Posted on 07/29/2020 7:33:00 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Millions of people have seen a viral video of doctors making false and misleading claims about the coronavirus pandemic.
The physicians in the video are associated with a group called America’s Frontline Doctors, which advocates against official narratives of the coronavirus pandemic.
All of the physicians we fact-checked have a history of making unproven, conspiratorial or bizarre medical claims.
Despite social media platforms’ efforts to remove it, millions of people have seen a viral video of doctors making false and misleading claims about the coronavirus pandemic.
Breitbart, a conservative news outlet, published the 40-plus-minute-long video on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube on July 27. It’s a live stream of a Washington, D.C., press conference organized by the Tea Party Patriots, a conservative group backed by Republican donors. Rep. Ralph Norman. R-S.C., attended the event.
The video went viral after it was widely shared in Facebook groups for anti-vaxxers and people against face masks. Other groups dedicated to conspiracy theories like QAnon further amplified the video. Eventually, public figures like President Donald Trump and Madonna shared it with millions of social media followers.
RELATED: Fact-checking a video of doctors talking about coronavirus, hydroxychloroquine
"There was a group of doctors yesterday, a large group that were put on the internet. For some reason, the internet wanted to take them down and took them off," Trump said during a July 28 press conference. "I don’t know why. I think they’re very respected doctors."
Social media platforms removed the video because it contains several claims that run counter to official recommendations from public health officials. But who are the doctors who made them? PolitiFact investigated.
The physicians in the video are associated with a group called America’s Frontline Doctors, which advocates against official narratives of the coronavirus pandemic. The group, whose now-defunct website was registered on July 16, was in Washington for a "White Coat Summit," after which some of the doctors met with Vice President Mike Pence.
All of the physicians we fact-checked have a history of making unproven, conspiratorial or bizarre medical claims.
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Dr. Stella Immanuel is a Houston-based primary care physician and minister. In the video, she claimed that the coronavirus "has a cure."
"It is called hydroxychloroquine, zinc, and Zithromax," Immanuel said. "I know you people want to talk about a mask. Hello? You don’t need a mask. There is a cure."
We rated that False — and Immanuel has a track record of making unproven medical claims, such as believing in alien DNA.
Immanuel has a Texas medical license with specialties in pediatrics and emergency medicine. She says she has been practicing medicine in the United States or Canada for 24 years. She received her medical degree in Nigeria.
Immanuel operates a clinic in a strip mall next to her church, Firepower Ministries. In sermons published on YouTube and articles on the church’s now-defunct website, first unearthed by the Daily Beast, Immanuel makes several outlandish medical claims.
Among them: Medical problems like cysts are caused by sex with "spirit husbands" and "spirit wives," DNA from aliens is being used in medicine and scientists are developing vaccines to prevent people from being religious.
More recently, Immanuel has doubled down on hydroxychloroquine, which is not a proven treatment (or cure) for COVID-19.
"If you have taken hydroxychloroquine and you have been cured, it’s time to speak up," she said in a July 28 Facebook video.
We reached out to Immanuel for a comment, but we haven’t heard back.
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Dr. Dan Erickson is a California-based osteopath who co-owns an urgent care clinic. In the video, he claimed that state lockdowns have little effect on the coronavirus fatality rate.
"So this measured approach I’m talking about isn’t made up. It’s going on in Sweden, and their deaths are about 564 per million. UK, full lockdown, 600 deaths per million," he said. "So we’re seeing that the lockdowns aren’t decreasing significantly the number of deaths per million."
We found that those numbers are in the ballpark, but they’re cherry-picked. And Erickson has a history of making misleading and unproven claims about the coronavirus.
Erickson co-owns an urgent care clinic in the Bakersfield, Calif., area. He is a former emergency room physician and has a medical license through the Osteopathic Medical Board of California.
In May, Erickson appeared with Dr. Artin Massihi, co-owner of Accelerated Urgent Care, in another viral video called "Plandemic," which is filled with conspiracy theories about the coronavirus pandemic. In it, they claimed that stay-at-home orders and face masks are not necessary because they weaken your immune system. The doctors made similar assertions in an April press conference and on Fox News.
