Snake Venom and COVID-19

I want to start off by stating my embarrassment that I have devoted a couple of hours assessing the snake venom hypothesis, similar to many of my colleagues, here , here, here , and here (who I suspect spent less time than I did which is why I am embarrassed). But I might as well share the fruits? of my time spent assessing the Watch the Water “documentary” lest it go to waste.
 First off, I have never met Dr. Brian Ardis and know little of his previous (and from what I have heard, credible) work in calling attention to one of the most fraudulent and corrupt saga’s in U.S Public Health history, that of our agencies ensuring that the completely ineffective, somewhat toxic, and outrageously profitable remdesivir be infused into almost every arm of every hospitalized American patient with COVID for almost 2 years now (by propagandized, hypnotized, and/or cowardly infectious disease specialists across the country. Go IDSA!)
 The problem is that Dr. Ardis went on some highly watched podcasts this week espousing novel (and I assume untested amongst his colleagues, yikes) theories that COVID is equivalent to snake venom and that remdesivir is actually snake venom plus a bunch of stuff about snake venom, er, I mean COVID, being released in water sources (this latter part I will just ignore as I don’t think that Dr. Ardis meant that as being the most important part of his theories - see how gracious I am?).
 Since those theories were broadcast, many people in my orbit, many supporters of t he FLCCC , and many patients in my practice have reached out, asking what I/we thought of these theories and what our take on this stuff was. I suppose it is only natural because I believe many people trust our opinion and judgement on medical matters and scientific topics. So I figured I owed it to those folks to give them some of my impressions of the soundness of the many statements made by Dr. Ardis, someone whom I mean no disrespect to, but whom I believe I am allowed to disagree with professionally, just as I have on occasion when speaking with and discussing matters with my newest colleagues and friends like Drs. McCullough, Mallone, Cole, Urso, not to mention the times in COVID when Paul Marik and I have argued the veracity of various insights we were developing.
 I watched his interview with Stew Peters and 1.5 episodes with Mike Adams, and the following are my impressions of the many statements he made if interested:
 He talked about diaphragmatic paralysis as the cause of respiratory failure in COVID. Wow. Not starting well. Zero basis for this as paralysis is not the pathophysiology of respiratory failure in COVID. I know of not one reported or published instance of diaphragm paralysis in COVID death (there might be one, but I have never seen a patient die of diaphragm paralysis in COVID and I have cared for hundreds).

 He accused doctors in the hospital of giving patients medicines like morphine, precedex, fentanyl etc in order to “suppress (or stop, cant remember) their breathing.” Oof. This hurts. Although this is technically correct, the wording is both inappropriately accusatory and unnecessarily sensationalistic because we instead routinely use those medicines to make patients comfortable and synchronous with the ventilator, certainly not with the primary or sinister intent of “stopping breathing”. The use of these medicines in such situations have been standard ICU and anesthesia practice for decades for patients requiring mechanical ventilation due to innumerable indications and causes. Lastly, ICU practice has been slowly evolving for decades now to use as little of those medicines and for as short as duration as possible, mostly in a vain attempt to avoid causing ICU delirium in our critically ill patients. To express this view of this practice betrays a defamatory and near total ignorance of the care of a patient in advanced respiratory failure.

 To say that the most common day of death in the hospital is day 9 and relate this to be the cause of the cumulative dose of remdesivir is bizarre – average day of death has no meaning when a third die in less than 4 days, a fifth die between 5-8 days, and the rest die beyond 9 days. .. remdesivir was not around until May 2020 and I saw people die the same way both before and after remdesivir and people dying of COVID in the hospital are usually on vents for many many days. Although I agree that remdesivir is a fraud with known toxic side effects, they are not so discernible or as common as he claims. We would have seen a huge rise in the deaths of the hospitalized after remdesivir.. which we did not, in fact, hospital mortality started going down with improved care practices (avoidance of the idiotic “early intubation” protocols of many academic medical centers) plus the standard use of corticosteroids (at a corrupt low dose - more on that later) in late spring/early summer 2020.

 Claiming that it is wrong that the CDC monitors water for outbreaks because it is too late to detect them at that point shows ignorance of the fact that many studies have shown it to be a valid technique for predicting outbreaks prior to rises in documented cases. The suggestion that they are putting snake venom in the water I already promised above that I will just ignore.

 “They were banning and punishing doctors for using monoclonal antibodies.”I know of not one instance of “banning or punished doctors” for using monoclonal antibodies as he claimed. Yeesh, instead, we have been fired, letters have been sent to medical boards, and medical boards and insurance companies have investigated us.. but that was for “off-label” prescribing of highly effective repurposed drugs, not NIH and FDA approved or EUA approved drugs. Getting increasingly worried as this is just the first 15 minutes of the Stew Peters episode.

 Now, lets transition to the main theory he espouses, that SARS-CoV2 largely acts as a snake venom and that remdesivir is also made from snake venom. As to the first part of this theory, there is a bit of truth there because there is indeed a short sequence of RNA coding for amino acids that make up a part of the receptor binding domain (RBD) portion of the spike protein that is identical to snake venom. Problem with calling COVID-19 snake venom: this ptotein sequence is just a small part of one protein of the 29 made by SARS-CoV2 when it replicates. This does NOT mean the virus came from a snake but it does have a little snake venom protein in it. Why it is in there who knows, I suppose I can ask Fauci or Baric or Daszak or the Chinese Military the next time I run into one of them. Starting from here though, I am getting worried about where this is going.
 It is true however, and important to recognize, that this part of the spike protein RBD may potentially make it antagonize nicotinic receptors, a pathophysiologic mechanism which is one of many exhibited by snake venom. This mechanism does indeed cause macrophage activation and cytokine storms via the antagonism of nicotinic receptors. Although we all know that the ACE-2 receptor is how the virus enters and replicates, it is possible that the nicotinic acid receptor antagonism could indeed play a role in making people so ill. So, it has some snake venom like properties and suggests nicotine and other nicotinic acid agonists may have a therapeutic role. May have one. But that is as far as the science will get you. Problem is that the spike also has sequences which encode proteins identical to staphylococcus toxin so the following theory could equally apply to someone claiming “they” are sickening us with staph. But he goes way beyond the nicotinic receptor hypothesis and on to very strange places as follows:
 Saying that the virus/venom and/or remdesivir venom causes pulmonary hemorrhage. Problem: I have not seen one case either pre-or post remdesivir roll out although it is listed as a complication of snake bites and as an adverse events of remdesivir. But it ain’t happening beyond maybe a rare case in the hospital. We are now leaving planet Earth I am afraid.

 Saying the the virus/venom and/or remdesivir/venom causes ARDS initially. It does not. COVID (and those with COVID and treated with remdesivir) all have a condition called “organizing pneumonia (OP)” (never described in snake bites). ARDS only happens in end-stage disease as it is the final stage of all lung injuries like when OP progresses if untreated or under-treated, which I have well-argued previously is the proximate cause of all deaths in hospital due to the corrupt low dose used in the RECOVERY trial. My paper on organizing pneumonia being the predominant and primary lung injury in COVID is here, can even be read by a layperson (except for the lung pathology section). Approaching 50,000 feet from earth’s surface.

 “Remdesivir is freeze dried snake venom.” This statement is supported by the argument that an adverse event of remdesivir is multi-organ failure, and snake venom causes multi-organ failure, thus remdesivir is snake venom. Ugh. Very very few patients die of multi-organ failure in COVID, the vast majority actually die of single organ failure (respiratory failure), and occasional kidney failure. Although it is true that late stage sepsis (a complication of progressive severe COVID) sometimes causes multi-organ failure but for many/most, they die simply of lung failure. Once the lungs have been irretrievably damaged, multi-organ failure ensues (shock, kidney failure, liver failure) but that is part of the dying process in most patients dying in ICU with end-stage acute critical illness. I saw no clinically discernable difference in how patients died pre- or post remdesivir rollout and as an ICU doc I see a lot of dying. Approaching stratosphere (which may be before or after 50,000 feet, too lazy to look it up).

 He reports that “Elevated phospholipase A2 enzymes were found in COVID patients” from one study of patients in both Stony Brook, NY and Banner Hospital in Arizona. It is true that this enzyme has properties similar to snake venom. It helps in viral killing but in excess amounts can cause cell injury and multi-organ failure. But to argue that the fact that all the hospitalized patients who die in COVID get remdesivir means remdesivir is snake venom enzyme and that this explains the elevation of this enzyme in these patients thus remdesivir is freeze dried king cobra venom. Whoa. He fails to note that the patients in this study were from January to November of 2020 while Remdesivir was not approved via EUA until May 2020. Again, I saw no difference in how patients presented and died pre or post remdesivir rollout, er, I mean snake venom rollout. Further, this enzyme can be elevated in multiple other critical illnesses like sepsis. I really should turn around now and land the spaceship back on planet Earth.

