Thank you for stepping up David on this misunderstood topic. I need to say that the large scale trials that are in the works are likely designed to fail unfortunately. Can't say I'm surprised however. They are accepting volunteers within 14 days of symptoms for their early treatment trial. The progression of the virus is such that even 1 week from initial symptoms let alone 2 weeks is NOT considered early treatment. They are also treating for only 3 days. IF they actually provided early treatment, with 72 hours of symptoms for example, that might be adequate but further along in the progression of this virus, it will not be effective, most likely. Also, I have not been able to find the dosages that they're using. Most likely insufficient for the Delta variant. One only needs to see who is funding this to know the outcomes. The regulatory capture of our academic/research institutions and our public health agencies is complete. No need to believe me on this when we have the conclusions from the editors in chief of peer reviewed journals.
As you likely know, two of the most prestigious journals of medicine are The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).
Dr. Marcia Angell, Harvard physician and editor in chief of the NEJM for 2 decades said this in 2009-
“It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor.”
Dr. Relman, another former editor in chief of the NEJM said this in 2002 - “The medical profession is being bought by the pharmaceutical industry, not only in terms of the practice of medicine, but also in terms of teaching and research. The academic institutions of this country are allowing themselves to be the paid agents of the pharmaceutical industry. I think it’s disgraceful.”
Richard Horton, editor in chief of The Lancet said this in 2015 “The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue.”
This is literally an unbelievable situation. The profound medical censorship and intentional misinformation regarding ivermectin is horrifying to me as it should be to all of you.
The key question is chilling: "what was the appropriate response to that news?" It will be haunting the lives of the loved ones left behind, and those left severely disabled from their untreated infections. Dr. Kory's passionate testimony before the US Senate, begging for the NIH to re-examine the emerging evidence about ivermectin took place almost 10 months ago, in December, 2020 . We've now had 10 months of this horrible disease raging unchecked, and UNTREATED through the population. I disagree with the author's conclusion, however. We do not need more trials. We need to remove the inhumane, cruel, and yes I'd say, EVIL, barriers to widespread treatment that the industry-captured regulatory agencies and medical associations have placed in the path of physicians treating their patients with an effective, cheap, and widely available anti-viral (as all the new studies and real world experience shows to be true) medication: ivermectin. They are so obviously stalling for time in order to bring their own (undoubtedly inferior, and absolutely massively expensive) anti-viral to market before ivermectin use can establish a stronghold on the treatment market.
Tell the FDA, CDC, WHO, NIH: NO MORE vilifying treatment! Tell the AMA and any agency or association dictating non-treatment of patients: NO MORE interfering with the doctor/patient relationship! We need NO MORE trials! Roll out ivermectin and the other FLCCC covid treatment protocols widely, RIGHT NOW! The absolute worst that could happen is that nothing gets better, and the best (and even likely!) is that the pandemic and the suffering can be ended quickly.
Looks like a mainstream media just wrote a great piece on ivermectin on trialsitenews. They have so many excellent articles on this subject so please check it out.
MSN Showcases the Amazing Uttar Pradesh Turnaround—The Ivermectin-based Home Medicine Kits
TrialSite Staff
September 19, 2021
4 Comments
Recently Indian press touted that Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state with about 230 million people was nearly COVID-19 free. An amazing accomplishment chronicled by TrialSite—a heroic public health story demonstrating how organized, proactive testing, early care, and quarantines contributed to overcoming an outright scary Delta variant-based surge from April to May of this year. The proactive use of Ivermectin, included in a home health care kit, showed to be instrumental in combating the incredibly virulent and transmissible strain of SARS-CoV-2. Public health workers made continuous visits to homes in villages and districts across the state, proactively testing and treating the condition immediately, including household contacts. Even the World Health Organization (WHO) praised the effort, yet omitted the use of Ivermectin—a scandal. Now Microsoft News (MSN) posted the story for the world to read, digest and hopefully understand.
MSN appears to be the first mainstream news source to recognize the amazing feat accomplished by the health agencies in India’s most populous state. The state experienced a massive spike in infections by April, but just two months later, the turnaround was well on its way, and what ensued should have been the story of the year.