In a joint statement, the American College of Emergency Physicians and the American Academy of Emergency Medicine condemned Erickson and Massihi’s claims, saying that they "strongly advise against using any statements of Drs. Erickson and Massihi as a basis for policy and decision making."
We reached you to Accelerated Urgent Care for a comment, but we haven’t heard back.
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Dr. Simone Gold is the founder of America’s Frontline Doctors and a Los Angeles-based physician. In the video, she made misleading claims about hydroxychloroquine prescriptions and coronavirus case numbers.
"We’re here because we feel as though the American people have not heard from all of the expertise that’s out there all across our country," Gold said at the start of the press conference.
According to the Medical Board of California, Gold holds an active medical license. She specializes in emergency medicine and general practice. She graduated from Rosalind Franklin University’s Chicago Medical School in 1989.
For the past few months, Gold has been involved in a drive aimed at mobilizing doctors that believe states should reopen faster. The Save Our Country Coalition, which seeks to raise millions of dollars, is backed by advocates linked to several conservative organizations, including the FreedomWorks Foundation and the Tea Party Patriots, according to the Guardian.
As part of that effort, hundreds of physicians sent an open letter to Trump in late May that called state shutdowns "a mass casualty incident" — despite evidence that suggests stay-at-home orders prevented new coronavirus cases and deaths. Gold was the first signature on the letter.
Gold has also appeared on conservative talk radio and podcast programs, during which she has advocated for the use of hydroxychloroquine in treating COVID-19 patients. She has donated to several Republican causes in the past, including Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine.
Gold told the Associated Press that she started to speak out about the pandemic because there is "no scientific basis that the average American should be concerned" about COVID-19. (Public health experts say otherwise.)
We reached out to Gold for a comment, but we haven’t heard back.
I laughed when I saw that photo, weren't they wearing their stethoscopes too?
THank you.
In my ongoing debate with liberal siblings about this topic, the criticism of these doctors’ credentials was a chief reason to disparage the Frontline Doctors’ videos.
Of course, this is the goal of all the forces marshalled against sanity in medical practice re: COVID19 treatment with HCQ cocktail.
I simply say that should I or any of my family get COVID, I will be advocating for this treatment regimen for the sick person with all my strength.
Well said!
bookmark and THanks
I saw your earlier post and did not bookmark it, so I would appreciate a link/repost.
Interestingly, I recall years ago seeing an article (may have had an attached study, I can’t recall) speculating (?) that BHT may be responsible for increased longevity. IIRC, there was correlation between introduction of BHT as a food preservative and increased lifespans. Since there are so many other reasons for increased longevity over that time frame, I didn’t think the evidence was that strong, but the anti-viral properties do increase that confidence.
RE: In my ongoing debate with liberal siblings about this topic, the criticism of these doctors’ credentials was a chief reason to disparage the Frontline Doctors’ videos.
It’s easy to check their credentials. Just search their names in Healthgrades.com to see where they are licensed to practice and their academic background. This site also has customer reviews.
For instance, here’s one doctor in Henderson, Ky who has successfully cured CoVid-19 patients with the Hydroxychloroquine cocktail— James Buckmaster. Watch his interview here:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ywdQkZ6gvC8&t=103s
See his credentials and background here:
https://www.healthgrades.com/physician/dr-james-buckmaster-x4xpl
Any skeptic or supporter should at least do their homework before jumping to conclusions. Anybody who dismisses a doctor without checking his background is intellectually lazy.
They assert without providing evidence of misleading claims regarding COVID, relying on the doctors having contradicted the WHO and Fauci, et al. None of this is fact-checking. It is political libel.
Thanks so much for the Interview and credentials of Dr. Buckmaster.
...political libel...
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I have known professionals who held unconventional personal, spiritual or political views. I only care about their professional competence. Perhaps the personal beliefs could impact their performance, but in these cases, it does not appear so.