 He cites a paper where they studied the genetic sequences of snake venom specific toxins and that these 19 toxins (before I forget, he happily stated that the fact there are 19 venom specific toxins is why COVID started in 2019), cause cardiovascular dysfunction, muscular paralysis, nausea, blurred vision, and systemic effects such as hemorrhage. He then shows a diagram from the paper which lists a bunch of ways that these venoms damage the body, things such as coagulation, anticoagulation, tissue damage, sudden shock, muscle damage, dizziness/headache, neuromuscular paralysis and systemic hemorrhage. I have to note that most of these injurious pathways.. do not happen routinely (or at all) in COVID. In fact, I can only endorse hyper coagulation and headache from that list and… nothing else. Strikingly dis-similar to a snake bite. Spaceward.

 He then focuses on this sentence from the paper; “kidney injury is among the most common and most serious symptoms of cobra envenoming”. He then states that someone said to him “we have never seen such frequent kidney injury with a respiratory virus". He again links this to remdesivir, not knowing that we saw LOTS of kidney injury before remdesivir. Like lots. I even postulate that it may have been occurring less after remdesivir as the other variants came out because in that first wave in 2020, tons of patients were landing on dialysis but less so after. Also, I have never seen blood clotting like I did in the first Wuhan strain in 2020. Clotting became less severe and less prevalent with successive variants (but still a problem, just not like the first wave, that was insane with young people dying of massive pulmonary embolisms and right heart failure in ER’s). Clotting is an issue with some snake bites and is an issue with COVID. Does not mean they are the same disease, just that both are bad news. I would get COVID over a snake bite any day. However, I will give him some support to say that the first variant of that virus that leaked (or was leaked) out of that lab.. caused clotting like I have never seen, similar to some, but not all, snake venoms as most cause blood thinning and bleeding.

 He then cites another paper studying snake venom genetic sequences and that it was published in 2005, which he says was the “same year” as SARSCoV1 despite the fact SARS1 was in… 2003. He then says that gave “them” 15 years to plan/make this virus.. without evidence tying those researchers to anything.

 He then cites another paper (Nature Medicine’s “Extrapulmonary manifestations of COVID-19”) to talk about how papers from China reported that kidney injury occurred in 0.5% to 29% of patients but that in the US, much higher rates were reported - i.e. 37% in one paper with 14% requiring dialysis and that this is because in the US we use remdesivir in all hospitalized patients and China does not. Ugh. The US paper citing the 37% incidence of kidney failure was published in May 2020 (by a former colleague)..  before Remdesivir was in use.  Should I keep going? Fine I will.

 He then notes that an author of the Nature Medicine study.. is a consultant to Gilead. This was a pathophysiology paper, had nothing to do with therapeutics but he argues that because it describes “every single side effect of remdesivir", that this consultant to Gilead put all those side effects in the paper to “hide” the fact they are caused by remdesivir so that “the doctors would think they are being caused by the virus and not remdesivir."Again, all this pathophysiology was well known in COVID patients, before remdesivir. This is exhausting.

 He then connects Gilead with Genentech because of a guy from Genentech who was one of many authors in the paper on the phospholipase enzyme elevations. Genentech has patents for chemotherapies which have snake venom in them and Gilead bought two plants from Genentech and their employees became Gilead employees. True. Relevance?

 He states that since remdesivir comes in a little vial that is a yellow white tinted liquid, this is consistent with it being snake venom. Although many intravenous solutions can have similar appearances, I suppose it is possible they are all snake venoms?

 He then shows a paper which states that venom phospholipase is the key factor in tissue injury. I don’t think he knows what tissue injury is as it generally refers to soft tissue (skin/fat/muscle) necrosis which we don’t see in COVID, either before or after remdesivir. Then he shows the section of the paper where they administered crude cobra venom in the lungs of mice and the lungs hemorrhaged. He then states that everyone who dies in the hospital has edema in their lungs (which is not the same thing as hemorrhage). Problem: one thing COVID patients do not have is pulmonary edema or hemorrhage.. until the very last stages nearer death when they get ARDS - it is initially a dry lung inflammation in the form of OP and it can go on for weeks before ventilation/death.

 He and Adams then veer into the strange coincidence that the caduceus symbol for medicine has two snakes entwined around it. True.

 He then veers into a tangent about a guy who wrote in Feb 2020 in the WSJ about how important the naming of the pandemic is… and how all the different entities in the world, in their naming attempts, all had the word virus in it. And that the word virus has a historical latin definition of “venom”. And that corona means crown, and when you think of a crown you should think of a king, and that is why remdesivir is “king cobra venom”. I am not making this up.

 He then states that we need to treat every COVID patient as if they were suffering from a snake bite which may be the least unsound proclamation because, as above, there may be a role in using nicotinic acid agonists. But literally claiming that COVID-19 illness is identical to what happens to snake bite victims shows he has never taken care of either.

 He then finds a mention of an institute in Costa Rica which got SARS COV2 proteins from China to inject them into horses to make plasma antibodies as a treatment. He emphasizes that this institute specializes in extracting venom from snakes to make anti-venom, something they have been doing for 50 years. Ardis lights up about the fact they got “venom” (he doesn’t call it proteins like the article does) from China to make “anti-COVID venom”, just like they do with snakes.

 He then finds a paper that reports in the title that there were two crises in 2019 – one of rises in snake bites and rises in COVID and that there was a huge uptick in need for anti-venom in 2020.. He then wonders “I thought we were all locked down” in response to the paper stating that 350 snakes bites were reported in Texas in 2020 which was a 40% increase from 2019. Yup.

 He then finds a paper that suggest some snake venoms could be helpful in combatting or treating COVID which he is not surprised about because some snake venoms cause blood to thin, and some to clot, so the perfect antidote for the snake venom in COVID would be a different and opposing snake venom. Exactly.

 He then shows a paper showing that Merck and Pfizer see an anti-venom future market growth outlook and that Pfizer’s lisinopril is partially derived from snake venom. Damning.

 He then finds that in the Pfizer EUA for Paxlovid, it says that it inhibits cysteine protease from the “PA clan proteases”.. and the document also mentions that PA clan proteases are also found in.. wait for it… snake venom, and then it mentions what I mentioned in the first paragraph above that there is a snake venom like sequence in the spike protein RBD RNA. And that snake venoms interfere with the clotting cascade. Pfizer wrote they found this association of a paxlovid mechanism with a venom is “interesting” such that it softly suggests a therapeutic role.. who knows but we have already been over this.

 He then talks about how smokers were a small minority of hospitalized patients and that it is because the nicotine blocks the toxic effects of covid by being an agonist to the nicotinic receptors antagonized by “snake venom” mentioned above. This statement is plausible as a hypothesis as above.. but then it is followed by “the venom gets into your brain and paralyzes your diaphragm and your oxygen drops”. Yikes. I am a specialist at diagnosing diaphragm dysfunction.. and have not seen one case in COVID.  He then mentions that everyone with COVID in the world needs nicotine. Again, this may not be unreasonable given the “possible” protective effect of smoking…but to claim this so confidently based on just theoretical, in-silico and a paucity of observational data is highly problematic due to smoking being confounded with numerous other risk factors and that some studies have shown smoking to not be protective in COVID. And apparently he is now selling a combination product of compounds which can be agonists at those nicotinic receptors. Why not?

 Because king cobra makes the blood thin and a remdesivir side effect is blood thinning.. that is why remdesivir is made from king cobra venom. Sure.

 Then he finds a paper which mentions that the pseudouridine that is incorporated into mRNA vaccines makes it more stable.. as this was discovered when they found a higher resistance to hydrolysis by enzymes from snake venom and spleen. Interesting. But relevance?

 He then goes into (which is kind of interesting) the fact that mRNA is apparently well preserved in snake venom, and many scientists have been studying why this is and taking advantage of this “preservative” to do other experiments with both mRNA and with PCR testing of proteins in snake venom. Interesting. But relevance?

