Old Medicines, New Hope: The Revolution in Repurposed Drugs

The above Op-Ed was written by my new friend and colleague, Dr. Stephen M. Smith, who is, interestingly, an infectious diseases (ID) specialist, most notably in HIV/AIDS and urban health. Why interestingly? Because, and this is a not-so-fun fact, throughout my ICU career, my least liked consulting specialists were from ID!
 With rare exceptions among truly gifted infectious disease specialists (like Stephen I should add), most ID docs tended to order excessive panels of tests looking for every infectious pathogen known to man—an approach I often called the “machine gun” method of diagnosis. As an inside joke, I’d say they were “summoning the vampires in the basement,” a reference to the large volumes of blood drawn for their lab analyses and cultures, as specimens were sent down to the hospital basement, where all the diagnostic testing took place.
 Forgive me for I digress, as I should say that Steve is not one of them - I have learned from my conversations with him that he is an astute clinician and a polymath with a diverse set of knowledge areas. He currently serves as president and founder of The Smith Center for Infectious Diseases and Urban Health, a non-profit clinic in New Jersey focused on treating infectious diseases in inner-city populations. Before we turn to the Op-Ed, here is another not-so-fun fact: Steve did his infectious disease fellowship at the NIH… under Anthony Fauci. Yup.
 But Fauci was no match for Steve’s brilliance, as can be evidenced in today's Op-Ed, an Op-Ed that Fauci would have never written in a million years. Enjoy:

 Most new drugs released in the U.S. are the product of 15-year development projects that cost billions and frequently result in failure. An easier, faster way is hiding in plain sight. Thousands of generic medications sitting in our medical cabinets are a potential goldmine of new applications that could be developed in years, not decades. The Trump administration can revolutionize healthcare by establishing a systematic framework to study and develop repurposed generic drugs.
 For millennia, medicine has been practiced by observation. Physicians tried different approaches to treatment, gauged a patient’s response, and shared their findings. Over the past century, that practice gave way to a mechanical approximation of this process, whereby patented medicines are tested through large-scale randomized controlled trials. This approach has yielded incredible breakthroughs, allowing millions to live longer, healthier lives. But these trials are incredibly expensive and carry a great risk of failure. Today the biopharmaceutical industry spends roughly $200 billion per year on R&D, roughly 70% of which—some $60 billion—results in failed projects .
 More importantly, our regulatory system relies too heavily on these trials to affirm new drugs, leaving little room for the time-tested practice of observation in medicine. This came to a head during the COVID pandemic, when physicians who treated patients with generic repurposed medicines to observe potential benefit lost their jobs for bucking institutional protocols. These men and women spent their lives in service to others, meticulously practicing medicine for decades, trying new treatment approaches to gauge patient response, and healing the sick. Many lives were destroyed merely for want of practicing medicine as it had always been done, in search of a way to alleviate suffering.
 The rest of the Op-ED can be read here, which details some effective ways of furthering the field in terms of policy. With Bobby at the helm, those ideas could definitely become a reality.

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Summary: A Board member and advisor to my "Rebuild Medicine" non-profit published an Op-Ed in Real Clear Health, charting ways to unlock safer, faster, and more affordable cures for today’s toughest diseases.


Abyssinian in Crisis: How One Cat’s Mysterious Illness and an Unconventional Therapy Transformed a Family — A Physician-Patient Case Report

This is the third report in a growing series of cases successfully treated with chlorine dioxide therapy. The first two were of my own personal illnesses ( infectious colitis and paronychial abscess ), and this third one is of… a cat named Pearl.

 The following case report is co-authored by me and my patient, who has requested anonymity (I will refer to her as Laura).
 In a recent follow-up visit with Laura, whom I treat for the prevention of recurrence of breast cancer (which she has had 4 separate times), one of the many topics we covered was her glowing update on the condition of her cat Pearl. Meet Pearl:

 My history with Pearl: In a prior visit a few months ago, Laura was beset with anxiety and distress over Pearl, an Abyssinian that she had recently acquired from a breeder, but who was not thriving. Actually, that is an understatement because Laura reported that Pearl had constant diarrhea, frequent vomiting, troubled breathing, and made wheezing and whistling sounds. She couldn’t even jump on a chair from the floor.
 After we had settled on the adjustments to Laura’s treatment plan, I started to think about Pearl and how I could help her. I included a list of educational resources that I thought might be both relevant and impactful in treating Pearl’s mystery illness, as well as a vet who I thought might be willing to provide such expert guidance and care (I learned later that wasn’t true).
 Disclaimer: I am not a vet, and it is illegal to practice veterinary medicine as a medical doctor, so know that, beyond the suggestions above, I did not participate in Pearl’s care at all. Problem (or not): Laura and her husband took it upon themselves to self-treat Pearl, based on my “suggestions.”
 Fun fact: I was out to dinner with my daughters and ex-wife a few weeks ago, and I told them the story of Pearl, explaining how, based solely on my providing them with educational resources, Laura and her husband were able to recover her cat.
 When I told my ex-wife that I had included the suggestions as an “addendum” to Laura’s visit note in my clinic’s Electronic Medical Record, she burst out laughing uncontrollably. “What? You wrote suggestions for her cat in the medical record? How can you do that?” Note that my ex-wife is also a pulmonary and critical care specialist, working at a major academic medical center. I gathered from her comment that it is still a place where doctors do not offer educational resources to potentially help preserve the health of dying cats when the cat’s illness is the proximate cause of their patients’ severe anxiety.
 I said, “That’s the beauty of fee-based private practice—I have the autonomy to document anything the %$#! I want in my notes!” Right after saying that, I was again imbued with appreciation for the powerful autonomy I now enjoy after being excommunicated from “the system.”
 Anyway, I asked Laura to write up a report about Pearl’s case so I could share her newfound amateur veterinarian skills with my readers (I want to emphasize again that I had only given her suggestions of things to read as well as a referral to a vet, so I do not consider that I was Pearl’s “doctor” at all).
 Laura and her husband’s account is colorfully and brilliantly written, detailed, and engaging. I have included the original document below, along with the version I wrote, which follows a case report format suitable for an academic veterinary journal. Here is their original version, titled "Miracle Empath Kitten Meets Miracle Mineral Solution.”
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 Here is my case report written for an academic journal (AI-assisted). Should I try to publish?
 Title
 Clinical Report: A Case of Persistent Feline Calicivirus and Mycoplasma felis Infection in an Abyssinian Kitten and the Use of Chlorine Dioxide (MMS) Therapy
 Abstract
 We report the clinical course and management of a blue-ticked Abyssinian kitten ("Pearl") presenting with chronic gastrointestinal, respiratory, and ocular disease following adoption from a multiple-cat household and a recent vaccination for FVRCP. Diagnostic workup established infections with Feline Calicivirus and Mycoplasma felis. Despite conventional therapy, the patient’s symptoms persisted. Off-label use of chlorine dioxide (MMS) was initiated by the parents, along with nutritional support and adjunct therapies. Clinical improvements were observed, including resolution of gastrointestinal symptoms and improved activity. This case highlights the complex interplay between vaccination, pathogen persistence, and adjunctive therapies in feline medicine.

