Synopsis
"The Baric Files" on [Men In Black] (https://meninblack.substack.com/) revisits the pivotal role of Dr. Vladimir 'Zev' Zelenko in pioneering early treatments for COVID-19 with his protocol, based on Ralph Baric's 2010 zinc-ionophore research. Zelenko's journey, chronicled in his memoir "Zelenko: How to Decapitate the Serpent," highlights the transformative moment when he stumbled upon Medcram Video Update #34, catalyzing his protocol's creation.
Despite facing censorship and skepticism, Zelenko's persistence led to a significant reduction in hospitalizations among high-risk patients. Unveiling Baric's connection to the protocol adds a profound layer of understanding, raising ethical questions about Baric's research priorities and highlighting the potential for natural prophylaxis and treatment options.
Zelenko's legacy, marred by controversy and censorship, underscores the urgent need for transparency in scientific research and the pursuit of effective solutions against emerging viral threats like Disease X, while demanding accountability from institutions and leaders.
Treatment
We must include the story of Dr. Vladimir 'Zev' Zelenko in The Baric Files. He was THE FIRST medical practitioner, as far as I am aware, to actually conduct human trials of Ralph Baric’s 2010 research on Zinc + Ionophores. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2973827/
Trials that Baric FAILED to conduct himself, for whatever reason, whether on animals or in humans (as they didn’t hesitate to do for Baric’s other creation, Remdesivir), as mentioned in Part 3. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2423-5
Baric’s significance in the development of EARLY treatment and antiviral protocols cannot be underestimated or ignored, given his 40 years of research into all aspects of RNA viruses. Also, let's not forget that he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. https://sph.unc.edu/sph-news/baric-among-unc-chapel-hill-faculty-named-to-national-academy-of-sciences/
As quoted from his memoir, “Zelenko: How to Decapitate the Serpent”, Zev, as he preferred to be known, wrote:
“It was in the middle of the night on March 12th, a night where sleep wouldn’t come. I was lying in prayer and meditation, looking for some way to do something to help the patients I was seeing who were getting sick and dying from this new virulent form of disease. I decided to use this sleepless time to check my email. It was there that I found a message containing the link to a YouTube video that would forever change my life, and would, more importantly, save the lives of millions across the world.” (Pgs 111-112) https://www.amazon.com/ZELENKO-Decapitate-Vladimir-Zelenko-MD/dp/1956257594
The answer to his prayers lay in Medcram: Update #34, uploaded on March 10th, 2020. Like Zev, I will personally never forget that day either, as it was the answer to my own personal prayers for God to provide me with the knowledge and means for saving my family from what I feared was a Chinese Bioweapon lab-leak. It is the very same video I cite in Part 2 of the Baric Files. This video intertwined both Zev and myself on parallel trajectories, until one day, those personal paths finally crossed, resulting in what I am reporting to you in this series on Ralph Baric. 
Also, due to procrastination on my part, amidst the chaos that was my life at that time, I failed to obtain a copy of Zev’s book, published after his passing from a rare form of cancer. Zev suffered from Pulmonary Sarcoma that had afflicted him since its discovery in 2018, costing him a lung, and eventually leading to a terminal diagnosis. Recently, my luddite brain finally realized that I could use Amazon’s Kindle to obtain a digital copy of Zev’s book and reading it. I found it compelling and heartfelt, reflecting Zev’s humanity, spirituality, and dogged determination against all odds and mounting ridicule to provide effective EARLY treatment to his patients, as well as his determination to share what he had discovered with the rest of the world. I have no reservations in recommending others to read it as well. (Note: I have no financial interest in its sale). Zev Zelenko loved people, with a few notable exceptions located in Davos, Switzerland, and Redmond, Washington. You will see this quality reflected in his book. He pulls no punches, and that’s the Zev we all knew and loved. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6491372/
"Logically deducing that Baric’s paper (though having no clue that it was Baric’s research, nor who Baric even was at that time), as well as Dr. Seheult’s well-articulated analysis, he knew God had provided him with the answer to his prayers that he had sought. Lacking a viable alternative to treat his ill patients, Zev immediately created an ad hoc protocol based on 220 mg of Zinc Sulfate daily (containing 50mg of elemental Zinc), combined with 200mg of HCQ (twice daily) and 500mg of Azithromycin (once daily). This became known as the 'Zelenko Protocol'."