 I spent way too much time above to see if his statements/argument had any face validity. Within ten minutes he had already uttered several devoid of any. Yet I kept going because I was asked. I think that had he simply come up with a hypothesis or evidence as to why there are amino acid sequences identical to bungarotoxin in the spike RBD RNA, that would have been fine and is a great question for Fauci and the Wuhan lab.
 Instead, he descended into calling the virus equivalent to snake venom and remdesivir snake venom and essentially claiming that COVID disease is identical to snake bites and that being on Remdesivir is like you got bitten by a snake - he sees and links to mentions of snakes everywhere presumably through the manic use of google and pub med and every time he found mention of snake venom in any remote or proximate relation to something COVID or vaccine or remdesivir related he brings it forth as if it is damning etc. He simply has no experience to know that, although venomous snake bite victims get terribly ill, it just ain’t the same as what happens to COVID-19 victims. And the side effects of remdesivir having overlap with effects of COVID and with effects of snake bites does not mean that remdesivir is a snake venom killing everyone nor do we dumb hospital doctors erroneously think we are seeing COVID when it is really the toxic effects of remdesivir. COVID and remdesivir side effects have some overlap with snake bite syndrome, but there are important differences that we never see. Like soft tissue injury, bleeding, muscular paralysis etc.
 To be as fair as possible, I can identify with making incorrect theories and arguments in medicine from my experiences with complex cases of life-threatening illness where I was the doctor in charge… and did not know what was wrong with my deteriorating patient (critical care medicine can be wickedly stressful at times). I would think and think, considering diagnosis after diagnosis, assessing whether the constellation of symptoms and findings I was witnessing could match what I knew of the multiple diagnoses I was considering and at times I would google scholar the constellation of symptoms or the most impactful one.. and then I would try to “fit” the diagnosis to my patient and in some instances I would venture too far down a specific diagnostic pathway by ignoring data or evidence which “didn’t fit” only to find I was completely wrong with my diagnosis. I get it. It happens. And is what happened here in my opinion, albeit way further down an erroneous diagnostic pathway than I have heard (or seen broadcast for that matter).
 In summary, unfortunately (or fortunately) this is all the time I can devote to the above ranting of a truth, partial truths, and irrelevancies littered with blatant untruths, inaccuracies, and ignorances. I wish I could get these two hours of my life back.
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Summary: In some circles an insane amount of attention was paid this week to the theories of a chiropractor previously celebrated for speaking out on the fraudulent Remdesivir saga in the US. Here is my take.


Patient Testimonials On The Efficacy of Ivermectin

This post is a “companion” to a post of a few hours ago, “ The Global Disinformation Campaign Against Ivermectin, "The Fix of Dr. Andrew Hill " - Chapter 2

 As the testimonials came pouring in, I assiduously saved them in the hopes of using them to convince doctors to find them compelling enough to try the treatment. Oh how foolish a notion this was given that modern ”evidence based medicine” long ago devalued the predictive value of clinical case reports, dismissing them with the derogatory term of “anecdotal evidence”, clearly not worthy of supporting a recommendation for a treatment.
 The evolution of evidence based medicine into what I call “evidence based maniacism” is marked by a near complete disavowal of intellectual methods long relied upon to determine new therapies over the past hundreds of years, using a combination of knowledge of pathophysiology, pharmacological mechanisms, empiricism, risk/benefit assessments and clinical experience gleaned from close observation of hundreds if not thousands of patients with a similar disease. Whenever I read the history of medicine or medical papers published 50-100 years ago, I am continuously shocked by.. how much they knew despite having access to a tiny minority of the basic science, diagnostic, and imaging tools we have today. They did not rely on randomized controlled trials to discover and deploy new therapies. Did they get everything right? Absolutely not.. but neither are we today. Still, I am convinced that had ivermectin been in use a hundred years ago and this pandemic had occurred then - knowledge of its efficacy would have spread like wildfire, simply based on the clinical experiences of the bedside doctors.
 I had not read the below testimonials in many months and reading them now ( prompted by my recent post describing the memories of my first treatment experiences in COVID) …. brings tears to my eyes, not only for the deep gratitude expressed and the compelling outcomes described, but for all those who never got access to or the opportunity to be treated by a physician willing to use one of history’s safest medications in what can be a very deadly disease.
 *Disclaimer - in a number of these clinical anecdotes, people describe sneaking in ivermectin to a hospitalized family member, sometimes using veterinarian formulations. I do not and cannot recommend such actions but do feel it important to document historically the lengths that knowledgeable loved ones had to go to in the face of widespread, overly restrictive hospital administrative and governmental agency policies.

 (The below was the first patient I interacted with who had been treated as a result of coming across my pre-print review paper). She later wrote to Senator Johnson for her case history to be included in the Senate Record along with my testimony delivered on Dec. 8th, 2020.
 Hi Senator Johnson.
 I developed COVID in early November and was sick for two weeks.  I ended up getting COVID pneumonia and had a resting heart rate of 125-135 and chest pain.  I had a second trip to the ER and a chest CT diagnosed the pneumonia.  I had a fever on and off for two weeks and ended up with a fever of 102.7 on my second ER trip.
 I was sent home and told to come back if I had increasing shortness of breath and fever.  I researched COVID protocols online and found the I mask protocol that Eastern Virginia Medical School.  I ended up speaking with Dr. Kory and sending the protocol to my pulmonologist who prescribed Ivermectin.   I had a fever of over 102 the night I took the Ivermectin and a resting heart rate of over 120.  I took the ivermectin medication at 600 pm. By 10:00 am the next day, my temperature returned to normal and so did my heart rate.
 My 92-year-old mother ended up getting COVID after being exposed to me prior to me being aware I was sick.  She has a pleural catheter and is terminally ill with advanced heart and lung disease.  We were working to place her in hospice.  Dr. Kory prescribed Ivermectin.  I went over with a pulse ox and her oxygen level was around 85.  She was extremely fatigued and short of breath but did not want to go the hospital. She told me if she died, she wanted to die at home.  Within 2 days of taking 2 doses of Ivermectin her O2 returned to normal which is simply amazing.  She is terminally ill but will not be dying alone in the hospital with COVID.   We are starting hospice next week.
 Neither my mother or I experienced any side effects from the Ivermectin.
 Warm regards and well wishes,

 Dr. Marik, We are considering moving my father to another hospital that will give him methylprednisone and the MATH+ protocol. We are in lower Delaware. He is on 25 liters of high flow oxygen, no infection, speaking better but his lungs not getting  better.  He is on day 17  and has been in the hospital for 15 days.  Is there a hospital in Virginia or Maryland who will help us?  Do you know?  I am requesting  a peer to peer review with you, but this hospital has been trying to  shut my down.  However, I did get through to his doctor and there is still hope to talk to the lung specialist tomorrow.  I won’t give up!  He won’t make it if I don’t try! I got ivermectin in his food, but I  think the steroid is important.  They started dexamethasone  from day  one and I know that can be detrimental.  I hope we are not too late to start the high does of methylprednisone.  They have him on, I believe, 10 mg of prednisone now.  It seems to be not enough.  Thank you so much! Barbara
 Barbara:
 Unfortunately this is a common and ongoing problem.
 It is difficult for us to convince the treating doctors, they perceive this as interference.
 We presented our data to the NIH on Wednesday; they are likely to issue new recommendations in February.
 My best advice is to go to the hospital patient relations or risk management and tell them that YOU want this therapy and that it is within your rights to have your dda treated with our protocol.
 Failure to do so will lead to his demise.
 Attached are our updated protocols.
 Paul Marik
 >>> Well I have gotten the attention of the staff at XX Hospital in !!   I just got off the phone with the risk management and nurses and I educated them on you and your MASK+ protocol.  They are putting me in touch with their internist Dr. XX because they were so impressed with my knowledge which came from YOU!!!  Thank you!!!!!  My father is still having lung issues and he is having trouble getting weaned off of the oxygen.  I mentioned the use of methylprednisolone and they were intrigued, but they said it wasn’t ‘approved’ for use in the treatment of Covid.  I came back with... "well my father can sign a waiver."  Thank YOU!  My question for you is, would ivermectin still help at this juncture?  My dad’s symptoms started on December 26th and he has been hospitalized since the 28th.  He received the standard dexamethasone, Remdesivir protocol and has completed that. They have him on prednisone and I requested the Omega 3s and the melatonin.  I wonder if I could put the doctor in touch with you? Or if you have recommendations for what I could relay to the doctor?  I know my dad isn’t out of the woods.  He is 79 and is a lung cancer survivor and he is somewhat limited with his walking.  I will ask them to adopt your protocol, but I am unclear as to what that would be at day 15 moving forward?  I also wonder if plasma would help him repair the lung?  I will donate mine.  I know how busy you are and any response is appreciated.  God Bless YOU!  I am praying that the NIH and the CDC move quickly to adopt your brilliant protocol. You are AMAZING!
 >>>> >>> Sadly, they are ignoring me now and I am at their mercy.  They said Ivermectin is in clinical trials and they won’t allow me to get a waiver signed?  As far as I understand, the FLCCC has done those trails, right?  They also will not use methylprednisolone.  My father is still requiring significant oxygen.  They have him on prednisone.  I fear that when and if he is released he will not fair well.   His oxygen needs jumped from 8 to 6 to15 to 40 and now is down to 25 on the high flow, but like Dr. Mobeen said he’s doing the rollercoaster ride.  I will continue to try and sneak in the ivermectin.  That’s all I can do.  They didn’t even bother to look up the work you are doing or all of your publications etc. and even went so far as to say you might be a store clerk???   HORRIBLE!  All this after I printed out all of the data and studies and your protocol and handed it to them days ago!!  Needless to say I am distraught.  I said that doctors all over the country are adopting your protocol, why not Nanticoke Hospital?  Again they said the clinical trials are not there and they won’t budge.  I made a case for the safety of this drug or at least asked them why they wouldn’t use methylprednisolone.  Nothing!  Oh Dr. Marik, this is a crime against humanity.  I love you for the work you are doing.  I pray my dad lives.  I don’t know if I can pursue legal action.  I sick about this…..Love,
 > Thank you!!  I have put a call into Dr. XXs office to have her call me. Is there a preferred number that she should call? Her office number is xxxxx. I have informed them that I would like to talk to her and arrange a peer to peer review with you. I am beyond grateful and this gives me some hope.  What they currently are using for him is clearly not working. He’s not improved in the last 4 days and his oxygen needs took an extreme dive on day 12, January 8th, at the end of their protocol of dexamethasone, rocephin, azithromycin, and Remdesivir.
 Hi Dr Marik!  I have an update for you! So on Tuesday he was on a high flow cannula of 25 L of oxygen.  I gave him a full dosage of ivermectin on Tuesday and on Wednesday his oxygen went down to 10 L of low flow oxygen. Yesterday, I gave him another full dosage of ivermectin in his strawberry milkshake and today his oxygen needs are down to 2 liters!!!!!!  The pulmonologist, Dr. XXX is very unprofessional. She STILL hasn’t returned my calls. In fact she never spoke to me over the 2 and a half weeks that he has been there!!  She missed the opportunity to learn from you!  I’m just so pleased that my father is on the mend. Now I’m just exploring how to keep him from having Post COVID Syndrome.   I have been studying your protocol and the videos so that I can make a recommendation to the doctors. My father will be going into a rehabilitation center after this so I’m going to do my best to educate them in order to get him the best care. I heard from a nursing friend that New York is using ivermectin!  Yay!!  I would be happy to give a testimony and I will be telling everyone I know my story.  Bless you and thank you so much for everything you are doing!  Thank you for responding to my email and calling me!  I am saying this with tears in my eyes. I was trying to get him ivermectin in the very beginning of his hospital stay, but it was so hard.  So grateful that it worked even on day 14 of his hospital stay! Thank you, thank you, thank you!  Love,

