{"id":205142,"date":"2021-10-24T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/z3news.com\/w\/?p=205142"},"modified":"2021-10-25T13:46:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T17:46:41","slug":"secret-documents-reveal-fdas-attack-on-ivermectin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/z3news.com\/w\/secret-documents-reveal-fdas-attack-on-ivermectin\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Documents Reveal FDA\u2019s Attack on Ivermectin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Joe Rogan exposes Sanjay Gupta and CNN&#039;s propaganda\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DkTXEexNB2E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"expanderHead\" data-jsid=\"expanderHead\">STORY AT-A-GLANCE<\/h3>\n<div id=\"expanderContent\" data-jsid=\"expanderContent\">\n<ul>\n<li><span id=\"bcr_rptStory_cslStory_0\">Mainstream media have incorrectly insinuated that ivermectin is purely a veterinary drug that could be dangerous to humans; CNN falsely stated that Joe Rogan took \u201chorse dewormer\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span id=\"bcr_rptStory_cslStory_1\">Rogan recently interviewed CNN\u2019s chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, getting him to admit CNN lied<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span id=\"bcr_rptStory_cslStory_2\">The FDA started the \u201chorse dewormer\u201d fallacy based on a Mississippi health department report that said 70% of poison control calls were related to veterinary ivermectin. It was actually 70% of ivermectin-related calls, six in all, four of which were about accidental use of ivermectin in livestock. Overall, these calls made up only 2% of all poison control calls<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span id=\"bcr_rptStory_cslStory_3\">A total of 20 deaths have been linked to ivermectin since 1992. Compare that safety profile to Remdesivir, the primary drug used by hospitals across the U.S. against COVID-19. Since the spring of 2020, VigiAccess has received 7,491 adverse events in all attributed to the drug, including 560 deaths, 550 serious cardiac disorders and 475 acute kidney injuries<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span id=\"bcr_rptStory_cslStory_4\">Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson has issued a legal opinion on the off-label use of ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19. According to this legal opinion, health care providers in Nebraska can legally prescribe these medications for off-label use for the treatment of COVID, provided they have informed consent from the patient. The only causes for disciplinary action are failure to obtain informed consent, deception and\/or prescribing excessively high doses<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>In early September 2021, Oklahoma\u2019s KFOR news ran a falsified story about emergency rooms being overrun with patients who had overdosed on horse ivermectin.<sup style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><span id=\"edn1\" data-hash=\"#ednref1\">1<\/span><\/sup> Other mainstream media followed suit \u2014 all incorrectly referring to ivermectin as a dangerous veterinary drug.<\/p>\n<p>In the real world, ivermectin is a human drug that has been safely used by 3.7 billion people since the early 1990s.<sup style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><span id=\"edn2\" data-hash=\"#ednref2\">2<\/span><\/sup> In 2016, three scientists received the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their discovery of ivermectin against parasitic infections in humans.<sup style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><span id=\"edn3\" data-hash=\"#ednref3\">3<\/span><\/sup> It\u2019s also on the World Health Organization\u2019s list of essential medicines.<sup style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><span id=\"edn4\" data-hash=\"#ednref4\">4<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s absolutely no reason whatsoever to disparage ivermectin as a \u201chorse dewormer\u201d that only a loony person would consider taking. Yet that\u2019s what mainstream media have done, virtually without exception.<\/p>\n<p>When comedian and podcast host Joe Rogan revealed<sup style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><span id=\"edn5\" data-hash=\"#ednref5\">5<\/span><\/sup> he\u2019d treated his bout of COVID-19 with ivermectin and other remedies \u2014 fully recovering within three days \u2014 NPR reported Rogan had taken \u201civermectin, a deworming veterinary drug that is formulated for use in cows and horses,\u201d adding that \u201cthe Food and Drug Administration is urging people to stop ingesting\u201d the medication, saying animal doses of the drug can cause nausea, vomiting and in some cases severe hepatitis.<sup style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><span id=\"edn6\" data-hash=\"#ednref6\">6<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n<h2>Sanjay Gupta Admits CNN Lied<\/h2>\n<p>CNN, among many others, also reported on Rogan\u2019s use of \u201chorse dewormer.\u201d In mid-October 2021, Rogan interviewed CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, grilling him on why CNN would outright lie about his use of ivermectin.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s a lie on a news network,\u201d<\/em> Rogan said, <em>\u201cand it\u2019s a lie that they\u2019re conscious of. It\u2019s not a mistake. They\u2019re unfavorably framing it as a veterinary medicine \u2026<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>Don\u2019t you think a lie like that is dangerous \u2026 when they know they\u2019re lying? They know I took medicine [for humans] \u2026 Dude, they lied. They said I was taking horse dewormer. It was prescribed to me by a doctor, along with a bunch of other medications.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gupta finally relents and agrees that ivermectin should not be called horse dewormer. When asked, \u201cDoes it bother you that the news network you work for out and out lied about me taking horse dewormer?\u201d Gupta replied, \u201cThey shouldn\u2019t have said that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked why they would lie about such an important medical issue, Gupta replied \u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d Gupta also admits he never asked why they did it, even though he\u2019s their top medical correspondent.<\/p>\n<h2>FDA Attacks Ivermectin<\/h2>\n<p>While CNN and mainstream media are certainly at fault for spreading disinformation here, they got the idea from a supposedly reputable source \u2014 the FDA. In an August 21, 2021, tweet,<sup style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><span id=\"edn7\" data-hash=\"#ednref7\">7<\/span><\/sup> the FDA linked to an agency article warning against the use of ivermectin, saying \u201cYou are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y\u2019all. Stop it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This blatantly misleading post seeded the lie that then spread across mainstream media. In an article posted on RESCUE with Michael Capuzzo substack, two independent investigative health journalists, Mary Beth Pfeiffer and Linda Bonvie, detail how the FDA\u2019s anti-ivermectin campaign began:<sup style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><span id=\"edn8\" data-hash=\"#ednref8\">8<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWithin two days, 23.7 million people had seen that Pulitzer-worthy bit of Twitter talk. Hundreds of thousands more got the message on Facebook, LinkedIn, and from the Today Show\u2019s 3 million-follower Instagram account.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u2018That was great!\u2019 declared FDA Acting Commissioner Janet Woodcock in an email to her media team. \u2018Even I saw it!\u2019 For the FDA, the \u2018not-a-horse\u2019 tweet was \u2018a unique viral moment,\u2019 a senior FDA official wrote to Woodcock, \u2018in a time of incredible misinformation\u2019 \u2026<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>When CNN retweeted \u2018not-a-horse,\u2019 FDA was gleeful. \u2018The numbers are racking up and I laughed out loud,\u2019 wrote FDA Associate Commissioner Erica Jefferson in one email \u2026 There was one problem, however. The tweet was a direct outgrowth of wrong data \u2014 call it misinformation \u2014 put out the day before by the Mississippi health department.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>The FDA did not vet the data, according to our review of emails obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and questions to FDA officials. Instead, it saw Mississippi, as one email said, as \u2018an opportunity to remind the public of our own warnings for ivermectin.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The now infamous tweet was born out of a single sentence in a Mississippi poison control health alert, which stated that \u201cAt least 70% of the recent calls have been related to ingestion of livestock or animal formulations of ivermectin purchased at livestock supply centers.\u201d The problem? That wasn\u2019t accurate either.<\/p>\n<h2>Much Ado About Nothing<\/h2>\n<p>As it turns out, the real percentage of recent calls to poison control related to veterinary ivermectin was 2%, not 70%. In an October 5, 2021, correction, the Mississippi health department clarified that it wasn\u2019t 70% of all poison control calls that involved veterinary ivermectin, it was 70% of all ivermectin-related calls.<sup style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><span id=\"edn9\" data-hash=\"#ednref9\">9<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>In absolute numbers, there were six such calls, and four of those calls actually related to livestock accidentally receiving the drug. Investigation by Pfeiffer and Bonvie also revealed that between July 31 and August 22, 2021, 40%, 10 of 24 ivermectin-related calls to the Mississippi poison control center were mere requests for information, which is a common occurrence.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWithout question, people should not take drugs made for animals, given issues of dosing and medical oversight, to name just two. That much is clear,\u201d<\/em> Pfeiffer and Bonvie write.<sup style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><span id=\"edn10\" data-hash=\"#ednref10\">10<\/span><\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cBut in hopping on the Mississippi bandwagon, the FDA \u2026 turned ivermectin, which doctors and health ministers in several countries say has saved many from covid-19, into a drug to be feared, human form or not.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>This highly effective bait-and-switch began last March with a webpage, to which the FDA tweet linked, that conflates the two ivermectins. On one hand, the FDA tells of receiving \u2018multiple reports of patients who have required medical attention\u2019 after taking the animal product.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>On the other, it describes the fate awaiting people who take large amounts of any ivermectin, ending a long list with \u2018dizziness, ataxia, seizures, coma and even death.\u2019<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>The medical literature,<sup style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><span id=\"edn11\" data-hash=\"#ednref11\">11<\/span><\/sup> nonetheless, shows ivermectin to be an extremely safe medicine \u2026 Last March, a safety review<sup style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><span id=\"edn12\" data-hash=\"#ednref12\">12<\/span><\/sup> of ivermectin by a renowned French toxicologist could not find a single accidental overdose death in the medical literature in more than 300 safety studies of the drug over decades. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>The study was performed for MedinCell, a French pharmaceutical company \u2026 Since 1992, twenty deaths have been linked to inexpensive, off-patent ivermectin, according to a World Health Organization drug tracker called VigiAccess \u2026<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>So how big was the surge that FDA described as \u2018multiple\u2019? Four, an agency spokesperson said just after the page went up. Three people were hospitalized, but it wasn\u2019t clear if that was for COVID itself.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>When pressed for details, FDA cited privacy issues, and said in an email, \u2018Some of these cases were lost to follow up.\u2019 This is how government gets away with some whoppers, and with the media\u2019s help.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Ivermectin Is Safe; Remdesivir, Not so Much<\/h2>\n<p>According to VigiAccess, the World Health Organization\u2019s drug tracker, a total of 20 deaths have been linked to ivermectin since 1992.<sup style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><span id=\"edn13\" data-hash=\"#ednref13\">13<\/span><\/sup> Compare that safety profile to remdesivir, the primary drug used by hospitals across the U.S. against COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Since the spring of 2020, VigiAccess has received 7,491 adverse events in all attributed to remdesivir, including 560 deaths, 550 serious cardiac disorders and 475 acute kidney injuries.<sup style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><span id=\"edn14\" data-hash=\"#ednref14\">14<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>The question is why remdesivir is being used at all, with the World Health Organization recommending<sup style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><span id=\"edn15\" data-hash=\"#ednref15\">15<\/span><\/sup> against it and a new Lancet study<sup style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><span id=\"edn16\" data-hash=\"#ednref16\">16<\/span><\/sup> finding \u201cno clinical benefit.\u201d Could it be that Fauci is involved with the fraud? Pfeiffer and Bonvie write.<sup style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><span id=\"edn17\" data-hash=\"#ednref17\">17<\/span>,<\/sup><sup style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><span id=\"edn18\" data-hash=\"#ednref18\">18<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThe other question is why ivermectin is not. The FDA tweet arrived just as ivermectin prescriptions were soaring, up twenty-four-fold in August from before the pandemic.