On March 21st, 2020, Dr. Vladimir 'Zev' Zelenko, with the help of his teenage son, uploaded an 'open video' on YouTube to the Trump administration. Sadly, that video was heavily censored and removed from YouTube, and it has been difficult for me to find a link to it. This de-platforming was a sign of just how controversial the Zelenko Protocol would become as the media and various social media outlets strove to censor it and the Zelenko Protocol. He states in his book that his video led to a phone call from Mark Meadows, President Trump’s Chief of Staff. Later, he was called by FDA Director Stephen Hahn. Hahn, interestingly enough, later went to work for the venture capital firm that has launched Moderna. Hahn referred Zev to the NIH. However, Zev stated that the people he spoke with there wanted clinical data that he did not possess at that time.
Would being able to invoke the name of Dr. Ralph Baric have potentially made all the difference during those phone calls? 'Look, my protocol is BASED UPON Ralph Baric’s research, for God’s sake!!'
Would Dr. Fauci have been put in a rather awkward position, since his department had PAID for Baric’s research? Would Fauci have dared to present Remdesivir as a potential treatment if Ralph Baric’s connection to it had been revealed? As we later found out, Fauci was trying to deflect people away from his relationship with Baric. Fauci had met with Baric, likely to discuss Baric’s collaboration with Wuhan lab researcher Zhengli 'Bat Lady' Shi. Baric met Fauci at 2:30 pm on February 11th, 2020, but later, under oath during a deposition, tried to claim he had no recollection of ever personally meeting Ralph Baric. Again, Fauci stated this UNDER OATH.
Armed with this information on his DIRECT relationship with Baric, I wonder what Fauci’s answer would have been if questioned about his knowledge of Baric’s research on Zinc + Zinc Ionophores?
It’s hard to ascertain just how much of this inquisition was due to the effectiveness of Zev’s protocol and the need to suppress it at all costs so that it would not impede 'Operation: Warp Speed'. Warp Speed represented the vaccine equivalent of the World War II Manhattan Project, the development of the first two atomic bombs, and it represented huge profit potential and control over the global population with mandatory vaccination, all at taxpayer expense. Of course, to some naive believers, it offered hope to millions that a viable vaccine could be quickly developed for SARS-2.
What if they had known that Ralph Baric’s research was behind Zev Zelenko’s protocol? How might that have altered the course of history, related to the pandemic response?
However, Zev had just handed President Trump a potentially major political victory that could undermine the incessant attempts to end his presidency. In addition, given the evidence I have cited in prior articles, it held the threat of potentially ending all of the useless vaccine, and gain of function, research on RNA viruses. Early treatment would have effectively rendered vaccines useless in the face of EARLY treatment for those patients who actually got sick. There would have been no justification in needlessly risking lives by injecting experimental mRNA gene therapies into billions of healthy people, with then-unknown consequences. These vaccines would have been required to undergo full safety testing, if tested at all. Interestingly, Trump only focused on a drug, HCQ, but never mentioned the Zinc aspect of the Zelenko Protocol, that was based upon Baric’s research. At least, not to my knowledge. Nor do I believe Trump was ever aware of the Ralph Baric connection to it. What if Trump has been able to point to Baric in his conversations with Fauci? Awkward, to say the least, IMO.
Just imagine how history might have been different IF Zelenko had known about Ralph Baric at that time? Sadly, that would not come for Zev until years later, just 7 months before his untimely death, as he succumbed to his terminal cancer.
Meanwhile, as April and May rolled on, and Zev utilized his stash of pre-ordered HCQ to treat his patients, he accumulated the evidence that eventually became a peer-reviewed study on the effectiveness of EARLY treatment with the Zelenko Protocol.
