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House panel opens inquiry into online businesses over ‘questionable’ coronavirus treatments and misinformation
WaPo ^ | 29 October 2021 | Aaron Gregg

Posted on 10/29/2021 10:54:31 PM PDT by blueplum

A House panel is demanding documents from a pair of online businesses as part of an inquiry into whether they pushed what it calls ineffective and dangerous coronavirus treatments, according to letters made public Friday.

According to a letter signed by Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.), chairman of the House Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, the telemedicine provider SpeakWithAnMD.com has collected millions of dollars in fees... through referrals from America’s Frontline Doctors (AFLD), a separate business that is also a subject of the congressional investigation.

Clyburn said he is concerned that the two companies are endangering lives while profiting from a public health crisis....

...According to a report published in August by Time magazine, hundreds of AFLD customers have accused the company of promising prescriptions of ivermectin that were never delivered. Others described being charged exorbitant prices for the cheap medication or watching family members’ conditions worsen while waiting ...

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: afld; blockingalltheexits; brandonslawnjockey; clyburntheclown; congress; covid; didjimmygethimsomei; pandemicprofiting; pricegouging; thesaline; waronivermectin
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Here's the "Covid-19 Consumer Protection Act of 2021" if anyone wants to wade thru 2100 plus pages.

And here's the first case being pursued against a Dr. Nepute

1 posted on 10/29/2021 10:54:31 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: blueplum
Blockbuster Buried by MSM: 100-200 Members of Congress Successfully Treated for Covid-19 with Ivermectin with ZERO Hospitalizations
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4007140/posts

Wonder if Jimmy got his Vitamin I?  thinking face face with tears of joy face with tears of joy

2 posted on 10/29/2021 10:59:04 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: blueplum

Demonizing alternatives to the poisons labeled COVID vaccines is wrong.


3 posted on 10/29/2021 10:59:25 PM PDT by Arcadian Empire
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To: Arcadian Empire

Jimmy got him The Saline, and a medicine cabinet full of Vitamin I.


4 posted on 10/29/2021 11:01:34 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: blueplum
From the complaint against Doctor Nepute:

In addition, the complaint alleges that the defendants falsely claimed that their products provide equal or better protection against COVID-19 than currently available COVID-19 vaccines.

How does the Foetid Turd Counters [FTC] KNOW that it's a false claim?

Because they said so?

Scientifically speaking, I don't see where either side of that argument can claim ascendance.

5 posted on 10/29/2021 11:07:15 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: blueplum

If the supply of ivermectin is being restricted that would mean the cost would go up, am I wrong? Guess who is restricting the importation and distribution. The U.S. government. This also means it will take longer to get the medication and provide it for patients.


6 posted on 10/29/2021 11:09:59 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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Guess who is restricting the importation and distribution. The U.S. government.

It's like the @ssholes who slashed your tires mocking you for not being able to drive your car.

7 posted on 10/29/2021 11:11:55 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: kiryandil

that, Vit D is ‘better,’ claim is what got him in hot water.

If the below is accurate, Vit D deficiency is not an ethnic white problem, comprising only 6% of the ‘severely deficient’ group, and, of those ‘deficient’, in the group with a bmi over 30. Which brings in to play the whole lifestyle, morbidities and nutritional history effect on succeptibility to infection of any kind. And making Vit D by itself not much more than a bit player in their disease processes, because “The median vitamin D levels of the COVID-19 seropositive and seronegative groups were not significantly different”

“54.9% of the participants were positive for anti-SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein antibodies. The median vitamin D levels of the COVID-19 seropositive and seronegative groups were not significantly different... In the severely deficient category, the proportion of individuals who are ≥ 50 years of age are less than those in the < 50 years of age. Individuals who are < 50 years of age are more likely to be in the vitamin D deficient category than in the sufficient category.
“A significantly more significant proportion of individuals in the BAME group (40%) constituted the severely deficient vitamin D category when compared to the white ethnic group (6.6%). The individuals in the BAME subgroup are more likely to belong to the severe vitamin D deficient category than the deficient category.”
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20211017/Does-vitamin-D-deficiency-increase-the-risk-of-SARS-CoV-2-infections.aspx


8 posted on 10/30/2021 12:04:39 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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The study had 379 participants

Limitations of the study

The study had numerous limitations. First, multiple ethnicities were aggregated into the single BAME group, so further subcategorization of ethnicities was not investigated.

There may be a possibility of seasonal variation in vitamin D levels though participants were all recruited in May to reduce the effect of seasonal variation. In addition, the disease severity was not considered, which may affect the interpretation of results.