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>These were legal prescriptions written by doctors who, presumably, had read the studies, learned from experience, and decided for themselves. Indeed, 20 percent of prescriptions are written off-label,<sup style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><span id=\"edn19\" data-hash=\"#ednref19\">19<\/span><\/sup> namely for other than an approved use.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>The effort to vilify ivermectin broadly has helped curb the legal supply of a safe drug. That\u2019s what drove people to livestock medicine in the first place.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>State AG Calls Out Medical Establishment for Misinformation<\/h2>\n<p>In better news, in early October 2021, the Nebraska Department of Health asked Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson to issue a legal opinion on the off-label use of ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>October 15, 2021, Peterson issued a legal opinion<sup style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><span id=\"edn20\" data-hash=\"#ednref20\">20<\/span>,<\/sup><sup style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><span id=\"edn21\" data-hash=\"#ednref21\">21<\/span><\/sup> stating health care providers can legally prescribe these medications for off-label use for the treatment of COVID, provided they have informed consent from the patient.<sup style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><span id=\"edn22\" data-hash=\"#ednref22\">22<\/span><\/sup> The only causes for disciplinary action are failure to obtain informed consent, deception and\/or prescribing excessively high doses.<\/p>\n<p>Peterson concluded that, based on the available evidence, hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin \u201cmight work for some people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He highlighted studies demonstrating the safety and benefits of these drugs against COVID-19, as well as the shocking scientific fraud that led to worldwide shunning of hydroxychloroquine, and the cherry-picking and exclusion of data in studies that are critical of ivermectin. He also pointed out how illogical it is to discourage early treatment.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Allowing physicians to consider these early treatments will free them to evaluate additional tools that could save lives, keep patients out of the hospital, and provide relief for our already strained healthcare system,&#8221;<\/em> Peterson wrote.<sup style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><span id=\"edn23\" data-hash=\"#ednref23\">23<\/span>,<\/sup><sup style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><span id=\"edn24\" data-hash=\"#ednref24\">24<\/span><\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Peterson also called out the FDA and Dr. Anthony Fauci on their hypocrisy, detailing how the FDA and National Institutes of Health seeded confusion by issuing contradictory guidance. The NIH has taken a neutral position to ivermectin, which Peterson \u201cclearly signaled that physicians should use their discretion in deciding whether to treat COVID-19 patients with ivermectin.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"takeaway tamiddle\">Without reviewing the available data, which had long since been available and accumulating, it is unclear what basis the FDA had for denouncing ivermectin as a treatment or prophylaxis for COVID-19. ~ Doug Peterson, Nebraska Attorney General<\/aside>\n<p>NIH officials, however, have ignored the agency\u2019s official position. At the end of August 2021, Fauci \u201cwent on CNN and announced that \u2018there is no clinical evidence\u2019 that ivermectin works for the prevention or treatment of COVID-19,\u2019 and that \u2018there is no evidence whatsoever\u2019 that it works,\u201d Peterson writes, adding:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cYet this definitive claim directly contradicts the NIH\u2019s recognition that \u2018several randomized trials \u2026 published in peer-reviewed journals\u2019 have reported data indicating that ivermectin is effective as a COVID-19 treatment.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>AG Blames FDA for Seeding Confusion<\/h2>\n<p>Peterson goes on to review the FDA\u2019s behavior with respect to ivermectin:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThe FDA has similarly charted a course of confusion. In March 2021, the FDA posted a webpage entitled \u2018Why You Should Not Use Ivermectin to Great or Prevent COVID-19.\u2019<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>Although the FDA\u2019s concern was stories of some people using the animal form of ivermectin or excessive doses of the human form, the title broadly condemned any use of ivermectin in connection with COVID-19.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>Yet there was no basis for its sweeping condemnation. Indeed, the FDA itself acknowledged on that very webpage (and continued to do so until the page changed on September 3, 2021) that the agency had not even \u2018reviewed data to support use of ivermectin in COVID-19 patients to treat or prevent COVID-19.\u2019<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>But without reviewing the available data, which had long since been available and accumulating, it is unclear what basis the FDA had for denouncing ivermectin as a treatment or prophylaxis for COVID-19.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Peterson also highlights the fact that while the FDA claims ivermectin \u201cis not an antiviral (a drug for treating viruses),\u201d on another FDA webpage they list a study in Antiviral Research that \u201cidentified ivermectin as a medicine \u2018previously shown to have broad-spectrum antiviral activity.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cIt is telling that the FDA deleted the line about ivermectin not being \u2018anti-viral\u2019 when it amended the first webpage on September 3, 2021,\u201d<\/em> Peterson writes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He also points out that while the FDA now claims off-label use of drugs \u201ccan be very dangerous,\u201d and that this is why they don\u2019t recommend ivermectin for COVID, doctors routinely use drugs off-label, and ivermectin has a well-established safety record.<\/p>\n<p>So, \u201cit is inconsistent for the FDA to imply that ivermectin is dangerous when used to treat COVID-19 while the agency continues to approve remdesivir despite its spottier safety record,\u201d Peterson writes.<\/p>\n<h2>AG Puts Professional Associations Under the Microscope<\/h2>\n<p>Peterson also questioned the stance of professional associations such as The American Medical Association, American Pharmacists Association and American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, which in September 2021 issuing a joint statement<sup style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><span id=\"edn25\" data-hash=\"#ednref25\">25<\/span><\/sup> opposing the use of ivermectin to prevent or treat COVID outside of clinical trials.<\/p>\n<p>Their statement, Peterson points out, relied on the FDA\u2019s and CDC\u2019s \u201csuspect positions,\u201d and a statement by Merck, in which they opposed the use of the drug due to a \u201cconcerning lack of safety data in the majority of studies.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cBut Merck, of all sources, knows that ivermectin is exceedingly safe, so the absence of safety data in recent studies should not be concerning to the company,\u201d<\/em> Peterson writes, adding:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWhy would ivermectin\u2019s original patent holder go out of its way to question this medicine by creating the impression that it might not be safe? There are at least two plausible reasons.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>First, ivermectin is no longer under patent, so Merck does not profit from it anymore. That likely explains why Merck declined to \u2018conduct clinical trials\u2019 on ivermectin and COVID-19 when given the chance.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>Second, Merck has a significant financial interest in the medical profession rejecting ivermectin as an early treatment for COVID-19. [T]he U.S. government has agreed to pay [Merck] about $1.2 billion for 1.7 million courses of its experimental COVID-19 treatment [molnupiravir], if it is proven to work in an ongoing large trial and authorized by U.S. regulators.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>Thus, if low-cost ivermectin works better than, or even the same as molnupiravir, that could cost Merck billions of dollars.\u201d <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another excellent article<sup style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><span id=\"edn26\" data-hash=\"#ednref26\">26<\/span><\/sup> detailing the FDA\u2019s questionable actions, and Merck\u2019s incentives to disparage their old drug, ivermectin, was published by the American Institute for Economic Research.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWhile we can all be happy that Merck has developed a new therapeutic that can keep us safe from the ravages of Covid-19, we should realize that the FDA\u2019s rules give companies an incentive to focus on newer drugs while ignoring older ones,\u201d<\/em> David Henderson, a senior fellow with AIERS, writes.<sup style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><span id=\"edn27\" data-hash=\"#ednref27\">27<\/span><\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cIvermectin may or may not be a miracle drug for Covid-19. The FDA doesn\u2019t want us to learn the truth. The FDA spreads lies and alarms Americans while preventing drug companies from providing us with scientific explorations of existing, promising, generic drugs.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Early Treatment Is Crucial<\/h2>\n<p>There\u2019s no doubt that many have died unnecessarily due to our health authorities\u2019 incomprehensible decision to discourage all prevention and early treatment of COVID-19. As noted by many doctors, early treatment is absolutely crucial for preventing hospitalization, death and long-term side effects of the infection.<\/p>\n<p>There are several proven protocols to choose from at this point, including the following. Whichever treatment protocol you use, make sure you begin treatment as soon as possible, ideally at first onset of symptoms.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Zelenko protocol<sup style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><span id=\"edn28\" data-hash=\"#ednref28\">28<\/span><\/sup><\/li>\n<li>The MATH+ protocols<sup style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><span id=\"edn29\" data-hash=\"#ednref29\">29<\/span><\/sup><\/li>\n<li>Nebulized hydrogen peroxide, as detailed in Dr. David Brownstein\u2019s case paper<sup style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><span id=\"edn30\" data-hash=\"#ednref30\">30<\/span><\/sup> and Dr. Thomas Levy\u2019s free e-book, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/rvr.medfoxpub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rapid Virus Recovery<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1151208\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>Sources and References<\/h2>\n<div id=\"contentrefsources\" class=\"contentrefsources\" data-jsid=\"sourcesReferences\">\n<div 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id=\"lnkReference\" href=\"https:\/\/rescue.substack.com\/p\/a2520b80-bcd1-4905-a913-68f6f6809779\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Rescue.substack.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><sup><span id=\"ednref11\" data-hash=\"#edn11\"><span id=\"lblReferenceNo\">11,<\/span><\/span><\/sup>\u00a0<sup><span id=\"ednref12\" data-hash=\"#edn12\"><span id=\"lblReferenceNo\">12<\/span><\/span><\/sup>\u00a0<a id=\"lnkReference\" href=\"https:\/\/www.medincell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Clinical_Safety_of_Ivermectin-March_2021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Expert Review Report: Medical Safety of Ivermectin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><sup><span id=\"ednref14\" data-hash=\"#edn14\"><span id=\"lblReferenceNo\">14<\/span><\/span><\/sup>\u00a0<a id=\"lnkReference\" href=\"https:\/\/ago.nebraska.gov\/sites\/ago.nebraska.gov\/files\/docs\/opinions\/21-017_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Nebraska AG Opinion October 14, 2021, page 11<\/a><\/li>\n<li><sup><span id=\"ednref15\" data-hash=\"#edn15\"><span id=\"lblReferenceNo\">15<\/span><\/span><\/sup>\u00a0<a id=\"lnkReference\" href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/feature-stories\/detail\/who-recommends-against-the-use-of-remdesivir-in-covid-19-patients\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">WHO November 20, 2020<\/a><\/li>\n<li><sup><span id=\"ednref16\" data-hash=\"#edn16\"><span id=\"lblReferenceNo\">16<\/span><\/span><\/sup>\u00a0<a id=\"lnkReference\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/laninf\/article\/PIIS1473-3099(21)00485-0\/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Lancet September 14, 2021<\/a><\/li>\n<li><sup><span id=\"ednref18\" data-hash=\"#edn18\"><span id=\"lblReferenceNo\">18<\/span><\/span><\/sup>\u00a0<a id=\"lnkReference\" href=\"https:\/\/pharmaceuticalfraud.com\/2021-08-09-fauci-fast-tracked-approval-of-dangerous-drug.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Pharmaceutical Fraud August 9, 2021<\/a><\/li>\n<li><sup><span id=\"ednref19\" data-hash=\"#edn19\"><span id=\"lblReferenceNo\">19<\/span><\/span><\/sup>\u00a0<a id=\"lnkReference\" href=\"https:\/\/sgp.fas.org\/crs\/misc\/R45792.