By Thomas Lifson, AM THINKER
The suppression of the use of the off-patent, hence low profit, drug ivermectin for use in preventing and treating COVID is grotesque and inhumane. Consider the case of a wife who died while hospitalized for COVID while her husband begged the hospital to administer a supply he had in hand but was refused. From the Epoch Times:
David DeLuca of Sicklerville, New Jersey will never know if the Ivermectin prescribed by an out-of-state doctor for his wife would have saved her life. Colleen DeLuca, 62, died of COVID-19 on Oct. 10, at Jefferson Washington Township Hospital in Sewell, New Jersey, before he could get a court order to administer the drug.
Ivermectin has helped in some cases, but across the United States, many hospitals don’t include it in their COVID protocol for treatment and refuse to use it, even as a last effort on a dying patient.
Nobody will pay for the very expensive “gold standard” double blind testing of ivermectin because there are no large profits to be had from its use, now that the patent on it has expired. That seems to be the excuse used by hospitals and doctors to oppose its use. Even though ivermectin has proven to cause few problems among the hundreds of millions of people who have taken it. As readers of this site know, ivermectin has been derided as “horse paste” and a “veterinary de-wormer” by people who choose to ignore the fact that its inventors received the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology for its dramatic effects in reducing the plague of river blindness in tropic countries.
Now comes word of a trial of widespread ivermectin use as a prophylaxis in the Brazilian city of Itahai. ZeroHedge reports:
Early on in the pandemic, before the vaccines were available, the Southern Brazilian city of Itajai offered Ivermectin as a prophylaxis against the disease.
Between July and December of 2020, roughly 220,000 people were offered a dose of 0.2mg/kg/day (roughly 18mg for a 200lb person) as an optional treatment for 2 days, once every two weeks.
133,051 people took them up on it, while 87,466 did not.
After analyzing the data, a team of researchers spanning several Brazilian institutes, the University of Toronto, and Columbia’s EAFIT concluded in a December pre-print study that hospitalization and mortality rates were cut in half over the seven month period among the Ivermectin group.
Ivermectin seems effective both in preventing contracting COVID and in treating it. That a drug with little risk of harm would be suppressed despite its great upside potential demands explanation by those doing the suppression. Instead, they do their best to ignore reports such as this.
Disclaimer: I am not advocating any readers using ivermectin or any other drug. I am not a medical doctor and do not offer medical advice to anyone. Always consult a physician you trust before taking any medication.
Something has caused a significant change! I was just looking at Worldometer.com(https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/) and I noticed something extraordinary which I have not seen reported elsewhere. The world-wide rate of Covid has increased by ~54.3% from 405K/day to 625K/day(7 day ave.) cases since Oct. 16 to present. In that same time, the deaths have been nearly flat, with an increase of 7.6% from 6700/day to 7208/day. In fact, since the Oct. 30, when the deaths should have begun to increase, the death rate has fluctuated only by +/- 200 per day. There has not been any rise in the world death rate over the past two months as the latest world case wave has escalated. With each of the previous waves of increased cases there has been a related wave of increased deaths, smaller, offset with a delay of a couple of weeks usually, but there has never been a wave of cases that was not followed by a wave of deaths…til now. The world wide death rate has become uncoupled, or so it would appear, from the case rate.
@Adam
Sorry, his name is actually Dr. Flavio Cadegiani, I have followed his work for over a year and it has been a bit of a roller-coaster event which is still ongoing.
I am familiar with him for his work with the FLCCC which is an organization that was started by Dr. Merik and Dr. Kory. The FLCCC is responsible for a great deal of work towards the treatment of Covid.
Dr. Cardegiani is a physician who is Board Certified in Endincrinology and holds both a Masters and Doctorate degree in Endocrinology. He has been responsible for conducting much of the clinical trials in Brazil with enormously successful results. For instance, the theory for, and the research on, the anti-androgen therapy, which is the most beneficial treatment for Covid, was first suspected and supported by his research. He noticed that men did worse than women after being infected, something many noted over the past two years. What was particular to his observation was that he noticed that men with hormone pattern baldness(caused by low testosterone(an androgenic steroid) levels did not do as poorly as those with a full head of hair, all other things being similar, ie age, location, health history, etc. Based on this, he proposed that there might be a connection between the androgen levels and the ability of the virus to enter the cells. Well, it turns out he is correct.
In any case, he has been vilified for his support of treatments of Covid patients and they have accused him of many rediculous crimes from fraud associated with this IVM study all the way to murdering patients that died from Covid. A very toxic environment, much worse so than in the US, where Public Health agencies from all over the world reached out to support the attacks against him. But he just kept doing what he does. Very interesting person.
During his research with the Anti-Androgens, he found a hospital in the midst of the state of Amozonas, in the Amazon of course, and it was the only hospital that had no Covid cases while the other hospitals in the area were overwhelmed with Covid cases where they also had many deaths – it was during the peak of the Gamma wave in Brazil and the cases were enormously high, except the single hospital. He traveled to the hospital which had no Covid cases and inquired how they were able to have no Covid cases. The Public Health official would only discuss the matter in private, where she noted that everyone in the town was on IVM, and they had no Covid because of the IVM. She didn’t want to talk about it publicly because she expected to be chastised for her use of the IVM treatment(this is so bizarre). In any case, they put together a retrospective analysis on the comparison between this hospital and others in the area and matched and balanced the results accordingly(I won’t mention again how much I am not a fan of retrospectives), and demonstrated an enormous benefit for IVM. The international reports immediately reported that the study failed to prove any benefit for IVM and then they claimed it was fraudulent. This was late in 2020(Sept-Dec).
Here is that study, which he still hasn’t been able to get published:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/356962821_Ivermectin_prophylaxis_used_for_COVID-19_reduces_COVID-19_infection_and_mortality_rates_A_220517-subject_populational-level_retrospective_citywide
By the way, Cadegianis not the primary author on the study, I suspect that that would be the individual who tried to keep her results secret, Dr. Karr.
My comment was due to my familiarity with the imbuing controversy with the IVM study and the work on the Anti-Androgen therapy, which is neary 100% effective, in both men and women, just FYI.
Zerohedge discusses this and other important results on IVM in a recent article here:
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/hospitalizations-mortality-cut-half-after-brazilian-city-offered-ivermectin-everyone-pre
Pelosi: Who is this Dr. Flavio? He isn’t mentioned in this article.
Nice work Dr. Flavio.