Posted on 03/10/2022 6:38:45 AM PST by MtnClimber
Alittle-known safe, and potentially life-saving drug for treating patients with severe, late-stage COVID, was purposefully ignored by U.S. health officials, and a group of Congressional Republicans led by Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson are demanding to know why.
ZYESAMI (off-patent aviptadil) has shown promise as a treatment for COVID patients who are suffering with severe lung inflammation following an excessive immune response known as a “cytokine storm.” The drug is available through the “Right to Try” law—passed by Congress in 2018—but the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) have failed to recommend it, so it remains largely unknown as a treatment option.
Unlike repurposed drugs like Hydroxychloroquine, and Ivermectin, before the pandemic, Aviptadil already had a track record for treating pulmonary inflammation conditions.
According to the Blaze’s Daniel Horowitz, the FDA allowed aviptadil to be prescribed to treat patients with Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) under the “orphan drug designation” way back in 2001. Orphan drugs are pharmaceutical agents that are not profitable because they treat rare medical conditions, and thus require government assistance to produce. They are used to treat life-threatening or chronically debilitating conditions affecting less than 200,000 patients.
Aviptadil was also awarded the orphan drug destination for pulmonary arterial hypertension in 2005, and for pulmonary sarcoidosis in 2021, Horowitz reported. Unfortunately, it has never been fully approved by the FDA.
In a letter to NIAID Director Anthony Fauci and FDA Commissioner Robert Califf, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) demanded to know why public health officials ignored three Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) requests from the drug manufacturer, NRx Pharmaceuticals, and refused to review data on ZYESAMI’s efficacy against COVID.
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What, the horse paste?
He won’t even get a response. The federal agencies don’t bother to answer Republican questions or letters.
And why should they? There are never any consequences for not replying.
Anything that was effective had to be demonized, otherwise the plandemic might not spread enough.
Very good. Needs to be repeated.
And they will continue to ignore him.
And if they do respond, what is he going to do? Outrage on them?
So if a drug is approved but unavailable...... You know like the ones that are being given under the EUA labeled vials that have approved(difference?) stock piles stamped on the vials not being distributed. Just wondering. But, not interested in getting any of it. And how many millions of doses are being sent to the land fill now?
Because Viagra was developed as a ventilator drug originally.
Recall the story of the nurse intubated into last week of life. With 3 days before they pulled the plug, her family slipped her a viagra. She was up and out of there 2 days later.
My response:
“Duh.”
The question - and the crimes perpetrated by the government to the benefit of Big Pharma and this ‘mandate’ nonsense - will never be investigated; I have no confidence in the converse.
That stated, if 800,000 angry families rose up in asking the same question, the results might be a bit different.
But I have very little confidence in the latter either...
Because Viagra was developed as a ventilator drug originally.
Viagra is sildenafil, a generic drug to treat high blood pressure. During testing, subjects reported that while it lowered blood pressure, it raised other things.
You are correct. It was developed for agina, for which it proved of limited use. But some of the trial patients refused to return the unused pills, as you alluded to.
Regardless, it demonstrated that the autonomy of Doctor-patient treatment was removed from the public for the first time in my lifetime.
“Anything that was effective had to be demonized, otherwise the plandemic might not spread enough.”
Covid hasn’t killed enough people on SS...gotta get rid of lots of older folks so they don’t get to collect what they worked their lives to earn. Need to bump off another several million, killing them either with the vaccine or failure to provide effective treatment for covid.
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