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Congressional Research Service Off-Label Use of Prescription Drugs February 23, 2021<\/a><\/li>\n<li><sup><span id=\"ednref20\" data-hash=\"#edn20\"><span id=\"lblReferenceNo\">20,<\/span><\/span><\/sup>\u00a0<sup><span id=\"ednref24\" data-hash=\"#edn24\"><span id=\"lblReferenceNo\">24<\/span><\/span><\/sup>\u00a0<a id=\"lnkReference\" href=\"https:\/\/ago.nebraska.gov\/sites\/ago.nebraska.gov\/files\/docs\/opinions\/21-017_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Nebraska AG Opinion October 14, 2021<\/a><\/li>\n<li><sup><span id=\"ednref21\" data-hash=\"#edn21\"><span id=\"lblReferenceNo\">21<\/span><\/span><\/sup>\u00a0<a id=\"lnkReference\" href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/nebraska-ag-doug-peterson-legal-opinion-ivermectin-hcq-covid\/?utm_source=salsa&amp;eType=EmailBlastContent&amp;eId=a9f67b5a-4f9b-4b78-8124-bec5425eb630&amp;eType=EmailBlastContent&amp;eId=a9f67b5a-4f9b-4b78-8124-bec5425eb6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Defender October 18, 2021<\/a><\/li>\n<li><sup><span id=\"ednref22\" data-hash=\"#edn22\"><span id=\"lblReferenceNo\">22,<\/span><\/span><\/sup>\u00a0<sup><span id=\"ednref23\" data-hash=\"#edn23\"><span id=\"lblReferenceNo\">23<\/span><\/span><\/sup>\u00a0<a id=\"lnkReference\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ketv.com\/article\/nebraska-ag-issues-opinion-on-ivermectin-and-hydroxychloroquine-as-covid-19-treatments\/37973809#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">KETV7 Omaha October 15, 2021<\/a><\/li>\n<li><sup><span id=\"ednref25\" data-hash=\"#edn25\"><span id=\"lblReferenceNo\">25<\/span><\/span><\/sup>\u00a0<a id=\"lnkReference\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ama-assn.org\/press-center\/press-releases\/ama-apha-ashp-statement-ending-use-ivermectin-treat-covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">AMA.org September 1, 2021<\/a><\/li>\n<li><sup><span id=\"ednref26\" data-hash=\"#edn26\"><span id=\"lblReferenceNo\">26,<\/span><\/span><\/sup>\u00a0<sup><span id=\"ednref27\" data-hash=\"#edn27\"><span id=\"lblReferenceNo\">27<\/span><\/span><\/sup>\u00a0<a id=\"lnkReference\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aier.org\/article\/the-fdas-war-against-the-truth-on-ivermectin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">AIER October 18, 2021<\/a><\/li>\n<li><sup><span id=\"ednref28\" data-hash=\"#edn28\"><span id=\"lblReferenceNo\">28<\/span><\/span><\/sup>\u00a0<a id=\"lnkReference\" href=\"https:\/\/faculty.utrgv.edu\/eleftherios.gkioulekas\/zelenko\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Zelenko protocol<\/a><\/li>\n<li><sup><span id=\"ednref29\" data-hash=\"#edn29\"><span id=\"lblReferenceNo\">29<\/span><\/span><\/sup>\u00a0<a id=\"lnkReference\" href=\"https:\/\/covid19criticalcare.com\/covid-19-protocols\/math-plus-protocol\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Covid19criticalcare.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><sup><span id=\"ednref30\" data-hash=\"#edn30\"><span id=\"lblReferenceNo\">30<\/span><\/span><\/sup>\u00a0<a id=\"lnkReference\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kaarid.ca\/uploads\/1\/2\/6\/7\/12670943\/oral_vitamin_a_c_d.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Science, Public Health Policy and The Law July 2020; 1: 4-22 (PDF)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/media.mercola.com\/assets\/html\/mercola\/citation.htm\" width=\"600\" height=\"220\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Originally published by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2021\/10\/25\/fda-attacks-ivermectin.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mercola.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In early September 2021, Oklahoma\u2019s KFOR news ran a falsified story about emergency rooms being overrun with patients who had overdosed on horse ivermectin.1 Other mainstream media followed suit \u2014 all incorrectly referring to ivermectin as a dangerous veterinary drug. <\/p>\n<p>In the real world, ivermectin is a human drug that has been safely used by 3.7 billion people since the early 1990s.2 In 2016, three scientists received the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their discovery of ivermectin against parasitic infections in humans.3 It\u2019s also on the World Health Organization\u2019s list of essential medicines.4<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s absolutely no reason whatsoever to disparage ivermectin as a \u201chorse dewormer\u201d that only a loony person would consider taking. Yet that\u2019s what mainstream media have done, virtually without exception.<\/p>\n<p>When comedian and podcast host Joe Rogan revealed5 he\u2019d treated his bout of COVID-19 with ivermectin and other remedies \u2014 fully recovering within three days \u2014 NPR reported Rogan had taken \u201civermectin, a deworming veterinary drug that is formulated for use in cows and horses,\u201d adding that \u201cthe Food and Drug Administration is urging people to stop ingesting\u201d the medication, saying animal doses of the drug can cause nausea, vomiting and in some cases severe hepatitis.6<\/p>\n<p>Sanjay Gupta Admits CNN Lied<\/p>\n<p>CNN, among many others, also reported on Rogan\u2019s use of \u201chorse dewormer.\u201d In mid-October 2021, Rogan interviewed CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, grilling him on why CNN would outright lie about his use of ivermectin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a lie on a news network,\u201d Rogan said, \u201cand it\u2019s a lie that they\u2019re conscious of. It\u2019s not a mistake. They\u2019re unfavorably framing it as a veterinary medicine \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t you think a lie like that is dangerous \u2026 when they know they\u2019re lying? They know I took medicine [for humans] \u2026 Dude, they lied. They said I was taking horse dewormer. It was prescribed to me by a doctor, along with a bunch of other medications.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gupta finally relents and agrees that ivermectin should not be called horse dewormer. When asked, \u201cDoes it bother you that the news network you work for out and out lied about me taking horse dewormer?\u201d Gupta replied, \u201cThey shouldn\u2019t have said that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked why they would lie about such an important medical issue, Gupta replied \u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d Gupta also admits he never asked why they did it, even though he\u2019s their top medical correspondent.<\/p>\n<p>FDA Attacks Ivermectin<\/p>\n<p>While CNN and mainstream media are certainly at fault for spreading disinformation here, they got the idea from a supposedly reputable source \u2014 the FDA. In an August 21, 2021, tweet,7 the FDA linked to an agency article warning against the use of ivermectin, saying \u201cYou are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y\u2019all. Stop it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This blatantly misleading post seeded the lie that then spread across mainstream media. In an article posted on RESCUE with Michael Capuzzo substack, two independent investigative health journalists, Mary Beth Pfeiffer and Linda Bonvie, detail how the FDA\u2019s anti-ivermectin campaign began:8<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithin two days, 23.7 million people had seen that Pulitzer-worthy bit of Twitter talk. Hundreds of thousands more got the message on Facebook, LinkedIn, and from the Today Show\u2019s 3 million-follower Instagram account.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018That was great!\u2019 declared FDA Acting Commissioner Janet Woodcock in an email to her media team. \u2018Even I saw it!\u2019 For the FDA, the \u2018not-a-horse\u2019 tweet was \u2018a unique viral moment,\u2019 a senior FDA official wrote to Woodcock, \u2018in a time of incredible misinformation\u2019 \u2026<\/p>\n<p>When CNN retweeted \u2018not-a-horse,\u2019 FDA was gleeful. \u2018The numbers are racking up and I laughed out loud,\u2019 wrote FDA Associate Commissioner Erica Jefferson in one email \u2026 There was one problem, however. The tweet was a direct outgrowth of wrong data \u2014 call it misinformation \u2014 put out the day before by the Mississippi health department.<\/p>\n<p>The FDA did not vet the data, according to our review of emails obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and questions to FDA officials. Instead, it saw Mississippi, as one email said, as \u2018an opportunity to remind the public of our own warnings for ivermectin.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The now infamous tweet was born out of a single sentence in a Mississippi poison control health alert, which stated that \u201cAt least 70% of the recent calls have been related to ingestion of livestock or animal formulations of ivermectin purchased at livestock supply centers.\u201d The problem? That wasn\u2019t accurate either.<\/p>\n<p>Much Ado About Nothing<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, the real percentage of recent calls to poison control related to veterinary ivermectin was 2%, not 70%. In an October 5, 2021, correction, the Mississippi health department clarified that it wasn\u2019t 70% of all poison control calls that involved veterinary ivermectin, it was 70% of all ivermectin-related calls.9<\/p>\n<p>In absolute numbers, there were six such calls, and four of those calls actually related to livestock accidentally receiving the drug. Investigation by Pfeiffer and Bonvie also revealed that between July 31 and August 22, 2021, 40%, 10 of 24 ivermectin-related calls to the Mississippi poison control center were mere requests for information, which is a common occurrence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout question, people should not take drugs made for animals, given issues of dosing and medical oversight, to name just two. That much is clear,\u201d Pfeiffer and Bonvie write.10<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut in hopping on the Mississippi bandwagon, the FDA \u2026 turned ivermectin, which doctors and health ministers in several countries say has saved many from covid-19, into a drug to be feared, human form or not.<\/p>\n<p>This highly effective bait-and-switch began last March with a webpage, to which the FDA tweet linked, that conflates the two ivermectins. On one hand, the FDA tells of receiving \u2018multiple reports of patients who have required medical attention\u2019 after taking the animal product.<\/p>\n<p>On the other, it describes the fate awaiting people who take large amounts of any ivermectin, ending a long list with \u2018dizziness, ataxia, seizures, coma and even death.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The medical literature,11 nonetheless, shows ivermectin to be an extremely safe medicine \u2026 Last March, a safety review12 of ivermectin by a renowned French toxicologist could not find a single accidental overdose death in the medical literature in more than 300 safety studies of the drug over decades. <\/p>\n<p>The study was performed for MedinCell, a French pharmaceutical company \u2026 Since 1992, twenty deaths have been linked to inexpensive, off-patent ivermectin, according to a World Health Organization drug tracker called VigiAccess \u2026<\/p>\n<p>So how big was the surge that FDA described as \u2018multiple\u2019? Four, an agency spokesperson said just after the page went up. Three people were hospitalized, but it wasn\u2019t clear if that was for COVID itself.<\/p>\n<p>When pressed for details, FDA cited privacy issues, and said in an email, \u2018Some of these cases were lost to follow up.\u2019 This is how government gets away with some whoppers, and with the media\u2019s help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ivermectin Is Safe; Remdesivir, Not so Much<\/p>\n<p>According to VigiAccess, the World Health Organization\u2019s drug tracker, a total of 20 deaths have been linked to ivermectin since 1992.13 Compare that safety profile to remdesivir, the primary drug used by hospitals across the U.S. against COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Since the spring of 2020, VigiAccess has received 7,491 adverse events in all attributed to remdesivir, including 560 deaths, 550 serious cardiac disorders and 475 acute kidney injuries.14<\/p>\n<p>The question is why remdesivir is being used at all, with the World Health Organization recommending15 against it and a new Lancet study16 finding \u201cno clinical benefit.\u201d Could it be that Fauci is involved with the fraud? Pfeiffer and Bonvie write.17,18<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe other question is why ivermectin is not. The FDA tweet arrived just as ivermectin prescriptions were soaring, up twenty-four-fold in August from before the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>These were legal prescriptions written by doctors who, presumably, had read the studies, learned from experience, and decided for themselves. Indeed, 20 percent of prescriptions are written off-label,19 namely for other than an approved use.<\/p>\n<p>The effort to vilify ivermectin broadly has helped curb the legal supply of a safe drug. That\u2019s what drove people to livestock medicine in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>State AG Calls Out Medical Establishment for Misinformation<\/p>\n<p>In better news, in early October 2021, the Nebraska Department of Health asked Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson to issue a legal opinion on the off-label use of ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>October 15, 2021, Peterson issued a legal opinion20,21 stating health care providers can legally prescribe these medications for off-label use for the treatment of COVID, provided they have informed consent from the patient.22 The only causes for disciplinary action are failure to obtain informed consent, deception and\/or prescribing excessively high doses.<\/p>\n<p>Peterson concluded that, based on the available evidence, hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin \u201cmight work for some people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He highlighted studies demonstrating the safety and benefits of these drugs against COVID-19, as well as the shocking scientific fraud that led to worldwide shunning of hydroxychloroquine, and the cherry-picking and exclusion of data in studies that are critical of ivermectin. He also pointed out how illogical it is to discourage early treatment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Allowing physicians to consider these early treatments will free them to evaluate additional tools that could save lives, keep patients out of the hospital, and provide relief for our already strained healthcare system,&#8221; Peterson wrote.23,24<\/p>\n<p>Peterson also called out the FDA and Dr. Anthony Fauci on their hypocrisy, detailing how the FDA and National Institutes of Health seeded confusion by issuing contradictory guidance. The NIH has taken a neutral position to ivermectin, which Peterson \u201cclearly signaled that physicians should use their discretion in deciding whether to treat COVID-19 patients with ivermectin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Without reviewing the available data, which had long since been available and accumulating, it is unclear what basis the FDA had for denouncing ivermectin as a treatment or prophylaxis for COVID-19. ~ Doug Peterson, Nebraska Attorney General<\/p>\n<p>NIH officials, however, have ignored the agency\u2019s official position. At the end of August 2021, Fauci \u201cwent on CNN and announced that \u2018there is no clinical evidence\u2019 that ivermectin works for the prevention or treatment of COVID-19,\u2019 and that \u2018there is no evidence whatsoever\u2019 that it works,\u201d Peterson writes, adding:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYet this definitive claim directly contradicts the NIH\u2019s recognition that \u2018several randomized trials \u2026 published in peer-reviewed journals\u2019 have reported data indicating that ivermectin is effective as a COVID-19 treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AG Blames FDA for Seeding Confusion<\/p>\n<p>Peterson goes on to review the FDA\u2019s behavior with respect to ivermectin:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe FDA has similarly charted a course of confusion. In March 2021, the FDA posted a webpage entitled \u2018Why You Should Not Use Ivermectin to Great or Prevent COVID-19.