My belief is that most people are unaware of their vitamin D levels, and that there are factors affecting their actual vitamin D absorption.

And no, supplements are not a magic bullet for topping off one's D levels.

9 posted on 10/30/2021 12:33:33 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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Will these Democrats be investigated for possible corruption, kickbacks, malfeasance, and racketeering, in conjuction with Big Pharma, and trying to FORCE, what appears to be an ineffective, and sometimes dangerous, "vaccine" on EVERYONE?

🤔

10 posted on 10/30/2021 12:46:50 AM PDT by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. NEVER be a peaceful quiet slave in a new socialist America.)
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To: kiryandil

That is exactly it.


11 posted on 10/30/2021 1:43:51 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: kiryandil

“Effectiveness”
of a medicine for the treatment of a politically protected disease is a political definition.


12 posted on 10/30/2021 4:22:25 AM PDT by arthurus (covfefe nm)
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To: kiryandil

Had a physical this year.

Didn’t even bother last year.

Went in for my bloodwork, and for the first time ever there was a Vitamin D level included.

Since I was okay with that, I said fine.

Level was fine, too.

Have yet to get an explanation for why that was included this year.


13 posted on 10/30/2021 4:31:24 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: lastchance

My Rx for Ivermectin is eligible for refill tomorrow. It will be interesting to see if it will be filled.


14 posted on 10/30/2021 5:12:04 AM PDT by Salvey
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To: blueplum

Please Clyburn, Invite me to testify.

I spent my own money dealing with a telemed doctor who’s not afraid of you government flunkies. Said doctor prescribed Ivermectin that could be taken as a preventative dose or in the event I acquired a case of the Wuhan Red Death.

I paid cash money to get the prescription filled at a pharmacy. My own cash money.

A few weeks later, the Wuhan Red Death, otherwise known as Kung Flu and the China Virus caught up with me. I immediately began taking Ivermectin at the prescribed dosage. While I was clearly ill for a few days, the symptoms were very mild and I bounced back rapidly. My wife follwed me into the China Virus abyss a few days later and experienced the same results.

Any questions Congressman?


15 posted on 10/30/2021 6:39:25 AM PDT by cyclotic (Live your life in such a way that they hate you as much as they hated Rush Limbaugh)
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“Misinformation” has become a code word/phrase, like “our democracy”.

When you hear it, it tells you a lot about the person(s) using it.

I am (if I do say so myself) a COVID expert. I deal with COVID every day. The percentage of known/unknown ESSENTIAL FACTS to make good COVID decisions or policy is no greater than 50/50.

“Misinformation” is a word crafted to impugn the informer.
Information is right, or it is wrong, or it’s someone’s opinion.. A lot of OPINIONS are either “proven”, “suspected”, “speculation”, “guesses”, “mistakes”, or “lies”.

“Misinformation”, as applied to COVID, simply means “deviation from current official accounts”.

And since current official accounts about COVID can and do change, sometimes with astonishing speed, most “misinformation” describes things that need more investigation.


16 posted on 10/30/2021 6:48:56 AM PDT by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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To: kiryandil

The Chutzpah Express is boarding.


17 posted on 10/30/2021 7:24:19 AM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: blueplum

the attack on drug therapies continues

must protect the vaxx


18 posted on 10/30/2021 11:22:47 AM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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the ‘misinformation’ angle aside,

If people are price gouging, either on product or ‘consult fees’ just because of a pandemic, people who were gouged are entitled to a refund of the overcharge. Take pandemic telemedicine - isn’t there a $50/call billable limit during the pandemic? I’m sure I read something about a cap somewhere. Did the telemed co. charge more than that? How much more? Did they violate any laws by disallowing insurance billing and accepting only cash? If someone jacked up the price of what was ordered or took money and never sent product, then there should be a penalty for that too.

I dunno how well a lawsuit for someone who died waiting for a promise would go in a courtroom, since the survivors would have to prove it was lack of that item that specifically caused death. But I doubt a jury, or judge, would be very sympathetic to a vendor if there are complaints that people got sicker waiting on the mailman, and received assurances the product was in the mail when it never was. Same as people are trying right now to sue hospitals for not giving unapproved items. Items that should have been experimented with, if they were going to be, well before ICU stage, when it’s obvious massive damage has already been done and the virus is already burning out inside the body, to below contageous levels by 20 or so days ontheaverage.


19 posted on 10/30/2021 9:40:39 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: kiryandil

This is the problem with the “misinformation” charge over COVID treatments.


20 posted on 10/31/2021 8:03:20 AM PDT by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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