 Dear My story and Dr Kory

In July, myself and whole family got covid. My dad 72 with Atrial Fibrillation (irregular heartbeat) and hypertension and mom of 70 years old. Two of us in 40s.

We all started IVM a bit late…on day 3 for three of us. The Covid symptoms presented rapidly overnight for all four of us. My dad tested + just before the weekend and the rest of us over the weekend. Due to this we had to wait for the Monday to get IVM at a compounding pharmacy. The three of us started on the Monday.

For my dad we were worried as he is on Blood thinners, so he initially didn’t take. I was so so scared as what to do that I decided to email Dr Kory, after a little online investigation work to find an email…and within 6 hours he replied. I nearly fell off my chair when he replied as honest I didn’t think I’d get a response. His opinion was best treatment for covid irrespective of anything is IVM.

So we took my Dad to a doc in South Africa the next day, one of the few prescribing practitioners, and Day 5 he started treatment. We had to leave our GP of over 30 years to get treatment from another doc. He monitored my Dads INR and d-dimer to make sure blood wasn’t too thin. My dad didn’t have to stop his current blood thinners.

As my Dad was positive before the rest of us, he was already further in and we could see he was taking so much strain from the effects of the virus. I swear if we didn’t get him the IVM, when we did, on that day 5…I know he would of had to go to hospital. Think we caught it just in time as overnight you could see the difference in him and could hear it too. He could feel it also. He cleared up better than all of us. He took five days of treatment at a higher dose…and was back at the office two weeks later. The rest of us only took 3 days treatment and we all swear by IVM and it as the number one treatment for Covid.

I thank Dr Kory for his time and his reply as it gave me the confidence to trust my gut to just go get for my Dad and for him to take it too.

You won’t believe the fear I had even putting that initial IVM into my mouth. The way this medication been portrayed and the fear mongering around it actually causes undue stress at a time when people shouldn’t be stressed questioning a safe, proven treatment.

I works little miracles.

I have been meaning to email Dr Kory to thank him in person. You all deserve the Nobel peace prize and the work you all doing helps many people. I was lucky to see a recording of Dr Kory speaking last December, and if I hadn’t I wouldn’t of known about you all and the protocol.

I have since passed the Flccc details onto everyone who willing to discuss covid options…and the doctors name and number too…who we saw in SA.

Thanks Dr Kory…you are an amazing doctor. You kindness to email me back, I truly feel was a moment in my life where if you didn’t hit that send button, my life and my Dads could have been very different.

We lost my oldest brother in March due to heart issues, and I don’t think I could of coped with losing another family member. I have a feeling my bro may have actually had covid at a point…as was actually dealing with long haul symptoms, and possibly heart damage too from initial infection that was never detected. He had all the signs and symptoms.

You all rock, IVM rocks, and the good Doctors left in this world rock. Your morals and ethics to first do no harm…and courage to stand up and fight against the system inspires me daily.

Keep shining

Stay safe

Kind Regards

From one of my Regional Presidents:

In the mood for a powerful testimonial of ivermectin?

The wife of our stake president has had Covid for going on three weeks. She has had a fever over 102 for two weeks. I can’t describe all the details of what she shared with me as far as how badly she hurt and the pain she was feeling. She thought she was dying.

Monday morning she was disoriented, feverish and felt like vomiting and went to the hospital.

Her white blood cell count was so low they said the were going to have to isolate her but there was nothing they could do for her.
She refused to stay at the hospital so they sent her home under the condition that she committed to isolate herself.

Get this, she even asked them for Ivermectin, because of former conversations with me, and the doctor refused and told her not to believe the lies on the Internet.

They sent her home with nothing. Said, if you get to the point you can’t breathe come back we will put you on a ventilator. (of course she has enough of a medical background she knew that was a death sentence)

She said she had been so weak she couldn’t even stand up and take a shower without passing out. The pain, as she described it, was almost more than she could bear for the past two weeks. She had almost resigned herself to the fact that she was going to die.

Her husband called me Monday morning after dropping her off at the hospital and hearing their prognosis.

I immediately drove to their house at lunch time and delivered Ivermectin and all the vitamins to their house. The husband took his first dose. By the time she got home from the hospital her husband had her dose waiting for her.

She said she has not had a fever which she had had for some 2 weeks prior to this has not had a fever since she took the ivermectin. Within 48 hours the fever was entirely gone. She says the contrast of how quickly she felt better was so dramatic… And then she broke down in tears bawling thanking me to thank you for being so generous to share this knowledge.

 I have been following you and your interviews I can tell you that 6 people in my family ages 47 to 78 all had Covid, however, we took Ivermectin as soon as we felt symptoms< loss of smell and taste, lethargy runny noses and all of us had very mild cases of FLU.
 We also took Vitamin D,C,zinc and Selenium and we all recovered.
 I am not sure if we took correct doses as I am over 120 kg.,I took 12mg first day, 12 mg two days later and then 10 days later another 12 mg.
 Was that correct or not ?
 Thank you for all your great work you do for us that do not want to be forced to take vaccines. Especially as we do not know what is in them and that nobody will take any responsibility if something goes wrong and I know they do,
 Once again thanks for your great work and best regards.

