Posted on 12/17/2020 11:32:03 PM PST by xomething
December 17, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — As COVID-19 vaccine doses roll out across the world, top doctors increasingly tout a generic drug called ivermectin as a newly recognized potential “cure” for the virus.
Ivermectin, a Nobel Prize–winning anti-parasitic agent, has been the subject of dozens of studies and anecdotal success stories since it was found to reduce COVID-19 in a laboratory earlier this year. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has refused emergency authorization of ivermectin to treat the novel coronavirus, stating for months that “[m]ore testing is needed.”
Nevertheless, several medical experts testified to the benefits of the drug for COVID-19 patients at a hearing held by the Senate Homeland Security Committee last week. In an impassioned speech, Dr. Pierre Kory, an intensive care specialist from Wisconsin, spoke to what he called “the miraculous effectiveness of ivermectin.”
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Kory is a founding member of Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC), “a group of highly published leaders in critical care” seeking to stop excessive mortality from COVID-19. FLCCC has developed a treatment regimen incorporating ivermectin, which the group claims has led to up to 83% lower-than-average COVID-19 death rates in hospitals that have applied it.
Ivermectin “basically obliterates transmission of this virus,” Dr. Kory told senators.
“It literally destroys the virus in most people within 48 hours,” agreed fellow panelist Dr. Jean-Jacques Rajter, whose peer-reviewed study found 60% fewer deaths among patients given the drug.
“I've been treating COVID pretty much every single day since since the onset,” Kory said. “When I say miracle I do not use that term lightly[.] ... [T]hat is a scientific recommendation based on mountains of data that has emerged in the last three months.”
Kory pointed to multiple randomized trials awaiting peer review, which he and nine FLCCC colleagues highlight in a pre-print manuscript.
For example, a recent trial of 400 COVID-19 patients from Egypt found nearly 100% improvement in test groups treated with ivermectin. The anti-parasite drug also “significantly reduced the incidence of infection in health care and household contacts up to 2% compared to 10% in non ivermectin group,” according to the study.
Kory and and his colleagues also note published observation trials from Argentina demonstrating a nonexistent rate of COVID-19 contraction among people given ivermectin preventatively. The lead researcher for the studies, Dr. Héctor Carvallo, explained in an interview that “out [of] the 788 who received” an ivermectin regimen, “not a single one got infected.” Conversely, “almost over half, over 50 percent ... got infected” from the control group, he said.
Carvallo added that “by now half of Argentina is using” ivermectin, as are doctors in at least ten other South American countries. While top British scientific journal Nature has censured Latin Americans for “unchecked ivermectin use,” Dr. Kory has attributed some of the region’s major victories against the virus to widespread adoption of the drug.
In his written testimony to the Senate, he related that in Peru, “the peak in deaths occurred at the time of distribution” of ivermectin, which the country approved for COVID-19 treatment in late spring. Every Peruvian state witnessed “rapid and sustained reduction in both case counts and death rates in patients” as ivermectin circulated, Kory contends.
Brazilian states with cities that took up ivermectin protocols similarly “show a much greater drop” in cases than others, with disparities of over 60% between neighboring areas, according to analysis linked by Kory. A subsequent study by a Brazilian-led team reported “a reduction of 31.5 to 36.5% in viral shedding” and 70–73% shorter symptom duration for patients treated with regimens that included the drug.
Ivermectin “needs to be immediately adopted systematically nationally and globally period,” Kory urged senators. “It will take months for the vaccine to be distributed to the general public and further time to have sufficient impact in this crisis,” he said.
“We need to offload the hospitals,” Kory pleaded. “We are tired. I can’t keep doing this. I have to go back to work next week. Any further deaths are going to be needless deaths.”
“You can use this medication in just about any condition,” he said. “It is safe, inexpensive, widely available.”
Blacklisted by regulators
In the face of new evidence, regulatory agencies nonetheless have remained unwavering in their rejection of ivermectin as a tool to combat coronavirus. The FDA, which strongly dissuades people from taking ivermectin to treat or prevent COVID-19, has not substantially updated its recommendations since at least April. The agency’s guidance still refers to the eight-month-old article demonstrating the potency of ivermectin in a lab environment as “recently released.”
“Recognize that the amount of evidence that I have presented far exceed[s] the level required for a compassionate use authorization as defined by the FDA,” Kory said. “That happened for Remdesivir, a drug with far, far less supportive evidence and much, much higher cost. Why can’t it happen for ivermectin given this level of evidence?”
He slammed obstruction by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), as well, saying, “Their recommendation on ivermectin, which is to not use it outside of controlled trials, is from August 27th. We are now in December. This is three to four months later. Mountains of data have emerged from all from many centers and countries around the world.”
In Argentina, Dr. Carvallo reported that “as soon as our reports were published ... resistance appeared in the horizon.” He said his team faced pressure from “many doctors who worked for the pharmaceutical industry, because this was a very, very cheap treatment.”
The “pharmaceutical industry is not really interested in cheap answers,” he said.
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford-trained economist and physician, noted as much at last week’s hearing, stating that “the NIH exists to solve this market failure.” At the same time, however, the agency “has made comparatively little effort to catalyze randomized evaluations of off-patent drugs from COVID-19 therapeutics,” but “has devoted considerable resources to aid the COVID-19 vaccine randomized trial studies,” Dr. Bhattacharya continued.