This can work both ways. Someone could agree with me or with conventional wisdom 100% and also lack professional competence. Again, it is that job performance that is pertinent.
One of the best kept secrets around is BHT and its ability to kill LIPID covered viruses amongst them the corona virus.
BHT short for butylatedhydroxytoluene, has been around for the better part of thirty years or more, has been approved as a food additive by the FDA as safe for human consumption in small quantities and using common sense. Without going into all the details which would fill many pages some of the benefits are difficult to ignore even so pharmaceutical as well as the medical profession does their best to do so. As a prophylactic it would serve its purpose very well until the right vaccine comes along, without any undesirable side effects, besides being inexpensive and is safer than alcohol consumption, use of tobacco or many other unhealthy eating habits, including many prescription dugs with, many of them having undesirable side effects. No doubt whenever you had a prescription filled it came along with a sheet filled with warnings.
Some of the reasons are that that there is no money to be made by pharmaceutical companies as patents related to BHT ran out long time ago and in order to have it approved for medical application it would require an immeasurable amounts of human tests with expenditures in the millions of Dollars which most likely will never be recovered.
On the other hand many doctors may know about it but will refrain from suggesting it as recommending anything which is not approved by the FDA would leave them wide open to lawsuits, as it is pretty well known that one of the American dreams is, to fall on your neighbors property and then sue them for what ever they can get.
Over the years enough information about BHT has surfaced that if used in small quantities to achieve a particular result, such as from 100 mg to about 1g (one gram or 1000mg) and in most cases 250mg to 450mg may do a nice job for some of the things suggested, it may be less harmful than an equivalent amount of Aspirins. Again do your own research and use common sense which appears to be in short supply these days. Should you decide to try don’t go overboard with it, as more is not always better.
Even so if you still apprehensive or hesitant, use it only when one of those nasty viruses appears on the scene and use it as a prophylactic in a small quantity perhaps up to 450 mg and once the danger subside stop taking it. The catch is that in order to do its job BHT works better before you get sick, as BHT will NOT REPAIR ANY DAMAGE which may already have been done by an infectious disease such as the corona virus. Even so, if taken afterwards BHT will still continue to disable lipid covered viruses, but to repair any damage already caused may require different medications.
One suggested way of taking BHT is to dissolve the quantity you intend to take first in oil as BHT is only soluble in either oil or alcohol, I is also much better absorbed by the human body, but alcohol is not recommended to consume along with BHT. One way of doing it is to dissolve 18 grams or 277 grains, if you happen to have a powder scale used for reloading, of BHT in 200 milliliters of olive oil in a small glass bottle. Then heat it up slightly in a microwave for maybe 40 seconds and then shake it a few times. A teaspoon of this substance, depending on its size will give you approx. 450 mg of BHT which in most cases should do the trick.
So why take BHT on the firs place? It has been long known that BHT will damage the lipid layer or cover from LIPID COVERED viruses and the coronavirus happens to be just such one of such viruses and by doing so will prevent such a virus from attaching itself and do its dirty work.
The Principal Benefits of BHT
In order of importance, supplementing with BHT can help with:
Reduce and prevent viral infections such as herpes, thus terminating their outbreaks. But BHT is also effective against many different human and animal viruses including CMV (cytomegalovirus),9 pseudorabies,10 genital herpes,11HIV,12 and many strains of influenza. These are just a few but not all of the viruses that have a lipid envelope and may be killed by BHT include herpes simplex I, herpes simplex II, herpes zoster, CMV, West Nile virus, HIV virus, influenza virus, hepatitis B and C viruses, avian flu influenza virus and the SARS virus. However, BHT has not been clinically tested to treat and address these infections individually, and there probably never will be as no money can be made. Here, it may be of interest to note that a patent had been filed with the number US4350707 for BHT because of its LIPID COVERED virus killing ability approximately 30 years ago, however in the meantime this patent has expired.