 Case Presentation
 Pearl, a 4-month-old Abyssinian kitten, was adopted on February 15, 2025, following adoption of her healthy littermate, Clio. Pearl was reportedly unvaccinated; however, records indicated receipt of the FVRCP vaccine (Calicivirus, Rhinotracheitis, Panleukopenia vaccine) on January 3, 2025. She presented with chronic diarrhea, vomiting, respiratory distress, and left ocular membrane prolapse. Physical exam revealed emaciation, rough coat, and mild paresis.
 Initial veterinary workup included clinical assessment and empirical treatment with human-grade eye gel and Terramycin ophthalmic ointment. The patient was clinically diagnosed with Feline herpesvirus; however, confirmatory diagnostics were initially withheld for unclear reasons.
 Pearl was maintained on her routine diet, but symptoms persisted. PCR panel (performed February 20, 2025, at a referral hospital) was negative for herpesvirus, positive for Feline Calicivirus and Mycoplasma felis. Veterinary consultation discussed the prognosis, potential for chronic viral shedding, and recommended further vaccination and the need for isolation from sibling Clio; however, separation in the household was not feasible.
 Therapeutic Intervention
 Based on instructions from online resources, a protocol of oral and topical chlorine dioxide (MMS) was instituted. Dosage was titrated from 1 drop in 4 oz of water (1:30 dilution), administered on food kibbles, with gradual escalation to 5–6 drops, accompanied by topical misting. Adjunctive therapies included oral L-lysine, mineral/vitamin supplementation, and feline probiotics.
 Clinical Outcome
 Within days of initiating MMS and supportive nutrition, Pearl demonstrated improved appetite, resolution of diarrhea and vomiting, normalization of respiratory effort, and increased mobility. No serious adverse effects were reported, save for transient gastrointestinal upset during dosage increases (interpreted as Herxheimer reaction by parents). By ten months, Pearl exhibited vigorous activity and weight gain (7 lbs 10 oz), with persistent ocular sight impairment but otherwise full return to health. Co-housed littermate Clio remained asymptomatic following similar supportive care.
 Discussion
 This case illustrates the challenges of diagnosing and managing persistent viral infections in feline medicine, noting the potential effects of early vaccination on immune resilience and disease course. Chlorine dioxide (MMS), although not conventionally recommended, was associated with apparent clinical recovery in this case. The role of off-label therapies, immune-nutritional support, and household dynamics in chronic feline viral syndromes warrants further investigation.
 Conclusion
 Adjunctive use of MMS alongside nutritional and supportive therapies was temporally associated with reversal of chronic gastrointestinal and respiratory symptoms in a persistently infected kitten. Larger studies are required to evaluate efficacy and safety.

 Love it. Go Pearl! See pictures of beautiful, thriving Pearl Below.
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 Laura told me that the below photo is of Pearl working the lunch shift at the local deli :)

 Here is Pearl and Clio!!!

Summary: One of my favorite cancer patients shared her increasing anxiety over Pearl, her new Abyssinian cat that was dying of viral infections. An offhand suggestion led to a complete recovery.


Therapeutic Hypothermia 101: Cooling Patients, Breaking Barriers, And The Legendary Code Brown

Folks, I’m deep in the trenches working on a series of posts that might be my most important yet. I genuinely believe I’ve uncovered a game-changing therapy for a wide range of chronic diseases (and no, I haven’t been drinking!). This upcoming series will raise awareness about a treatment with a huge potential to protect health and tackle illness—a breakthrough that’s still flying under the radar and sorely overlooked in research circles (as well as among the MAHA crowd and the wider “alternative” health provider community).
 So, hang in and hold on, I would strongly suggest you subscribe now not to miss it, but while I am on this writing “sabbatical,” I thought I would entertain you with some fun and/or interesting excerpts from previous posts that I re-wrote. Enjoy.
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 In a post I wrote long ago, I recounted my somewhat prolonged and arduous path into medical school, followed by residency and fellowship training. I followed that post with a review of the therapies I did “deep dives” of research into during my academic career.
 Today, I thought I would highlight the first “rabbit hole” I ever went down in my academic career, searching for innovative approaches to healing the human body in illness. That first foray was my research into something called therapeutic hypothermia, a highlight of which was a “Code Brown” incident that all involved will never forget (for those in health care, you know what a Code Brown is).
 After I completed my training, I took a position as a clinician-educator at the teaching hospital where I had done my subspecialty fellowship training (Beth Israel Medical Center in lower Manhattan). It is always an honor when those who trained you.. end up hiring you as a partner. Picture of me when I joined the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division in 2008 :). A little slimmer apparently, yeesh.

 Anyway, one of the proudest achievements in my career as a “clinician-educator” was becoming one of the youngest Program Directors (PDs) of a Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship Training Program in the country (which is relevant to this account).
 However, what I am most proud of from that time was helping pioneer two different, then novel fields of my specialty - the first was on the study and application of therapeutic hypothermia in post-cardiac arrest patients, and the other was in creating and teaching a novel diagnostic approach to critical illness using “point-of-care ultrasonography.” Today, I will share with you my introduction to and experiences with the therapy that was then called “Mild Therapeutic Hypothermia” (now it is called “Targeted Temperature Management”).
 Therapeutic Hypothermia
 My interest in therapeutic hypothermia developed in 2005 when I was still a fellow in training. It stemmed from a case of a patient who had suffered cardiac arrest on one of the hospital wards. We successfully resuscitated and brought him back to the ICU, but, as is typical, he remained in a dense coma with little detectable brain function. The downtime of the arrest was almost 30 minutes, his initial rhythm was PEA, both of which are really, really not good prognostically for achieving neurologically intact survival.
 I was by the nurses station when suddenly, my first mentor Dr. Paul Mayo, told me that we should “cool him.”
 I asked why, and he replied that he had seen some papers on it and that the Europeans were starting to do this to comatose post-arrest patients. I learned later that they did this to cool their brain cells, the intent being to lower metabolic activity, preserve cellular function, and inhibit an inflammatory attack from elsewhere (today, I would just bathe his head in DMSO while running an IV drip… obviously).
 Anyway, we cooled him, and three days later… he regained full consciousness. We actually got him quite cold, purposefully overshooting the non-consensus, but often used 33 °C (91.4°F). I think we went for 28 °C (82.4°F), but don’t quote me on that. Although I will skip a summary of my many early lectures on this topic, I will pull a few cool, historical “fun-facts:”
 Peter Safar: Did you know that in one of the earliest monographs on how to do CPR (1961), from literally the founder of both CPR and ICU, a guy named Safar in Pittsburgh, had put post-arrest hypothermia as part of the protocol?

 It quickly disappeared, though, due to concerns over side effects and the technological challenges of delivering the therapy, and thus became “A Forgotten Side Of Medicine” (as you will learn, I was one of, if not the, guy who resurrected it in NYC). AMD would be proud :).
 I gotta say that I must take a moment to say a few words about Dr. Peter Safar who was an absolute LEGEND (to me anyway)
 Dr. Peter Safar (1924–2003), was an Austrian-American anesthesiologist. He is widely recognized as the " Father of CPR " for developing the modern approach to cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Dr. Safar also established the first intensive care unit (ICU) in the United States and played a critical role in creating and standardizing the modern ambulance and emergency medical services system .
 Basically, Safar invented CPR, ICU’s, and the ambulance system. I cannot imagine how many millions of people around the world are now alive as a result of his innovations.
 Baron Dominique-Jean Larrey - Napoleon’s chief army surgeon and a legendary innovator in battlefield medicine.

 Larrey noticed that soldiers who had suffered cold injuries (like frostbite) and were brought close to the campfires often developed gangrene and died, while those who were left farther from the fire and allowed to warm up very slowly were more likely to survive (note that officers typically were allowed places closer to the fire while infantrymen were farther away).
 Although his observations did not directly relate to the mechanisms of benefit of MTH on the brain (it was more on how to treat hypothermia by gradual re-warming), his insights were ahead of his time and laid the groundwork for what we now recognize as modern hypothermia care.
 Anyway, it was after this clinical experience that I delved into researching everything known about the therapy. Wait, another fun fact about my first case that I just remembered. The patient had COPD and a close colleague was his pulmonologist, who later told me that the guy was one of the crabbiest, rudest, most unpleasant patients he had ever taken care of (that’s saying a lot for NYC) Before his arrest, that is. After he became much more docile and even pleasant.
 Anyway, my “advocacy” for therapeutic hypothermia became first clinical initiative that I ever led. I created and instituted my hospital’s first therapeutic hypothermia protocol. As a result, I quickly became a regional and national expert in the therapy and started to get invited to give lectures everywhere (which taught me how to give lectures!).
 I was one of the expert panel members who helped develop NYC’s “Project Hypothermia,” where, when we started, my hospital was the only one out of the 46 NYC area hospitals that had an active post-arrest hypothermia protocol.
 Within a few years, such protocols had been implemented at every NYC hospital, and all ambulances and paramedics were equipped and trained to start cooling post-cardiac arrest patients. I then did research studies trying to find which patients benefited most or not at all, and on whether the speed or depth of cooling mattered, etc (I was the first to do a controlled study on in-hospital cardiac arrest patients, and I also published on the rapidity of cooling using numerous techniques).

