Figure 1: Hospitalizations, Fatalities & Mobility following Ivermectin-based Test & Treat Program in Mexico (Source: Juan Chamie @jjchamie) Used with permission of FLCCC, https://covid19criticalcare.com.
Posted on 06/02/2021 7:19:17 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
This is a personal and unusual letter to my friends around the globe. I am writing to you in the context of this global pandemic which has claimed the lives of over 2 million people around the globe. We are witnessing often-conflicting political, socio-economic and for-profit motives affecting pandemic response, with dramatic impact especially on developing nations.
I have given the following matter a lot of time and energy, interviewing many people. I believe that many nations are still unaware that ivermectin is a widely-available low-cost drug—used for over 40 years for treatment of parasitic infections—which prevents transmission, hastens recovery, decreases hospitalizations and decreases mortality in COVID-19, all with a strong safety profile.
I urge you to read my summary article below. It is all taken from publicly-available sources on the Internet.
This is a personal project of mine, and not affiliated with any of the ministries with whom I work. Our objective in this project is to educate national and religious leaders in the potential of ivermectin as a bridge until vaccines become available, or as an option to help those who for some reason cannot get vaccines … with the hopes that lives will be saved and the impact of the pandemic will be reduced.
The following summary is intended for educational purposes only and does not replace independent professional judgement. Statements of fact and opinions expressed in this document are personal opinions of mine and not the opinions of any of the organizations with which I am affiliated, nor of my representatives. Nothing in this document should be taken as medical advice. Sick individuals should speak with their primary care physician to discuss any symptoms and appropriate treatment. I and people working with me on this initiative (such as David) volunteering our time and not benefiting in any way financially, and we do not endorse or approve, nor do we assume any responsibility for the content, accuracy or completeness of the information presented.
Earlier this month, Frontline Covid Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC.net)[1] and Evidence-Based Medicine Consultancy Ltd (E-BMC Ltd)[2] co-launched the I-MASS Protocol for countries seeking to use ivermectin-based treatments for both prevention and at home treatment of COVID-19. This is a critical step in developing safe, inexpensive and highly-scalable recommendations for governments seeking solutions for the pandemic. Prior to I-MASS we have already seen numerous regions & countries employ large-scale ivermectin-based prevention & treatment programs, notably Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, Mexico City (Figure 1), and Indian states of Goa, Karnataka and Uttarakhand. Similar success stories can be found in Panama (Figure 2), the Dominican Republic, Zimbabwe and South Africa.
Figure 1: Hospitalizations, Fatalities & Mobility following Ivermectin-based Test & Treat Program in Mexico (Source: Juan Chamie @jjchamie) Used with permission of FLCCC, https://covid19criticalcare.com.
Figure 2: COVID-19 Cases & Fatalities in Panama before and after Ivermectin adoption for early treatment (Source: Juan Chamie @jjchamie) Used with permission of FLCCC, https://covid19criticalcare.com.
Ivermectin is an anti-parasitic medicine whose discovery won the Nobel Prize in 2015. It has proven highly potent anti-viral (including SARS-CoV-2) and anti-inflammatory properties and exhibits multiple mechanisms of inhibition, with overwhelming scientific evidence backing its use against COVID-19 as documented in Dr. Paul Marik’s extensive “Guide to the Management of COVID-19”. The disease transitions rapidly through a viral replication period (post-exposure incubation & symptomatic) and an inflammatory period, requiring different pharmacological treatments in each phase (Figure 3).
Figure 3: The Phases of COVID-19. Viral replication is severely diminished/absent by time of hospitalization. Non-viable RNA fragments of SARS-CoV-2 provoke overwhelming inflammatory response (Source Dr. Pierre Kory, FLCCC) Used with permission of FLCCC, https://covid19criticalcare.com.