Zev, working with two experienced German research writers who offered their assistance, submitted a paper in May 2020. After multiple delays trying to obtain peer review and trying to find a journal that would accept it, he published the results of his 'Retrospective Case Series Study' in the obscure 'International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents,' the only journal willing to publish his results, on December 6th, 2020. Mind you, this was AFTER Baric’s Remdesivir had 'won' EUA approval on October 22nd, 2020.
In that paper, Zev was able to show that, using the Zelenko Protocol, he was able to reduce hospitalizations in his HIGH-RISK patients by 84% when compared to others not treated in a similar manner. That would have been 84% fewer hospital beds taken away from other patients, as well as far fewer individuals dying in an ICU. Zev also stated that only one of his treated patients died, that being an individual being a late-stage cancer patient.
COVID-19 outpatients: early risk-stratified treatment with zinc plus low-dose hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin: a retrospective case series study https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924857920304258?via%3Dihub
As 2021 and 2022 passed, Zev continued to promote EARLY treatment with his protocol. He had treated such notable leaders as Brazil’s President Bolsonaro, the then Health Minister of Israel, and instructed Honduran doctors on his protocol, resulting in very low incidents of Covid-related deaths. He consulted with other global leaders as well as he sought to bring what he had uncovered to humanity, as he felt God had destined him to do. For Zev, treating SARS-2 was a battle of 'good versus evil,' and he increasingly believed that there was a supranational, sinister organization behind the pandemic, or at least attempting to take advantage of the chaos for their own cynical agenda. Of course, we know them as the WEF, and I hope to write about their likely involvement in a future article.
As I mentioned previously, I had discovered Baric’s role in the Zelenko Protocol in May 2020. My pinned tweet on X was about it.
https://twitter.com/Mujhunter/status/1266798397605871616
- Mujhunter
For two years, I attempted in vain to reach Dr. Zelenko about what I had uncovered related to Ralph Baric’s connection to the Zelenko Protocol. I knew that if this information could find its way to him, it would get to President Trump and become the means of dethroning Dr. Fauci and Big Pharma.
After all, Baric was 'one of their own,' and he had stated his research had shown NATURAL ingredients could effectively BLOCK RNA viral replication. Not just SARS-2, but ALL of them, including Polio. I would constantly cite Baric’s study on Facebook, and several times I ended up in FB 'prison' for my efforts. On Twitter, I would regularly post about the connection between Baric and the Zelenko Protocol. Strangely though, whenever I invoked the name of Ralph Baric, and despite having over 1,000 followers on Twitter, my comments were being 'liked' by 'Pornbots.' However, I still couldn’t get the attention of someone who would connect me with the VERY busy and much in-demand Dr. Zelenko. But it made me wonder if some entity were using these “pornbots” to track comments that invoked Baric’s name. I still ponder this possibility.
In December 2021, a friend of mine (we affectionately nicknamed 'Jew behind the scenes') knew I had been trying to connect Zev. Through his Rabbi, he had managed to connect to Zev’s Rabbi, and the stage was set for me to finally have the chance to brief Zev on what I knew about Ralph Baric. Baric’s gain-of-function experiments, and the growing belief that his research was tied to the SARS-2 virus, had made Zev aware of who he was. But it was I who blew his mind in telling him that his own Zelenko Protocol was based on Baric’s research. I recall that Zev was quiet, and then his brain immediately started connecting the same data points that I had. Baric’s likely reason for pursuing Zinc research was to provide him a personal means of protecting himself, his friends, and family from the very biological monsters he was creating. Taxpayer dollars paid for this research, and he only did the most minimal amount of work necessary. Then he quietly publish the results of this study to be conveniently buried beneath the mountain of his other patentable viral drug, and vaccine research, in particular Remdesivir, which, as I’ve shown, targets the VERY SAME RNA viral RdRP as Zinc + Zinc Ionophores.