 Hi Pierre,
 I have an incredible story:
 I was contacted urgently Thursday evening through an inquiry to the XXX for a 44 year old with COVID-19 on DAY 12 at home, extremely dyspneic.  He had been to the ER 3 days prior.  He asked about ivermectin and was told by the doctor, that it’s for horses, threw him out and said he’ll be back in 3 days on a ventilator.  They were mad because he was unvaccinated.
 When I tele-assessed him, he could only speak in short sentences.  I knew this was serious.
 A friend had give him Central American IVM totally 48 mg but he hadn’t taken it.  That was the right dose for him @ 0.6 mg/kg.  I told him to take it immediately.
 I ordered home oxygen:  The company was at his home within the hour.
 I ordered more IVM from the compounding pharmacy and started him immediately on prednisone 50, spironolactone 100 bid, and dutasteride as per the new protocol.
 Within hours he was feeling better.
 Yesterday morning his girlfriend wrote to me:
 Good morning Dr. ,
 I have some heart warming news - fadi said that overnight he has felt relief already. He feels like whatever the virus was trying to do to his body is starting to finally reverse course.
 You are an angel doing Gods work.
 I just got off the phone with him.  He sounds fantastic.  I have never heard such a grateful patient.  He says he will do anything to help us.
 As the evil at the FDA, CDC, NIH, WHO and Health Canada permeates, we just have to remember the good work that we do!
 Take care,

 All…
 John’s practice manager called him today to tell him an amazing success story using Ivermectin. I am working on getting permission to use this story, and perhaps for Betsy to do an interview with him. I will edit if necessary.
 The son of a man on a ventilator called to get ivermectin for himself, and in the process told Julie the following story:
 His father was admitted to the University of Tennessee hospital critically ill from COVID-19. They gave him one dose of Ivermectin —ostensibly to see if his symptoms were being caused by any parasitic diseases, and when he did not improve, his family was told he might have to be placed on a ventilator. The physician informed the family that due to extensive lung scarring, the dad would not likely survive. They called in hospice and began to prepare the family for his eventual death.
 In the meantime, because his dad was not yet on a ventilator, the son procured some Ivermectin from a friend who had ordered it from India. This week, he gave it to his father on Tuesday and Wednesday —and of course, did not inform the hospital. There was no immediate improvement.
 But…
 This morning the father texted the family from his hospital bed that something was happening. He told the family he would text them back shortly. When he did, his message was that he had made a significant turnaround. His doctors came in and told him they had never seen anything like it and they don’t understand what caused him to turn around so quickly and so dramatically. They told him he would be discharged by the end of the week or the weekend because of his “miracle” turnaround.
 The son indicated he would agree to let us use this story once his father is out of the hospital in a couple of days. Thought you would all like to hear this.

 Drs. Kory and Marik,
 I am a 49 year old, type 2 diabetic (diabetes diagnosed after being admitted to the hospital for Covid-19) and was hospitalized for 7 days with Covid-19 in September 2020. My symptoms did not manifest into the cytokine storm but did have a severe case of double lung pneumonia. Two weeks ago I was diagnosed with Covid-19 with watery eyes, headache, lethargy, runny nose, backache, and nasal congestion.
 I was determined to find a treatment as I did not want to end up in the hospital again.  Researching online, I was surprised to learn that there were very few therapeutic advancements to treat Covid-19 until I came across your protocols using ivermectin.
 I found a nurse on your website who introduced me to Dr. XXX, a family care physician in Texas who follows your Covid-19 protocol.  12 hours after taking the ivermectin, along with the multi-vitamin, vitamin D, antiseptic mouthwash, and melatonin, my symptoms improved.  24 hours later my symptoms significantly improved, and after 36 hours, I felt 100% normal!  I wanted to thank both of you for following the science and generously sharing your protocols.
 I've been sharing my experience and referring patients to Dr. Jones.  I've reached out to my close friend who is the lead investigative reporter for CBS in Dallas, and she's interested in possibly doing a story on ivermectin. Would you be interested in visiting with her?

 Thank you for your response to my email.  My husband (a retired allergist) prescribed Ivermectin for our daughter since neither her PCP nor her oncologist would do it.  Her first dose was Tuesday night. After two weeks of having a fever, migraine-like headaches and insomnia, her fever was gone in the morning.  After her second dose, the headaches were gone, and that night she slept for almost ten hours,  She regrets not taking it sooner.
 Thank God and for you and the other doctors who are enlightening those of us who search for the truth.
 Date:  April 30, 2021 at 12:50:44 AM EDT

 You saved another life.  A friend of a friend was circling the drain till she was able to get some farm grade IM paste.  No matter what happens, be assured YOU are on the VIP list for Heaven.

 Pierre,
 I was just reading the Ivermectin Trial Site News. We read  about the Fype and Bucko families. Thank you for caring and fighting.  It is unbelievable  when doctors refuse to help a patient in need.  I hate to say that we saw that when our son was sick.
 Thank you for caring and fighting for people.
 We helped a family last week whose father was in the hospital with Covid, pneumonia and blood clots in his lungs.  We helped them get Ivermectin to him.  He was out of the hospital in 2 days and is dong much better.
 Thank you for your work.  We know it is not easy.

 Merry Christmas Dear Doctor XXX. I am so sorry I have just opened my Linkedin profile. Actually, I am the only one in my country who uses this protocol. I am the only member of FLCCC from former Soviet Union countries. I am very proud that I started using this protocol and I can see faster recovery from Covid-19. So far I have used it in many patients. It helps. Unfortunately, we do not have Ivermectinn in our country but I would like to say that protocol works very well even without Ivermectin. I am a cardiac anesthesiologist and intensivist which allows me to work on a different level with critical patients. I would be proud of my name will be in your paper and will be very grateful to be in touch with very knowledgeable people like you. Merry Christmas dear Professor!🙏 Looking forward to hearing from you soon  With warmest regards (Tashkent Uzbekistan
 12/28/2020
 Dr. Pierre Kory
 On December 8th -2020, I had the pleasure of watching your testimony in front of the Senate panel regarding your research on Ivermectin and how it treats Covid-19.
 I somehow was able to reach out via email and you responded that evening to me by phone.
 My Mother-in-law , a school nurse, was sick with Covid-19 and was not doing well with it as she is older with some health issues.  You were able to call her in a prescription for Ivermectin and it was truly amazing how fast it worked for her!  This medication made not only us but many others true believers in your research for Ivermectin.
 Ivermectin should be used to treat Covid-19, as we know that it does Work!

 My name is and I live in GA. I am a nurse at a very busy high school. We have 2800 students. So with that being said I contracted Covid 19. I became very sick and it was very fast moving. The doctor gave me  antibiotic to try to prevent pneumonia. I had fevers, shortness of breath and so very weak. My oxygen was low and we were scared I might have to go to the hospital.
 My son-law Mike saw Dr. P. Kory addressing the senate about Ivermectin. He was so amazed that this medication could help me. He called the doctor and left him a message. The doctor called him back and explained how the meds work. Mike told him about me being sick and that I am a nurse. The doctor called the medication Ivermectin into my pharmacy. By the next day I was so much better. The fever broke and I was able to get out of bed. I was shocked at how much better I felt just over night. I took the second dose 48 hours later and again was better. I went back to work at 10 days instead of 14 days quarantine. I know the Ivermectin helped heal me from this virus.
 My boss said that I recovered twice as fast as the other employees that had gotten sick. I later walked into her office and she was telling other people about this medication and how fast I recovered.
 Anyone reading this please keep an open mind that it does help and many people have used it. They should be able to write the medication for everyone.
 I hope this helps if you are undecided about the medication.
 Respectfully,

 Pierre Kory your amazing! First hand testimonial on ivermectin! We took it and it kept my parents from getting really sick all of us had it, I and 2 of my kids have asthma. I couldn't breath covid is the wrong virus I have ever had. My dad and had it the worst. Dr Kory was able to get ivermectin prescribed for us within 24 hrs we could feel a release on the breathing. A friend of my dads who infected my parents and us passed away last weekend from covid. Ivermectin kept us safe and killed the virus.

 Dr Kory truly saved our family from any COVID horrible symptoms
My daughter bailey
Had COVID and dr korey treated all of us with ivermectin for two doses .
One sister got COVID
The other three did not .
The two COVID girls had mild symptoms for 1-3 days

All in all he helped all of us so much
 We are grateful for this drug and feel it helped us all

 I got my medicine at the only pharmacy I'm aware of in Illinois that will fill this prescription, this pharmacy is listed on your FLCCC website. This pharmacy also has my Stories fliers on their counter #SeePicture 📷

I would love to tell you what happened within 24 hours on the 10th day of being very sick, if only to thank you. I will DM you my cell.

I want you to know, Patriots all over the world 🌍 thank you. If you're ever in Chicago 🏙 I will buy you a drink 🥃

I listen to every interview that I can find, that you give. I would love it, if you were on my Stories podcast 🎤

I want you to know, not all heroes wear capes. Some wear scrubs and white coats. I want you to know, you are a HERO. God bless 🙏 your work. You are amazing. Thank you from the bottom of my heart ❤ #OnlyLiveWell

 Good evening Dr. Kory,
 Please note that I watched you I watch your interview in Congress and on your website.
 I went ahead and bought it in Tijuana Mexico and just started taking it. I called my friend who I had not seen for a few weeks. She told me that her husband who works at a hospital got Covid and was sent home to only take taking Tylenol. She said that he was very congested and had a bad cough. I gave her Ivermectin along with the protocol and she just told me that her husband is recuperating incredibly well.
 Thanks so much for being at the front of all and providing us with information on how to fight this virus.
 Best regards,

 Dear Dr Marik & FLCC Team

I would like to take the opportunity to thank you all for your great
service to humanity during this Covid Pandemic.