 Did The Rate Of Cooling Matter?

 Initially, Paul Mayo and I believed that the faster we lowered a patient's temperature, the better the outcomes would be (although we knew it was safe to do so, we later found out this was not true). But, at the time, thinking speed was critical to their survival, we adopted an aggressive, rapid-cooling protocol which we “borrowed” from the techniques used to cool Muslim pilgrims suffering heat stroke during their annual pilgrimage to Mecca.
 The pilgrims are whisked into treatment units where they are disrobed, placed into hammocks, and exposed to high-speed fans while being sprayed with warm water. Why warm water? Well, if you cover them with warm water under high-speed fanning, the water evaporates faster, and this evaporative process sucks heat from the body much quicker than if you used cold water (cold water causes the surface blood vessels to constrict, thus paradoxically trapping heat).
 Paul had used the same technique to cool a Polish construction worker who had suffered severe heat stroke the summer before (109F on arrival), so we employed the same method to cool our cardiac arrest patients.
 Anytime we admitted a post-cardiac arrest patient, my entire ICU team would wheel in this huge industrial fan which we placed at the foot of the bed. We would strip the patient naked, and my residents would dip towels in lukewarm water and “paint” the patient with the wet towels under a super loud fan, which emitted a terrific racket.
 At the same time, other residents (or students) would cool bags of saline fluids and infuse them through large IV catheters in the neck or groin, sometimes getting 2 liters of iced saline into them in ten minutes using pressure bags. Lastly, we would have two doctors do iced gastric lavages by placing a nasogastric tube in the stomach, and using a comically large syringe, they would push iced water down the tube into the stomach.
 They would instill 500ml and then suck it out, then refill with iced saline, repeat. Using this “combination therapy” protocol, we achieved some of the fastest decreases in body temperature of any method known. Below is my paper shouting to the ICU world about how the fastest (and dumbest) way to cool a patient was:

 As you can see below, ours wasn’t the fastest method, but it was the cheapest and fastest (and again, dumbest) method in medical history :)

 Cooling patients like that was wild. One problem though, was that it created a colossal mess with puddles of water all around the bed and folks slipping, etc.
 The sloppiness of the method was becoming an issue, plus it was massively labor-intensive while trying to care for 16-20 critically ill patients a day. As the leader of the hypothermia program, my hospital asked me to choose a cooling device to purchase for use in patients that was a little less chaotic, labor-intensive, and messy. There were a number of cooling devices on the market.. and I chose the one that was fastest. A device called the “Thermosuit,” which was literally an inflatable bathtub:

 Basically, you unroll this sheet of plastic on the bed, place the patient in the middle, and then you inflate it. Once the bathtub was fully inflated, you put a plastic cover over it, attached the tub via hoses to a large reservoir of iced water, and a pump would propel the ice water into the bathtub via tiny holes in the top sheet, which sprayed the entire body almost like a fine sprinkler.

 Problem: It was glitchy. We would have different “failures” in the process every few times we used it. My fellows began to complain when they had to cool a patient, as it was rarely a “turn-key” process.
 The Code Brown Incident
 I came to work one Saturday and the fellow who had been on call overnight barged into my office, telling me she was never ever going to use that stupid Thermosuit again. Basically, she had to attend to a “Code Brown” the night before. And not just any Code Brown,but a massive one (note that ICU fellows are not typically called for Code Browns (right nurses?), mostly Code Blues (arrests), Reds (massive bleeds), and RRT’s (Rapid Response emergency team calls).
 Anyway, she told me that while she was trying to cool a post-arrest comatose patient at like 3 in the morning, their physiologic response was to have a massive, very watery bowel movement. While in the tub. Not good.
 Then, while trying to transfer the patient out of the tub, the tub apparently deflated partly, and a river of brown spilled over the sides of the bed and all over the floor (and some of the staff). I was not there at the time.. but the fellow and nurses that were on that night never let me forget about it.
 Fun Fact: Joe Varon, one of the other founders of the FLCCC, was an even earlier “hypothermiac” in our specialty. I didn’t know him then, but I had come across this picture of him early in my career, and I used to display it in my lectures (this was before I later would meet him and partner with him in forming the FLCCC). Check out his method of cooling. No wonder we would later become FLCCC brothers.

 After the infamous “code brown” incident, I very quickly petitioned for the purchase of a more practical, easy-to-use device (plus by this time, I had learned that speed of cooling was less important than duration). We quickly purchased cooling pads like the ones below and never used the Thermosuit again. See? We evolve with data and clinical experience, setting new “standards of care” along the way :).

 Ultimately, as more and more studies were done, my interests and expertise in therapeutic hypothermia waned as I discovered that it was largely beneficial mostly in witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients of primary cardiac causes and not in my general ICU patients. Subsequent studies have shown that cooling such patients is less important than simply preventing temperature rises; therefore, cooling approaches are now more reactive than proactive and essentially target normothermia. However, it was a great early experience in my career (except for the code brown part :).

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Summary: Here I reminisce about my evolution in cooling comatose patients, making groundbreaking protocols, and the unforgettable day a “code brown” changed everything in the ICU.


BREAKING: FDA Approves New Covid Vaccines

The Bud Light factory—or maybe it was the Starbucks headquarters where NPR is permanently piped into the breakroom—was all atwitter yesterday: “Did you hear? The FDA approved the updated Covid-19 vaccines, even with Captain Conspiracy steering the ship! ” That’s the story being whispered across woke cubicles nationwide, where rainbow tote bags and pronoun pins go to die.

 Only The Hill even attempted actual journalism.
 The truth is, what actually happened is almost the exact opposite. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s FDA just revoked the Covid shots’ Emergency Use Authorization—the very magic wand that greenlit mandates, job losses, military purges, school expulsions, and the whole dystopian circus of the last four years. Finally, mercifully, the golden ticket for coercion has been run through the shredder.

 Instead of sweeping recommendations that essentially include anyone with a pulse, now you must be over 65 or have at least one health condition to qualify for endless jabs . In other words, if you’re not frail or high-risk, the government is officially done forcing you to take one for the team.
 I know. They’re still allowing poisonous cocktails to be given to the most fragile groups on earth. Tell me you’re keen on depopulating the planet without telling me you’re keen on depopulating the planet. But at least someone is trying to protect some of us.
 Naturally, mainstream media rushed to spin this as great news for vaxaholics . “ FDA APPROVES UPDATED COVID-19 SHOTS ,” PBS bellowed, followed by a sheepish whisper in microscopic type: “… with some restrictions for kids and adults.” The same outlets that once hawked the jab as a granny-saving miracle are now straining to slap a smiley-face sticker on what is, in reality, a massive retreat.
 “Parents will still be able to seek out shots from rival drugmaker Moderna, the other maker of mRNA vaccines, which has full FDA approval for children as young as 6 months,” PBS attempted to soothe, after having to break the tragic news to its readers that Pfizer’s vaccine will no longer be available for any child under five. “But the company’s Spikevax vaccine is only approved for children with at least one serious health problem.”

 Side note: They literally named it Spike vax. The irony is not lost.
 The American Academy of Pediatrics—who just two weeks ago issued their own vaccine guidance (in summary: every arm, every season, quit questioning) that differs from federal policy—moaned that the new limits “may block vaccine access for families who want to protect their children.” Imagine the horror: parents panicking because their healthy toddlers won’t be injected with an experimental gene therapy.
 An epidemiologist at Brown even lamented that the changes might “make it harder for people to get vaccines.” Harder? It means you now have to talk to your doctor before you roll up your sleeve. Oh, the humanity.
 Pfizer and Moderna, of course, rushed out press releases reminding us that yes, the juice is still flowing if grandma wants her Spikevax fix—because nothing says “science” like a quarterly earnings call.
 Not everyone is impressed. (MTB, I’m talking to you. And yes, she’s MTB now.)