Zev was interviewed by Dr. Drew after receiving my revelations which I had finally had the chance to share with him. The interview took place just months before his passing. He holds nothing back in discussing the things he was seeing at that time. The discussion of Baric’s role and how Zev came to create his protocol is mentioned at 15:40 minutes into the interview. Zev mentions watching MedCram Video Update #34, first posted on March 10th, 2020: 
In another interview that I helped arrange with a friend, Sargis Sangari, who operates a national security-related podcast called New Paradigms, Dr. Zelenko acknowledges my role in revealing how his protocol was based on Ralph Baric’s research, as well as the implications. I encourage you to watch it in its entirety, but if you're pressed for time, the 'meat' begins at approximately the 28:00 mark. Zev will mention my name, starting at the 31:15 mark.
New Paradigms Dr. Zelenko Interview: https://rumble.com/vrvyh0-link-analysis-of-nih-research-and-dr.-zelenkos-covid-protocol.html
In closing, we need to review the facts that have been presented here and in the prior articles from 'The Baric Files'. Zev Zelenko proved that his Ralph Baric 'inspired' protocol works for EARLY treatment of SARS-2. He, like myself, believes that it will work for ALL RNA viruses that are 'unified' (as Baric states) by their use of RdRP to replicate themselves. So here are the facts, as well as some questions, that MUST be raised, considered, and pursued for the future based on my analysis.
1- What was Ralph Baric’s greatest ethical 'crime'? Was it his use of Baric Labs as a research 'tool,' profiting on millions in NIH-funded grants to engage in lucrative gain-of-function experiments for potential vaccine research? Research that also had 'dual-use' as a bioweapon?
2- Or was it the fact that we know Baric used ALL-NATURAL ingredients in his Zinc + Ionophores research? We know, lacking evidence to the contrary, that Baric NEVER conducted simple animal experiments to validate his 'in vitro' findings in living lab animals or humans. These tests still must be done.
3- Why was there no Operation: Warp Speed equivalent to confirm Baric’s amazing discovery? If validated, wouldn’t such a discovery be worthy of a Nobel Prize, as was the case with Ivermectin?
4- We know that researchers investigating Remdesivir DID NOT HESITATE to conduct animal trials using EARLY treatment methodologies after initial inoculation with an RNA virus. Why no similar tests on Zinc + Ionophores?
Clinical benefit of remdesivir in rhesus macaques infected with SARS-CoV-2 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2423-5
Fig. 1: Reduced respiratory disease in rhesus macaques infected with SARS-CoV-2 and treated with remdesivir.
5- We know that millions of lives have been needlessly lost to the scourge of various RNA virus infections since Baric’s research in 2010. The blood of every one of these victims, in my opinion, taints every bit of research Ralph Baric has ever conducted on therapeutics and vaccines, let alone Gain of Function.. I opine profit-related priorities for patented drugs over natural prophylaxis and/or treatment was the motive.
6- We know that animal RNA viruses ALSO utilize the SAME RdRP to replicate, meaning that there is, potentially, a supplement-based solution to the risks that biological RNA virus-based weapons pose to our meat industries, currently being targeted for decimation over “climate change” assertions. Objective, un-biased, testing just needs to be done It just needs to be tested in those animals to validate efficacy.
7- We know that Ralph Baric has NEVER been called to testify before Congress on his collaboration with the Wuhan labs, his research into Chimeric clones resembling SARS-1, NOR, MOST IMPORTANTLY, the role his 2010 research played in the creation of the Zelenko Protocol. This MUST be remedied NOW. How will he answer such questions, given the EARLY TREATMENT animal testing protocol conducted to validate the efficacy of Remdesivir?
8- We know that the University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill is STILL refusing to answer FOIA requests related to Ralph Baric and his activities. What do they have to hide?
9- We know that HCQ possesses its own antiviral (and anti-cancer) properties, and that in combination with Zinc, we can temporarily increase intracellular Zinc levels to inhibit RdRP replication of RNA viruses. ALL of them. Ralph Baric implicitly stated such.
10- We know there was a concerted effort to demonize EARLY treatment using HCQ (and Zinc). I believe I have stumbled upon WHY HCQ was disparaged and remains so, along with Ivermectin, to this very day. And we have a chance to throw a proverbial 'monkey wrench' into what they have planned for us, advanced planning for which is occurring even now.