Your selfless hard work is saving lives. A dear friend of ours responded
almost immediately to the Ivermectin protocol that the FLCC put out very
recently. He was in a very bad way and basically had all the symptoms of
Covid and was at the point of giving up hope. The Ivermectin that he
took was for Veterinary use and it worked. Doses were calculated
correctly by his Veterinary Doctor (not a joke...).

The human version of Ivermectin is not available is South Africa and in
fact has been banned from being imported by the South African Health
Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA). Crazy times...............

I have know about the FLCC Team since the early days of the pandemic, as
I followed Dr Chris Martenson of Peak Prosperity, as he tracked the
FLCCC. He did an amazing job reporting on the scientific data coming in
on the virus and the disease on a daily basis. I was made aware of the
MATH and MATH+ Protocols via him.

I did watch Dr Kory's Testimony to the Homeland Security Commitee and
realised through his conviction that Ivermectin had real value in the
fight against Covid.

We salute you FLCC Team

 Coronavirus: Is Ivermectin a Game Changer to Treat Covid 19?
 Pierre Kory i passed one of the videos featuring your work with ivermectin to a a local doctor here in XXX Texas, a town in west Texas with a population of 12,000. He has started prescribing ivermectin along with some other meds and my good friends got Covid and they are in their mid 60’s, one being treated for prostate cancer. They have breezed through it with merely some upset stomach symptoms and a slight cough at night.

 Happy New Year Dr Korey.
 My name is Dr XX, ER physician in Arizona.  I contracted COVID on December 12 and it was horrific for me.  I ended up needing almost 3 weeks to recover but was saved by many avenues.  One of the key components was Ivermectin.  It took me 2 rounds of Ivermectin but this drug cured me and allowed me to overcome COVID.  My entire family contracted COVID and yes, they all took ivermectin and were just fine.  Since then several family/friends/church members, have all received the multi drug therapy (ivermectin) and have truly been saved.
 Even as an ED physician, I was struggling with panic and fear but I was fortunate and lucky to find hope.  I cannot imagine what so many Americans are feeling at home and dying at unnecessary rates as this cure is literally underneath our noses.
 I currently work for Indian Health and we have been given strict orders to not give ANY ivermectin, steroids, or even hydroxychloroquine.  This entire fiasco is downright criminal.  The ordeal in itself is a story for another day.
 Thank you for being courageous to speak.  Your testimony has saved lives, including my own.

 Me again: I have many, many more of these and am happy to include them in other posts if folks want to read more of them (let me know on email!). But I figured you “get it” by now - Pierre
 P.S. I just want to say how much I appreciate all the subscribers to my substack, and especially the paid ones! Your support is so greatly appreciated. Thanks my friends.
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Summary: Soon after we incorporated ivermectin into our FLCCC early treatment protocol, people began emailing us from across the U.S and world to tell their stories and express their gratitude.


The Global Disinformation Campaign Against Ivermectin, "The Fix" - Chapter 2

My Global Disinformation Campaign Series:
 Part I - Introduction to the Disinformation Playbook
 Part II - Exposing the Corrupt Disinformation Campaign on Ivermectin
 Part II - Ivermectin - An Attack by New York State’s Attorney General
 Part III - Ivermectin - Lawyers Helping Doctors be Doctors
 Part IV - Ivermectin - Saturday Night Fight At The Pharmacy
 Part IV - Ivermectin - JAMA’s “Diversion”
 Part VII - Op-Ed on Fluvoxamine
 Part VIII - Op-Ed on Remdesivir
 Part IX - Ivermectin - “The Fix of Andrew Hill” -
 Part X - “The Fix of Andrew Hill”
 Picking up from Part IX where I deeply digressed into highlighting the principles of “evidence based medicine” that are infuriatingly and corruptly ignored by academia as they are manipulated into holding fast the belief that the only vehicle to discern scientific truth in clinical medicine is the often flawed, severely limited and easily corruptible prospective, multi-center, randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled trial. Let’s get back to the story here and revisit my first conversation with Dr. Andrew Hill, where we shared our “origin stories” in regards to ivermectin in COVID.

 My “origin story” with ivermectin was pretty straightforward and predictable as I had learned about ivermectin’s efficacy from Professor Paul Marik (he has been ahead of me in COVID and medicine in almost all topics, always and forever.. with the rare COVID exceptions of my early insight into the data supporting aerosol transmission , my identification of organizing pneumonia as the primary condition underlying the pulmonary phase of COVID, and my detecting the massively fraudulent vaccine safety and efficacy data before him (hey Paul, I gotta keep a little “street cred” here).
 But in every other realm, he has ALWAYS been ahead of me, the FLCCC, and the entire specialty of critical care as he is the most highly published practicing critical care specialist in the history of our field.
 Paul did so many cool things in his and our approach to “figuring out COVID.” Even before he invited us to form the FLCCC, right around when COVID hit U.S shores, he was posting on his Medical School website (yes, the one affiliated with the Sentara Health system that just ended his career), common sense prevention and treatment protocols with over the counter vitamins, supplements and therapeutic compounds with demonstrated anti-viral and/or immunomodulatory properties to help people develop optimal immune system strength to be able to survive the disease. And from the first days of forming the FLCCC, Paul created a table of potential therapies that we followed all of the observational and randomized trials data on, the most recent version of which is below.

 From April of 2020, after the Monash University study by Leon Caly and Kylie Wagstaff showed near complete eradication of SARS-CoV2 from a cell culture after being exposed to ivermectin, Paul had initially put ivermectin in the table with a “question mark” next to it, as we were waiting for clinical trials to emerge. And emerge they did, right around September and October of 2020 at around the same time that the first “big RCT’s” of therapies like anti-coagulants, tocilizumab, hydroxychloroquine, convalescent plasma and others were being reported (almost all were negative with the exception of anti-coagulation).
 After Paul saw “a strong efficacy signal” from the first handful of clinical trial reports with large magnitude impacts on survival or hospitalization, he put together a lecture and posted it on his youtube on October 24th, 2020 (still there somehow) where he concluded it would save the world and end the pandemic. Intrigued, I immediately dove in right behind and started to read, read, read. And write write write . What I quickly discovered was exhilarating, things like ten years of in-vitro studies of ivermectin in a dozen RNA virus models where it stopped replication (Zika, Dengue, West Nile, HIV, influenza and others), in-vivo (animal) studies where ivermectin led to increased survival and decreased organ damage, large case series from a number of countries with incredible outcomes like the one by Jose Morgenstern et al in the Dominican Republic where they treated over 3300 consecutive emergency room patients.. and recorded only 16 hospitalizations and 2 deaths. Not to mention the insane safety profile of ivermectin, almost unparalleled in our armamentarium of medicines. I started to feel like it’s Nobel-Prize winning impacts on world health related to eradicating endemic and disfiguring parasitic diseases might even be surpassed by it’s newly discovered properties as one of the world’s broadest anti-viral medicines. No wonder the Nobel Prize winning discoverer of ivermectin, Professor Satoshi Omura, calls it “the wonder drug”).
 Then I started finding RCT’s and OCT’s, all with positive benefits, not always statistically significant, but large enough amongst small trials where they were beyond convincing, especially when you combined them into a meta-analysis. And then I found Juan Chamie and David Scheim’s landmark paper on a pre-print server which analyzed the epidemiology of covid cases and deaths in areas of Peru that had done massive distribution campaigns of ivermectin. Chamie’s paper literally transformed me and instantly became a large part of my draft manuscript.
 I was shaking as I uploaded that manuscript to a pre-print server as I literally thought the paper would alert the world to the solution to the pandemic (yeah right).

