Posted on 03/12/2021 5:47:22 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Doctors fighting COVID-19 should be supported by their profession and their government, not suppressed. Yet today physicians are smothered under a wave of censorship. With coronavirus variants and vaccine hesitancy threatening a prolonged pandemic, the National Institutes of Health and the broader U.S. medical establishment should free doctors to treat this terrible disease with effective medicines.
For centuries, doctors have addressed emerging health threats by prescribing existing drugs for new uses, observing the results, and communicating to their peers and the public what seems to work. In a pandemic, precious time and lives can be lost by an insistence on excessive data and review. But in the current crisis, many in positions of authority have done just that, stubbornly refusing to allow any repurposed treatments. This departure from traditional medical practice risks catastrophe. When doctors on the front lines try to bring awareness of and use such medicines, they get silenced.
I've experienced such censorship firsthand. Early in the pandemic, my research led me to testify in Senate that corticosteroids were life-saving against COVID-19, when all national and international health care agencies recommended against them.
My recommendations were criticized, ignored and resisted such that I felt forced to resign my faculty position. Only later did a large study from Oxford University find they were indeed life-saving. Overnight, they became the standard of care worldwide. More recently, we identified through dozens of trials that the drug ivermectin leads to large reductions in transmission, mortality, and time to clinical recovery. After testifying to this fact in a second Senate appearance — the video of which was removed by YouTube after garnering over 8 million views — I was forced to leave another position.
I was delighted when our paper on ivermectin passed rigorous peer review and was accepted by Frontiers in Pharmacology.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
The abstract was viewed over 102,000 times by people hungry for answers. Six weeks later, the journal suddenly rejected the paper, based on an unnamed “external expert” who stated that “our conclusions were unsupported,” contradicting the four senior, expert peer reviewers who had earlier accepted them. I can’t help but interpret this in context as censorship.
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Vaccines can only be approved under “Emergency Use Authorization” if there is no current effective treatment.
IMO this is an important story, well written, well explained and well reasoned. Thanks for posting it.
Doctors have always had freedom to use drugs for off-label purposes with very minimal interference from the FDA or pharmacy boards... until Covid.
“Vaccines can only be approved under “Emergency Use Authorization” if there is no current effective treatment.”
Yes. Palms got greased to prevent effective treat!ents from immediate approval, and people died. Board seats pay very well. Quid Pro Quo.
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The cure for Covid 19 must be a new high tech vaccine made by the governtment-pharmaceutical industrial complex. Or else.
Pandemic? What pandemic?
Want to know how to end this nonsense? Refuse to participate.
FDA won’t approve harmless drugs for unlabeled purposes used in patients already ill unless they go through ‘phase three’ trials. Yet will approve the use of an experimental vaccine for healthy people with - what -3 or 4 months of trials. Clownworld
Just insane and evil.
we keep warning folks that something supernatural is very close to happening, to remove the Body of Christ from such an evil inveigles realm, sadly, people just refuse to believe evil is running things or even that there is evil in the world.
“But...Mr. Gates is a great humanitarian who cares about people like me!!!” :)
Fauci and his buddies would not get their royalties.
You know - I also have used the word ‘demonic’ when talking about what is behind the cultural agenda and I am not some hyper-spiritual Christian seeing demons like a Frank Peretti novel. I am part of the ‘frozen chosen’ (Reformed Baptist). But there is something sinister going on. “By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.” Shakespeare. Do not breath in the miasma of the progressives. Cheers FRiend
Sad that Fauci’s $417,000/year as highest paid gov’t employee is not enough...
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