Now keep in mind that very few things in life are perfect and this holds true for vaccines as well as BHT. So when everything comes down to being cut and dried, do you prefer risking being infected with a nasty virus with all kinds of unpredictable side effects or take a chance with some substance which overall has a very good safety record.
Besides most viruses will mutate over time, and by the time someone may come up with the proper vaccine it may no longer match the virus which is currently making its round. But this doesn’t make any difference with BHT if such a virus mutates or not. As long as such a virus has a lipid coating it will damage and disable it..
One of my hunches is, of course it is only speculation, and is based on how vaccination generally works. After BHT has finished the deactivation process of a given virus, such a virus may no longer have the potential to harm the human body, however any remnants of it may encourage our immune system to spring into action and produce anti bodies against this particular virus. Basically this is how immunization works by injecting a deactivated virus in anticipation that our immune system responds to it and begins to fight the real thing, when it come along by means of antibodies it has developed in the mean time.
I for one and many others who have been using BHT off and on for the past thirty years whenever one of these lipid covered viruses made their rounds have been pretty successful in keeping those nasty viruses at bay..
If you are interested enough you may want to watch this short movie clip on YouTube………
BHT and Coronavirus | LIFE EXTENSION BOOK RESEARCH ...
www.youtube.com › watch
And by the way and for what it is worth...
To date, there has never been a successful coronavirus vaccine made, due to the nature of the virus. Additionally, past attempts to create a coronavirus vaccine have ONLY RESULTED IN LEAVING THE VACCINATED PERSON WITH A HIGHER CHANCE OF SERIOUS ILLNESS AND DEATH WHEN LATER EXPOSED TO ANOTHER STRAIN OF THE VIRUS.
I wonder if any of the media people reporting with disdain her education in Africa realize how racist that belief is. Do they really think that because a university is in Nigeria that the students that study there are necessarily less educated or intelligent than people who studied in say Pakistan, or India, or Arkansas?
So we now have a very clear data point. Dr. Risch and Dr. Immanuel both presented the exact same message - use Hydroxychloroquine along with zinc and other drugs as a treatment for early phase COVID-19. The liberal media ignores Dr. Risch but attacks Dr. Immanuel. I guess attacking an African woman is OK, but the white guy from Yale gets a pass. To the liberal media Dr. Risch's opinion is acceptable, but the same opinion expressed by an African woman doctor is not. That's the best evidence of racism in the liberal American media I have seen in a long time.
Of course that is correct. What the leftist media is purposefully ignoring in this case is that some of the ideas presented by Dr. Immanuel are likely to be relevant to some patients that she sees. In other words she is doing what all doctors should be doing - showing cultural sensitivity.
Smart doctors work within the cultural framework of their patients. If you are seeing patients that have certain spiritual beliefs it is better to work with them in that context than to pretend their beliefs don't matter, or to actively try to refute them.
Not true:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20150207/
That does not mean that azithromycin is effective against COVID-19.
My point was that antibiotics are not effective at “killing” viruses. Inducing some kind of an Antiviral response in human cells is not the same as killing viruses, that’s different. READ WHAT I WROTE. That article does not invalidate what I said. Just because taking Azithromycin causes a reaction in human cells that somehow block a virus from replication or invading target cells, is not the same as killing them in an anti-biotic fashion.
Pn at least six occasions since you made this comment, AOL has refused to print my attempt to post a comment on Covid. This was at AOL articles on Covid. I was accused of “violating” community norms with these comments. The comments covered such scientific facts as “zinc inside Covid infected cells stops the virus from reproducing”, “HCQ is an ionophore that helps zinc get into Covid infected cells”, and “Vitamin C and Vitamin D3 help strengthen the immune system to fight Covid infection”, or minor variations of these statements.