The Outbreak
TrialSite provided in detail data associated with the Delta outbreak in India. The Delta variant of concern emerged from the State of Maharashtra and the Punjab regions by way of Lahore in Pakistan, locations where the AstraZeneca vaccine had been administered. Maps associated with the first outbreaks can be found here. Any correlation with vaccination, however, cannot be proven however and may be coincidental.
The outbreak that started in the east of Maharashtra in early February moved slowly to neighboring states. But once it arrived in Mumbai, cases exploded, and the virus rapidly spread to other states. Mumbai played a huge role in the expansion of the Delta variant. A huge concentration of migrant workers are present in this giant metropolis, and upon the surge, many people fled, fearing imminent lockdown, job loss, and the like. Traveling in trains and buses, migrant workers brought Delta back to hometowns, including those in Uttar Pradesh.
Ivermectin Incorporated in State Protocol in 2020
TrialSite reported last year that the findings at Monash University (Ivermectin inhibits SARS-CoV-2 in a lab cell culture), research results in Bangladesh (see Dr. Tarek Alam et al.), and other places influenced health officials in Uttar Pradesh.
Now Microsoft News becomes the first mainstream media to introduce the Uttar Pradesh story—and for that, they should be commended. MSN shared that last August 6, 2020, a committee led by the Director-General, Medical and Health Services for the state gave the go-ahead to use the drug as a prophylactic.
MSN reposed that Vikssendu Agrawal, Uttar Pradesh State Surveillance Officer declared, “Uttar Pradesh was the first state in the country to introduce large-scale prophylactic and therapeutic use of Ivermectin. In May-June 2020, a team at Agra, led by Dr. Anshul Pareek, administered Ivermectin to all RRT team members in the district on an experimental basis. It was observed that none of them developed Covid-19 despite being in daily contact with patients who had tested positive for the virus.”
The Turnaround
On May 30, TrialSite reported an “unprecedented turnaround in Uttar Pradesh” was indeed a reality marked by a “dramatic decline in cases.” TrialSite suggested to world health leaders it was “time to smell the coffee.”
But just how severe was the problem? By March 19, 2021, the state, with a population larger than Brazil, reported 380 cases—however, by April 24, the number of COVID-19 cases skyrocketed to 37,944. By April, India included Ivermectin on its national guidelines, much to the chagrin of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Directorate of Medical & Health Services, Uttar Pradesh went into full throttle in an unprecedented home health outreach campaign.
Health department teams of two, organized by area, proactively visited homes, conducted tests, and provided medication kits in what was probably the largest home prophylactic delivery program worldwide. Led by Dr. Anshul Pareek, General Medical and Health Services for the state, Uttar Pradesh became the first state across India to declare Ivermectin in a large-scale prophylactic program emphasizing 1) close contacts of COVID-19 patients, 2) health workers, and 3) general care of COVID-19 patients.
WHO Praises the Effort—but Omits Use of Ivermectin
WHO reported on the amazing health agency effort via its website, titled “Going the Last Mile to Stop COVID-19” the agency acknowledged government health teams were “moving across 97,941 villages, 75 districts over five days for this activity.”
WHO emphasized that public health teams of two crisscrossed the state home to 230 million, “visiting homes in villages and remote hamlets to test everyone with symptoms of COVID-19 using Rapid Antigen Tests (RAT) kits.” Anyone that was tested positive WHO reported was immediately“…given a medicine kit with advice on disease management” accompanied with quarantines.
As TrialSite reported, local media such as the Hindustan Times reported that Uttar Pradesh accounted for nearly 75% of all COVID-19 recoveries nationwide. Yet severe press censorship was in effect. No Western media at the time covered the unfolding activity at the time (except TrialSite), while coverage in India was guarded. Few newspapers and online journals uttered the word—Ivermectin—but some media managed to do so.
Merck & WHO Cabal
WHO went on the offense once India established Ivermectin on its national protocol. WHO’s chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan tweeted that Ivermectin should not be used, referencing Merck’s warning about the drug. See TrialSite’s entry on the Merck-Ivermectin warning topic. Of course, this tweet triggered the Indian bar association lawsuit against WHO. Indirectly including Merck in her tweet, WHO’s Dr. Swaminathan insulted not only millions of people but also evidenced her true naivety.
Of course, Merck was paid $356 million in December to develop a COVID-19 therapeutic—Molnupiravir.