 Here’s where the mob completely loses the plot. They’re foaming that Kennedy hasn’t slammed the brakes hard enough, that because a jab of any sort is still accessible, he’s basically twirling a mustache while babies drop like flies. As if a guy could just stroll into FDA headquarters, snap his fingers, and poof —decades of pharma capture and emergency powers would dissolve overnight.
 What he’s doing—unwinding mandates, stripping emergency authorizations, and boxing this poison into tighter and tighter corners—isn’t perfect, but it’s real, tangible progress. People wanted him to flip a switch; he’s dismantling the machine piece by piece, so that it stays dismantled . That’s not compromise—it’s strategy.

 Actual footage of RFK making this happen.
 If you want proof the swamp knows it, look no further than the CDC. Susan Monarez, who managed to hang onto the director’s chair for an impressive 27 days, refused to play ball with Kennedy’s rollback and was promptly “ousted .” (Despite her insistence yesterday that she hadn’t resigned or been officially let go, headlines this morning were all updated to fired .) Three other CDC brass resigned in solidarity, their letters dripping with melodrama about “dark clouds” and “weaponized public health.” Translation: the cocktail party just got canceled. The press is calling it chaos ; to MAHA nation, it looks more like housecleaning.
 Here’s the bottom line: the EUA is gone. Mandates are dead. The whole “we’re all in this together or you’re fired” era has been quietly escorted out the side door. Yes, we’re still waiting for Kennedy to take a wrecking ball to the 1986 liability shield, the get-out-of-court-free card that’s kept Pharma coasting (and cashing in) for nearly forty years. Sure, it would be fabulous if folks who were fired for refusing the jabs were all granted five years of back pay and groveling apologies. But in the meantime, he just reframed the conversation from comply or else to see your doctor if you want one . That’s not a tweak. That’s a tectonic shift.
 If you can’t see that, congratulations—you just qualified for a job at CNN.

 So yes, technically, the FDA “approved updated Covid-19 vaccines.” But the truer headline is this: Mandates are dead. Jabs are optional. The panic-industrial complex just blew its most critical fuse.
 Of course, the media will keep shrieking, the mask-in-the-car crowd will keep weeping, and the HR ladies who used to swing by your Facebook posts just to leave nasty comments will now pretend they were “always skeptical.”
 Me, I can’t decide what’s better: the policy backpedal itself or watching NPR interns trying to peck out ‘ emergency use authorization rescinded ’ without crying.

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Summary: Actually, they sort of destroyed the whole program. I just stole that headline—verbatim—from USA Today.


Saturday Night Fight.. At The Pharmacy

January 9, 2022
 I am exhausted.. physically and emotionally and morally. Although I am not sure moral exhaustion is “a thing,” the daily witnessing of masses of physicians and pharmacists abandoning their core responsibility of placing the welfare of the patient as their primary consideration is beyond wearying.
 As my friend and Covid expert, Dr. Hector Carvallo, has long ago said, “it’s time for the lawyers.” It is becoming increasingly critical that the law profession aid the medical profession, as it has long ago been led astray by captured federal pharmaceutical agencies.
 Note that I no longer refer to them as “federal health agencies,” as their actions have been entirely consistent with what a pharmaceutical or vaccine manufacturer would want them to do. To prove that point, I simply ask that, when you read an announcement in corporate media that reports a new decision or action by the federal pharmaceutical agencies (FPA’s for short), ask yourself, “Is that what a pharmaceutical company would do?”
 Perfect example of this exercise was 2 days ago when it was announced that the “FPA” had authorized boosters for 12-17 year old’s against omicron (a generally mild cold in kids), using a vaccine designed for older, fundamentally different variants that have already spectacularly failed at giving protection against omicron given ever-increasing data of “negative efficacy” (i.e. vaccinated people are getting omicron more frequently than the unvaccinated).
 Yet the FPA “doubles down” with yet another “non-scientific policy” so that Pharma can increase the total market size of those eligible for a vaccine… and who cares if this decision ends up sending more kids to the hospital than the disease ever would. Another brutal assault on public health. Another day in the United States of Pharma.
 In the United States of Pharma, individual docs and pharmacists have been led so far astray, forgivably or unforgivably, due to the relentless barrage of disinformation targeted at them by the FPA (further supported by relentless, daily propaganda appearing in both major media and medical journals). The resulting proportion of these two professions that have failed to display even a modicum of either critical thinking or moral conviction is terrifying. It is also causing lots of problems for patients and physicians (a colleague of mine now differentiates “doctors” from “physicians”, reserving the latter term for those who follow our guiding principles and ethics by always putting the patient’s welfare as their primary goal above all else, even at personal sacrifice).
 What prompted me to write this Substack was my most recent failure (and the resulting distress that led to crap sleep last night) over not being able to get a pharmacist to fill my orders in the hours before closing for an acutely ill COVID patient that had contacted me reporting high fevers, sore throat, and body aches. I immediately wanted to start him on a short course combination regimen of three old, safe, cheap generic medications, all with large clinical trial evidence bases showing high efficacy against COVID (ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, nitazoxanide).
 What is important to note is that, months ago, I stopped trying to contact ANY pharmacy unless I KNEW they would fill my scripts for these off-patent medications because, unless I knew a pharmacy was “safe”, I ran a high probability of entering an unaffordable, time-wasting, and ultimately losing argument with some smug, obstinate pharmacist. As a result, we, as early treatment doctors, have long since been forced to build lists of “safe haven” pharmacies where we know we can easily get access to these medicines for our patients ( a sort of “Underground Railroad” in a way).
 However, last night, I was inspired to make an attempt on a new, unknown pharmacy on behalf of a new patient because I had just read Steve Kirsch’s substack about my colleague and early COVID-treatment pioneer/expert Dr. Brian Tyson, in which was included a letter written by Dr. Tyson’s attorney that he used to “sway” a local pharmacy that had suddenly refused to fill.
 The letter is thorough , deeply well-argued, and informs the pharmacists that they are: 1) violating the civil rights of patients, 2) interfering with a physician's ability to practice medicine, and 3) exhibiting behavior that constitutes the unlicensed and negligent practice of medicine. Now, I had argued all these points before in previous “conflicts” with pharmacists, but never all at the same time, and rarely threatening a lawsuit. Duly and newly emboldened.. I made the call.
 4:20 Pacific time (pharmacies close there at 6 pm).
 Transcript (from memory):
 “Hi, I’d like to call in a prescription for a couple of patients.”
 “OK, what’s the first patient’s name and date of birth?”
 “Timothy Thomas (not his real name), born Nov. 6th, 1977.”
 (pause, clacking of keyboard)
 “OK, what does he need?”
 (Wait for it)
 “He needs ivermectin, 3 milligram tablets, I want him to take 15 each day as he is a big guy, and for 5 days with a refill. Then he needs hydroxychloro…
 “Doctor, I am sorry, but I cannot fill the ivermectin. The owner has said we are not to fill for COVID, there is no evidence it works.”
 “Listen, I don’t know who the owner is, but you are the pharmacist on duty, and I am calling in a prescription to you, not the owner.”
 “I,I, I am sorry, but I can’t..”
 I look at the letter, and then start spewing rapid fire arguments at him, “well unfortunately for you, my patient is an executive of a company and their lawyer is prepared to and will send a letter of intent to sue if it has not been filled because you are violating his civil rights, blocking my licensed ability to practice medicine and care for my sick patient, and you are clearly practicing medicine illegally and highly ignorantly. You should at least know what you are doing if you are going to do it without a license man."
 “But I am allowed to refuse, doctor.”
 “That is what you think and what you have been told… However, I can assure you that if you present your arguments in court regarding your refusal, they will not be upheld if any harm comes to my patient as a result. They will NOT HOLD UP, but you can try. The lawyer will serve the letter on Monday, I promise you, we are fed up out here and are fighting back, all of my fellow physicians being blocked by pharmacists are now using legal action (OK, so I overstated things a bit), I am sorry you are in the position you are in, but you have no rational or scientific evidence to support a refusal, but if you want to go to court to find out, we can make that happen for you”
 “I..I.. feel intimidated.”
 “Well, I am sorry for that, but you are hurting my patient and my ability to care for them. It is THEY who YOU are intimidating, Sir! All you have to do is fill out my script, and we can move forward. These medications are FDA-approved. I am using them off-label based on a large body of evidence and experience in COVID, and off-label prescribing is both legal and historically encouraged by the FDA. You are clearly practicing medicine, and I promise that will be proven to you in a court of law. Please just fill it, and you won’t have to hear from me or my patient again.”
 (Pause, silence)
 “I cannot do it, I am not supposed to.”
 “OK then, I will also remind you that you are legally required to provide me with your name and license number as we will be pursuing legal action against you.”
 “I am not giving you my name, I am not comfortable with that.”
 “OK, so you think I can’t find it out? Fine, I am also documenting this refusal. Again, I am not interested in a contentious argument. I am asking you to fill the prescriptions for two sick patients who need my help, and if you do, you won’t have to hear from me or the patient’s lawyer.”
 He whispers.. “OK, tell me the rest of the prescriptions.”
 I tell him the rest, then say, “My patient will be there by closing time, thank you, and I apologize for my tone, but I am just trying to do the best for my sick patients.”
 Victory? Yes! Haven’t won one of these in months. The letter and its well-articulated legal threats worked! Thanks, Steve! Thanks, Bryan (and your attorney)!
 I finish telling him the rest of the scripts for my patient and his wife (I also needed to call in medicines for her so she could have some on hand and also begin ivermectin as a prophylactic agent given it ensures an easier course even if she is already or eventually becomes infected).
 I then call the patient, instructing him to have his wife collect the medicines, along with other over-the-counter compounds that have clinical trials supporting their use. And then I go to the couch to literally lie down (insane day of dozens of pro-bono patient care requests, other Zooms and phone calls, maybe 12+ hours on the phone).
 30 minutes later, the patient texts me, “My wife went there and the pharmacist won ’t fill. ”

