize intravenous vitamin C [IVC...] as an adjunctive measure in the care of their patients [...] AANP encourages IVC use be reserved for high-risk and hospitalized patients [...for] the broadest access for the most vulnerable patients [...] all providers administering this intervention must adhere to established safety protocols for using personal protective equipment and disinfection [...] AANP President, Robert Kachko, ND, LAc, adds, 'in these unprecedented times, we must utilize all safe and effective clinical tools available to us. Extensive hospital use of intravenous vitamin C has the potential to save many lives' [...]";

so, off the bat, this isn't a direct therapy.  It's a boutique adjunctive that hasn't ever garnered the data needed to convince the medical community it does much of anything besides NOT kill a naturopath's mark [oops, I mean patient].  But promises, promises.  Pauling be praised. But, lets use it on the most vulnerable and most contagious.  Also, there is absolutely no justification for spending the scarce PPE on naturopaths to do this to patients when the PPE could be used by qualified doctors and nurses in their patient contacts to save their own lives to then aid as many patients as possible with modern medicine.

Again: wasting PPE on NDs for junk treatments kills important practitioners [or at least makes them more vulnerable] that therein leads to doctor and nurse shortages and more patient deaths.  This AANP position is completely tone-deaf.

"drawing from our long history of safe and effective use of intravenous vitamin C [no references!!! decreed!!!], we urge our medical colleagues to incorporate this treatment from the naturopathic medicine toolkit immediately in an effort to save lives and reduce long-term morbidity [...] intravenous vitamin C is a generally safe [...] cost-effective, and well-tolerated intervention even in the most critical patients when delivered based on appropriate clinical guidelines alongside existing treatments [...] in hospital situations where IVC is preferred but unavailable, high dose oral use is indicated [...]";

vitamins, vitamins, vitamins.  By hook or by crook... And by crook what I mean is this: they have no legitimate study published in North America that convincingly supports C as a useful therapy / treatment for a severe respiratory virus.  Period.  Therein, it cannot be legitimately termed "cost effective" if it hasn't been shown to work.  Duh.  The fetish aspect continues with the assertion that even orally it is worth it, which is drastically different from IV levels and just goes to show, it's about the therapy not about the science. Regarding the "naturopathic medicine toolkit", do you trust a group who claims, by way directly of AANP [2020 archived]: "[ND schools] require their graduates to complete four years of training in disciplines such as clinical nutrition, acupuncture, homeopathic medicine, botanical medicine, physical medicine, and counseling [...within] a rigorous, four-year, in-residence, science-based, post-graduate medical education." That's such patent nonsense as homeopathy, claimed within science, which is quite false.  Therefore, AANP is not to be trusted IMHO. 

"though further research is always warranted, time is of the essence to treat those who are in need of solutions today [...]";

so fringe, unsubstantiated and unpromising human experimental research, full speed ahead. There isn't PAST research to justify this, never mind adding to it with "further".  Yet, still, posed as a SOLUTION. 

"Paul Anderson, ND, member of the AANP's COVID-19 Clinical Task Force and expert on intravenous use of vitamin C, stated, 'I have used IVC safely and effectively in both clinical and hospital practice for over twenty years. After reviewing the dosing, guidelines, and experiences of the hospitals in China, the evidence shows that the use of IVC in hospitalized COVID-19 patients has a high probability of reducing hospital stay duration and improving outcomes' [...]";

now, you'd think that twenty years of IVC by the ND would get, at some point, noticed in a way that changes standard of care. Of note, Anderson is an NUNM grad., an institution that to this day claims that the science-ejected is indeed science-based.  And so many Chinese studies are notoriously flawed [not just to pick on China].

"licensed naturopathic doctors work collaboratively across all branches of medicine [...]";

I principally don't thing that that collaboration is happening when, as mentioned, such institutions as NUNM state patent falsehoods in a manner that is ethically repugnant to the mainstream healthcare community.  Being contrary is not collaborative. 

002. advice to the AANP:

how about instead of using this horrible pandemic as a vehicle to further never-delivered perpetually-promised vitamin C claims / ideology dating back to Pauling, HELPING.

a suggestion: participate with the mainstream healthcare community in a contributory manner, such as in ways that free up qualified doctors to help those really sick.  Of course, to gain entry, you'll have to come clean with your decades of false premises! [like science-based subset homeopathy, vitalism, supernaturalism, and kind].