Frontline physicians at the Senate hearing repeatedly stressed the limitations of a central focus on vaccination to end the pandemic, like that employed by the NIH (which claims a stake in at least one COVID-19 vaccine). “Even if vaccines are 80% successful ... we still need to treat the 20% of people who become ill with COVID-19 notwithstanding vaccination,” Dr. Rajter said.
Ivermectin in some ways offers more hope than vaccines for coronavirus patients, he related. “Some people may not be able to receive the vaccine for a variety of reasons. Vaccines may not be widely available for many months. Vaccines may no provide long-term immunity,” Rajter added. “Based on these factors, treatment for COVID-19 will need to remain on the forefront even after vaccination programs are initiated.”
“After personally witnessing the results of ivermectin-based protocols, I cannot stand by and allow hundreds of thousands of people to go untreated,” Dr. Kory said. “I cannot be traumatized by that.”
BTTT
I am a Clinical Pharmacist (fortunately retired) I and many others have known of this drugs effectiveness for months. It is considered politically unacceptable as the elite want to continue this crisis for political reasons that have nothing to do with rational health care.
Fauci can be at best described as an idiot. He is not an idiot. Thus he only other logical description is medical criminal of whom many deaths lie at his feet.
Fauci is a political whore of great medical knowlege. Fauci’s actions have made the problem worse. He did this by design and not by ignorance. His agenda was political and not medical. He was successful.
We did not need this insane lock down. We have drugs that will save the vast majority of those infected. Fauci opposed this. He politically is a charlatan. If one knows the meanings of the Hippocratic oath he is guilty of murder.
“First do no Harm.” He did harm knowing so. He is a political whore not worthy of the name Doctor.
He is the voice of the problem.
So sad the President trusted him.
Congress, or at least a GOP controlled Senate, needs to hold extensive, public hearings on why the FDA and NIH have been resistant to doing back-up verification studies of Vermectin and other drugs that have been tests for the COVID 19 virus.
Let all these doctors present their facts, tests, theories, etc. and have Congress investigate their agencies.
bttt
Heads up
If I contract Covid or my family I will use a proven protocol and none of us will go to a hospital, nor suffer, nor die.
Add FDA to list of corrupt organizations in our country.
bkmk
Excellent post!
Much less money to be made using a decades old drug no matter how good it is.
Nope gotta have a brand spanking new whizz bang concoction to sell to the public at enormous profits.
Yeah, I’m a glass half empty kind of guy.
I thought the same thing as a laboratoy master. When he suggested pooled tesring during peak infection. That would have wasted the very precious testing resources and delayed results by days.
Like every flu.. you dont need a test, if you have a fever and another symptom.. we treat the symptoms. I feel like a covid test causes dangerous treatment protocols. Once you give 02 it seems like the body compensates,using the acid balance by decreasing its own ability. Once youre on the ventilator wow.
It went through the nursing homes here several times and most most liberal acquaintance admits her 84 yr old grandmother had it and made it easily.
She wont admit the truth.. this was a designed crisis to get dems back in power.
Just look at one scenario, NY. hydrocloriquin was banned by a governor when proved to be helpful, hospitals overloaded, nursing homes infected creating more transmission, ventilators used as a cure, central park triage and hospital boat EMPTY. Just one example of a deliberate act of murder by a political in control for political reasons.
“Let all these doctors present their facts, tests, theories, etc. and have Congress investigate their agencies.”
What GOP Congressional hearings during the past 20 years, particularly in the collegial Senate, have produced any actions of value to the people?
The Senate hearings throughout Obama and Trump’s terms have have been at best window dressing. How many demands for indictments for criminal behavior have followed GOP Senate hearings? How much legislation was passed to truly correct abuses by officials. Nothing,
The GOP Senate will go back to business as usual in January and the issues of concern to the conservative voter base will not be on the agenda. Most GOP senators will be cozying up to big pharma and big health insurance companies working to ensure some of the billions spent on vaccine research drips into their campaign coffers. No politician has shown the slightest inclination, other than Rand Paul to challenge the federal medical establishment. Fauci is bullet proof in the DC swamp.
I’m not an ‘expert’ in medicine or anything, really. I do know how to click on the worldometer website, click on coronavirus, click on Africa and see that Covid 19 is NOT A PROBLEM IN AFRICA. My, that’s odd! Wild guess on this dumbards part is that most of Africa has been given ivermectin or chloroquine for parasitic disease. But, that’s just me. I’m going to go out and refill my dog’s HeartGuard today to have on hand in case....
I just found out today I have a 35% to 40% less chance of contracting covid due to my blood group. Apparently those with “O” type blood are at a reduced risk of contracting the virus, and those with that blood group recover from it more quickly if they do get it.
CC
My son is O-neg. He is the only boy to carry on my family’s (grand parents) surname. I’ve read about the Type-O before and makes me glad that he is at less of a risk.
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Now - if he could only find a girlfriend!
See my post here:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3916054/posts?page=23#23
about Ivermectin use in India. I had tried to post it as a thread, but the powers that be deleted it.
Based on the graphs in that post, they are demonstrably winning the war on Covid, I believe because of HCQ (earlier) and now Ivermectin prophylaxis.
Here is one of the Ziverdo kits, which include Ivermectin, for sale at an online pharmacy in India:
https://www.rxindia.com/medicines/medicines-by-therapeutic-class/covid-19/ziverdo-kit/
Currect price is 127.5 INR, which converts to $1.73.
The Durvet horse paste might be a better answer if you’re near a TSC. I think Amazon is sold out.
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