Ivermectin has been shown to prevent transmission of COVID-19 pre- or post-exposure, and hastens recovery, decreases hospitalization & mortality in patients with COVID-19. Where much-hyped medications such as hydroxychloroquine provide unclear or no benefit in early phases, and even trend to harm in the inflammatory phase, ivermectin provides a benefit in all stages of the disease (Figure 4).
Figure 4: Pharmacological therapy for COVID-19 by stage of illness: What has worked and what has failed (based on randomized controlled trials). (Source Dr. Paul Marik, A Guide to the Management of COVID-19, FLCCC) Used with permission of FLCCC, https://covid19criticalcare.com.
Numerous controlled clinical trials from multiple centers and countries worldwide are reporting consistent, large improvements in COVID-19 patient outcomes when treated with ivermectin. Ivermectin is recognized globally as an essential medicine. It is exceedingly safe with a safety record spanning 3.7 billion doses over 40 years worldwide. It has a better safety profile than remdesivir, ibuprofen or Aspirin.
“Ivermectin is one of the world’s safest, cheapest and most widely available drugs … The studies we presented to the NIH revealed high levels of statistical significance showing large magnitude benefit in transmission rates, need for hospitalization and death,”
according to Dr. Kory, who was a resource for the US Senate Congress on COVID-19. It is off-patent and can therefore be produced in a cost-efficient manner ensuring equity and global access. Ivermectin use leads to far lower case-fatality rates in regions with widespread use. Finally, due to its mechanism of action, the effects of ivermectin are independent of SARS-CoV2 strain. Ivermectin is believed to block import of viral proteins into the human cell nucleus by inhibiting viral enzymes needed for viral replication, and by preventing viral suppression of the human immune response.
Numerous indicators suggest, however, that a disinformation campaign against ivermectin is keeping needed treatment from those who need it most. All COVID-19 vaccines currently in use are being used under Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs), which mandate that no alternative cure exists on the market. Were national regulators to approve a cheap, off-patent medication such as ivermectin, EUAs for these vaccines could be impacted, costing major losses to pharmaceutical companies. According to pharmaceutical Industry Analyst, Josh Schimmer, “the total market for COVID-19 vaccines would be worth $100 billion in sales and $40 billion in post-tax profits” (larger than the GDP of many smaller nations), and this does not account for any annual booster shots, if needed. Moreover, pharmaceutical companies are currently heavily invested in lucrative novel treatments. As documented in the 2018 award-winning “Trust Who” documentary by Lilian Franck and Thomas Schlottmann, and chronicled in award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Gerald Posner’s most recent book “Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America” (2020), there is much controversy behind the pharmaceutical industry, and its tight relationships with national regulators. There is no need to become a conspiracy theorist to see that certain players are not incented to see the pandemic come to an end quickly, nor would they benefit from wide-spread adoption of a drug like ivermectin. Indeed some are starting to question whether there is a larger human rights question at hand, whether regulatory reform is needed, and doctors in the UK, Canada, US, South Africa and other nations are questioning whether the medical profession is being forced to go against the very Hippocratic oath that so many have committed to.
The ethical question, then, is what our response should be. Future generations will judge us based on our response to this pandemic. People are dying, economies are devastated, nations are under lockdown, and additional health issues are being spawned as a result of these lockdowns. We are not against vaccines, however there will always be some who cannot get a vaccine, and many regions need a bridge until vaccines become available to their citizens. Ivermectin-based treatment protocols exist today for prevention and treatment of COVID-19. The I-MASS Mass Distribution Protocol gives governments guidance in how to widely-deploy these treatments safely across entire populations. The drug is cheap, widely available, and has a proven safety record. It can—and should—be used today to save lives and speed economic recovery.
[1] FLCCC is a U.S based non-profit humanitarian organization made up of renowned, world-expert clinician-researchers whose sole mission over the past year has been to develop and disseminate the most effective treatment protocols for covid-19.
[2] E-BMC Ltd is a UK-based independent medical research company that contributes to the quality of healthcare globally through the rigorous evaluation of medical evidence to support clinical practice guidelines.
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My doctor prescribed Ivermectin for the entire family when one of us tested positive.