 Now, even though I co-wrote a document for the FLCCC called “ Overcoming the Barriers to Access, ” which is full of sound, pragmatic tactics and dialogue examples offered to patients (and docs) to help them navigate such pharmacist obstructions, they typically will not work when it is an hour before closing on a weekend.
 So, here I am the next morning. Fortunately, I was able to get 2 of the medicines filled through another pharmacy, with enough for his wife, as she unsurprisingly fell ill overnight (omicron moves fast). Unfortunately, they will have to wait until tomorrow to get the 3rd medicine from an “underground" pharmacy (not really underground, but you get the analogy).
 This is what it is like out here trying to fight for patients sick with COVID - widespread delays in care as blocking access to generic or “repurposed” medicines by ignorant/arrogant pharmacists is ubiquitous. The majority of pharmacists (not all) have stopped thinking critically or devoting effort to review the evidence base, instead merely believe what they are told by their Boards (a.k.a. their “Ministries of Truth”). As if the insane numbers of ill Omicron patients to care for are not challenging enough.
 In the words of Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, who went after his state’s Pharmacy Board when they tried to scare the state’s pharmacists away from prescribing ivermectin by sending them threatening letters, “ it is shocking that pharmacists are suddenly developing a conscience after spending the last decade handing out opiates like they were M & M’s.” Well said and tragically absurd.
 This newfound conscience influencing such actions is likely further fueled by a sometimes resident psychology of pharmacists who may feel “less than” a physician, given their limited scope of patient care tasks. Emboldened by a seemingly legal opportunity to assert superiority and control over physicians, many find these irresistible. Consequently, they seem to be “getting off” from telling the “stupid” doctors that the Ministry of Truth has done the research for them and the Ministry has found that, in the name of science, doctors stop using “ineffective horse de-wormer” to treat COVID. Good times. Just another day in the life of an early COVID treatment expert.
 Let me end with the following disturbing data and observations. Take a look at this chart compiled by the FLCCC data analyst, Juan Chamie.

 From the above, it should be noted that prior to our FLCCC ivermectin paper being posted on a pre-print server (Nov 13, 2020) and prior to my testimony in the Senate hearings of Senator Ron Johnson noted above (Dec. 8, 2020), nursing home residents made up about 30% of all COVID deaths in the U.S. (also note that Senator Johnson’s efforts have made him one of the most (if not the most) impactful of the early treatment advocates for COVID in this country.. (and in history?).
 As you can see from above, suddenly, by mid-to-late December 2020, the proportion of dying U.S COVID patients that were residents in nursing homes started to plummet to now around 5-6% of all U.S COVID deaths.. and it has stayed stably low at this level ever since (notice how you never read any more newspaper reports of legions of people dying in nursing homes?). Hmmm. Was it the vaccines? Nope - nursing home resident vaccination rates were equal to or lower than the over-65 non-nursing home population, and the latter continued to make up a large proportion of COVID deaths in the U.S. So, why did nursing homes become such “safe havens” relative to the rest of society after December of 2020?
 I maintain there are three reasons; 1) nursing homes often have their own in-house pharmacy so do have to rely on negotiating with arrogant/ignorant retail pharmacists for access to medications like ivermectin, and 2) nursing home directors across the country learned that ivermectin is highly effective at preventing hospitalization and death , and thus they used it to treat COVID outbreaks in nursing homes ( here , here , here , and here ), and 3) this practice makes for excellent business since dead or hospitalized nursing home residents.. no longer generate income for the nursing home . Once again, all about the Benjamins. Shocker.
 P.S. I thought I would throw in a brief mention of another insane action by pharmacists:
 December 31, 2021: Effective immediately, patients will no longer be allowed to be on ivermectin, even if it is their home medication. Happy Holidays!"
 This hospital’s PNT (Pharmacy and Therapeutics) Committee, in their infinite and unquestionable wisdom, came to the communal decision that, even though an admitted patient had already been started on a prescription for ivermectin in the treatment of COVID-19 by their personal physician, it was imperative they immediately terminate the use of non-FPA approved medicines.

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Summary: I take a trip down memory lane with a reposting of two of my least favorite memories of battles I fought during the Covid War. We must never forget what many pharmacists did to American patients.


The Red Cross Suppressed A Cure For Malaria in 2012, Causing Over Half A Million People To Die Every Year Since

I am going to start this post out with my standard declaration that: 1) I am not suicidal, 2) I am in good health, and 3) I am living my best life. For what that is worth.
 The Red Cross Malaria Trial
 “The Water Reference Center (WRC)” is a research center within the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). In 2012, their CEO at the time, Klaas Proesmans, conducted a study testing the efficacy of a common water purification agent called chlorine dioxide to treat malaria. The treatment consisted of increasing the concentration in cups of drinking water to levels above those typically used solely for water purification. Note that this effective treatment was first accidentally discovered by an applied scientist working in Nigeria in 1982, as I reported in this prior post .
 In that study, the WRC and the Ugandan Red Cross identified 154 patients from the community around Iganga, Uganda, using skin pricks to gather drops of blood from patients suspected of being ill with malaria. They then placed the blood on slides and examined them under a microscope to look for the malaria parasite. Then they treated the patients who were positive for malaria by giving them cups of water to drink that had been treated with chlorine dioxide in the form of what Jim Humble called “Master Mineral Solution” (a mixture of sodium chlorite and hydrochloric acid). They then had the patients return to the testing/study center daily for re-testing and clinical follow-up.
 They rapidly cured 154 malaria patients within two days. Sounds historic, right? A cure for malaria had been found! But no, it was not to be. Not even close.
 As word of the trial and its success began to circulate, the “authorities” sprang into action, culminating in the Ugandan Red Cross and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) issuing statements denying any official involvement in the study. They then went even further, stating that no formal clinical trial or endorsement of MMS took place under their auspices. The IFRC also added that “chlorine dioxide is not approved for the treatment of malaria and that any suggestion of Red Cross involvement was misleading.” They even got the CEO of the Water Reference Center who had planned and conducted the trial… to deny it ever happened.
 Interestingly, none of the statements above were published in an official Press Release or statement; they were instead communicated solely via quotes in an interview with an investigative journalist in a blatantly obvious “ debunking article ” published by Business Insider .
 First, I will review the extensive evidence verifying both the conduct and results of that trial. Then I will cover the above “Disinformation Response” from the media and the Red Cross in more detail. However, to understand the importance of the documented evidence that I will provide below, you need to know that the Business Insider article tried to “debunk” the claim that the trial was done by: 1) claiming it never took place, and 2) that Red Cross officials were “duped” into taking part. Yes, I know, the argument contradicts itself - either the trial never took place or Red Cross officials were “duped” into taking part, you can’t have both. Later, you will see how they later reconciled those two statements.
 Documentation of the Trial And its Results
 Problem #1 for the Red Cross : During my research for this post, I came across a website where someone named Santiago Cabrera uploaded the full project plan for the trial by the Water Reference Center. After paying $11.99, I was able to download the document, which I include here for those interested:
 467534847 Informe Cruz Roja Uganda Mms Y Malaria Pdf
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 Most damning is the Table of Contents where you can clearly see that “Klaas” (Proesmans) drafted Version 1.0 of the document in the below right corner, where it is dated November 16, 2012:

 Here is an AI-generated summary of the document:
 The objective of the project plan in the document is to conduct a water purification pilot case in Uganda through the Water Reference Center (WRC). The pilot aims to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of using chlorine dioxide (ClO2) and sodium chlorite (NaClO2) for purifying water, with a specific focus on any positive side effects in the fight against malaria .
 Key goals of the project include:
 Performing field tests in malaria-infested areas in Uganda, leveraging the expertise of the Uganda Red Cross Society.

