Posted on 04/23/2024 6:00:12 AM PDT by Heartlander
[The following is a chapter of Lori Weintz’s book, Mechanisms of Harm: Medicine in the Time of Covid-19.]
Tragically, the government-backed mechanical (ventilators) and pharmaceutical (remdesivir, mRNA shots, etc) interventions didn’t work to remedy the respiratory illness problem. Instead, they added an additional layer of chaos on top of the virus mania that had captured the world.
Jordan Schachtel
Investigative journalist
December 13, 2023
In the interview with Zuckerberg, in addition to mentioning HCQ, Fauci said, “There’s a drug called remdesivir, which is…developed by Gilead as an antiviral. We tried it in Ebola. It didn’t work as well as some of the other drugs, but it’s there.” It was really, really there; remdesivir manufacturer Gilead spent $2.45 million lobbying Congress in the first quarter of 2020, which was also when Congress drafted and passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act that included funding for vaccines and treatments in response to the pandemic.
“Didn’t work as well” was a gross understatement. During the 2018 Ebola drug trials funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), remdesivir (brand name Veklury) was one of four different drugs used to treat Ebola. Those in the remdesivir group had the highest overall deaths, with a mortality rate of over 50 percent in the first 28 days. Trial participants who received remdesivir also had significantly elevated markers for liver and kidney damage, leading the safety board to terminate its use mid-trial.
A drug with remdesivir’s profile was not a good candidate for much of anything. It’s not that it just wasn’t effective against Ebola; it’s toxic. Why would Fauci even consider it?
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr explains one reason in his book The Real Anthony Fauci (TRAF). It has to do with perception. The NIH had to appear to be doing something about the pandemic in the short term, even though the long-term goal was the vaccine. RFK, Jr states:
“Optics required that NIH devote some resources to antiviral therapeutic drugs; critics would complain if [Fauci] spent billions on vaccines and nothing on therapeutics. However any licensed, repurposed antiviral that was effective against Covid for prevention or early treatment…could kill his entire vaccine program because FDA wouldn’t be able to grant his jabs Emergency Use Authorization. Remdesivir, however, was an IV remedy, appropriate only for use on hospitalized patients in the late stages of illness. It would therefore not compete with vaccines.” (TRAF p. 64 emphasis added)
The fact that the FDA’s advisory committee, the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC), the one that met today and voted to recommend to the FDA to grant the EUA (for the Covid-19 vaccines) that’s really important…because what it shows is that the process that we have here in the United States is, decisions and recommendations are made by independent bodies…we want to make sure that we impress the American public that decisions that involve their health and safety are made outside of the realm of politics, outside of the realm of self-aggrandizement, and are made, in essence, by independent groups.Dr. Anthony Fauci
Director NIAID
December 11, 2020
Dr. Fauci states that decisions involving American’s health and safety are made “outside of the realm of politics,” but nothing could be further from the truth. The other reason RFK, Jr. gives for Fauci’s interest in remdesivir is money. National Institutes of Health (NIH) employees are allowed to put their name on patents, and thereby profit from product approval. For example, NIH is listed on the patent for Moderna. Tellingly, Anthony Fauci’s household net worth increased during the pandemic from $7.5 million to $12.6 million.
In addition to the conflict of interest at NIH, with employees profiting from products they approve, a large portion of the operating budget for NIH, which includes agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is provided by pharmaceutical companies – the very companies whose products the FDA regulates. In short, there was money to be had in remdesivir, and none to be had by using already approved medicines that were no longer under patent restrictions, and therefore inexpensive.
Investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson found that at the time of the remdesivir review, eleven members of the NIH’s Covid-19 Treatment Guidelines panel had financial ties to Gilead. A review of the panel members during the past year finds myriad relationships between NIH panel members and various drug companies. Gilead, flush with the prospect of remdesivir becoming the treatment for Covid, predicted remdesivir would bring in $3.5 billion in 2020 alone.
In April 2020, knowing remdesivir’s dismal and dangerous profile, Fauci’s NIAID began the clinical portion of a 29-day remdesivir trial on hospitalized US volunteers. The Protocol Details Summary states that, “The drug has been tested before in people with other diseases,” but neglects to mention its complete failure in the Ebola trial.
Before Fauci’s remdesivir study was completed, a study conducted in China was released that should have put remdesivir out of the running.
The Chinese study found that intravenous remdesivir:
In short, patients were worse off taking remdesivir than if they received the placebo.
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Remdesivir=GrimDeathIsNear
Its alternative name is: Run Death is Near.
Enough said.