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Although the FDA\u2019s concern was stories of some people using the animal form of ivermectin or excessive doses of the human form, the title broadly condemned any use of ivermectin in connection with COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Yet there was no basis for its sweeping condemnation. Indeed, the FDA itself acknowledged on that very webpage (and continued to do so until the page changed on September 3, 2021) that the agency had not even \u2018reviewed data to support use of ivermectin in COVID-19 patients to treat or prevent COVID-19.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>But without reviewing the available data, which had long since been available and accumulating, it is unclear what basis the FDA had for denouncing ivermectin as a treatment or prophylaxis for COVID-19.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Peterson also highlights the fact that while the FDA claims ivermectin \u201cis not an antiviral (a drug for treating viruses),\u201d on another FDA webpage they list a study in Antiviral Research that \u201cidentified ivermectin as a medicine \u2018previously shown to have broad-spectrum antiviral activity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is telling that the FDA deleted the line about ivermectin not being \u2018anti-viral\u2019 when it amended the first webpage on September 3, 2021,\u201d Peterson writes.<\/p>\n<p>He also points out that while the FDA now claims off-label use of drugs \u201ccan be very dangerous,\u201d and that this is why they don\u2019t recommend ivermectin for COVID, doctors routinely use drugs off-label, and ivermectin has a well-established safety record.<\/p>\n<p>So, \u201cit is inconsistent for the FDA to imply that ivermectin is dangerous when used to treat COVID-19 while the agency continues to approve remdesivir despite its spottier safety record,\u201d Peterson writes.<\/p>\n<p>AG Puts Professional Associations Under the Microscope<\/p>\n<p>Peterson also questioned the stance of professional associations such as The American Medical Association, American Pharmacists Association and American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, which in September 2021 issuing a joint statement25 opposing the use of ivermectin to prevent or treat COVID outside of clinical trials.<\/p>\n<p>Their statement, Peterson points out, relied on the FDA\u2019s and CDC\u2019s \u201csuspect positions,\u201d and a statement by Merck, in which they opposed the use of the drug due to a \u201cconcerning lack of safety data in the majority of studies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut Merck, of all sources, knows that ivermectin is exceedingly safe, so the absence of safety data in recent studies should not be concerning to the company,\u201d Peterson writes, adding:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy would ivermectin\u2019s original patent holder go out of its way to question this medicine by creating the impression that it might not be safe? There are at least two plausible reasons.<\/p>\n<p>First, ivermectin is no longer under patent, so Merck does not profit from it anymore. That likely explains why Merck declined to \u2018conduct clinical trials\u2019 on ivermectin and COVID-19 when given the chance.<\/p>\n<p>Second, Merck has a significant financial interest in the medical profession rejecting ivermectin as an early treatment for COVID-19. [T]he U.S. government has agreed to pay [Merck] about $1.2 billion for 1.7 million courses of its experimental COVID-19 treatment [molnupiravir], if it is proven to work in an ongoing large trial and authorized by U.S. regulators.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, if low-cost ivermectin works better than, or even the same as molnupiravir, that could cost Merck billions of dollars.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Another excellent article26 detailing the FDA\u2019s questionable actions, and Merck\u2019s incentives to disparage their old drug, ivermectin, was published by the American Institute for Economic Research.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we can all be happy that Merck has developed a new therapeutic that can keep us safe from the ravages of Covid-19, we should realize that the FDA\u2019s rules give companies an incentive to focus on newer drugs while ignoring older ones,\u201d David Henderson, a senior fellow with AIERS, writes.27<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIvermectin may or may not be a miracle drug for Covid-19. The FDA doesn\u2019t want us to learn the truth. The FDA spreads lies and alarms Americans while preventing drug companies from providing us with scientific explorations of existing, promising, generic drugs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Early Treatment Is Crucial<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no doubt that many have died unnecessarily due to our health authorities\u2019 incomprehensible decision to discourage all prevention and early treatment of COVID-19. As noted by many doctors, early treatment is absolutely crucial for preventing hospitalization, death and long-term side effects of the infection.<\/p>\n<p>There are several proven protocols to choose from at this point, including the following. Whichever treatment protocol you use, make sure you begin treatment as soon as possible, ideally at first onset of symptoms.<\/p>\n<p> The Zelenko protocol28<br \/>\n The MATH+ protocols29<br \/>\n Nebulized hydrogen peroxide, as detailed in Dr. David Brownstein\u2019s case paper30 and Dr. Thomas Levy\u2019s free e-book, \u201cRapid Virus Recovery\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":687,"featured_media":168525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_ppma_block_editor_authors":""},"categories":[359,431],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[657],"class_list":["post-205142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fda","category-ivermectin","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.2.1 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In early September 2021, Oklahoma\u2019s KFOR news ran a falsified story about emergency rooms being overrun with patients who had overdosed on horse ivermectin.1 Other mainstream media followed suit \u2014 all incorrectly referring to ivermectin as a dangerous veterinary drug. In the real world, ivermectin is a human drug that has been safely used by 3.7 billion people since the early 1990s.2 In 2016, three scientists received the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their discovery of ivermectin against parasitic infections in humans.3 It\u2019s also on the World Health Organization\u2019s list of essential medicines.4 There\u2019s absolutely no reason whatsoever to disparage ivermectin as a \u201chorse dewormer\u201d that only a loony person would consider taking. Yet that\u2019s what mainstream media have done, virtually without exception. When comedian and podcast host Joe Rogan revealed5 he\u2019d treated his bout of COVID-19 with ivermectin and other remedies \u2014 fully recovering within three days \u2014 NPR reported Rogan had taken \u201civermectin, a deworming veterinary drug that is formulated for use in cows and horses,\u201d adding that \u201cthe Food and Drug Administration is urging people to stop ingesting\u201d the medication, saying animal doses of the drug can cause nausea, vomiting and in some cases severe hepatitis.6 Sanjay Gupta Admits CNN Lied CNN, among many others, also reported on Rogan\u2019s use of \u201chorse dewormer.\u201d In mid-October 2021, Rogan interviewed CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, grilling him on why CNN would outright lie about his use of ivermectin. \u201cIt\u2019s a lie on a news network,\u201d Rogan said, \u201cand it\u2019s a lie that they\u2019re conscious of. It\u2019s not a mistake. They\u2019re unfavorably framing it as a veterinary medicine \u2026 Don\u2019t you think a lie like that is dangerous \u2026 when they know they\u2019re lying? They know I took medicine [for humans] \u2026 Dude, they lied. They said I was taking horse dewormer. It was prescribed to me by a doctor, along with a bunch of other medications.\u201d Gupta finally relents and agrees that ivermectin should not be called horse dewormer. When asked, \u201cDoes it bother you that the news network you work for out and out lied about me taking horse dewormer?\u201d Gupta replied, \u201cThey shouldn\u2019t have said that.\u201d When asked why they would lie about such an important medical issue, Gupta replied \u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d Gupta also admits he never asked why they did it, even though he\u2019s their top medical correspondent. FDA Attacks Ivermectin While CNN and mainstream media are certainly at fault for spreading disinformation here, they got the idea from a supposedly reputable source \u2014 the FDA. In an August 21, 2021, tweet,7 the FDA linked to an agency article warning against the use of ivermectin, saying \u201cYou are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y\u2019all. Stop it.\u201d This blatantly misleading post seeded the lie that then spread across mainstream media. In an article posted on RESCUE with Michael Capuzzo substack, two independent investigative health journalists, Mary Beth Pfeiffer and Linda Bonvie, detail how the FDA\u2019s anti-ivermectin campaign began:8 \u201cWithin two days, 23.7 million people had seen that Pulitzer-worthy bit of Twitter talk. Hundreds of thousands more got the message on Facebook, LinkedIn, and from the Today Show\u2019s 3 million-follower Instagram account. \u2018That was great!\u2019 declared FDA Acting Commissioner Janet Woodcock in an email to her media team. \u2018Even I saw it!\u2019 For the FDA, the \u2018not-a-horse\u2019 tweet was \u2018a unique viral moment,\u2019 a senior FDA official wrote to Woodcock, \u2018in a time of incredible misinformation\u2019 \u2026 When CNN retweeted \u2018not-a-horse,\u2019 FDA was gleeful. \u2018The numbers are racking up and I laughed out loud,\u2019 wrote FDA Associate Commissioner Erica Jefferson in one email \u2026 There was one problem, however. The tweet was a direct outgrowth of wrong data \u2014 call it misinformation \u2014 put out the day before by the Mississippi health department. The FDA did not vet the data, according to our review of emails obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and questions to FDA officials. Instead, it saw Mississippi, as one email said, as \u2018an opportunity to remind the public of our own warnings for ivermectin.\u2019\u201d The now infamous tweet was born out of a single sentence in a Mississippi poison control health alert, which stated that \u201cAt least 70% of the recent calls have been related to ingestion of livestock or animal formulations of ivermectin purchased at livestock supply centers.\u201d The problem? That wasn\u2019t accurate either. Much Ado About Nothing As it turns out, the real percentage of recent calls to poison control related to veterinary ivermectin was 2%, not 70%. In an October 5, 2021, correction, the Mississippi health department clarified that it wasn\u2019t 70% of all poison control calls that involved veterinary ivermectin, it was 70% of all ivermectin-related calls.9 In absolute numbers, there were six such calls, and four of those calls actually related to livestock accidentally receiving the drug. Investigation by Pfeiffer and Bonvie also revealed that between July 31 and August 22, 2021, 40%, 10 of 24 ivermectin-related calls to the Mississippi poison control center were mere requests for information, which is a common occurrence. \u201cWithout question, people should not take drugs made for animals, given issues of dosing and medical oversight, to name just two. That much is clear,\u201d Pfeiffer and Bonvie write.10 \u201cBut in hopping on the Mississippi bandwagon, the FDA \u2026 turned ivermectin, which doctors and health ministers in several countries say has saved many from covid-19, into a drug to be feared, human form or not. This highly effective bait-and-switch began last March with a webpage, to which the FDA tweet linked, that conflates the two ivermectins. On one hand, the FDA tells of receiving \u2018multiple reports of patients who have required medical attention\u2019 after taking the animal product. On the other, it describes the fate awaiting people who take large amounts of any ivermectin, ending a long list with \u2018dizziness, ataxia, seizures, coma and even death.\u2019 The medical literature,11 nonetheless, shows ivermectin to be an extremely safe medicine \u2026 Last March, a safety review12 of ivermectin by a renowned French toxicologist could not find a single accidental overdose death in the medical literature in more than 300 safety studies of the drug over decades. The study was performed for MedinCell, a French pharmaceutical company \u2026 Since 1992, twenty deaths have been linked to inexpensive, off-patent ivermectin, according to a World Health Organization drug tracker called VigiAccess \u2026 So how big was the surge that FDA described as \u2018multiple\u2019? Four, an agency spokesperson said just after the page went up. Three people were hospitalized, but it wasn\u2019t clear if that was for COVID itself. When pressed for details, FDA cited privacy issues, and said in an email, \u2018Some of these cases were lost to follow up.