 “Andy’s” origin story of how he started to focus his research on ivermectin in COVID was that he had been hired in June 2020 by UNITAID, an international health care organization funded largely by BMGF and several other countries (BMGF is also the 2nd largest funder of the WHO). UNITAID was collaborating on the ACT Accelerator program with the WHO (with this program being completely run and staffed by BMGF), and Andy was in charge of the team looking only at repurposed drugs which, at the time , I thought was phenomenal (it was what I shouted about in my Senate testimony, i.e. that our governmental health agencies were not initiating a coordinated effort to identify effective already available drugs to “repurpose” them to fight COVID, and here he was the head of the team doing just that!)
 Given this background, I asked him, “How and when did you come to choose to study ivermectin?” His answer, even then, was a little suspicious, “well, we had been researching numerous medicines since June 2020 like favipiravir, hydroxychloroquine (I forget the others).. and none of them showed efficacy” ( yeah right ). He then said, “I was told by a Professor at my university to look into ivermectin in early November” (my review paper was uploaded on a pre-print server on November 13th). Hmm. Do you think Big Pharma scientists were monitoring pre-print servers for emerging evidence on repurposed medicines?
 What you have to do here is remember the Professor. The at that point unnamed Professor’s identity will be revealed much later in this story, as he was, in my mind, the “point man” who conducted this Disinformation play distorting and suppressing the evidence of efficacy of ivermectin, however this was at the global level because it was this Professor (Andrew Owen) who was also in charge of compiling the evidence on ivermectin to the WHO, whose guidance was the most important in the world, influencing nearly every country on Earth. He thus was a key contributor to one of history’s most fraudulent documents which was the WHO’s “Updated Guideline on Ivermectin” which was published on March 31, 2021, right in the beginning of India’s Delta wave. That document and the people behind it, in particular the Professor, have contributed to millions of deaths since. If you think I am worried about being sued for defamation, I am not. For them to do so would allow a whole lot of discovery as well as the interrogation of many who were witness to or complicit in the production of that Guideline.
 My manuscript was literally called, “Review of the Emerging Evidence of Ivermectin in COVID-19.” Now knowing what the investigative journalist Phil Harper has since uncovered , Andy’s initially innocuous comment that “A professor told me to look it” gives me the chills now. Let me say at the outset here that I don’t think Andy knew who and what he was working for at the time. He was just a pawn then.
 We then started talking about our impressions of the accumulating clinical trials and his words were very similar to Paul Marik’s impression, something along the lines of, “this is the first time I am seeing such consistent and reproducible benefits from so many different centers and countries around the world.”
 I then began to tell him about the patients I had treated like my very first patient experience of a 50-ish woman, a CEO of a health care employment agency, who called me to tell me that she had been ill for two weeks with COVID, spiking fevers every night, viciously fatigued yet with a resting heart rate in bed of 120 beats per minute. She had found mention of my review paper and had printed it out and brought it into her pulmonologist’s office to ask him whether he would prescribe it for her based on the conclusion of our review. He agreed, prescribed her ivermectin, and she described to me what happened after her first dose; “it was a Sunday evening at about 5 p.m, I took the ivermectin, and within about an hour, I felt flushed, warm, and somewhat sweaty. The symptoms passed within an hour and I was able to go to sleep, easier than I had in a while. I woke up the next morning, no fever and a heart rate of 80. I felt great.”
 This was the first patient I personally knew of that was treated with ivermectin for COVID, and then by the time I first talked to Andy, I had treated over a dozen with consistent reports of some diminution or lessening of at least one important symptom within 12 hours of the first dose, things like fevers resolving, energy levels increasing, chest tightness lessening. All the patients were as equally surprised and pleased as I was. It was exhilarating to see in clinical practice what all the evidence had shown it would do (on this thought, I still have not come across any ivermectin naysayer/denier/attacker who can also claim they have treated even a single patient with ivermectin).
 The testimonials of these patients are vast (and the first dozen or so I have put into a moving compilation here ). RCT’s be damned. The patients knew what helped them and the data shows what saved them given it sits atop one of the most profound evidence bases of efficacy among almost any medicine in history in any disease model. You just do not see Forest plots like this.. ever, especially the prevention trials which are just so over-the-top astoundingly positive.
 PREVENTION TRIALS

 EARLY TREATMENT TRIALS

 One reason why you don’t see plots with this many positive trials is that once “proven” to work after profound results from large trials or a meta-analysis of a collection of smaller trials, ethically you could no longer give a placebo because “Institutional Review Boards” (committees established in every research institution across the world to oversee the ethics of research studies) would NEVER allow them. That is, if we were in a normal world. Which we are not. To wit, the NIH continues to conduct a placebo controlled trial, using artificially short durations of ivermectin, smaller doses than the FLCCC uses, with delayed initiation of treatment etc. Absurd. And so fully indicates the regulatory capture of our agencies. It ain’t subtle folks.
 Penicillin use in bacterial infection would likely have produced a similar Forest Plot (unless not dosed correctly or treatment was delayed or stopped too early etc). Read the following from David Scheim of the Chamie et al paper which analyzed the incredible impacts of Peru’s IVM distribution campaigns, where he contrasts the evidence base supporting the adoption of penicillin with what is going on with ivermectin in a more modern environment where the pharmaceutical industry controls and manipulates media, the agencies and our subservient government officials who believe what they are told etc:
 Public health policy decisions regarding two proven cures of the past century provide useful lessons for decision making about COVID-19 therapeutic options. In the early 1980s, an Australian physician, Barry Marshall, found that stomach ulcers were caused by a species of bacteria, H. pylori. He developed a treatment consisting of a few weeks’ course of two oral antibiotics and bismuth that permanently cured ulcers. In 1988, he conducted a randomized, controlled clinical trial that established the efficacy of this treatment and in 2005 received the Nobel Prize for medicine for this research. Dr. Thomas Borody , also of Australia, conducted another clinical trial demonstrating 96% efficacy of such a therapy in 1990. But patients and physicians were in the habit of taking and prescribing, respectively, two best-selling palliative medications for ulcers, and the cure for H. pylori did not become widely used in clinical treatment until the late 1990s. Of related interest, Dr. Borody has become an active investigator and proponent of IVM treatment of COVID-19 ( note we both admire and interact with Tom Borody as he is the Australian version of Paul Marik in terms of recognizing IVM’s efficacy in COVID, except he both gained this knowledge and went public with it before the FLCCC did.. and predictably got roundly attacked and dismissed for this opinion ). In contrast to the decade-long delay in the widespread clinical application of a proven cure for stomach ulcers was the rapid deployment of penicillin for bacterial infections, escalated by the urgent battlefield needs of World War II. The first successful treatment of a patient, a 90-year old women with a streptococcal infection, using penicillin was performed in March 1942. A case series of penicillin treatments of 15 patients through oral, IV or intramuscular administration and of 157 other patients with local application was published in March 1943. With a clear record of cures for most patients and no toxicity in these and subsequent case series, production of penicillin was rapidly escalated and treatments extended to more patients limited only by supply. By June 1944, enough penicillin had been produced to treat all wounded Allied soldiers in the D-Day invasion. At no time through 1944, however, had randomized clinical trials validating the efficacy of penicillin been conducted.

 I believe that my early treatment experiences with ivermectin must have been similar to the medics in World War II when they first began treating wounded soldiers with penicillin. In my case, covid patient after covid patient kept contacting me and I was calling in prescriptions all over the country, sometimes for multiple family members, and they were getting better.. quickly (albeit on occasion responses were more slow, especially after Delta came around). I also began receiving emails from a growing collection of colleagues from around the world who had been using various combinations of early treatments (most with IVM or HCQ plus other medicines).
 Many had seen similar responses with hydroxychloroquine since early-mid 2020 and were now seeing even more robust responses, especially in combination. Doctors like George Fareed and Bryan Tyson, the United States early treatment pioneers, report in their book that they have done “early treatment” in over 8000 consecutive patients with COVID in their urgent care centers and offices, yet observed only a dozen or so hospitalizations and just 2 deaths (none in those treated early).
 Lets now go back to December 2020: within days of my Senate testimony “going viral,” I was contacted by the Chief of Staff (and former state Commissioner of Health) of a Congressman that sits on the House committee which oversees the funding of the health agencies. He told me that Paul and I absolutely must meet with the NIH to present our data.. and that he would make that happen.
 A week later, I got an email from the Coordinator of the NIH COVID treatment guidelines panel, a panel, that along with FDA and their EUA’s, and due to the CARES act which paid massive 20% bonuses on each COVID hospital bill if they used these EUA approved medicines were effectively dictating the care of every US hospitalized patient. For a 20% bonus to your bill, not giving remdesivir… would hurt the hospital. Giving ivermectin instead of remdesivir would have a large impact on the hospitals reimbursement. I did not know that then, but I was already extremely angered because this blind following of agency recommendations violated the most important sentence in the guideline, at the end of the introduction; “ Finally, it is important to stress that the rated treatment recommendations in these Guidelines should not be considered mandates. The choice of what to do or not to do for an individual patient is ultimately decided by the patient and their provider.” That sentence used to define my autonomy and my practice in myriad conditions and complexities of patients who often were actively dying in my care as an ICU specialist. I was tasked and trained to save them any which way I could and had great freedoms and support in doing so. That was one of the reasons why I loved ICU work, the adrenaline, and the challenge, having to figure out, and fast, why someone was dying (hence my expertise in critical care ultrasonography, one of the greatest diagnostic tools ever wielded by front-line clinicians, heck, I made more life saving diagnoses in my first year after adopting that tool than I had in my career). Looking back, another awesome thing about ICU medicine.. is you weren’t questioned or second guessed, as you were the most expert in the hospital at resuscitating (or “re-animating”) the dying (the French intensivists call themselves “re-animators”).
 I started witnessing doctors giving medicines at “this dose and this duration using only these drugs and patients were failing these bullshit protocols, as they were ignoring the responses and severity and stages of disease, all variables that would normally factor into any treatment decision. I saw docs stopping steroids because the arbitrary 10 day duration had been completed. Crazy town. Clown world. And that was 18 months ago. Many, but not all, of my colleagues practiced like this but I knew there was so much more we could do and try to turn them around, I knew the 6mg of dexamthasone was bullshit and they were dying but everyone kept following the stupid (and corrupt dose set by Oxford and propagated by the NIH - that will be another post later).
 As if this insanity was not enough, suddenly hospitals started removing “controversial” medicines from their pharmacies and not filling them.. even in the dying. This blind obedience spread quickly and with little noticeable resistance in COVID, a disease I should emphasize.. which was novel. Never before in my career had I been told there was a medicine I could not use and in Paul Marik’s case of Sentara Health in Virginia (one of the more evil health systems in this regard), they removed 6 other critical medicines that we used in our FLCCC protocols, nearly all supported by combinations of RCT’s and OCT’s. Two of the more moving testimonies illustrating what it felt like as physician in such a society was the recent testimony by Paul Marik (a must watch) in Senator Johnson’s brilliant COVID: A Second Opinion panel hearing, recently and then the speech by Canadian physician Daniel Nagase during the “Remembering Nuremburg” demonstration (especially 9:00 and onwards).
 It is chilling and sad and represents the plight of all the “real doctors” that valiantly tried to act out upon their insights, studied knowledge, clinical experience, clinical collaborations, knowledge of pathophysiology and pharmacologic mechanisms,  and most importantly their humanity in employing risk/benefit assessments towards their deteriorating hospital patients. Everything a physician should be. I will say that many docs tried but were effectively blocked or threatened.. Those that fought back, lost jobs. Quickly.

