By James Stansbury, AM THINKER
After nearly a year-and-a-half and over 618,000 recorded COVID-related deaths in the U.S. alone, the FDA has finally released an emergency use authorization for REGEN-COV, a new drug that was being tested in 2020 (pre-Biden). Primary care physicians can now use it as an early treatment option. Before now, the only authorized COVID-19 early treatment my family doctor had, per the July 2021 update to NIH guidelines, was to recommend quarantine and then wait until symptoms go away or report to a hospital if they get worse. Of note, these updated guidelines continue to identify hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) as a prohibited drug – although this should not be a surprise considering the war on HCQ began soon after President Trump dared to recommend it.
REGEN-COV, however, is no simple take-home medicine like the familiar Tamiflu frequently prescribed in the past for the seasonal flu. For example, in the “old days” that ended in March 2020, my wife and I both caught the seasonal flu. Our doctor immediately prescribed Tamiflu and azithromycin because he knew that delaying even a few days would make Tamiflu less effective. Like Tamiflu, REGEN-COV is similarly recommended only for early use before severe symptoms can develop.
Once the initial surge of COVID-19 cases and deaths started in March-April 2020, the seasonal flu magically vanished along with Tamiflu despite some early indications it works on COVID. Coincidentally with its approving a new drug, the CDC is finally pulling the plug on the PCR test for COVID-19. The PCR test often gave false positives and can misidentify the seasonal flu as COVID-19 (although it will remain in use through the end of 2021).
According to the FDA fact sheet on REGEN-COV, the intravenous infusion process it requires appears time-consuming (it can take 20 to 50 minutes or more, with a one-hour monitoring period immediately after). For now, the FDA recommends it for use only on confirmed COVID-19 patients over the age of 12 who are at high risk of developing severe symptoms. However, the fact sheet permits some flexibility in using it as a preventative to especially high-risk patients. It sounds so promising that the FDA was careful to say it is not a substitute for the vaccines.
The FDA has known from the beginning that early treatment of COVID-19 is essential, yet it chose to ignore India’s great success with its initial early treatment protocol that initially included HCQ. However, when the Delta variant arrived in India, it appeared more resistant to HCQ, so India immediately approved and widely distributed a new more potent outpatient COVID kit consisting of Ivermectin, Doxycycline, and Zinc. This less-than-$3 kit quickly reversed the Delta variant death trend there. dose of REGEN-COV proved more elusive; ranging from $10 to $2,100 per dose. Grab your “Good Rx” card, just in case.
REGEN-COV and all the medications used in India appear to work similarly by calming the characteristic overreaction of the body’s auto-immune system (cytokine storm) that COVID-19 can trigger in some patients with compromised immune systems. Advanced age is a major factor, notably from Vitamin D deficiency. If the cytokine storm can be controlled early, the immune system can work properly and produce the antibodies that kill the virus.
To oversimplify the process, the virus triggers an overproduction of white blood cells that mistakenly attack the body instead of the virus. The resulting internal inflammation is the primary cause of severe symptoms and deaths — usually pneumonia, but a secondary contributor is a blood clotting response affecting critical organs, including the lungs.
Never forget that this war against these inexpensive drugs was not limited to the US. It was also fought in most western countries, including the UK and Sweden. However, Sweden, known for its risky minimal mask and lockdowns mandates, has apparently achieved herd immunity. (Its average daily deaths since mid-July 2021 have remained below 0.1 and are continuing steady at 0.01 in mid-August.) Sweden achieved this herd immunity in time to avoid new deaths from the Delta variant.
By comparison, neither the US nor UK have avoided the Delta variant, despite their more rigid mask rules, lockdowns, and higher vaccination rates. In fact, the lockdowns may have delayed achieving herd immunity in time to avoid the spread of the new Delta variant. India with fewer than 10% vaccinated is also nearing herd immunity and has had far fewer per capita deaths than most for the entire pandemic. You can monitor the death trends of these four countries here.