Since then, the Biden administration has awarded Merck a $1.2 billion guaranteed procurement contract should the drug become either authorized on an emergency use basis or approved. Any data that indicates some ivermectin benefit represented an inconvenient truth for Merck. Ivermectin had to be banished from the public discussion.
Most certainly, that’s why over the past few months, an intense and particularly vile smear campaign emerged in mainstream media. Various medical establishment organizations now vilified Ivermectin and anyone discussing positive benefits. Elite academicians and physician society and board leadership to mainstream media writers found it paid to trash talk the drug—it was the start of hunting season, and Ivermectin was the target. Notably, the drug has become fondly referred to across mainstream media as the deworming agent for horses.
Social media had already systematically censored any content mentioning the drug for months previous. For example, when TrialSite reported in January 2021 that Slovakia authorized the use of the drug for the pandemic, Facebook immediately censored that article, despite the fact that it was the truth—and not misinformation.
Much of the media over the past couple of months exploited a reference made by the FDA and CDC to data from the Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC) indicating a three-fold increase in Ivermectin-related calls to one of their 55 poison control centers.
TrialSite was able to secure that data. Our analysts found that the number of calls increased from 435 to 1,143 and that only 1% of the calls involved anything serious (11 incidents). There were no deaths despite legitimate physician prescriptions increasing from a few thousand per month to nearly 90,000. TrialSite determined, based on the data hand sanitizer (4 deaths), was more dangerous. We also noted that the media was confusing legitimate physician-to-patient prescriptions versus the illicit use of the veterinary version of the drug.
MSN posted a summary of the amazing Uttar Pradesh turnaround. An amazing accomplishment that should have been chronicled by every major media, rather a media blackout for all things Ivermectin helped suppress the pathbreaking public health accomplishment. But the truth has a way of finding the light.
As a Philly gal, it's nice to see a respected journalist has researched Ivermectin. However, No, we do not need any more trials. It's not the expense or even the time, it's that it's unethical when a treatment is so successful. Please use your influence in our Phila community to encourage proper doctor-patient treatment and NOW. People are dying unnecessrily every day in our Phila and suburbian hospitals, and across our state.. hey, spread the Treat message across the world if you get time.
Thank you for stepping up David on this misunderstood topic. I need to say that the large scale trials that are in the works are likely designed to fail unfortunately. Can't say I'm surprised however. They are accepting volunteers within 14 days of symptoms for their early treatment trial. The progression of the virus is such that even 1 week from initial symptoms let alone 2 weeks is NOT considered early treatment. They are also treating for only 3 days. IF they actually provided early treatment, with 72 hours of symptoms for example, that might be adequate but further along in the progression of this virus, it will not be effective, most likely. Also, I have not been able to find the dosages that they're using. Most likely insufficient for the Delta variant. One only needs to see who is funding this to know the outcomes. The regulatory capture of our academic/research institutions and our public health agencies is complete. No need to believe me on this when we have the conclusions from the editors in chief of peer reviewed journals.
As you likely know, two of the most prestigious journals of medicine are The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).
Dr. Marcia Angell, Harvard physician and editor in chief of the NEJM for 2 decades said this in 2009-
“It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor.”
Dr. Relman, another former editor in chief of the NEJM said this in 2002 - “The medical profession is being bought by the pharmaceutical industry, not only in terms of the practice of medicine, but also in terms of teaching and research. The academic institutions of this country are allowing themselves to be the paid agents of the pharmaceutical industry. I think it’s disgraceful.”
Richard Horton, editor in chief of The Lancet said this in 2015 “The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue.”
This is literally an unbelievable situation. The profound medical censorship and intentional misinformation regarding ivermectin is horrifying to me as it should be to all of you.
Michelle Rabin, Ph.D.
The key question is chilling: "what was the appropriate response to that news?" It will be haunting the lives of the loved ones left behind, and those left severely disabled from their untreated infections. Dr. Kory's passionate testimony before the US Senate, begging for the NIH to re-examine the emerging evidence about ivermectin took place almost 10 months ago, in December, 2020 . We've now had 10 months of this horrible disease raging unchecked, and UNTREATED through the population. I disagree with the author's conclusion, however. We do not need more trials. We need to remove the inhumane, cruel, and yes I'd say, EVIL, barriers to widespread treatment that the industry-captured regulatory agencies and medical associations have placed in the path of physicians treating their patients with an effective, cheap, and widely available anti-viral (as all the new studies and real world experience shows to be true) medication: ivermectin. They are so obviously stalling for time in order to bring their own (undoubtedly inferior, and absolutely massively expensive) anti-viral to market before ivermectin use can establish a stronghold on the treatment market.
Tell the FDA, CDC, WHO, NIH: NO MORE vilifying treatment! Tell the AMA and any agency or association dictating non-treatment of patients: NO MORE interfering with the doctor/patient relationship! We need NO MORE trials! Roll out ivermectin and the other FLCCC covid treatment protocols widely, RIGHT NOW! The absolute worst that could happen is that nothing gets better, and the best (and even likely!) is that the pandemic and the suffering can be ended quickly.
Looks like a mainstream media just wrote a great piece on ivermectin on trialsitenews. They have so many excellent articles on this subject so please check it out.
MSN Showcases the Amazing Uttar Pradesh Turnaround—The Ivermectin-based Home Medicine Kits
TrialSite Staff
September 19, 2021
4 Comments
Recently Indian press touted that Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state with about 230 million people was nearly COVID-19 free. An amazing accomplishment chronicled by TrialSite—a heroic public health story demonstrating how organized, proactive testing, early care, and quarantines contributed to overcoming an outright scary Delta variant-based surge from April to May of this year. The proactive use of Ivermectin, included in a home health care kit, showed to be instrumental in combating the incredibly virulent and transmissible strain of SARS-CoV-2. Public health workers made continuous visits to homes in villages and districts across the state, proactively testing and treating the condition immediately, including household contacts. Even the World Health Organization (WHO) praised the effort, yet omitted the use of Ivermectin—a scandal. Now Microsoft News (MSN) posted the story for the world to read, digest and hopefully understand.
MSN appears to be the first mainstream news source to recognize the amazing feat accomplished by the health agencies in India’s most populous state. The state experienced a massive spike in infections by April, but just two months later, the turnaround was well on its way, and what ensued should have been the story of the year.
The Outbreak
TrialSite provided in detail data associated with the Delta outbreak in India. The Delta variant of concern emerged from the State of Maharashtra and the Punjab regions by way of Lahore in Pakistan, locations where the AstraZeneca vaccine had been administered. Maps associated with the first outbreaks can be found here. Any correlation with vaccination, however, cannot be proven however and may be coincidental.
The outbreak that started in the east of Maharashtra in early February moved slowly to neighboring states. But once it arrived in Mumbai, cases exploded, and the virus rapidly spread to other states. Mumbai played a huge role in the expansion of the Delta variant. A huge concentration of migrant workers are present in this giant metropolis, and upon the surge, many people fled, fearing imminent lockdown, job loss, and the like. Traveling in trains and buses, migrant workers brought Delta back to hometowns, including those in Uttar Pradesh.
Ivermectin Incorporated in State Protocol in 2020
TrialSite reported last year that the findings at Monash University (Ivermectin inhibits SARS-CoV-2 in a lab cell culture), research results in Bangladesh (see Dr. Tarek Alam et al.), and other places influenced health officials in Uttar Pradesh.
Now Microsoft News becomes the first mainstream media to introduce the Uttar Pradesh story—and for that, they should be commended. MSN shared that last August 6, 2020, a committee led by the Director-General, Medical and Health Services for the state gave the go-ahead to use the drug as a prophylactic.
MSN reposed that Vikssendu Agrawal, Uttar Pradesh State Surveillance Officer declared, “Uttar Pradesh was the first state in the country to introduce large-scale prophylactic and therapeutic use of Ivermectin. In May-June 2020, a team at Agra, led by Dr. Anshul Pareek, administered Ivermectin to all RRT team members in the district on an experimental basis. It was observed that none of them developed Covid-19 despite being in daily contact with patients who had tested positive for the virus.”
The Turnaround
On May 30, TrialSite reported an “unprecedented turnaround in Uttar Pradesh” was indeed a reality marked by a “dramatic decline in cases.” TrialSite suggested to world health leaders it was “time to smell the coffee.”
But just how severe was the problem? By March 19, 2021, the state, with a population larger than Brazil, reported 380 cases—however, by April 24, the number of COVID-19 cases skyrocketed to 37,944. By April, India included Ivermectin on its national guidelines, much to the chagrin of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Directorate of Medical & Health Services, Uttar Pradesh went into full throttle in an unprecedented home health outreach campaign.
Health department teams of two, organized by area, proactively visited homes, conducted tests, and provided medication kits in what was probably the largest home prophylactic delivery program worldwide. Led by Dr. Anshul Pareek, General Medical and Health Services for the state, Uttar Pradesh became the first state across India to declare Ivermectin in a large-scale prophylactic program emphasizing 1) close contacts of COVID-19 patients, 2) health workers, and 3) general care of COVID-19 patients.
WHO Praises the Effort—but Omits Use of Ivermectin
WHO reported on the amazing health agency effort via its website, titled “Going the Last Mile to Stop COVID-19” the agency acknowledged government health teams were “moving across 97,941 villages, 75 districts over five days for this activity.”
WHO emphasized that public health teams of two crisscrossed the state home to 230 million, “visiting homes in villages and remote hamlets to test everyone with symptoms of COVID-19 using Rapid Antigen Tests (RAT) kits.” Anyone that was tested positive WHO reported was immediately“…given a medicine kit with advice on disease management” accompanied with quarantines.
As TrialSite reported, local media such as the Hindustan Times reported that Uttar Pradesh accounted for nearly 75% of all COVID-19 recoveries nationwide. Yet severe press censorship was in effect. No Western media at the time covered the unfolding activity at the time (except TrialSite), while coverage in India was guarded. Few newspapers and online journals uttered the word—Ivermectin—but some media managed to do so.
Merck & WHO Cabal
WHO went on the offense once India established Ivermectin on its national protocol. WHO’s chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan tweeted that Ivermectin should not be used, referencing Merck’s warning about the drug. See TrialSite’s entry on the Merck-Ivermectin warning topic. Of course, this tweet triggered the Indian bar association lawsuit against WHO. Indirectly including Merck in her tweet, WHO’s Dr. Swaminathan insulted not only millions of people but also evidenced her true naivety.
Of course, Merck was paid $356 million in December to develop a COVID-19 therapeutic—Molnupiravir.
Since then, the Biden administration has awarded Merck a $1.2 billion guaranteed procurement contract should the drug become either authorized on an emergency use basis or approved. Any data that indicates some ivermectin benefit represented an inconvenient truth for Merck. Ivermectin had to be banished from the public discussion.
Most certainly, that’s why over the past few months, an intense and particularly vile smear campaign emerged in mainstream media. Various medical establishment organizations now vilified Ivermectin and anyone discussing positive benefits. Elite academicians and physician society and board leadership to mainstream media writers found it paid to trash talk the drug—it was the start of hunting season, and Ivermectin was the target. Notably, the drug has become fondly referred to across mainstream media as the deworming agent for horses.
Social media had already systematically censored any content mentioning the drug for months previous. For example, when TrialSite reported in January 2021 that Slovakia authorized the use of the drug for the pandemic, Facebook immediately censored that article, despite the fact that it was the truth—and not misinformation.
Much of the media over the past couple of months exploited a reference made by the FDA and CDC to data from the Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC) indicating a three-fold increase in Ivermectin-related calls to one of their 55 poison control centers.
TrialSite was able to secure that data. Our analysts found that the number of calls increased from 435 to 1,143 and that only 1% of the calls involved anything serious (11 incidents). There were no deaths despite legitimate physician prescriptions increasing from a few thousand per month to nearly 90,000. TrialSite determined, based on the data hand sanitizer (4 deaths), was more dangerous. We also noted that the media was confusing legitimate physician-to-patient prescriptions versus the illicit use of the veterinary version of the drug.
MSN posted a summary of the amazing Uttar Pradesh turnaround. An amazing accomplishment that should have been chronicled by every major media, rather a media blackout for all things Ivermectin helped suppress the pathbreaking public health accomplishment. But the truth has a way of finding the light.
As a Philly gal, it's nice to see a respected journalist has researched Ivermectin. However, No, we do not need any more trials. It's not the expense or even the time, it's that it's unethical when a treatment is so successful. Please use your influence in our Phila community to encourage proper doctor-patient treatment and NOW. People are dying unnecessrily every day in our Phila and suburbian hospitals, and across our state.. hey, spread the Treat message across the world if you get time.