“The WHO is completely compromised,” says Dr. Kory. “They are protecting other interests.” The scale of the markets (think vaccines and pharmaceutical companies) that would be affected by the approval of ivermectin for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 is massive. Meanwhile, because the WHO failed to recommend ivermectin for worldwide use, hundreds of thousands…
Category: Drugs
Mercola reports “More Good News on Ivermectin”
Ivermectin is an antiparasitic drug that may be even more useful against COVID-19 than hydroxychloroquine (HCQ). However, like HCQ, use of ivermectin has been globally suppressed, discouraged and even warned against, despite decades of safe use for other ailments In the U.S., the Frontline COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC) has been calling for widespread adoption…
BMJ reports “Covid-19: politicisation, ‘corruption,’ and suppression of science”
When good science is suppressed by the medical-political complex, people die Politicians and governments are suppressing science. They do so in the public interest, they say, to accelerate availability of diagnostics and treatments. They do so to support innovation, to bring products to market at unprecedented speed. Both of these reasons are partly plausible; the…
Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance reports “Review of the Emerging Evidence Demonstrating the Efficacy of Ivermectin in the Prophylaxis and Treatment of COVID-19”
In March 2020, the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC) was created and led by Professor Paul E. Marik to continuously review the rapidly emerging basic science, translational, and clinical data to develop a treatment protocol for COVID-19. The FLCCC then recently discovered thativermectin, an anti-parasitic medicine, has highly potent anti-viral and anti-inflammatory properties…
Sky News reports “Ivermectin treatment is a ‘real killer of coronavirus’: Professor”
Gastroenterologist Professor Thomas Borody says Ivermectin used in conjunction with two other drugs is making it look like “corona is very simple to kill”. The drug is Federal Drug Agency and World Health Organisation approved; it is widely used for parasitic infections and is being cited and prescribed as treatment against the deadly coronavirus. “It…
Cincinnati Enquirer reports “Hydroxychloroquine may have some use to treat COVID after all, NJ study shows”
A new Hackensack Meridian Health study shows that people with mild symptoms of COVID-19 may be helped by a controversial drug that had been widely used in the early days of the pandemic before several studies questioned its benefits and safety. The recently published study looked at a group of people treated as outpatients last year and…
Forbes reports “Antiviral Drug Remdesivir Proves Ineffective In Treating Covid-19, WHO Study Finds”
The antiviral drug remdesivir had little or no effect in treating patients hospitalized with Covid-19, according to a study that has not yet been peer reviewed, but was coordinated by the World Health Organization and released on Thursday, casting doubt on one of the few promising treatments for the coronavirus. Remdesivir is the only specific drug…
Real Clear Politics reports “The Tragic Hydroxychloroquine Debate and Dr. Fauci’s Denial of Evidence”
As an epidemiologist trained to make causal inference, especially from observations, I feel strongly that there is an urgent need for an open and honest debate on the ability of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) to save lives. I had not paid much attention to discussions related to the efficacy of pharmacological interventions in the treatment of Covid-19…
Rolling Stone reports “Big Pharma’s Covid-19 Profiteers”
How the race to develop treatments and a vaccine will create a historic windfall for the industry — and everyone else will pay the price On June 29th, 2020, while America remained transfixed by anti-police protests, the chairman and CEO of the pharmaceutical company Gilead issued a much-anticipated announcement. In a breezy open letter, Daniel O’Day…
Stat News reports “The U.S. government contributed research to a Gilead Remdesivir patent — but didn’t get credit”
Two documents dating back to 2015 shed further light on the role the federal government played in discovering remdesivir and its use in treating coronaviruses — work that has taken on new meaning as the Gilead Sciences (GILD) drug has gained global attention and an emergency use authorization from federal regulators to treat patients with…