\u2019 This is how government gets away with some whoppers, and with the media\u2019s help.\u201d Ivermectin Is Safe; Remdesivir, Not so Much According to VigiAccess, the World Health Organization\u2019s drug tracker, a total of 20 deaths have been linked to ivermectin since 1992.13 Compare that safety profile to remdesivir, the primary drug used by hospitals across the U.S. against COVID-19. Since the spring of 2020, VigiAccess has received 7,491 adverse events in all attributed to remdesivir, including 560 deaths, 550 serious cardiac disorders and 475 acute kidney injuries.14 The question is why remdesivir is being used at all, with the World Health Organization recommending15 against it and a new Lancet study16 finding \u201cno clinical benefit.\u201d Could it be that Fauci is involved with the fraud? Pfeiffer and Bonvie write.17,18 \u201cThe other question is why ivermectin is not. The FDA tweet arrived just as ivermectin prescriptions were soaring, up twenty-four-fold in August from before the pandemic. These were legal prescriptions written by doctors who, presumably, had read the studies, learned from experience, and decided for themselves. Indeed, 20 percent of prescriptions are written off-label,19 namely for other than an approved use. The effort to vilify ivermectin broadly has helped curb the legal supply of a safe drug. That\u2019s what drove people to livestock medicine in the first place.\u201d State AG Calls Out Medical Establishment for Misinformation In better news, in early October 2021, the Nebraska Department of Health asked Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson to issue a legal opinion on the off-label use of ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19. October 15, 2021, Peterson issued a legal opinion20,21 stating health care providers can legally prescribe these medications for off-label use for the treatment of COVID, provided they have informed consent from the patient.22 The only causes for disciplinary action are failure to obtain informed consent, deception and\/or prescribing excessively high doses. Peterson concluded that, based on the available evidence, hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin \u201cmight work for some people.\u201d He highlighted studies demonstrating the safety and benefits of these drugs against COVID-19, as well as the shocking scientific fraud that led to worldwide shunning of hydroxychloroquine, and the cherry-picking and exclusion of data in studies that are critical of ivermectin. He also pointed out how illogical it is to discourage early treatment. &quot;Allowing physicians to consider these early treatments will free them to evaluate additional tools that could save lives, keep patients out of the hospital, and provide relief for our already strained healthcare system,&quot; Peterson wrote.23,24 Peterson also called out the FDA and Dr. Anthony Fauci on their hypocrisy, detailing how the FDA and National Institutes of Health seeded confusion by issuing contradictory guidance. The NIH has taken a neutral position to ivermectin, which Peterson \u201cclearly signaled that physicians should use their discretion in deciding whether to treat COVID-19 patients with ivermectin.\u201d Without reviewing the available data, which had long since been available and accumulating, it is unclear what basis the FDA had for denouncing ivermectin as a treatment or prophylaxis for COVID-19. ~ Doug Peterson, Nebraska Attorney General NIH officials, however, have ignored the agency\u2019s official position. At the end of August 2021, Fauci \u201cwent on CNN and announced that \u2018there is no clinical evidence\u2019 that ivermectin works for the prevention or treatment of COVID-19,\u2019 and that \u2018there is no evidence whatsoever\u2019 that it works,\u201d Peterson writes, adding: \u201cYet this definitive claim directly contradicts the NIH\u2019s recognition that \u2018several randomized trials \u2026 published in peer-reviewed journals\u2019 have reported data indicating that ivermectin is effective as a COVID-19 treatment.\u201d AG Blames FDA for Seeding Confusion Peterson goes on to review the FDA\u2019s behavior with respect to ivermectin: \u201cThe FDA has similarly charted a course of confusion. In March 2021, the FDA posted a webpage entitled \u2018Why You Should Not Use Ivermectin to Great or Prevent COVID-19.\u2019 Although the FDA\u2019s concern was stories of some people using the animal form of ivermectin or excessive doses of the human form, the title broadly condemned any use of ivermectin in connection with COVID-19. Yet there was no basis for its sweeping condemnation. Indeed, the FDA itself acknowledged on that very webpage (and continued to do so until the page changed on September 3, 2021) that the agency had not even \u2018reviewed data to support use of ivermectin in COVID-19 patients to treat or prevent COVID-19.\u2019 But without reviewing the available data, which had long since been available and accumulating, it is unclear what basis the FDA had for denouncing ivermectin as a treatment or prophylaxis for COVID-19.\u201d Peterson also highlights the fact that while the FDA claims ivermectin \u201cis not an antiviral (a drug for treating viruses),\u201d on another FDA webpage they list a study in Antiviral Research that \u201cidentified ivermectin as a medicine \u2018previously shown to have broad-spectrum antiviral activity.\u201d \u201cIt is telling that the FDA deleted the line about ivermectin not being \u2018anti-viral\u2019 when it amended the first webpage on September 3, 2021,\u201d Peterson writes. He also points out that while the FDA now claims off-label use of drugs \u201ccan be very dangerous,\u201d and that this is why they don\u2019t recommend ivermectin for COVID, doctors routinely use drugs off-label, and ivermectin has a well-established safety record. So, \u201cit is inconsistent for the FDA to imply that ivermectin is dangerous when used to treat COVID-19 while the agency continues to approve remdesivir despite its spottier safety record,\u201d Peterson writes. AG Puts Professional Associations Under the Microscope Peterson also questioned the stance of professional associations such as The American Medical Association, American Pharmacists Association and American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, which in September 2021 issuing a joint statement25 opposing the use of ivermectin to prevent or treat COVID outside of clinical trials. Their statement, Peterson points out, relied on the FDA\u2019s and CDC\u2019s \u201csuspect positions,\u201d and a statement by Merck, in which they opposed the use of the drug due to a \u201cconcerning lack of safety data in the majority of studies.\u201d \u201cBut Merck, of all sources, knows that ivermectin is exceedingly safe, so the absence of safety data in recent studies should not be concerning to the company,\u201d Peterson writes, adding: \u201cWhy would ivermectin\u2019s original patent holder go out of its way to question this medicine by creating the impression that it might not be safe? There are at least two plausible reasons. First, ivermectin is no longer under patent, so Merck does not profit from it anymore. That likely explains why Merck declined to \u2018conduct clinical trials\u2019 on ivermectin and COVID-19 when given the chance. Second, Merck has a significant financial interest in the medical profession rejecting ivermectin as an early treatment for COVID-19. [T]he U.S. government has agreed to pay [Merck] about $1.2 billion for 1.7 million courses of its experimental COVID-19 treatment [molnupiravir], if it is proven to work in an ongoing large trial and authorized by U.S. regulators. Thus, if low-cost ivermectin works better than, or even the same as molnupiravir, that could cost Merck billions of dollars.\u201d Another excellent article26 detailing the FDA\u2019s questionable actions, and Merck\u2019s incentives to disparage their old drug, ivermectin, was published by the American Institute for Economic Research. \u201cWhile we can all be happy that Merck has developed a new therapeutic that can keep us safe from the ravages of Covid-19, we should realize that the FDA\u2019s rules give companies an incentive to focus on newer drugs while ignoring older ones,\u201d David Henderson, a senior fellow with AIERS, writes.27 \u201cIvermectin may or may not be a miracle drug for Covid-19. The FDA doesn\u2019t want us to learn the truth. The FDA spreads lies and alarms Americans while preventing drug companies from providing us with scientific explorations of existing, promising, generic drugs.\u201d Early Treatment Is Crucial There\u2019s no doubt that many have died unnecessarily due to our health authorities\u2019 incomprehensible decision to discourage all prevention and early treatment of COVID-19. As noted by many doctors, early treatment is absolutely crucial for preventing hospitalization, death and long-term side effects of the infection. There are several proven protocols to choose from at this point, including the following. Whichever treatment protocol you use, make sure you begin treatment as soon as possible, ideally at first onset of symptoms. 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early September 2021, Oklahoma\\u2019s KFOR news ran a falsified story about emergency rooms being overrun with patients who had overdosed on horse ivermectin.1 Other mainstream media followed suit \\u2014 all incorrectly referring to ivermectin as a dangerous veterinary drug. In the real world, ivermectin is a human drug that has been safely used by 3.7 billion people since the early 1990s.2 In 2016, three scientists received the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their discovery of ivermectin against parasitic infections in humans.3 It\\u2019s also on the World Health Organization\\u2019s list of essential medicines.4 There\\u2019s absolutely no reason whatsoever to disparage ivermectin as a \\u201chorse dewormer\\u201d that only a loony person would consider taking. Yet that\\u2019s what mainstream media have done, virtually without exception. When comedian and podcast host Joe Rogan revealed5 he\\u2019d treated his bout of COVID-19 with ivermectin and other remedies \\u2014 fully recovering within three days \\u2014 NPR reported Rogan had taken \\u201civermectin, a deworming veterinary drug that is formulated for use in cows and horses,\\u201d adding that \\u201cthe Food and Drug Administration is urging people to stop ingesting\\u201d the medication, saying animal doses of the drug can cause nausea, vomiting and in some cases severe hepatitis.6 Sanjay Gupta Admits CNN Lied CNN, among many others, also reported on Rogan\\u2019s use of \\u201chorse dewormer.\\u201d In mid-October 2021, Rogan interviewed CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, grilling him on why CNN would outright lie about his use of ivermectin. \\u201cIt\\u2019s a lie on a news network,\\u201d Rogan said, \\u201cand it\\u2019s a lie that they\\u2019re conscious of. It\\u2019s not a mistake. They\\u2019re unfavorably framing it as a veterinary medicine \\u2026 Don\\u2019t you think a lie like that is dangerous \\u2026 when they know they\\u2019re lying? They know I took medicine [for humans] \\u2026 Dude, they lied. They said I was taking horse dewormer. It was prescribed to me by a doctor, along with a bunch of other medications.\\u201d Gupta finally relents and agrees that ivermectin should not be called horse dewormer. When asked, \\u201cDoes it bother you that the news network you work for out and out lied about me taking horse dewormer?\\u201d Gupta replied, \\u201cThey shouldn\\u2019t have said that.\\u201d When asked why they would lie about such an important medical issue, Gupta replied \\u201cI don\\u2019t know.\\u201d Gupta also admits he never asked why they did it, even though he\\u2019s their top medical correspondent. FDA Attacks Ivermectin While CNN and mainstream media are certainly at fault for spreading disinformation here, they got the idea from a supposedly reputable source \\u2014 the FDA. In an August 21, 2021, tweet,7 the FDA linked to an agency article warning against the use of ivermectin, saying \\u201cYou are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y\\u2019all. Stop it.\\u201d This blatantly misleading post seeded the lie that then spread across mainstream media. In an article posted on RESCUE with Michael Capuzzo substack, two independent investigative health journalists, Mary Beth Pfeiffer and Linda Bonvie, detail how the FDA\\u2019s anti-ivermectin campaign began:8 \\u201cWithin two days, 23.7 million people had seen that Pulitzer-worthy bit of Twitter talk. Hundreds of thousands more got the message on Facebook, LinkedIn, and from the Today Show\\u2019s 3 million-follower Instagram account. \\u2018That was great!\\u2019 declared FDA Acting Commissioner Janet Woodcock in an email to her media team. \\u2018Even I saw it!\\u2019 For the FDA, the \\u2018not-a-horse\\u2019 tweet was \\u2018a unique viral moment,\\u2019 a senior FDA official wrote to Woodcock, \\u2018in a time of incredible misinformation\\u2019 \\u2026 When CNN retweeted \\u2018not-a-horse,\\u2019 FDA was gleeful. \\u2018The numbers are racking up and I laughed out loud,\\u2019 wrote FDA Associate Commissioner Erica Jefferson in one email \\u2026 There was one problem, however. The tweet was a direct outgrowth of wrong data \\u2014 call it misinformation \\u2014 put out the day before by the Mississippi health department. The FDA did not vet the data, according to our review of emails obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and questions to FDA officials. Instead, it saw Mississippi, as one email said, as \\u2018an opportunity to remind the public of our own warnings for ivermectin.\\u2019\\u201d The now infamous tweet was born out of a single sentence in a Mississippi poison control health alert, which stated that \\u201cAt least 70% of the recent calls have been related to ingestion of livestock or animal formulations of ivermectin purchased at livestock supply centers.