 Documenting the outcomes in a comprehensive report and audiovisual material ( Ed: this latter objective is important as you will see below).

 Establishing a "center of excellence" in the pilot location for ongoing research and development within the Red Cross/Red Crescent network.

 Coordinating between private sustainable businesses, research institutions, academic bodies, and humanitarian organizations to advance water purification technologies and their deployment.

 The project also includes clear planning for communication, testing protocols, and legal terms of engagement among involved parties.

 Overall, the project is designed to validate the water purification approach, assess its broader health impact , and promote sustainable water treatment solutions within vulnerable communities.
 Problem #2 for the Red Cross: As stated in #2 of the project plan above, they planned to document the outcomes using “audiovisual material.” Thus the documentary of the trial had been planned beforehand (and later paid handsomely for) by the Water Reference Center, likely because the organizers of the study strongly suspected it would be a success ( Jim Humble and many others in Africa had been covertly curing malaria with MMS for almost 2 decades at that point).
 So a team of filmmakers documented the entire study from start to finish? “Real world evidence” as it were. And not just any filmmaker. The cameraman was… Mustaque Abdallah:

 From AI as of today:
 Mustaque Abdallah is a prominent Ugandan documentary filmmaker and director of photography. He is best known as one of the first DOPs (Directors of Photography) in Uganda and is associated with Ebony Hue Studios, Ebony Hue Films, and Ebony Heights Ltd. Abdallah has a long history in the Ugandan film industry, starting out filming weddings and gradually building his career to work on major projects.
 Some of his notable achievements and projects include:
 Serving as the DOP for the acclaimed Ugandan feature film "27 Guns," which is regarded as a landmark production in Ugandan cinema.
 Working alongside international film crews from South Africa and the UK, which helped develop his craft and reputation.
 Being involved in a wide variety of music videos and documentaries that helped put Ugandan media on the international stage, including music videos aired on MTV.
 Abdallah’s career demonstrates significant influence in elevating documentary and music video standards in Uganda, and he is recognized as a visionary and leader among Ugandan filmmakers.
 So, this supposedly “fake” documentary was made by someone who became one of the top filmmakers in Uganda? I wonder if Abdallah’s above reputation would be possible if he was known to “fake his documentaries.”
 From accounts I have read online, and in an interview with Mark Grenon who had helped train one of the study investigators in how to treat malaria with MMS), what happened next is that, since the Red Cross and Proesmans were denying that the trial took place, Leo Koehof, a Dutch humanitarian and one of the other principal organizers of the trial, defiantly posted the documentary on YouTube in 2013.
 Oddly, YouTube did not take it down until the Business Insider article was published in 2019.
 Now, lets take a close look at all the documented evidence compiled in the documentary.
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 The Red Cross Trial Documentary ( can be viewed here on BitChute )
 Even before I discovered that the cameraman became a highly regarded and accomplished filmmaker, it was clear from the quality of the documentary (expertly blended cuts and montages of “B-roll” scenes and sit-down interviews with all those involved in the planning and conduct of the trial) that it was a planned film project by an expert filmmaker. Of note, I emailed the Mustaque Abdallah for an interview, but have not heard back.
 Most importantly, the vast majority of the commentary and interview footage in the documentary was with the principal investigator of the trial who drafted the project plan above - “Klaas” Proesmans, an ex-Belgian Special Forces soldier who, at the time of the trial, was the CEO and founder of the Water Reference Center (WRF), a “research” unit of the Red Cross .
 Damning no? His CV on LinkedIn is also impressive , having worked in the aviation industry as the Director of Operations at Virgin Express Airlines before going into full-time humanitarian work, first for Virgin Airlines and then as an independent consultant before volunteering for the WRC.
 In the documentary interviews with the key participants, the language used indicates that the interviews were conducted both during and soon after the trial (as planned), and before the dissemination of results. I say this because one of the last statements by Proesmans in the documentary was;
 We close the operation to report back to the Secretary General here in Uganda's Red Cross Society, and to report back to the Water Reference Center about the results of the severe test.
 Next, he states that “it has been said that the use of sodium chlorite cleans the body within one hour to four hours of the malaria parasite.” Tellingly, he then states that he was also told “ that it was too good to be true ” and “ not to go further and do an investigation . ”
 Hmm. So he is clearly positioning himself as being defiant of that directive because he immediately segues into explaining how Uganda was chosen for the trial.
 Through our network, since we are affiliated with the International Red Cross, we contacted a number of national societies where malaria is present. One of them was Uganda.
 He then explains the actions he took to make the trial happen, with astonishingly precise detail, by first contacting the National Society Secretary General of Uganda;
 “We explained what the intentions were, and we came over here just to to look at the field, what different steps one need to make in order to do this test pilot case. We visited the National Drug Agency, the Ministry of Health, all the people that have something to do with public health and purifying of water. We identified a village. Actually, it is the National Society who identified a village, and we had nothing to do with it. They chose Iganga. It has been chosen by the Red Cross National Society for two reasons. One, because the national authorities use sodium chlorite as a way to purify water, which is exactly the same way as our water reference center purifies water. Second reason is because they do have ongoing water and sanitation programs in that area, which is very convenient to the water reference center, because what we actually want to do in this month of December is look at the effect that sodium chlorite has on the human body after being offered a glass of water.”
 Not only does this convey a highly organized, detailed, and planned “investigation.” but he also almost covertly describes the intervention. He purposely does not mention they will be testing MMS, and instead presents the treatment obliquely as simple “water purification,” in as subtle a manner as possible.
 He says all this over a montage of footage showing Proesmans s urrounded by Ugandans in Red Cross uniform shirts discussing something, followed by scenes of an open-air, roofed enclosure with dozens of Ugandan people sitting in chairs, and you see a flag of the Ugandan Red Cross hanging from the tent .
 He then literally describes the sequence of actions they took to make the trial happen:
 We started with mobilizing the local population. We had the use or the cooperation of the National Society. Lots of volunteers went on their bikes, bicycles, cars, motorbikes, whatever you have, all around the streets. The first day of operation, we gathered about 163 patients from all the villages around, and we identified only five malaria-positive people. She comes from far away? Yeah, she comes from far away. We do a little blood test, just a little prick, and then we do a quick strip malaria test.
 This is said over footage showing a Red cross worker doing a finger prick under the tent, the Ugandans waiting, and then a shot of the test strips laid out on a worn table, and, for those with an observant eye, you can see a piece of paper in the corner of the frame with letterhead which reads “Water Reference Center” – the Red Cross research organization he was the CEO of at the time!
 The following scenes include blood being smeared on slides, then placed under a microscope, and a shot of a Ugandan (I assume) technician (or clinician) peering into the microscope. You also see workers with Red Cross uniforms dispensing the MMS drops into cups of water.
 Next, there is a scene where the subtitles introduce “Leo Koehof, author and publisher on health-related topics.”
 From AI (apparently taken from an account on Humbles MMStestimonials website:
 Leo Koehof was actively involved in the clinical procedures during the 2012 Uganda MMS trial. He trained the Uganda Red Cross staff on the specific treatment protocol using MMS (sodium chlorite activated with citric acid) for malaria patients. Koehof is seen in video footage speaking to clinic staff and sharing test results of malaria patients treated and cured within 24 to 48 hours. He was not just reporting on the trial but played an instructional and hands-on role in guiding the administration of the MMS treatment to patients
 In the documentary, you see Koehof next to aid workers, looking through results printed on a number of study documents before him. He says;
 We have some test results, and the most amazing test results are coming from the prisoner, We have a prison here in Lukana. Yesterday, we did some blood proofs in the prisoner, and all of them were positive. Now, we did a second blood test, and all of them shows negative. So you can see that's a very amazing result because there's only 24 hours between it.
 I asked AI if Koehof and Proesmans knew each other before the trial:
 Leo Koehof and Klaas Proesmans (sometimes misspelled as Prusmans) did know each other and worked together in a malaria treatment field test context connected to the Red Cross. Leo Koehof trained the Red Cross staff on a protocol to treat malaria successfully using MMS (a solution involving sodium chlorite producing chlorine dioxide). Klaas Proesmans was the narrator in a video about this field test and was involved in managing and reporting on it. He was also the Founder and CEO of the Water Reference Center affiliated with the Red Cross. The two appear in the same context of this malaria cure project and coordinated efforts around it, with Proesmans trying to control the dissemination of the results and Koehof actively demonstrating and promoting the treatment protocol.
 Hmm, seems the two Belgian humanitarians quickly developed some differences of opinion after the trial was completed. Interesting. I immediately decide I need to talk to Mr. Koehof. I start to research him, trying to find a contact, and discover that Koehof was deeply inspired by both Jim Humble and MMS, eventually writing nine books about MMS and/or Humble. One of his book titles was “Jim Humble in Europe,” which described Humble’s visits and activities there. Again, interesting.
 Then I discovered that he died, which I learned from an Instagram post by the non-profit organization Kensad Children’s Hope (weird because he looked healthy and relatively young in the documentary (late 50s, early 60s). He struck me as a good guy. What is Kensad Children’s Hope?
 Kensad Children’s Hope is a non-profit organization focused on empowering vulnerable groups, including orphans, single mothers, children with disabilities, and school dropouts, by promoting equality and access to education for these children.
 Hmm, doesn’t seem like a group that would be involved with someone who faked a clinical trial documentary.
 The post read:
 “In loving memory of late Leo Koehof, one of our first donors who showed us that kindness and generosity still thrive. Your contribution not only supported our cause but also inspired us to keep making a difference.