The Deep State doesn’t want those lives saved.
The shocking aspect of all of this is that Big Tech and Big Pharma know ivermectin is a cheap, effective, safe solution.
Unbelievable !
“KENILWORTH, N.J., Feb. 4, 2021 – Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today affirmed its position regarding use of ivermectin during the COVID-19 pandemic. Company scientists continue to carefully examine the findings of all available and emerging studies of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19 for evidence of efficacy and safety. It is important to note that, to-date, our analysis has identified:
No scientific basis for a potential therapeutic effect against COVID-19 from pre-clinical studies;
No meaningful evidence for clinical activity or clinical efficacy in patients with COVID-19 disease”
https://www.merck.com/news/merck-statement-on-ivermectin-use-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/
Donald Trump is walking & talking evidence that another drug is clearly superior to ivermectin.
RE: My doctor prescribed Ivermectin for the entire family when one of us tested positive.
How is your family and how’s the condition of the family member who tested positive? ( How long ago was this anyway?)
RE: Donald Trump is walking & talking evidence that another drug is clearly superior to ivermectin.
I’m sure it is, but is Regeneron ( I’m sure you’re referring to this ) available all over the world?
How available is it to people in the USA who are not the President?
RE: Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today affirmed its position regarding use of ivermectin during the COVID-19 pandemic.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3935240/posts
FLCCC Alliance Response to Merck’s public statements on Ivermectin’s efficacy in COVID-19
This is a point by point response to Merck’s public position.
I don’t know how you find all these articles, but I want to thank you for taking the time to find and post them :)
That was early April. All four of us tested positive.
Two got pneumonia and are now recovering. My wife is one of those. She has sarcoidosis and has taken HCQ for decades. The sarcoidosis probably made her more susceptible to a respiratory infection.
Two, including myself, had no symptoms.
Merck is developing more profitable anti-COVID drugs that they’d rather sell instead of ivermectin.
RE: don’t know how you find all these articles
Simple, I m a member of the MeWe.com Ivermectin group.
MeWe is an competing social media site to Facebook, which BANS any articles that even presents the benefits of Ivermectin or Hydroxychloroquine.
RE: Merck is developing more profitable anti-COVID drugs that they’d rather sell instead of ivermectin.
Well, more power to them. I know they’re testing Molnupiravir, an oral drug that is supposed to act like Ivermectin or is even better during the early, mild and moderate stages of Covid.
But why trash Ivermectin in the process? Molnupiravir is still in the early Phase III testing stage.
We’re going to have to wait till late 2021 or early 2022 for EUA or Approval.
And then what? How much will it cost? Will it be free like the vaccines? And in the meantime, how many more billions of people here and abroad will have to wait for this?
This debate over either you use this or you use that is silly.
We have to use every single tool at our disposal to fight this disease. Ivermectin included.
RE: That was early April. All four of us tested positive.
Bottom line, did Ivermectin help your family? Does your doctor still believe in it and prescribe it today?
I believe you’re referring to remdesivir. It’s a very expensive treatment, and not feasible for widespread use.
Remdesivir works, but ivermectin is the best, cheapest, time-tested choice.
Donald Trump is walking & talking evidence that another drug is clearly superior to ivermectin.
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Ivermectin has been in use for 40 years. Extremely safe medication which can be used long term and it appears to be extremely efficacious in treating Covid. It apparently binds to and neutralizes the spike protein associated with Covid.
I have heard of MeWe...Will have to check it out.
Thanks again!
But it ain’t as cheap.
Another article gus Dr. will disprove of.
gus Dr will not like this article as he will claim it to be fictitious and probably will tell us that Ivermectin cannot work for the simple reason hat it has not been duly approved. By now we all should know that ONLY APROVED substances, medications, vitamins as well as nutrients are supposed to work AND DO THE JOB..So please fall in line, do what you are being told by the authorities, get your shot and don’t believe any of these fictitious stories.(sarc)
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