I’m convinced it was what killed my MIL.
remember president trump was treated with it, and he, at one time praised it.
https://www.science.org/content/article/heres-what-known-about-president-donald-trump-s-covid-19-treatment
On 2 October, the White House announced President Donald Trump received an experimental antibody treatment after a test revealed he’s infected with SARS-CoV-2. At the time, he reportedly had mild COVID-19 symptoms, including fever and congestion, and he was transferred to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Later, the president’s medical team confirmed he had started a course of remdesivir, an antiviral drug shown to modestly help hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Two days later, on 4 October, the team revealed Trump had been given a steroid normally reserved for severe COVID-19 cases, although his physician offered optimism about a quick recovery, even suggesting he might soon be discharged from Walter Reed.
Granted my experience like Trump's is anecdotal, but I do believe Remdizivir helped us both.
I know two it killed. They aren’t here to tell their story.
They continually tried to force it on my wife when she was the hospital with Covid. She told them at least four times she didn’t want it. Once they tried to slip it in with some other meds they were giving her. After three days they stopped and the next day they through her out, though she probably needed a couple more days of oxygen therapy.
My mother concurs.
Ping!
mark
The hospital was charging over $3K per dose. I was barred from the facility for questioning their judgment.
However, I was left wondering if they ever looked at my history. I had stage III kidney disease already. I feel lucky to have survived at all.
“Later, the president’s medical team confirmed he had started a course of remdesivir, an antiviral drug shown to modestly help hospitalized COVID-19 patients.”
I believe your reference is suspect. When President Trump got out of the hospital, I remember that he praised Regeneron (monoclonal antibodies) for his recovery, not Remdesivir. But leave it to the “experts” to slip Remdesivir into a story.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/16/covid-19-antibody-drug-used-to-treat-president-trump-isnt-getting-to-americans.html
Personal anecdote. I refused Remdesivir when I was admitted to the hospital suffering from acute respiratory failure from Covid pneumonia. I accepted the Dexamethasone and three liters of oxygen. Two days later, I was released to recover at home. The steroids are what is really needed to shut down the extreme immune response (cytokine storm) to the spike protein, which is itself toxic. Remdesivir is has a track record of causing liver damage and kidney failure.
Of course, for early onset symptoms, Ivermectin and HCQ are excellent choices for avoiding the cytokine storm. But then, the FDA would not be able to allow an emergency authorization of the Covid-19 vaccines or the Rem-Death-Is-Near. You got lucky, many others didn’t have such luck.
I had a friend they insisted on giving Remdesivir and she adamantly refused and asked for alternatives and the hospital refused any other treatment than 4 liters of oxygen. Her breathing was down to 75% and they would not discharge her or allow family to visit her. She made a video on her phone about the situation and blasted it to her family and friends. It was difficult to watch her writing on her arms, no remdesivir and gasping for air.
A friend saw the video and contacted an attorney and a state representatives wife and they asked my friend if she wanted out of this hospital and she said yes and they set things in motion to get her released. My friend with full blown covid had the hospital administrator and head nurse in her room early that morning begging her to let them treat her and not leave, she refused and the treatment by the staff increasingly became more and more hostile until she was released. She was released and placed under another doctors care at home, increased oxygen, some antibiotics, breathing treatments, steroids and huge doses of Ivermectin and within a week was feeling great.
That hospital was going to collect their government$ for putting yet another patient on Remdesivir and killing them. I have two more family friends they did this too and murdered—they knew. One doctor told the family usually they are dead within 7-10 days of getting Remdesivir and this old lady hung on in agony for a month. Another one had a Do Not Resituate and the daughter demanded they honor it but allowed the Remdesivir. The daughter was not allowed to see her mom and she essentially starved to death after 3 weeks in the hospital. The funeral director knew the woman and picked the body up and said she went from a normal sized woman to an emaciated wreck upon her death.
Same here
In October 2021 I was hospitalized with covid pnumonia. They gave me 5 doses of Remdesivir. In February of 2023, I was diagnosed with a kidney tumor. They had to remove my entire right kidney. I asked my cancer doctor about a connection with Remdesivir, but he wouldn’t comment. I asked him about how long he though that I had the tumor, based on how large it was. He said, “A little over a year.”
My nephew had three young men die in beds around him. He kept asking for ivermectin and they refused to give it to him. He told his doctor if he was murdered as these three men, his wife was going to sue him for everything he owned and she would make sure he never treated anyone again. That's what it took for my nephew Will to be here today.
Notice how we have a doctor shortage and we're being pushed to have nurse practitioners now?
My wife was hospitalized with covid for five days back in 2019. They treated her with remdesivir and she came home with no issues. So far. I wound up in the ER and was treated with monoclonal antibodies and felt almost immediately better. Newport Hospital was pushing the vax pretty hard, which we both refused. Oddly enough, we never received a bill for any of this.
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