 Your legacy lives on in our hearts, and we're grateful for the impact you made. Rest in peace, Leo. Your memory will forever be cherished. Family Koehof we are with you always❤
 Most interesting is that, although I could not find evidence that Koehof and Proesmans knew each other before they both participated in the trial and documentary, I discovered that both names are of Flemish origin and both were humanitarians. Weird coincidence, no? Two Dutch-speaking Belgian humanitarians in Africa had to have known each other, and further, I surmise that Koehof is the guy that told Proesmans about MMS, as reflected in his opening statement in the documentary:
 “ It has been said and written that the use of sodium chlorite cleans the body within one hour to four hours of the malaria parasite. ”
 Thus, I think it is fair to conclude that Koehof knew Proesmans and that he was the one who got Proesmans to embark on “doing an investigation” of MMS, even though he was told it would be dangerous.
 Anyway, one of the most validating images in the documentary is at 10:29, where you see Koehof, Proesmans, Red Cross workers, a woman in a lab coat (later introduced as “Betty, Senior Clinician”), all looking down on a table covered with study documents, with Koehof picking up a stack of papers to show the camera, saying “these are the tests” and then:
 Every other day, we had around 150 to maybe 200 patients every single day. In total, we identified 154 malaria-positive patients, together with the local health authorities and the doctors. All of them were treated. All of them were between 24 hours and 48 hours, malaria negative, without any side effects.
 Then it cuts to a man titled as Hannington Segiringya, Former Uganda Red Cross Youth Council President who says:
 I'm so much impressed by this water. It's so unbelievable. From a layman's view, you may think it's impossible, but it's very possible. I've seen people healed, looked at their results from yesterday and seeing the results of today after taking the water. It's super impressive
 I dug into Mr Seginringya above, and found this from his LinkedIn profile:
 Hannington Segiringya is a humanitarian and development professional with over 20 years of experience working with organizations such as the Red Cross/Red Crescent, New Dawn Africa Foundation, and Assist International. He has been involved in projects related to water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) in healthcare facilities, safe surgery improvements, and empowerment initiatives primarily in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
 He currently serves as the Country Representative for Assist International in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, a position he has held since 2017. He is also the founder and team lead of the New Dawn Africa Foundation in Uganda and has held leadership roles in Rotary International. Hannington studied Social Work at Makerere University
 So, this highly accomplished humanitarian is the “Red Cross Officer” that Business Insider and the Red Cross claim “got fooled” into participating in the trial? Right.
 Next is a shot of “Paul Kabweru, SMCO Luuka District” (SMCO refers to Social Monitoring and Community Organization and Luuka is the bordering district to Iganga where the study took place), who says :
 Those ones who are positive and they're on treatment, they are getting better. If we continued with this exercise, helping the need in this way, we shall decrease malaria. But these ones now, the few who have come and they are positive, we are testing them for the second time, we see that the malaria process and decreasing, and some of them, they are not detected at all after taking the water. So if we went ahead with this program, I think it would help our district.
 I have messaged Mr. Kabweru on LinkedIn but have also not yet received a response.
 Then Vincent Okonera, Uganda Red Cross, Senior Branch Manager Iganga, says:
 I’m excited because the instant results that are happening among all the people we have so far tested It is incredibly unbelievable to see that somebody tested of malaria When you have a clear positive yesterday, it turns up to be negative today and it feels quite extremely better and more happy and healthier. To me, this is a very good partnership, and I feel that if there is opportunity, to increase this to these communities, it will be so much of great impact and beneficial towards the health of these people
 I have also messaged Mr. Okonera on LinkedIn but have not heard back.
 Most importantly is the last statement made in the documentary, where the WRC CEO, Klaas Proesmans, looking straight at the interviewer on camera, says slowly what he will do next:
 We close the operation well enough. We will go back in January because we need to secure contingency. But we close the operation to report back to the Secretary General here in Uganda's Red Cross Society, and to report back to the Water Reference Center (he is the CEO remember) about the results of the severe test. Now, all in all, 100% cured people, less than five days, all within 24 hours to 48 hours. That asks for further investigation.
 The documentary ends with the logo of “the Water Reference Center” and then the credits follow, listing the names of the cameraman (Mustaque Abdallah), editor, and music team.
 As I kept watching past the credits (something I don’t ordinarily do but I could see from the video timeline that a few minutes remained), suddenly these words below appeared on the screen, read with a voice over from none other than Leo Koehof, the late Dutch Humanitarian and MMS trainer to the Red Cross staff:
 When I published my video of the Red Cross MMS malaria test on YouTube in May 2013, I was totally surprised by the comments I received. The doubters suggested the video was faked and wanted more detailed information. This misinformation was put out by Klaas Proesmans himself, the one who initiated the test in the 1st place period. He even suggested that the people wearing red cross T-shirts just happened to come by to see what was going on and had nothing to do with the test period. Since december 2012, when the malaria test was conducted… today, June 29th, 2013... we estimate that over 1,000,000 children have suffered and died from malaria, based on yearly World Health Organization statistics. That's about one child dying every minute. It is clear from the statements by the Red Cross staff and the video... they are very happy to have found something that works so well against malaria, so they can reduce the suffering in their area. To date, the Red Cross has done nothing with the results except of course… tto hide the truth… and tell lies. This is equivalent to genocide. I, as the one who showed the Red Cross Staff how to use MMS, cannot allow this to quietly continue. I need to remind the Red Cross, and all other humanitarian agencies, of their responsibility. It is one thing to have fear of losing one’s job. But, when we contrast that to the millions of lives lost each year to malaria, it is time they stop being cowardly and step into the light of truth.
 Leo Koehof
 Spoken like a true badass humanitarian (a group which I like to think I belong). Rest in peace Leo. I hope this post and my upcoming book help in disseminating knowledge of your work.
 The Disinformation Response
 Predictably, in 2019, as increasing attention started to be paid to the documentary, the “disinformation response” started with a media attack article in Business Insider which tried to “debunk” the notion that the trial took place. This was quickly followed by social media censorship with YouTube quickly taking down the documentary off its platform. Every single one my readers should be familiar with these two coordinated tactics by now (a new normal in our world). From AI:
 YouTube took down several versions of the Red Cross MMS malaria documentary after it was made aware of the video's harmful content ( Ed: Really? ) by Business Insider. The removals mainly occurred around May 2019, following media investigations and coverage that prompted content moderation and warnings about MMS in Uganda. At least some versions remained online as late as May 2019, but were deleted after media reports and policy violations were flagged by journalists and advocacy groups.
 Now, onto the “Business Insider” article, also full of the same tired, FDA-inspired propaganda trope (“bleach,” “poison,” “no evidence it works,” “people harmed” etc).