\\u201d The problem? That wasn\\u2019t accurate either. Much Ado About Nothing As it turns out, the real percentage of recent calls to poison control related to veterinary ivermectin was 2%, not 70%. In an October 5, 2021, correction, the Mississippi health department clarified that it wasn\\u2019t 70% of all poison control calls that involved veterinary ivermectin, it was 70% of all ivermectin-related calls.9 In absolute numbers, there were six such calls, and four of those calls actually related to livestock accidentally receiving the drug. Investigation by Pfeiffer and Bonvie also revealed that between July 31 and August 22, 2021, 40%, 10 of 24 ivermectin-related calls to the Mississippi poison control center were mere requests for information, which is a common occurrence. \\u201cWithout question, people should not take drugs made for animals, given issues of dosing and medical oversight, to name just two. That much is clear,\\u201d Pfeiffer and Bonvie write.10 \\u201cBut in hopping on the Mississippi bandwagon, the FDA \\u2026 turned ivermectin, which doctors and health ministers in several countries say has saved many from covid-19, into a drug to be feared, human form or not. This highly effective bait-and-switch began last March with a webpage, to which the FDA tweet linked, that conflates the two ivermectins. On one hand, the FDA tells of receiving \\u2018multiple reports of patients who have required medical attention\\u2019 after taking the animal product. On the other, it describes the fate awaiting people who take large amounts of any ivermectin, ending a long list with \\u2018dizziness, ataxia, seizures, coma and even death.\\u2019 The medical literature,11 nonetheless, shows ivermectin to be an extremely safe medicine \\u2026 Last March, a safety review12 of ivermectin by a renowned French toxicologist could not find a single accidental overdose death in the medical literature in more than 300 safety studies of the drug over decades. The study was performed for MedinCell, a French pharmaceutical company \\u2026 Since 1992, twenty deaths have been linked to inexpensive, off-patent ivermectin, according to a World Health Organization drug tracker called VigiAccess \\u2026 So how big was the surge that FDA described as \\u2018multiple\\u2019? Four, an agency spokesperson said just after the page went up. Three people were hospitalized, but it wasn\\u2019t clear if that was for COVID itself. When pressed for details, FDA cited privacy issues, and said in an email, \\u2018Some of these cases were lost to follow up.\\u2019 This is how government gets away with some whoppers, and with the media\\u2019s help.\\u201d Ivermectin Is Safe; Remdesivir, Not so Much According to VigiAccess, the World Health Organization\\u2019s drug tracker, a total of 20 deaths have been linked to ivermectin since 1992.13 Compare that safety profile to remdesivir, the primary drug used by hospitals across the U.S. against COVID-19. Since the spring of 2020, VigiAccess has received 7,491 adverse events in all attributed to remdesivir, including 560 deaths, 550 serious cardiac disorders and 475 acute kidney injuries.14 The question is why remdesivir is being used at all, with the World Health Organization recommending15 against it and a new Lancet study16 finding \\u201cno clinical benefit.\\u201d Could it be that Fauci is involved with the fraud? Pfeiffer and Bonvie write.17,18 \\u201cThe other question is why ivermectin is not. The FDA tweet arrived just as ivermectin prescriptions were soaring, up twenty-four-fold in August from before the pandemic. These were legal prescriptions written by doctors who, presumably, had read the studies, learned from experience, and decided for themselves. Indeed, 20 percent of prescriptions are written off-label,19 namely for other than an approved use. The effort to vilify ivermectin broadly has helped curb the legal supply of a safe drug. That\\u2019s what drove people to livestock medicine in the first place.\\u201d State AG Calls Out Medical Establishment for Misinformation In better news, in early October 2021, the Nebraska Department of Health asked Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson to issue a legal opinion on the off-label use of ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19. October 15, 2021, Peterson issued a legal opinion20,21 stating health care providers can legally prescribe these medications for off-label use for the treatment of COVID, provided they have informed consent from the patient.22 The only causes for disciplinary action are failure to obtain informed consent, deception and\\\/or prescribing excessively high doses. Peterson concluded that, based on the available evidence, hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin \\u201cmight work for some people.\\u201d He highlighted studies demonstrating the safety and benefits of these drugs against COVID-19, as well as the shocking scientific fraud that led to worldwide shunning of hydroxychloroquine, and the cherry-picking and exclusion of data in studies that are critical of ivermectin. He also pointed out how illogical it is to discourage early treatment. \\\"Allowing physicians to consider these early treatments will free them to evaluate additional tools that could save lives, keep patients out of the hospital, and provide relief for our already strained healthcare system,\\\" Peterson wrote.23,24 Peterson also called out the FDA and Dr. Anthony Fauci on their hypocrisy, detailing how the FDA and National Institutes of Health seeded confusion by issuing contradictory guidance. The NIH has taken a neutral position to ivermectin, which Peterson \\u201cclearly signaled that physicians should use their discretion in deciding whether to treat COVID-19 patients with ivermectin.\\u201d Without reviewing the available data, which had long since been available and accumulating, it is unclear what basis the FDA had for denouncing ivermectin as a treatment or prophylaxis for COVID-19. ~ Doug Peterson, Nebraska Attorney General NIH officials, however, have ignored the agency\\u2019s official position. At the end of August 2021, Fauci \\u201cwent on CNN and announced that \\u2018there is no clinical evidence\\u2019 that ivermectin works for the prevention or treatment of COVID-19,\\u2019 and that \\u2018there is no evidence whatsoever\\u2019 that it works,\\u201d Peterson writes, adding: \\u201cYet this definitive claim directly contradicts the NIH\\u2019s recognition that \\u2018several randomized trials \\u2026 published in peer-reviewed journals\\u2019 have reported data indicating that ivermectin is effective as a COVID-19 treatment.\\u201d AG Blames FDA for Seeding Confusion Peterson goes on to review the FDA\\u2019s behavior with respect to ivermectin: \\u201cThe FDA has similarly charted a course of confusion. In March 2021, the FDA posted a webpage entitled \\u2018Why You Should Not Use Ivermectin to Great or Prevent COVID-19.\\u2019 Although the FDA\\u2019s concern was stories of some people using the animal form of ivermectin or excessive doses of the human form, the title broadly condemned any use of ivermectin in connection with COVID-19. Yet there was no basis for its sweeping condemnation. Indeed, the FDA itself acknowledged on that very webpage (and continued to do so until the page changed on September 3, 2021) that the agency had not even \\u2018reviewed data to support use of ivermectin in COVID-19 patients to treat or prevent COVID-19.\\u2019 But without reviewing the available data, which had long since been available and accumulating, it is unclear what basis the FDA had for denouncing ivermectin as a treatment or prophylaxis for COVID-19.\\u201d Peterson also highlights the fact that while the FDA claims ivermectin \\u201cis not an antiviral (a drug for treating viruses),\\u201d on another FDA webpage they list a study in Antiviral Research that \\u201cidentified ivermectin as a medicine \\u2018previously shown to have broad-spectrum antiviral activity.\\u201d \\u201cIt is telling that the FDA deleted the line about ivermectin not being \\u2018anti-viral\\u2019 when it amended the first webpage on September 3, 2021,\\u201d Peterson writes. He also points out that while the FDA now claims off-label use of drugs \\u201ccan be very dangerous,\\u201d and that this is why they don\\u2019t recommend ivermectin for COVID, doctors routinely use drugs off-label, and ivermectin has a well-established safety record. So, \\u201cit is inconsistent for the FDA to imply that ivermectin is dangerous when used to treat COVID-19 while the agency continues to approve remdesivir despite its spottier safety record,\\u201d Peterson writes. AG Puts Professional Associations Under the Microscope Peterson also questioned the stance of professional associations such as The American Medical Association, American Pharmacists Association and American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, which in September 2021 issuing a joint statement25 opposing the use of ivermectin to prevent or treat COVID outside of clinical trials. Their statement, Peterson points out, relied on the FDA\\u2019s and CDC\\u2019s \\u201csuspect positions,\\u201d and a statement by Merck, in which they opposed the use of the drug due to a \\u201cconcerning lack of safety data in the majority of studies.\\u201d \\u201cBut Merck, of all sources, knows that ivermectin is exceedingly safe, so the absence of safety data in recent studies should not be concerning to the company,\\u201d Peterson writes, adding: \\u201cWhy would ivermectin\\u2019s original patent holder go out of its way to question this medicine by creating the impression that it might not be safe? There are at least two plausible reasons. First, ivermectin is no longer under patent, so Merck does not profit from it anymore. That likely explains why Merck declined to \\u2018conduct clinical trials\\u2019 on ivermectin and COVID-19 when given the chance. Second, Merck has a significant financial interest in the medical profession rejecting ivermectin as an early treatment for COVID-19. [T]he U.S. government has agreed to pay [Merck] about $1.2 billion for 1.7 million courses of its experimental COVID-19 treatment [molnupiravir], if it is proven to work in an ongoing large trial and authorized by U.S. regulators. Thus, if low-cost ivermectin works better than, or even the same as molnupiravir, that could cost Merck billions of dollars.\\u201d Another excellent article26 detailing the FDA\\u2019s questionable actions, and Merck\\u2019s incentives to disparage their old drug, ivermectin, was published by the American Institute for Economic Research. \\u201cWhile we can all be happy that Merck has developed a new therapeutic that can keep us safe from the ravages of Covid-19, we should realize that the FDA\\u2019s rules give companies an incentive to focus on newer drugs while ignoring older ones,\\u201d David Henderson, a senior fellow with AIERS, writes.27 \\u201cIvermectin may or may not be a miracle drug for Covid-19. The FDA doesn\\u2019t want us to learn the truth. The FDA spreads lies and alarms Americans while preventing drug companies from providing us with scientific explorations of existing, promising, generic drugs.\\u201d Early Treatment Is Crucial There\\u2019s no doubt that many have died unnecessarily due to our health authorities\\u2019 incomprehensible decision to discourage all prevention and early treatment of COVID-19. As noted by many doctors, early treatment is absolutely crucial for preventing hospitalization, death and long-term side effects of the infection. There are several proven protocols to choose from at this point, including the following. Whichever treatment protocol you use, make sure you begin treatment as soon as possible, ideally at first onset of symptoms. 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In the real world, ivermectin is a human drug that has been safely used by 3.7 billion people since the early 1990s.2 In 2016, three scientists received the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their discovery of ivermectin against parasitic infections in humans.3 It\u2019s also on the World Health Organization\u2019s list of essential medicines.4 There\u2019s absolutely no reason whatsoever to disparage ivermectin as a \u201chorse dewormer\u201d that only a loony person would consider taking. Yet that\u2019s what mainstream media have done, virtually without exception. When comedian and podcast host Joe Rogan revealed5 he\u2019d treated his bout of COVID-19 with ivermectin and other remedies \u2014 fully recovering within three days \u2014 NPR reported Rogan had taken \u201civermectin, a deworming veterinary drug that is formulated for use in cows and horses,\u201d adding that \u201cthe Food and Drug Administration is urging people to stop ingesting\u201d the medication, saying animal doses of the drug can cause nausea, vomiting and in some cases severe hepatitis.6 Sanjay Gupta Admits CNN Lied CNN, among many others, also reported on Rogan\u2019s use of \u201chorse dewormer.\u201d In mid-October 2021, Rogan interviewed CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, grilling him on why CNN would outright lie about his use of ivermectin. \u201cIt\u2019s a lie on a news network,\u201d Rogan said, \u201cand it\u2019s a lie that they\u2019re conscious of. It\u2019s not a mistake. They\u2019re unfavorably framing it as a veterinary medicine \u2026 Don\u2019t you think a lie like that is dangerous \u2026 when they know they\u2019re lying? They know I took medicine [for humans] \u2026 Dude, they lied. They said I was taking horse dewormer. It was prescribed to me by a doctor, along with a bunch of other medications.\u201d Gupta finally relents and agrees that ivermectin should not be called horse dewormer. When asked, \u201cDoes it bother you that the news network you work for out and out lied about me taking horse dewormer?\u201d Gupta replied, \u201cThey shouldn\u2019t have said that.\u201d When asked why they would lie about such an important medical issue, Gupta replied \u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d Gupta also admits he never asked why they did it, even though he\u2019s their top medical correspondent. FDA Attacks Ivermectin While CNN and mainstream media are certainly at fault for spreading disinformation here, they got the idea from a supposedly reputable source \u2014 the FDA. In an August 21, 2021, tweet,7 the FDA linked to an agency article warning against the use of ivermectin, saying \u201cYou are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y\u2019all. Stop it.\u201d This blatantly misleading post seeded the lie that then spread across mainstream media. In an article posted on RESCUE with Michael Capuzzo substack, two independent investigative health journalists, Mary Beth Pfeiffer and Linda Bonvie, detail how the FDA\u2019s anti-ivermectin campaign began:8 \u201cWithin two days, 23.7 million people had seen that Pulitzer-worthy bit of Twitter talk. Hundreds of thousands more got the message on Facebook, LinkedIn, and from the Today Show\u2019s 3 million-follower Instagram account. \u2018That was great!\u2019 declared FDA Acting Commissioner Janet Woodcock in an email to her media team. \u2018Even I saw it!