At the same time really ugly statements about President Trump or VP Biden were allowed, apparently NOT violating “community” standards. I also spent months being allert to find information posted about the exact items used by the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh to defeat the Coronovirus in their state of 240,000,000 people. The only mention I ever saw was the use of Ivermeactin which was ridiculed at times. Finally a small western paper the Desert Review publish a detailed article with a doctor listing all the components of Uttar Pradesh’s anti Covid campaign. As I suspected, ZINC was prominently included in this array of materials provided to the infected. I recently looked on Google for this article. I could not find it but there were additional articles about Covid mentioning the original article. None of these newer article mentioned anything about what was actually provided to the people of Uttar Pradesh.
Is this an additional effort to censor useful information so Pfizor and others can continue to sell their “vaccines” which now appear to derange the IgG1-4 portion of our immune system according to a small study? This study should be made on a much larger population of vaccine recipients for full verification. My own brother whose metastatitic liver cancer (post colon cancer treatment) had been improving, took a 4th Covid jab and immediately got much worse.
Can anyone send me a link for the original Desert Review article with the complete information on the UP campaign in India?
Unfortunately for us, this article led off with some of the less convincing doctors opposing the Fauci narrative. Other more credible members of the Front Line Physicians efforts were ignored. Eastern Virginia Medical School has some very well worked out information on how to use various inputs including ZINC prophylacticly as well as for Covid treatment, including dose information for various health states.
My question is what happened to change the narrative of Dr. Zelenko’s cc of his March 23,2020, to many doctors, sent to President Trump and Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows. For a few days both Trump and Fauci mentioned all three components of the Zelenko Protocol, then ZINC was completely ignored. In May Fauci announced a study to be done of hospitalized Covid patients using HCQ and Azithromycin. Dr, Zelenko had said ZINC was the virus stopper and all 3 items should be used at the first sign of possible Covid illness. Fauci’s study plan ignoring Zinc and using hospitalized patients was a complete NON RESPONSE to Zelenko’s information.
Then, surprise, surprise, Fauci soon promoted Gilead Sciences “wonder” drug Remdesivir, which only cost us taxpayers $3,000 per subsidized treatment course. And imagine, the Zelenko treatment only cost $20 when I checked price of the 3 components in 2020. Ultimately if appears Remedesivir did NOT reduce hospital stays by much time at all, but a Turkish study in 2021 showed intravenouse Vitamin C at 24 grams per day for several days reduced hospital stays from 45 to 15 days. Fauci should be famous for saying in Spring 2020 that Vitamins C and D3 were of no help. And we were paying this Dr.? more than the President!!
I read of something similar happening in Peru which has had a very high death rate. For a little while an ionophore was being used, but then a government change caused it to be forbidden again. It may have been Ivermectin rather than HCQ. I wish I could find it again or have someone else locate it.
One reason HCQ alone can be effective in VERY EARLY Covid is that it can push the naturally occuring ZINC in the infected person into the cells to stop the Covid. Unfortunately many people are deficient in Zinc, and it is used up quickly even in those who are not deficient, so definitely take zinc if you have it or can get it.
Also on the subject of masks, as an elderly person, I always use my N-95 when I go shopping in crowded stores. Yes, the viruse can go through a mask. However, usually the virus is spread by coughs and sneezes and the Virus travels on water vapor/droplets, which aee definitely too large to go through a mask. Also distance helps, as testing on the path of these droplets has shown after about 4 feet they have mostly fallen below most people’s face level. So, by all means wear a mask for short trips, but try to avoid situations where you might need to wear it for long periods like in an office or on an airplane. Stop urging people to NOT use masks at all. The person you kill might be your grandmother.
...you probably took the jab and multiple boosters.
ou are right that Azithromycin is NOT the UNIVERSAL cure for Covid. Its main role is to protect against a bacterial infection in Covid weakened lungs. Dr. Zelenko had only ONE lung so he was very concerned about this phase of the Covid illness.
However, you should have added that the element Zinc once it gets into an infected cell is very capable of stopping the viral reproduction of Covid. The main role of HCQ or Quercetin is to act as an ionophore and help get the zinc into the Covid infected cell. THere are also other ionophores which could also be used like EGCG from green tea or resviritrol from red wine. Although these are probably not as effective as HCQ or Ivermectin.
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