 Wasn’t I supposed to be telling the story of Andrew Hill? Too many memories and emotions come flooding that I can’t stick to one topic it seems. I promise I will do better in Chapter 3 of “The Fix of Andy Hill,” coming soon. I am going to pick up where I invite Andy Hill to present his more expansive RCT data to the NIH guidelines committee with me and Paul. Little did I know that meeting was going to be my first battle between the FLCCC and “the agencies” in what is now an ongoing 15 month war with the latest salvo this little piece of idiocy below from the CDC last week (they couldn’t help going after ivermectin for #poisonprevention week). I include my retweet, using the not-so-rare but absolutely indicated f-bomb. I will say that all the comments from citizens were pretty much as damning (you guys should read them, some are hilarious).. which made me feel good to be among all of my countrymen and women who are awake. Check it out:

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Summary: How Dr. Andrew Hill was the world's lead researcher of repurposed drugs in COVID, turning his team's attention to a sole focus on ivermectin in November of 2020, right when I posted my review paper.


Pfizer's State of the Union Address

With a little help from my friends, I published an Op-Ed in the Washington examiner today, calling attention to the consistent absurdity of our Pharma controlled government’s health care policies. I swear, writing these pieces is like shooting fish in a barrel, except when my colleagues “edit down” my often “too strong” language. Here I publish the “Director’s Cut” with the stronger (and longer) language that I left out in italics
 How The White House Can Save Money While Saving Lives
 Having campaigned on a pledge to “crush” Covid-19, President Joe Biden’s agencies instead tried to make good on this promise by; continuing the obsessive and near exclusive reliance on mass vaccinations (which are now catastrophically failing against the B2 variant in some of the most highly vaccinated countries like S. Korea and the UK ), ignoring natural immunity, refusing to offer even weak recommendations for some of history’s safest and most widely available medicines like HCQ & IVM, failing to employ risk/benefit approaches when deciding to mandate vaccines for healthy and ever younger Americans, and ignoring the terrifying emerging data showing unprecedented disability and death claims to make good on his promise. Now, as the pandemic enters its next phase, the White House could redeem its failures by focusing on a more holistic strategy that includes safe and effective generic treatments along with a public campaign encouraging healthy behaviors.
 The war in Ukraine has pushed the pandemic from the headlines, but the Administration is warning that the $1.9 trillion Covid relief fund is running out . They have called for an eye-popping $22.5 billion in additional funding, which even House Democrats removed from a larger government funding package. Meanwhile, the consumer price index showed inflation rising 7.9 percent over the last year, hitting a four-decade high , and the national debt is over $30 trillion dollars.
 Our nation’s finances are long overdue for a belt tightening, and Covid prevention and treatment are easy places to start without any drop-off in effectiveness.
 While early treatment is the best therapy for acute illness, prevention is the optimal strategy. The White House should take a page out of former First Lady Michelle Obama’s playbook and encourage Americans to eat well, exercise, lose weight and ensure sufficient Vitamin D (and other) stores . These factors demonstrably strengthen natural immunity and have been shown to prevent serious Covid outcomes . Nearly 40 percent of American adults aged 20 and over are obese ( and even more are Vitamin D deficient, a much more easily correctable problem ), meaning millions more people are at higher risk of hospitalization and death from Covid.
 For those who do contract Covid, there are multiple treatment options beyond the unjustly and widely attacked ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. For example, fluvoxamine is an FDA-approved generic medicine that is cheap, widely available, and proven effective in gold-standard randomized controlled trials. Known best for its treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorders, fluvoxamine costs four dollars for a 10-day dose.
 Compare that to Pfizer’s experimental antiviral drug, called Paxlovid, that was the only treatment name-checked by the Administration in their “new” national COVID-19 Preparedness Plan and the State of the Union address , which struck some viewers (like me) as a commercial for Pfizer.
 To wit, the federal government is spending about $530 for each five-day course of Paxlovid. After the drug was granted emergency use authorization in December 2021, the Biden Administration agreed to an advance purchase of 10 million packs of Paxlovid at a cost of about $5.3 billion.
 Despite the high price tag, Paxlovid comes with a catch: it takes more than six months to produce. From the beginning, the drug was only available in very limited quantities. In December 2021, an initial batch of 65,000 courses was made available to the United States. At the same time, new U.S. Covid cases were hitting their all-time highs, more than 265,000 per day. While supply has caught up to demand as the omicron variant fades, questions remain about Paxlovid’s readiness during future Covid spikes.
 Moreover, Paxlovid was approved after a single trial sponsored by its manufacturer with questionable results. It cannot be taken by those on certain antidepressant, anti-seizure, anti-psychotic, cholesterol, blood pressure, and several other classes of medications. This exclusionary criterion encompasses a significant portion of the overall population given almost half of all adults in the United States have some type of cardiovascular disease.
 To distribute Paxlovid, the Biden Administration is pushing a “ Test to Treat ” initiative that requires pharmacies having a prescriber on-site. The American Medical Association has labelled prescribing pills without knowledge of a patient’s history, “dangerous in practice and precedent.” In the past 2 years, the CDC’s threatening memos scared pharmacists across the country away from filling effective off-label medicines. And now they want pharmacists to test and make rapidly available a medicine with more dangerous drug interactions than I have encountered in my entire career? Doctors should use their expertise and knowledge of both their patient and the numerous treatment options available rather than rely on what an anonymous bureaucrat far away believes (or is manipulated to believe) is the best treatment.
 More than two years into the pandemic, we are armed with more knowledge. We now know Covid is a highly preventable and treatable illness using well-studied repurposed medications. We know that relying on vaccines has been proven wrong time and time again, especially with the Covid variants. Some of the most vaccinated populations, such as Israel, have similar or higher case counts than those countries with far lower vaccination rates.
 We must also not rely solely on Paxlovid, given its costs, questions about effectiveness and supply and knowing that a large portion of the population cannot take it.
 Yet the Administration is once again putting profits before public health. In mentioning the Pfizer drug by name in the State of the Union Address, the president is showing the clear bias the government has for expensive, high-profit drugs while ignoring lower-cost, readily and widely available treatments like, fluvoxamine, ivermectin, and hydroxychloroquine.
 Only by influencing his health agencies to a change of course and broader focus will President Biden succeed in truly tackling the pandemic, which is a cause every American can get behind.
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Summary: I published an Op-Ed in the Washington Examiner today, drawing attention to the fact that the State of The Union Address effectively doubled as a Pfizer commercial. Here I include the "Director's Cut"