An existing drug that has been shown to stop the spread of COVID?
First they emphasized the need to lock-down, which made sense at the time based on the limited data that was available. Since then they have failed to recognize the collateral impacts; financial, social, psychological, etc., that have occurred due to these policies. The medical leadership – NIH, CDC, and FDA, have focused on novel therapies from the beginning. I am amazed at the speed in which they accomplished the creation of a vaccine. This truly was an unprecedented feat. Yet there are some real concerns about the true effectiveness and potential side-effects, short-term and long-term.
On December 8, in a presentation before the United States Senate panel, Dr Pierre Kory, president of the Frontline COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance, who also belongs to a group of highly published physicians with about 2,000 peer-reviewed publications to their credit, pointed out in his senate testimony one of the major oversights of the above health organizations was the lack of focus on repurposing of drugs with well known profiles that have potentials to work. Repurposing of existing therapies, something that can be implemented quickly and randomized trials performed in a very, very short period of time. Across the planet groups of physicians and researchers took this upon themselves, with no financial incentives.
For example early hydroxychloroquine data showed it was very positive for use in pre-hospitalization groups but not for patients once hospitalized which was made clear yet the info was discredited due to a VA study that used the treatment in hospitalized patients.
Dr Kory’s group and other groups recommended steroids to treat people in respiratory failure back in May and they were also highly criticized and discredited and now it is a well established benefit that has saved countless lives.
There is an anti-parasitic and anti-viral drug that many groups looked at early on, its cheap and has a long history of use in other conditions, it looked promising. The doctors from Dr Kory’s group suggested controlled studies early on and some were done. The government seemed to keep saying that more studies of safety and effectiveness were needed, this was as late as August when there were already over a dozen convincing studies published. Sadly, the government is not applying the same rigorous criteria to the vaccines that will cost billions to our government and tax payers. In his Dec 8th testimony Dr Kory stated, Ivermectin “literally obliterated” COVID-19 during trial tests by his group. “If you take it, you will not get sick. Ivermectin is effective in prophylaxis prevention of COVID-19,” the lung specialist told the Senate panel.
The results of one study on Ivermectin performed on 1200 frontline healthcare workers from Argentina earlier this month are amazing – 800 frontline healthcare workers treated with none of the subjects becoming sick versus the 400 workers that were not treated 237 got sick that is an 58% infection rate. There are also impressive studies on using it as treatment once infected. The cost is about $6 per pill versus over $1000 for single doses of several monoclonal with significantly lower benefits.
I feel that everyone should know this. Why has this not been all over the news? If it were not that I am an Advanced Practice Provider for the Apeiron Center for Human Potential and a Certified Epigenetic Coach, I would not have heard about this.
Please watch the following video and read the articles for more info: