How We Broke the Ivermectin Story the Global Media was Covering Up
A friend with COVID...a doctor with a wonder drug...beating the censors
This is the introduction to RESCUE’s inaugural three-part series on ivermectin, “THE DRUG THAT CRACKED COVID.”
I knew the world had gone mad when a woman friend, an executive in Manhattan, came down with COVID-19 and was quarantined in a “COVID hotel” in Times Square with homeless people and quarantining travelers. The locks on her room door were removed. Nurses prowled the halls to keep her in her room and wake her up every night to check her vitals—not to treat her, because there is no approved treatment for COVID-19; only, if her oxygen plummeted, to move her to the hospital where there, too, there are no effective approved treatments for all stages of the disease.
The absence of treatments for COVID-19 is a global crisis, Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, said on 60 Minutes, for vaccines “are not enough.” Dangerous variants sweep the globe after mutating in the world’s poor and unvaccinated, lockdowns persist, and millions more are likely to die. The wonderous m-RNA vaccines need a cop buddy.
Fortunately, I knew of an early treatment for my friend. It’s a cheap generic drug, safer than Tylenol, FDA-approved to treat scabies and lice in children and the elderly, with many other uses that make ivermectin a “wonder drug.” In fifty-five clinical trials with 445 scientists and 17,730 patients around the world, ivermectin has been shown to be the most powerful drug to eradicate COVID-19 in all stages of the disease, including prevention and early treatment.
It’s what the world desperately needs now, according to Dr. Pierre Kory, a former professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison medical school, whose research group, the nonprofit Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance, has developed the most effective non-vaccine treatments in the world using safe, FDA-approved generics. (See flccc.net). They have saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, including eighty-year-old Judy Smentkiewicz of Buffalo, the star of this story. Judy’s remarkable story is a “miracle,” her family says, thanks to Pierre Kory, science, and God.
My friend researched ivermectin and was surprised that it is not FDA-approved as an anti-viral to treat COVID-19, although it is FDA-approved as an anti-parasitic agent. This would be an “off-label use,” a routine thing in medicine comprising some 20 percent of all prescriptions—aspirin to prevent heart attack or stroke, for instance, is “off label.” This is called doctoring. And it was routine until COVID-19, when a big pharma-dominated health system tried to eliminate all generic competition to protect its biggest payday of all time.
Judy had the choice to fight back or die. A worldwide revolution that will determine the future of medicine and who lives and dies from COVID-19—the battle of ivermectin—is fighting back, fighting for life. My daughter, I’m happy to say, was prescribed ivermectin and got better fast.
If you are interested in ivermectin, check out www.flccc.net, and talk to your doctor. Here’s a help page on how to talk to your doctor: www.COVID19criticalcare.com/guide-for-this-website.
As many you know I got onto this story on Mother’s Day, 2020, when my wife Teresa Banik Capuzzo, the publisher and editor of Mountain Home magazine, and I watched Dr. Kory testify to the U.S. Senate about his group’s first breakthrough, a steroid treatment that was saving 95 percent of COVID-19 patients when 80 percent were dying in New York City and the world was in panic. To our surprise, as longtime journalists—we met at The Philadelphia Inquirer—Dr. Kory was cancelled by a global news blackout. Was not a treatment that could save the world news?
While Teresa puts out the magazine, I’ve written two New York Times-bestselling books, Close to Shore (check it out here) and The Murder Room, (and here), featuring two of the world’s most brilliant scientific detectives—the legendary biologist who created the modern science of shark-attack investigation and is the expert historian on the real events behind the movie Jaws, and the forensic psychologist known as “the living Sherlock Holmes” to Scotland Yard—one of the top dozen consulting detectives in the history of forensic science since the Jack the Ripper investigation.
Now I’ve spent fifteen months reporting my next book on Dr. Kory, his mentor Dr. Paul Marik, endowed professor and ICU chief at the Eastern Virginia Medical School and the second most published critical care doctor in history, and their colleagues—the five brilliant doctor detectives who set out to “beat COVID” and have saved many thousands of lives around the world.
As these medical heroes worked selflessly to save “the sickest of the sick” COVID patients, I’ve seen sinister and unimaginable forces trying to stop them. I’ve witnessed unthinkable things. When professor Joe Varon, a top critical care doctor and Mexican-American hero honored with “Joseph Varon Day” in Houston for his COVID-19 treatments that are saving the city’s sickest poor, black, Mexican, and immigrants, invited journalists from CNN, The Associated Press, and Reuters to his COVID-19 ICU to get out the news of his life-saving treatment, all the journalists fictionalized the story to make it seem like most everyone was dying when in fact most everyone was living. The happy story, the truth, didn’t fit the official government science.
We live in a remarkable media age where a positive story on CNN, perhaps more so than a peer review in The New England Journal of Medicine, will instantly encourage doctors in two hundred countries to use a perfectly safe and legal drug and save humanity. I’ve called on my fellow journalists, including former colleagues and friends at The Washington Post and The New York Times, to open their hearts and minds to legitimate, unreported doctors and therapies and write about all sides of the ivermectin story, like journalists always have.
I’m urging my colleagues to help. For the first time in the nearly six centuries since Gutenberg spawned Google, journalists have a chance to not merely change the course of history or mirror horrific events, but to save the world. They are beginning to listen. This is the start: My wife Teresa and I welcome you to RESCUE.
When The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and other outlets I’ve written for in the past lost their ethics or their marbles and wouldn’t tell the biggest story in the world, when the coverup extended to media across the globe, my wife and I broke the story at our magazine Mountain Home. We heard from people all over the world, including doctors in Taiwan and Japan and activists in Poland, that we are saving lives.
Look for Part I of “The Drug that Cracked Covid” today on RESCUE.
Please keep shining the light on IVM. The world has gone mad. It's like a train that need time for the brake to work. FLCCC has done its part. Journalists like you has to do your part.
Why not try New York Post & Washington Times, Fox News & other conservative media print & television outlets? Push all the buttons Michael, you are doing a great job!