A Myth is Born: How CDC, FDA, and Media Wove a Web of Ivermectin Lies That Outlives The Truth

substack.com ^ | Dec 23, 2021 | Linda Bonvie and Mary Beth Pfeiffer

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Now, Scrase has acknowledged that his repeated, what he called “offhand,” assertions were groundless. Two deaths were not caused by ivermectin, a long-used generic drug that was emerging as a covid treatment. Instead, he said that the pair died because they “actually just delayed their care with covid.” 

That is a big difference.

Scrase backpedaled on December 1 in a little-noticed online press briefing and only after we pressed his agency to provide evidence for its claims of so-called “ivermectin deaths.” Officials had repeatedly said they were awaiting a toxicology report on the cattleman’s death. Yet we learned that the report was never even ordered or done, and, moreover, the man’s death was ruled by the state’s coroner as being from “natural” causes.

Not a single media outlet reported Scrase’s admission, even as dozens, including the The Hill and The New York Times, had eagerly covered his original assertions about ivermectin, an anti-parasitic drug awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2015. “I don’t want more people to die,” read one early headline, quoting Scrase. “It’s the wrong medicine for something really serious,” Scrase said in the Times article.

Doctors, scientists, and toxicologists worldwide were puzzled by the assertions, because ivermectin is an extraordinarily safe, FDA-approved drug. A fixture on the WHO’s list of 100 essential medicines all hospital systems are recommended to carry, nearly four billion doses have been given in four decades.

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[JayAr36]

A Myth is Born: How CDC, FDA, and Media Wove a Web of Ivermectin Lies That Outlives The Truth

CDC are little more than paper shufflers. No diagnosis ability

FDA is controlled entirely by the pharmas and do their bidding entirely.

Media, well we certainly know by now what constitutes their reporting. Nothing but democrook lackeys and get their daily orders as to what and how to report.

[sockmonkey]

Ivermectin is horse paste. Would you use horse paste?

Surprise, if you use Voltaren or Diclofenac for arthritic joints, it’s horse paste, too.

It’s sold under the name of Surpass for horses.

The topical cream, called Surpass, contains a 1% concentration of diclofenac sodium, a common anti-inflammatory agent for people available under a number of names, including Voltaren. Surpass cream is approved by the Food and Drug Administration for direct application to sore joints in horses.

I love my Pony Pastes!

[ptsal]

Bkmk ivermectin

[Pajamajan]

Imagine that... THEY ALL LIED. DOES ANYONE THINK THEY WOULD LIE ABOUT OTHER THINGS?

🤔

[dsrtsage]

Ivermectin didn’t make billions for cronies

[CedarDave]

I live in New Mexico, I’m several months shy of 80, had the J&J clotshot last March and survived. Since last summer I’ve been on an Ivermectin preventive weekly protocol with tablets prescribed by my LPN and filled by Walgreens. Also on the immune system enhancement protocol with daily vitamin C and D3, zinc and quercetin. I’ve been free of covid and will continue the protocol as long as necessary. No second or booster shots, I’m perfectly happy with the protocols though I did get a senior flu shot last fall. So far enjoying good health while others younger than me are having sudden deaths following the deathjabs.

[joshua c]

they have blood on their hands

[CedarDave]

The Texan is one of two individuals who, according to repeated statements from New Mexico officials, died from “ivermectin toxicity.” While their identities were not revealed by the department of health, a source familiar with the cases released them to us during this investigation.

Documents and interviews with those knowledgeable about the death of the rancher tell a different story than the narrative put forth by New Mexico health officials.

When the cattleman arrived at the ER on the evening of September 2 with his wife, he was soon diagnosed as suffering from acute dehydration as well as being covid positive.

His daughter arrived at the hospital several hours later.

In an interview, she told of the surprise eightieth birthday party for her dad the weekend before, where eight of the eleven family members attending ended up with covid. Everyone seemed to have mild symptoms, she recalled.

With her dad in New Mexico and not feeling well, she suggested he be checked out. “My father was not very good at keeping himself hydrated,” she said, and at that point he didn’t seem to be drinking at all.

He arrived at the hospital dehydrated to the point that his kidneys had become damaged, doctors told the family. Lacking a proper dialysis machine at the Lincoln County Medical Center, the family was told that they were trying to locate another hospital to send him to. Unfortunately, he never made it out of Ruidoso, dying on September 3.

But what happened while his wife and daughter anxiously waited outside the ICU, soon after being informed that the Texan was likely going to pass away, struck them as most peculiar.

His daughter recalled a “very puzzling” phone call her mother received—so disturbing, in fact, that she felt like “yanking the phone from her.”

An unknown man was on the line asking if her father took ivermectin. It was the only time she remembers that particular drug being discussed in the hospital. “I feel like they were pushing her. It was really irritating,” she said, adding, “it was not a doctor or nurse, but mom cannot remember who it was or what they represented.”

They were most interested, she recalled, in grilling her mother about her dad’s use of Ivomec.

At the very next press briefing, Dr. Scrase announced that a “reliable source” reported the state’s “first death” from someone who took ivermectin. While he hedged his bets about the role of ivermectin—and mentioned delayed care—he nonetheless repeatedly characterized the man’s death and one other as specifically being caused by ivermectin.

However, the cattleman’s death certificate, filed at the end of September, says otherwise. It stated he passed away from “natural” causes. His death was not listed as requiring any type of “pending investigation,” and the medical examiner’s office confirmed the fact that no autopsy or toxicology report was done.

But Dr. Scrase’s original tale proved to be very popular with the media. USA Today liked it so much the paper released several versions. “Two die of ivermectin poisoning,” it announced the same day the death certificate was officiated. Five days after that, a headline in The Hill trumpeted, “New Mexico reports two deaths from ivermectin.”

The New Mexico Department of Health has yet to respond to any questions about why a straightforward correction was not made to the media early on regarding the two deaths that were erroneously attributed to ivermectin. It is also not clear why at a recent press briefing the agency was continuing to perpetuate this fallacy even after admitting it was untruthful, rather than correcting the record—and why they have alleged another ivermectin-related death, again without offering any evidence to that effect.

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[wjcsux]

I am in my late 60’s and have taken very good care of myself through the years. I doubled down on my vitamin regimen when the China virus first appeared. I caught covid about a year ago. I felt like crap for about four days. I took lots of vitamins, particularly D3, C, magnesium and zinc. Drank lots of water and orange juice. I got over the cough, aches and fever. I kept moving to clear out the crap in my lungs. After about 1 1/2 weeks, I felt fine.
I didn’t take any of the jabs.

[LegendHasIt]

I just spent two weeks at that hospital. They recently spent many millions of taxpayer dollars (the outfit that runs the hospital gets a nice chunk of the village and county sales tax.) to build themselves a completely new, fancy facility....
that no longer has the equipment nor the doctors to do what they could do there 20 years ago.

Beyond that, I have a big long story I’d like to share of my recent experience, but dare not because it might get back to people who I still have to deal with.

But let me say this; Most of the overworked and under appreciated nurses and nurses techs that took care of me were excellent.

[gitmo]

An elderly friend, 85 years of age, who is very active and healthy is in the hospital with COVID pneumonia. It’s not looking good.

They say the medical care is slipshod, but it may be the staff is stressed.

I wonder if I could take him some ivermectin.

[minnesota_bound]

They committed genocide.