11- We know that Zev Zelenko was censored, de-platformed, and vilified as a “quack” for his Zelenko Protocol. He deserves a posthumous Medal of Freedom, if not a Nobel Prize in Medicine for doing what Baric did not do.
12- The Globalist elites are not done yet. They have announced the pending threat of 'Disease X,' likely another RNA viral pathogen, at their Davos meeting this year. I believe I can provide a valid, logical case (in a future article) for what Disease X represents, and its ramifications for the world.
Defining Disease X:
Proactive planning using conceptual disease models may help prevent the next pandemic.
Public health agencies and governments across the globe are always readying their response for the next infectious disease emergency, but how do we prepare for the truly unknown? Enter Disease X.
13- believe the evidence will show that the Zelenko Protocol, or variations of it, should prove just as effective against Disease X as it did against SARS-2.
14- And I believe, with this knowledge, and more I have yet to share, we can arm humanity with the means to unravel the plans of the globalists to fear-monger all of humanity into obedience with a new plandemic. And the more people who know about it, the more likely those who would seek to use fear to control us will skulk back into their deep dark caves (or preferably, their jail cells).
15- I believe that the Zelenko Protocol, based on Baric’s research, holds one of the keys for 'DISARMING' RNA viral-based biological weapons in both humans and animals. We need to focus on such research to validate it over and over
16- Lastly, and most sadly, I can personally attest that there are leaders in the Anti-mRNA vaccine "resist" movement who, for whatever reasons, KNOW the same things that I told Dr. Zelenko, yet REFUSE to invoke the name of Ralph Baric in connection to EARLY treatment. They MUST honor and vindicate Zev’s memory/legacy and expose Baric’s profiteering focus. They MUST finally speak out for the sake of our children and all of humanity. Armed with the knowledge of Baric’s role in the Zelenko Protocol, they possess the necessary data to do so.
Also, I would be remiss if I did not include other notable physicians who ALSO implemented EARLY treatment for their patients, such as Drs. George Fareed, Brian Tyson, and Peter McCullough, Richard Urso, and many others who know who they are and what they have done to advance EARLY treatment protocols. But their stories are well told elsewhere. However, they deserve kudos and public acknowledgment as well, and still carry on the fight for early treatment. They may have known how EARLY treatment works, but now, I pray, they know the rest of the story (as radio host Paul Harvey would announce).
In ending this article dedicated to Zev Zelenko, I also want to say...
"I miss you, Zev."
I think about you and your sacrifices every day as I humbly seek to continue spreading the message you shared with the world. We never met, but your spirit remains with me, and hopefully with the rest of humanity, whom you loved and sought to help throughout your life. A duty that came at the expense of spending your final years with your family and loved ones. I hope that what I had to tell you that day in late December 2021, regarding Ralph Baric, provided you with the personal vindication you so richly deserved, denied to you during your life.
I feel your presence now, even as I type these words. Thank you!!
Oh... and just for "fun," here’s one more video I stumbled across a number of years ago... It’s a 3-minute synopsis of a 2003 episode called “Plague” from the TV Series “The Dead Zone.” I think your readers will find it rather interesting.
I hope watching it makes you as "angry" as I was when I first watched it.
They’ve KNOWN for YEARS, and Dr. Ralph Baric told us if we use ZINC, that antiviral effect is compounded.
And it renders any form of "traditional" or mRNA vaccine to be nothing more than a dangerous "Whack-a-Mole" endeavor and thereby, a fruitless scam in the fight against RNA coronaviruses.
Source: https://meninblack.substack.com/p/barics-zelenko-protocol-pt-4
Previously on Men In Black
Beneficial effects of HCQ and Zinc against COVID-19
The article saying Zinc is effective against coronavirus is written by Ralph Baric in 2010.
Baric's Zinc Revelation: Part 1
Baric's Zinc Revelation: Part 2
Baric's Remdisivir Revelation: Part 3
Baric's "Zelenko" Protocol: Pt 4
HCQ and Zinc's Secrets | Baric Files Pt. 5
Epilogue(?): The Baric Files.