Having spent most of my career as an analyst, I wondered what the outcome would have been if Sweden, the UK, and the US had discovered something like REGEN-COV when the pandemic started or had the courage to permit using India’s inexpensive early outpatient treatment protocols. This question can be simplistically answered by using India’s reported 331 cumulative deaths per million as the best possible expected outcome (assuming the results for REGEN-COV would have been similar) and multiplying that same number of deaths (311/million) by the populations of the three western countries:
The potentially avoidable death counts in the last column (in red) are beyond alarming. The results in the next to last column (in green) resemble the expected deaths in a normal seasonal flu year. Obviously, the skeptics will reject this result by saying that there are many other factors that would have ruled out this overly optimistic result. Examples include questioning the accuracy of India’s data, the difference in average ages of each country’s population (India has far more young people), and the lack of domestic manufacturing and supply chain resources to produce and distribute the needed drugs.
Nevertheless, the results do raise questions about the wisdom of the government medical establishment’s decision to delay authorizing any early treatment protocols and, instead, gambling on the vaccines’ timely arrival or the hope that something new (and more profitable), such as REGEN-COV, would magically appear. We cannot change history, but we should have the wisdom to learn from it.
Anyone thinking that the CDC is monitoring breakthrough cases should read this article. None of this should be surprising, but I believe few people are aware of the unfortunate truth that the CDC purposely stopped monitoring breakthrough cases months ago, so that they didn’t portray the vax as unreliable. Here are some highlights from the article cited below:
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-cdc-only-tracks-a-fraction-of-breakthrough-covid-19-infections-even-as-cases-surge
From the Israeli-Pfiezer contract as found by the @Ehden @ T.ME/EH_DEN who exposed the Pfiezer contracts
So all epidemiological info relating to the results/side-effects of the Israeli medical experiment are only to be released if Pfiezer agrees. This is likely why the US data is not being collected or reported as well.
FDA approving Pfizer(39% effective per Bloomberg) in the US on Mon. per NYT and Reuters. This would halt all other vax which are still under EUA, unless normal protocol is not followed, so, who know.
1.5million vaccine injuries and 15,472 deaths in just 27 of 50 European countries!!
The full article can be found at
https://www.technocracy.news/shock-european-union-reports-1-5-million-vaccine-injuries-15472-deaths/
The report about Jesse Jackson that I just clipped is from The Hill.
I find it interesting that Jackson and his wife are ill enough to hospitalized, although apparently fully vaccinated.
@Raphael
It is used for other diseases such as lupus, and this poitical debate has made it difficult to obtain for those who have had prescriptions for years, as some pharmacists in the US have been motivated to challenge and deny filling such prescriptions. So, you have to contact a doctor willing to prescribe it and a pharmacy willing to fill it. If you need a doctor that will provide treatment, you can go to americasfrontlinedoctors.org and they can provide you with a doctor or telemedicine appt. to get treatment, if it is warranted.
Dr. Urso has 30+ drugs including Budesimide that he reports very good results with different combinations. The key is treating early with an appropriate combination of drugs and immune supportive nutrients.
What ever happened to Hyroxy… after it was banned? Can it be prescribed for anything? Just wondering.
It seems that Iverm… gets used in some cases.
This leaves me wondering how one would actually go about getting the type of treatment that they desire, (after consultation with their doctor, of course).
I was interested to see an article, recently, (maybe here on Israpundit?), which told of an Israeli study which found at least 18 existing drugs which have a positive effect on the virus.
FWIW, a close friend who is over 70, got C_v_id, and went out state to TX, where a doctor prescribed a cocktail of vitamins, minerals, and the drug Budesinide. It fixed him up in just a few days.
So, why all of this falldeerah about dangerous, untested, vaccinations, when there are, apparently, plenty of possible treatments for the disease?
A new video in which a detailed discussion is provided on vax effects on preganancy. Everyone should watch the segment beginning around ~47min. but the entire video is very informative. Very disturbing information. Many things explained at a more layman level than I have heard presented before.
https://rumble.com/vldbwt-truth-for-health-foundation-press-conference-august-192021.html
The timely and judicious use of HCQ and Ivermectin with other supplements (other antibiotics, vits, etc.) are very effective but too CHEAP!