 However, things get pretty interesting if you read the article closely. The investigative reporter from Business Insider reached out to Proesmans whereupon he first… denies involvement in the trial. He was quoted as saying " It is not possible... There was no trial with Red Cross. But he also cryptically states, “There is more to the picture than meets the eye ." Then he is quoted as writing in a later email to the reporter, " But if you would move from behind your desk into the field with me, you can write about what you will witness with your own eyes ."
 Let’s think about those quoted statements for a second. My take is that Klaas is actually a “good guy” (comes across as one in his lengthy interview from the documentary) but has been threatened to keep quiet, and so he is just trying to stay alive. I also think this because in the later email, he tells the reporter to “come out into the field” to “write about what you can witness with your own eyes.” He is clearly trying to get the reporter to learn about and write about how MMS works to cure malaria. Yeah, like that will happen.
 He thus strikes me as deeply conflicted, given that he seems to want the world to know about MMS but also knows it would finish him and his ability to do more humanitarian work (or to stay alive).
 This also explains why he and Koehof parted ways. Proesmans was put under immense pressure, and/or had his life or career threatened whereas Koehof was independant, and did not have a “master” controlling him.
 Now let’s see how the journalist tries to explain how the trial was faked, it’s pretty comical:
 Filmed in 2012, the video seems to offer a glimpse of a new breakthrough in malaria treatment, pioneered by the world's most famous aid organization.
 A source at the charity now tells Business Insider that they believe their staff were duped into giving their patients poison.
 MMS advocates with ties to a US religious group told local Red Cross staff they were working on a water treatment project. But they later edited the video to make MMS look like a cure for malaria, the source says ( Ed: If I was Mustaque Abdallah, I would sue them for defamation).
 The video then became a fundamental piece of "evidence" in a wider movement to push MMS on thousands of vulnerable people, even though the Red Cross denounced the video at the time.
 When contacted by Business Insider , the advocates who made the video denied they did anything wrong. A spokesperson for the church said in an email, "We don't answer FAKE NEWS organizations that lie with an agenda from the REAL owners that are just plain evil and DO NOT want to see the TRUTH get out about how BIG Pharma/Medical industry are paying the politicians and the courts to look the other way while their Toxic DRUGS is poisoning the world!" ( Ed: If any of you have read my previous posts on chlorine dioxide, or read any of his books , you should know without asking that the last quote is 100% from Mark Grenon :) .
 The article goes on with above, tired anti-MMS propaganda tropes from regulatory agencies:
 MMS is, in fact, a type of toxic bleach which is banned in several countries and can prove fatal in large doses. In the US, complainants to the Food and Drug Administration have claimed it is linked it to two deaths .
 This week, Business Insider published an investigation into MMS, laying out a slew of medical complaints, and at least one criminal prosecution, in several western countries .
 Recent reporting by outlets including the Guardian and Business Insider have prompted warnings in Uganda from the police, the government, and the US embassy, all of which state emphatically that MMS has no known curative properties.
 On May 23, three men were arrested over their MMS activities , in an apparent sign that Ugandan authorities are ready to take action.
 In their mission to spread the word about MMS, followers of the Genesis II church have targeted communities in Africa, where they have found less resistance from government officials. According to the Guardian , as many as 50,000 people in Uganda may have been exposed to MMS over the years.
 The article then immediately continues with the below, which, I maintain, is the exact same tactic that was deployed to counter the Egyptian Professor Ahmed El-Gazzar’s wickedly positive ivermectin trial early on in the Covid pandemic, i.e., similarly arguing the positive MMS trial was a fraud:
 The Red Cross denied involvement in the video in a 2012 statement claiming it "does not support or endorse in any manner the claims made in relation to this project, and has at no time been involved in 'clinical trials' related to malaria treatment. "
 But in 2019, a Red Cross official told Business Insider that the Ugandan Red Cross Society officials were duped into taking part . The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the organisation was approached to partner on a water treatment project. (Sodium chlorite can be used to purify water in extremely small doses.)
 The project was later morphed into the fake clinical trials depicted in the video without the Red Cross's understanding or consent, the source says. ( Ed: perhaps the Red Cross should have read Proesmans' “Project Plan” above, where he clearly states “audiovisual documentation” would be conducted.
 Emanuele Capobianco, Director of Health at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, told Business Insider, "This video is not only wrong, it is dangerous. MMS is not a malaria cure. It is bleach — it is snake oil. At the very least, it diverts attention away from what actually works."
 So, an “anonymous source” told them that “officials were duped into taking part”, and also that they took part in “the project”, “without the Red Cross's understanding or consent . ” The way I read that is 1) there was a project and 2) Red Cross officials participated.
 So, to explain this away, the journalist then concocts the story that “ The project was later morphed into the fake clinical trials depicted in the video.”
 Conclusion
 In summary, the evidence showing the trial actually occurred as presented in the documentary rests on:
 A detailed project plan document, titled by the Water Reference Center, drafted by the CEO of this research unit of the Red Cross, provides evidence of their plan to study the “effects of water purification in malaria patients” (an admittedly subtle way of not calling attention to what they actually did)

 The document clearly stated that, as part of the project, they planned to document outcomes in an “audiovisual” format - thus the documentary was planned.

 The fact that the project had a budget large enough to hire the top filmmaker in Uganda - random “MMS advocates” would not have the money to do so.

 The documentary is high-quality, and has senior, highly accomplished leaders of the Ugandan Red Cross as well as the CEO of the Water Reference Unit, all on camera, speaking in the present tense about the results they were witnessing.

 The documentary also takes great pains to give as little detail as possible to the actual treatment protocol, essentially only describing it as purifying the drinking water and giving it to patients, never mentioning that it relied on mixing MMS and giving it in two doses over one day. Why leave that part out? Further evidence that they knew exactly what they were embarking on - a study whose results would post the biggest threat to the pharmaceutical industry in history.

 Further corroboration can be found from my previous post on the MMS pioneer, Mark Grenon, who apparently had trained and sent Koehof to help with the trial thus he was able to describe in exact detail all of the events in the documentary in Uganda above.
 Grenon’s description of what happened in Uganda ended with:
 I was excited because of the instant results among all the people we had so far tested. It was unbelievable that somebody who tested positive for malaria yesterday turned out to be negative today and feels significantly better, happier, and healthier. And what's sad is that after word got out to the higher levels of command of the Red Cross about what we had done, they suppressed the whole thing. They now say it never happened; nobody was ever there. They even went as far as telling people that it was a hoax and it was a joke. The people who were there in the Red Cross shirts were just there for fun. They put the shirts on to put the whole thing together! I mean, it's just ridiculous. Ridiculous. Even the narrator of the film, an ex-veteran of the Belgian Army and ex-director of one of the Virgin Airlines, now says “it never happened. I was never even there.” That's how far they're willing to go to suppress the evidence.
 I will end by saying what should be unsurprising to my regular readers, that all national and international health care organizations have been captured and are complicit in causing massive amounts of needless deaths, in Covid and beyond, all for profit or depopulation aims. There, I said it.

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Summary: More evidence that international health care organizations (and all governmental health care and regulatory agencies) are fully captured by Big Pharma.