\u2019 For the FDA, the \u2018not-a-horse\u2019 tweet was \u2018a unique viral moment,\u2019 a senior FDA official wrote to Woodcock, \u2018in a time of incredible misinformation\u2019 \u2026 When CNN retweeted \u2018not-a-horse,\u2019 FDA was gleeful. \u2018The numbers are racking up and I laughed out loud,\u2019 wrote FDA Associate Commissioner Erica Jefferson in one email \u2026 There was one problem, however. The tweet was a direct outgrowth of wrong data \u2014 call it misinformation \u2014 put out the day before by the Mississippi health department. The FDA did not vet the data, according to our review of emails obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and questions to FDA officials. Instead, it saw Mississippi, as one email said, as \u2018an opportunity to remind the public of our own warnings for ivermectin.\u2019\u201d The now infamous tweet was born out of a single sentence in a Mississippi poison control health alert, which stated that \u201cAt least 70% of the recent calls have been related to ingestion of livestock or animal formulations of ivermectin purchased at livestock supply centers.\u201d The problem? That wasn\u2019t accurate either. Much Ado About Nothing As it turns out, the real percentage of recent calls to poison control related to veterinary ivermectin was 2%, not 70%. In an October 5, 2021, correction, the Mississippi health department clarified that it wasn\u2019t 70% of all poison control calls that involved veterinary ivermectin, it was 70% of all ivermectin-related calls.9 In absolute numbers, there were six such calls, and four of those calls actually related to livestock accidentally receiving the drug. Investigation by Pfeiffer and Bonvie also revealed that between July 31 and August 22, 2021, 40%, 10 of 24 ivermectin-related calls to the Mississippi poison control center were mere requests for information, which is a common occurrence. \u201cWithout question, people should not take drugs made for animals, given issues of dosing and medical oversight, to name just two. That much is clear,\u201d Pfeiffer and Bonvie write.10 \u201cBut in hopping on the Mississippi bandwagon, the FDA \u2026 turned ivermectin, which doctors and health ministers in several countries say has saved many from covid-19, into a drug to be feared, human form or not. This highly effective bait-and-switch began last March with a webpage, to which the FDA tweet linked, that conflates the two ivermectins. On one hand, the FDA tells of receiving \u2018multiple reports of patients who have required medical attention\u2019 after taking the animal product. On the other, it describes the fate awaiting people who take large amounts of any ivermectin, ending a long list with \u2018dizziness, ataxia, seizures, coma and even death.\u2019 The medical literature,11 nonetheless, shows ivermectin to be an extremely safe medicine \u2026 Last March, a safety review12 of ivermectin by a renowned French toxicologist could not find a single accidental overdose death in the medical literature in more than 300 safety studies of the drug over decades. The study was performed for MedinCell, a French pharmaceutical company \u2026 Since 1992, twenty deaths have been linked to inexpensive, off-patent ivermectin, according to a World Health Organization drug tracker called VigiAccess \u2026 So how big was the surge that FDA described as \u2018multiple\u2019? Four, an agency spokesperson said just after the page went up. Three people were hospitalized, but it wasn\u2019t clear if that was for COVID itself. When pressed for details, FDA cited privacy issues, and said in an email, \u2018Some of these cases were lost to follow up.\u2019 This is how government gets away with some whoppers, and with the media\u2019s help.\u201d Ivermectin Is Safe; Remdesivir, Not so Much According to VigiAccess, the World Health Organization\u2019s drug tracker, a total of 20 deaths have been linked to ivermectin since 1992.13 Compare that safety profile to remdesivir, the primary drug used by hospitals across the U.S. against COVID-19. Since the spring of 2020, VigiAccess has received 7,491 adverse events in all attributed to remdesivir, including 560 deaths, 550 serious cardiac disorders and 475 acute kidney injuries.14 The question is why remdesivir is being used at all, with the World Health Organization recommending15 against it and a new Lancet study16 finding \u201cno clinical benefit.\u201d Could it be that Fauci is involved with the fraud? Pfeiffer and Bonvie write.17,18 \u201cThe other question is why ivermectin is not. The FDA tweet arrived just as ivermectin prescriptions were soaring, up twenty-four-fold in August from before the pandemic. These were legal prescriptions written by doctors who, presumably, had read the studies, learned from experience, and decided for themselves. Indeed, 20 percent of prescriptions are written off-label,19 namely for other than an approved use. The effort to vilify ivermectin broadly has helped curb the legal supply of a safe drug. That\u2019s what drove people to livestock medicine in the first place.\u201d State AG Calls Out Medical Establishment for Misinformation In better news, in early October 2021, the Nebraska Department of Health asked Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson to issue a legal opinion on the off-label use of ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19. October 15, 2021, Peterson issued a legal opinion20,21 stating health care providers can legally prescribe these medications for off-label use for the treatment of COVID, provided they have informed consent from the patient.22 The only causes for disciplinary action are failure to obtain informed consent, deception and\/or prescribing excessively high doses. Peterson concluded that, based on the available evidence, hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin \u201cmight work for some people.\u201d He highlighted studies demonstrating the safety and benefits of these drugs against COVID-19, as well as the shocking scientific fraud that led to worldwide shunning of hydroxychloroquine, and the cherry-picking and exclusion of data in studies that are critical of ivermectin. He also pointed out how illogical it is to discourage early treatment. \"Allowing physicians to consider these early treatments will free them to evaluate additional tools that could save lives, keep patients out of the hospital, and provide relief for our already strained healthcare system,\" Peterson wrote.23,24 Peterson also called out the FDA and Dr. Anthony Fauci on their hypocrisy, detailing how the FDA and National Institutes of Health seeded confusion by issuing contradictory guidance. The NIH has taken a neutral position to ivermectin, which Peterson \u201cclearly signaled that physicians should use their discretion in deciding whether to treat COVID-19 patients with ivermectin.\u201d Without reviewing the available data, which had long since been available and accumulating, it is unclear what basis the FDA had for denouncing ivermectin as a treatment or prophylaxis for COVID-19. ~ Doug Peterson, Nebraska Attorney General NIH officials, however, have ignored the agency\u2019s official position. At the end of August 2021, Fauci \u201cwent on CNN and announced that \u2018there is no clinical evidence\u2019 that ivermectin works for the prevention or treatment of COVID-19,\u2019 and that \u2018there is no evidence whatsoever\u2019 that it works,\u201d Peterson writes, adding: \u201cYet this definitive claim directly contradicts the NIH\u2019s recognition that \u2018several randomized trials \u2026 published in peer-reviewed journals\u2019 have reported data indicating that ivermectin is effective as a COVID-19 treatment.\u201d AG Blames FDA for Seeding Confusion Peterson goes on to review the FDA\u2019s behavior with respect to ivermectin: \u201cThe FDA has similarly charted a course of confusion. In March 2021, the FDA posted a webpage entitled \u2018Why You Should Not Use Ivermectin to Great or Prevent COVID-19.\u2019 Although the FDA\u2019s concern was stories of some people using the animal form of ivermectin or excessive doses of the human form, the title broadly condemned any use of ivermectin in connection with COVID-19. Yet there was no basis for its sweeping condemnation. Indeed, the FDA itself acknowledged on that very webpage (and continued to do so until the page changed on September 3, 2021) that the agency had not even \u2018reviewed data to support use of ivermectin in COVID-19 patients to treat or prevent COVID-19.\u2019 But without reviewing the available data, which had long since been available and accumulating, it is unclear what basis the FDA had for denouncing ivermectin as a treatment or prophylaxis for COVID-19.\u201d Peterson also highlights the fact that while the FDA claims ivermectin \u201cis not an antiviral (a drug for treating viruses),\u201d on another FDA webpage they list a study in Antiviral Research that \u201cidentified ivermectin as a medicine \u2018previously shown to have broad-spectrum antiviral activity.\u201d \u201cIt is telling that the FDA deleted the line about ivermectin not being \u2018anti-viral\u2019 when it amended the first webpage on September 3, 2021,\u201d Peterson writes. He also points out that while the FDA now claims off-label use of drugs \u201ccan be very dangerous,\u201d and that this is why they don\u2019t recommend ivermectin for COVID, doctors routinely use drugs off-label, and ivermectin has a well-established safety record. So, \u201cit is inconsistent for the FDA to imply that ivermectin is dangerous when used to treat COVID-19 while the agency continues to approve remdesivir despite its spottier safety record,\u201d Peterson writes. AG Puts Professional Associations Under the Microscope Peterson also questioned the stance of professional associations such as The American Medical Association, American Pharmacists Association and American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, which in September 2021 issuing a joint statement25 opposing the use of ivermectin to prevent or treat COVID outside of clinical trials. Their statement, Peterson points out, relied on the FDA\u2019s and CDC\u2019s \u201csuspect positions,\u201d and a statement by Merck, in which they opposed the use of the drug due to a \u201cconcerning lack of safety data in the majority of studies.\u201d \u201cBut Merck, of all sources, knows that ivermectin is exceedingly safe, so the absence of safety data in recent studies should not be concerning to the company,\u201d Peterson writes, adding: \u201cWhy would ivermectin\u2019s original patent holder go out of its way to question this medicine by creating the impression that it might not be safe? There are at least two plausible reasons. First, ivermectin is no longer under patent, so Merck does not profit from it anymore. That likely explains why Merck declined to \u2018conduct clinical trials\u2019 on ivermectin and COVID-19 when given the chance. Second, Merck has a significant financial interest in the medical profession rejecting ivermectin as an early treatment for COVID-19. [T]he U.S. government has agreed to pay [Merck] about $1.2 billion for 1.7 million courses of its experimental COVID-19 treatment [molnupiravir], if it is proven to work in an ongoing large trial and authorized by U.S. regulators. Thus, if low-cost ivermectin works better than, or even the same as molnupiravir, that could cost Merck billions of dollars.\u201d Another excellent article26 detailing the FDA\u2019s questionable actions, and Merck\u2019s incentives to disparage their old drug, ivermectin, was published by the American Institute for Economic Research. \u201cWhile we can all be happy that Merck has developed a new therapeutic that can keep us safe from the ravages of Covid-19, we should realize that the FDA\u2019s rules give companies an incentive to focus on newer drugs while ignoring older ones,\u201d David Henderson, a senior fellow with AIERS, writes.27 \u201cIvermectin may or may not be a miracle drug for Covid-19. The FDA doesn\u2019t want us to learn the truth. The FDA spreads lies and alarms Americans while preventing drug companies from providing us with scientific explorations of existing, promising, generic drugs.\u201d Early Treatment Is Crucial There\u2019s no doubt that many have died unnecessarily due to our health authorities\u2019 incomprehensible decision to discourage all prevention and early treatment of COVID-19. As noted by many doctors, early treatment is absolutely crucial for preventing hospitalization, death and long-term side effects of the infection. There are several proven protocols to choose from at this point, including the following. Whichever treatment protocol you use, make sure you begin treatment as soon as possible, ideally at first onset of symptoms. 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ivermectin.1 Other mainstream media followed suit \u2014 all incorrectly referring to ivermectin as a dangerous veterinary drug. In the real world, ivermectin is a human drug that has been safely used by 3.7 billion people since the early 1990s.2 In 2016, three scientists received the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their discovery of ivermectin against parasitic infections in humans.3 It\u2019s also on the World Health Organization\u2019s list of essential medicines.4 There\u2019s absolutely no reason whatsoever to disparage ivermectin as a \u201chorse dewormer\u201d that only a loony person would consider taking. Yet that\u2019s what mainstream media have done, virtually without exception. When comedian and podcast host Joe Rogan revealed5 he\u2019d treated his bout of COVID-19 with ivermectin and other remedies \u2014 fully recovering within three days \u2014 NPR reported Rogan had taken \u201civermectin, a deworming veterinary drug that is formulated for use in cows and horses,\u201d adding that \u201cthe Food and Drug Administration is urging people to stop ingesting\u201d the medication, saying animal doses of the drug can cause nausea, vomiting and in some cases severe hepatitis.6 Sanjay Gupta Admits CNN Lied CNN, among many others, also reported on Rogan\u2019s use of \u201chorse dewormer.\u201d In mid-October 2021, Rogan interviewed CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, grilling him on why CNN would outright lie about his use of ivermectin. \u201cIt\u2019s a lie on a news network,\u201d Rogan said, \u201cand it\u2019s a lie that they\u2019re conscious of. It\u2019s not a mistake. They\u2019re unfavorably framing it as a veterinary medicine \u2026 Don\u2019t you think a lie like that is dangerous \u2026 when they know they\u2019re lying? They know I took medicine [for humans] \u2026 Dude, they lied. They said I was taking horse dewormer. It was prescribed to me by a doctor, along with a bunch of other medications.