This just in from CNN:
Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) holds a chart as bipartisan members of the Senate and House gather to announce a framework for fresh coronavirus relief legislation at a news conference on Capitol Hill on Dec. 1, 2020.
Kevin Lemarque | Reuters
New Covid-19 cases are emerging at their highest rates since winter as the delta variant of the coronavirus sweeps across the U.S. Health experts blame its rapid spread for the uptick in case counts and deaths as a growing number of so-called “breakthrough” cases show fully vaccinated people are still at risk.
More than 140,000 new cases and 822 deaths were reported in the U.S. on Monday, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The number of new daily deaths has more than doubled since the start of August.
The situation in Florida and Texas is especially grim, with case counts in both states blowing past records and overwhelming hospital systems.
@peloni Peloni, you put the reply on the right page. From listening to one of Dr. McCullough’s videos on his site and YouTube,, his testimony before the Texas Senate’s committee on public health, he said that he recommended this and other medications only in “coktails’ of meds, not for use alone. He also mentioned another med prominently–not hydroxiqloriqine or ivermectin, but another one that he has had much success with treating patients at Baylor Medical Center at Texas A&M.
However, he stressed that all of the meds he recommends have to be used as “cocktails” with other meds, vitamin supplements and minerals-zinc, vitamin supplements, and a mild antibiotic as prophylaxis in most of these “cocktails.
It is possible to find physicians in most parts of the country who are able to obtain these medications and are competent to prescribe them, Dr. McCullough says, in a directory made available on the web site of the Association of American Physicians and surgeons.
@Adam
It’s not a new treatment. These are monoclonal antibodies that have been available to everyone since last year when they were developed. They are part of Dr. McCullough’s outpatient treatment plan that he wrote last year. The FDA has only now authorize their emergency use.
Covid is a thromboembolic-inflammatory disease. ie a disease of bloodclots and inflammation. These antibodies do not eliminate either of these processes. It only prevents free floating viruses from floating freely, and only if the antibodies are capable of recognizing this recent variant, as it was developed over 1yr ago – probably against what they are calling Alfa, I believe. The antibodies are not useful to stop any viral replication. It doesn’t block viral uptake into cells, it doesn’t block the virus taking over the cell’s manufacturing capablities(analogy), it doesn’t prevent massive virus replication from taking place and it doesn’t address the inflammatory cytokine storm and inflammation that results in blood clots, other disease complications and death.
To use this as the only treatment for Covid would be very limited care, indeed. If the antibodies are effective and clear the free floating virus, the inflammation and blood clots will still remain unhindered. So it is no cure, but can help. Dr. McCullough does recommend the use of these antibodies, as their use is intended to rid the free floating virus from freely circulating, but his view is that it can help and can’t hurt, ie unknown efficacy(sound familiar). The use of these antibodies has been kept silent from the public over the past year, ie no govt advocacy of their use, which McCullough has been calling for over the past year. So, it is good that they have finally found something beyond the useless(and some claim harmful) Remdisavir to recommend to treat Covid with, but it is a very small step towards treatment. Still their EUA may be helpful to alert the general public of their existence, every hospital has had them available, but no doctor was authorized to recommend them to you, ie you had to ask for them to be used. I suspect Pharma/FDA are likely hoping to stave off any debate about early treatment by abcuring the subject with this “early treatment” which is quite an incomplete(at best) treatment to Covid.
It should be noted that these antibodies are contra-indicated if ADE(antibody dependent enhancement) is found to be present(recall this is where the immune system protects the virus and carries it to hard to reach parts of the body). Partially effective antibodies are the very thing that creates and sustains ADE, which is the problem with continuing to use leaky vaccines, a very dangerous possibility that has very clearly been seen in animal testing this past Jan.
Sorry, posted on wrong page.
Peloni, what is your take about this new medication?