\u201d Gupta finally relents and agrees that ivermectin should not be called horse dewormer. When asked, \u201cDoes it bother you that the news network you work for out and out lied about me taking horse dewormer?\u201d Gupta replied, \u201cThey shouldn\u2019t have said that.\u201d When asked why they would lie about such an important medical issue, Gupta replied \u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d Gupta also admits he never asked why they did it, even though he\u2019s their top medical correspondent. FDA Attacks Ivermectin While CNN and mainstream media are certainly at fault for spreading disinformation here, they got the idea from a supposedly reputable source \u2014 the FDA. In an August 21, 2021, tweet,7 the FDA linked to an agency article warning against the use of ivermectin, saying \u201cYou are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y\u2019all. Stop it.\u201d This blatantly misleading post seeded the lie that then spread across mainstream media. In an article posted on RESCUE with Michael Capuzzo substack, two independent investigative health journalists, Mary Beth Pfeiffer and Linda Bonvie, detail how the FDA\u2019s anti-ivermectin campaign began:8 \u201cWithin two days, 23.7 million people had seen that Pulitzer-worthy bit of Twitter talk. Hundreds of thousands more got the message on Facebook, LinkedIn, and from the Today Show\u2019s 3 million-follower Instagram account. \u2018That was great!\u2019 declared FDA Acting Commissioner Janet Woodcock in an email to her media team. \u2018Even I saw it!\u2019 For the FDA, the \u2018not-a-horse\u2019 tweet was \u2018a unique viral moment,\u2019 a senior FDA official wrote to Woodcock, \u2018in a time of incredible misinformation\u2019 \u2026 When CNN retweeted \u2018not-a-horse,\u2019 FDA was gleeful. \u2018The numbers are racking up and I laughed out loud,\u2019 wrote FDA Associate Commissioner Erica Jefferson in one email \u2026 There was one problem, however. The tweet was a direct outgrowth of wrong data \u2014 call it misinformation \u2014 put out the day before by the Mississippi health department. The FDA did not vet the data, according to our review of emails obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and questions to FDA officials. Instead, it saw Mississippi, as one email said, as \u2018an opportunity to remind the public of our own warnings for ivermectin.\u2019\u201d The now infamous tweet was born out of a single sentence in a Mississippi poison control health alert, which stated that \u201cAt least 70% of the recent calls have been related to ingestion of livestock or animal formulations of ivermectin purchased at livestock supply centers.\u201d The problem? That wasn\u2019t accurate either. Much Ado About Nothing As it turns out, the real percentage of recent calls to poison control related to veterinary ivermectin was 2%, not 70%. In an October 5, 2021, correction, the Mississippi health department clarified that it wasn\u2019t 70% of all poison control calls that involved veterinary ivermectin, it was 70% of all ivermectin-related calls.9 In absolute numbers, there were six such calls, and four of those calls actually related to livestock accidentally receiving the drug. Investigation by Pfeiffer and Bonvie also revealed that between July 31 and August 22, 2021, 40%, 10 of 24 ivermectin-related calls to the Mississippi poison control center were mere requests for information, which is a common occurrence. \u201cWithout question, people should not take drugs made for animals, given issues of dosing and medical oversight, to name just two. That much is clear,\u201d Pfeiffer and Bonvie write.10 \u201cBut in hopping on the Mississippi bandwagon, the FDA \u2026 turned ivermectin, which doctors and health ministers in several countries say has saved many from covid-19, into a drug to be feared, human form or not. This highly effective bait-and-switch began last March with a webpage, to which the FDA tweet linked, that conflates the two ivermectins. On one hand, the FDA tells of receiving \u2018multiple reports of patients who have required medical attention\u2019 after taking the animal product. On the other, it describes the fate awaiting people who take large amounts of any ivermectin, ending a long list with \u2018dizziness, ataxia, seizures, coma and even death.\u2019 The medical literature,11 nonetheless, shows ivermectin to be an extremely safe medicine \u2026 Last March, a safety review12 of ivermectin by a renowned French toxicologist could not find a single accidental overdose death in the medical literature in more than 300 safety studies of the drug over decades. The study was performed for MedinCell, a French pharmaceutical company \u2026 Since 1992, twenty deaths have been linked to inexpensive, off-patent ivermectin, according to a World Health Organization drug tracker called VigiAccess \u2026 So how big was the surge that FDA described as \u2018multiple\u2019? Four, an agency spokesperson said just after the page went up. Three people were hospitalized, but it wasn\u2019t clear if that was for COVID itself. When pressed for details, FDA cited privacy issues, and said in an email, \u2018Some of these cases were lost to follow up.\u2019 This is how government gets away with some whoppers, and with the media\u2019s help.\u201d Ivermectin Is Safe; Remdesivir, Not so Much According to VigiAccess, the World Health Organization\u2019s drug tracker, a total of 20 deaths have been linked to ivermectin since 1992.13 Compare that safety profile to remdesivir, the primary drug used by hospitals across the U.S. against COVID-19. Since the spring of 2020, VigiAccess has received 7,491 adverse events in all attributed to remdesivir, including 560 deaths, 550 serious cardiac disorders and 475 acute kidney injuries.14 The question is why remdesivir is being used at all, with the World Health Organization recommending15 against it and a new Lancet study16 finding \u201cno clinical benefit.\u201d Could it be that Fauci is involved with the fraud? Pfeiffer and Bonvie write.17,18 \u201cThe other question is why ivermectin is not. The FDA tweet arrived just as ivermectin prescriptions were soaring, up twenty-four-fold in August from before the pandemic. These were legal prescriptions written by doctors who, presumably, had read the studies, learned from experience, and decided for themselves. Indeed, 20 percent of prescriptions are written off-label,19 namely for other than an approved use. The effort to vilify ivermectin broadly has helped curb the legal supply of a safe drug. That\u2019s what drove people to livestock medicine in the first place.\u201d State AG Calls Out Medical Establishment for Misinformation In better news, in early October 2021, the Nebraska Department of Health asked Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson to issue a legal opinion on the off-label use of ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19. October 15, 2021, Peterson issued a legal opinion20,21 stating health care providers can legally prescribe these medications for off-label use for the treatment of COVID, provided they have informed consent from the patient.22 The only causes for disciplinary action are failure to obtain informed consent, deception and\/or prescribing excessively high doses. Peterson concluded that, based on the available evidence, hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin \u201cmight work for some people.\u201d He highlighted studies demonstrating the safety and benefits of these drugs against COVID-19, as well as the shocking scientific fraud that led to worldwide shunning of hydroxychloroquine, and the cherry-picking and exclusion of data in studies that are critical of ivermectin. He also pointed out how illogical it is to discourage early treatment. \"Allowing physicians to consider these early treatments will free them to evaluate additional tools that could save lives, keep patients out of the hospital, and provide relief for our already strained healthcare system,\" Peterson wrote.23,24 Peterson also called out the FDA and Dr. Anthony Fauci on their hypocrisy, detailing how the FDA and National Institutes of Health seeded confusion by issuing contradictory guidance. The NIH has taken a neutral position to ivermectin, which Peterson \u201cclearly signaled that physicians should use their discretion in deciding whether to treat COVID-19 patients with ivermectin.\u201d Without reviewing the available data, which had long since been available and accumulating, it is unclear what basis the FDA had for denouncing ivermectin as a treatment or prophylaxis for COVID-19. ~ Doug Peterson, Nebraska Attorney General NIH officials, however, have ignored the agency\u2019s official position. At the end of August 2021, Fauci \u201cwent on CNN and announced that \u2018there is no clinical evidence\u2019 that ivermectin works for the prevention or treatment of COVID-19,\u2019 and that \u2018there is no evidence whatsoever\u2019 that it works,\u201d Peterson writes, adding: \u201cYet this definitive claim directly contradicts the NIH\u2019s recognition that \u2018several randomized trials \u2026 published in peer-reviewed journals\u2019 have reported data indicating that ivermectin is effective as a COVID-19 treatment.\u201d AG Blames FDA for Seeding Confusion Peterson goes on to review the FDA\u2019s behavior with respect to ivermectin: \u201cThe FDA has similarly charted a course of confusion. In March 2021, the FDA posted a webpage entitled \u2018Why You Should Not Use Ivermectin to Great or Prevent COVID-19.\u2019 Although the FDA\u2019s concern was stories of some people using the animal form of ivermectin or excessive doses of the human form, the title broadly condemned any use of ivermectin in connection with COVID-19. Yet there was no basis for its sweeping condemnation. Indeed, the FDA itself acknowledged on that very webpage (and continued to do so until the page changed on September 3, 2021) that the agency had not even \u2018reviewed data to support use of ivermectin in COVID-19 patients to treat or prevent COVID-19.\u2019 But without reviewing the available data, which had long since been available and accumulating, it is unclear what basis the FDA had for denouncing ivermectin as a treatment or prophylaxis for COVID-19.\u201d Peterson also highlights the fact that while the FDA claims ivermectin \u201cis not an antiviral (a drug for treating viruses),\u201d on another FDA webpage they list a study in Antiviral Research that \u201cidentified ivermectin as a medicine \u2018previously shown to have broad-spectrum antiviral activity.\u201d \u201cIt is telling that the FDA deleted the line about ivermectin not being \u2018anti-viral\u2019 when it amended the first webpage on September 3, 2021,\u201d Peterson writes. He also points out that while the FDA now claims off-label use of drugs \u201ccan be very dangerous,\u201d and that this is why they don\u2019t recommend ivermectin for COVID, doctors routinely use drugs off-label, and ivermectin has a well-established safety record. So, \u201cit is inconsistent for the FDA to imply that ivermectin is dangerous when used to treat COVID-19 while the agency continues to approve remdesivir despite its spottier safety record,\u201d Peterson writes. AG Puts Professional Associations Under the Microscope Peterson also questioned the stance of professional associations such as The American Medical Association, American Pharmacists Association and American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, which in September 2021 issuing a joint statement25 opposing the use of ivermectin to prevent or treat COVID outside of clinical trials. Their statement, Peterson points out, relied on the FDA\u2019s and CDC\u2019s \u201csuspect positions,\u201d and a statement by Merck, in which they opposed the use of the drug due to a \u201cconcerning lack of safety data in the majority of studies.\u201d \u201cBut Merck, of all sources, knows that ivermectin is exceedingly safe, so the absence of safety data in recent studies should not be concerning to the company,\u201d Peterson writes, adding: \u201cWhy would ivermectin\u2019s original patent holder go out of its way to question this medicine by creating the impression that it might not be safe? There are at least two plausible reasons. First, ivermectin is no longer under patent, so Merck does not profit from it anymore. That likely explains why Merck declined to \u2018conduct clinical trials\u2019 on ivermectin and COVID-19 when given the chance. Second, Merck has a significant financial interest in the medical profession rejecting ivermectin as an early treatment for COVID-19. [T]he U.S. government has agreed to pay [Merck] about $1.2 billion for 1.7 million courses of its experimental COVID-19 treatment [molnupiravir], if it is proven to work in an ongoing large trial and authorized by U.S. regulators. Thus, if low-cost ivermectin works better than, or even the same as molnupiravir, that could cost Merck billions of dollars.\u201d Another excellent article26 detailing the FDA\u2019s questionable actions, and Merck\u2019s incentives to disparage their old drug, ivermectin, was published by the American Institute for Economic Research. \u201cWhile we can all be happy that Merck has developed a new therapeutic that can keep us safe from the ravages of Covid-19, we should realize that the FDA\u2019s rules give companies an incentive to focus on newer drugs while ignoring older ones,\u201d David Henderson, a senior fellow with AIERS, writes.27 \u201cIvermectin may or may not be a miracle drug for Covid-19. The FDA doesn\u2019t want us to learn the truth. The FDA spreads lies and alarms Americans while preventing drug companies from providing us with scientific explorations of existing, promising, generic drugs.\u201d Early Treatment Is Crucial There\u2019s no doubt that many have died unnecessarily due to our health authorities\u2019 incomprehensible decision to discourage all prevention and early treatment of COVID-19. As noted by many doctors, early treatment is absolutely crucial for preventing hospitalization, death and long-term side effects of the infection. There are several proven protocols to choose from at this point, including the following. Whichever treatment protocol you use, make sure you begin treatment as soon as possible, ideally at first onset of symptoms. 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