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120 Doctors Ask JAMA to Retract Misleading Columbian Study Downplaying Efficacy of Ivermectin

https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-120-doctors-ask-jama-to-retract-misleading-colombian-study-downplaying-efficacy-of-ivermectin

Horowitz: 120 doctors ask JAMA to retract misleading Colombian study downplaying efficacy of ivermectin

OP-ED

Why is there such an agenda to discredit cheap, repurposed drugs?
DANIEL HOROWITZ

April 16, 2021

We knew this would happen. The health establishment didn’t use fabricated data from a study authored by a science fiction writer and porn star (later retracted), as they did with hydroxychloroquine, but it was almost as bad.

No, they didn’t find any harm from ivermectin, but after every study showing the amazing efficacy of ivermectin against SARS-CoV-2 at every stage of the disease, the media breathlessly promoted a Colombian study supposedly showing no statistically meaningful benefit among those COVID-19 patients who were treated with it.

Last month, a group of Colombian researchers published a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) concluding that, contrary to the findings of every other study, ivermectin showed no signs of bettering outcomes in COVID-19 patients in Cali, Colombia.

“Among adults with mild COVID-19, a 5-day course of ivermectin, compared with placebo, did not significantly improve the time to resolution of symptoms,” concluded the authors. “The findings do not support the use of ivermectin for treatment of mild COVID-19, although larger trials may be needed to understand the effects of ivermectin on other clinically relevant outcomes.”

(See link for article)

 
**Comment**
 
Once again the spin-doctors are hard at work discrediting a powerful, cheap drug that works on COVID.
 
The article points out:

After ignoring dozens of other studies on ivermectin for months, the New York Times got hold of this study the day it was published and penned an article titled, “Popular Drug Does Not Alleviate Mild Covid-19 Symptoms, Study Finds.”

Horowitz points out the study was flawed from the beginning and its results do not support the authors’ conclusions.
Thankfully, honest doctors are screaming bloody-murder and have written a letter  to JAMA:

The study’s flaws span subject population, design, execution and controls. The small sample size (n = 400) had a median age of 37 and a BMI of 26, making them extremely low risk for COVID-19 hard endpoints. Faced with this low-relevance study group, the study authors improperly changed primary endpoint midway, moving the main endpoint to full symptom resolution by day 21. This self-reported subjective endpoint, obtained through telephone survey, is not credible for avoiding nondifferential nullward bias of the results.

The authors incorrectly administered ivermectin on an empty stomach, reducing drug bioavailability in lung tissue, the critical drug target, by a factor of roughly 2.5. Additionally, ivermectin is readily available over-the-counter in Colombia, where sales have been ubiquitous (1.6 doses per COVID-19 case) in Cali during the study period.[2] Lack of serum testing in the study prevented identification of subjects who may have used the drug at intervals longer than the study lookback.

Thus, you literally had a placebo control group where they didn’t ensure they were not taking ivermectin! On top of this, the department of health in the state of Valle del Cauca – where this study took place – began distributing ivermectin to COVID patients right when the study period began.

Also, just from June to July of last year when the study period began, over-the-counter sales of ivermectin in the Cali region quintupled.

The doctors protesting this study originally sent this letter to JAMA to be published, but after JAMA declined, the authors posted it as an open letter on their own landing page.

Horowitz also points out they violated participant consent rules by not telling the study participants they were receiving ivermectin.

The Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC), which is the lead group in the United States promoting ivermectin as the staple of COVID early therapeutic treatment, wrote a paper calling into question the protocols of the study, noting that a labeling error substituted 38 ivermectin doses as part of the placebo group.

They also accuse the authors of a conflict of interest for receiving grants from “Sanofi Pasteur, a vaccine manufacturer; Janssen, a J&J vaccine partner; and GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, and Gilead, which manufacture COVID-19 drugs.”

Oops.  

Meanwhile, Gilead is raking in the dough through its sale of Remdesivir (over $3K per treatment) despite ZERO evidence of efficacy.  It’s still being used as the only major treatment, while the FDA is now going after anyone who mentions things like vitamin C, zinc, and other natural remedies.

And never, ever forget the atrocious, fraudulent, government funded study on HCQ which was finally retracted, and the fact the AAPS sued the FDA for “irrational” interference of Access to life-saving Hydroxychloroquine.”

All research needs independent scrutiny.  I’m eternally grateful for the doctors and researchers who do this work on their own dime.  Without this exposure, the world would blindly accept fraudulent studies.  It’s also up to us to educate others on this diabolical take-over of science and the need to question ALL OF IT.
We are living in 1984.
 
 

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Treatment, Viruses

China’s Chief Epidemiologist: “They Didn’t Isolate the Virus, and That is The Problem”

**UPDATE Feb. 2023**

COVID was a catalyst for showing the ongoing disagreement about the isolation of viruses like never before.  Please know that similarly to the issue of persistence with Lyme/MSIDS, there is controversy about the exact definition of virus isolation.  To better educate yourself on this topic please see the many articles that follow:

Pro-virus:

https://redpilluniversity.org/2021/02/14/chinas-chief-epidemiologist-admits-covid-19-was-never-proven-to-exist/

China’s Chief Epidemiologist Admits COVID-19 was Never Proven to Exist

2021-02-14 G. Edward Griffin

Andrew Kaufman, MD, interviewed by Del Bigtree, delivers an excellent short course on the risks of Covid tests and vaccines. The Interview is preceded by a short clip from an NBC report on 2021 January 23 in which China’s Chief epidemiologist, Dr. Wu Zunyou, says:

“They didn’t isolate the virus, and that is the problem.”

Dr. Kaufman explains why that means there is no proof that a Covid-19 virus even exists and, instead, could be merely a variant of the common flu. This interview includes a summary of the debate between advocates of the germ theory and the terrain theory of disease. Be prepared for a deep dive into concepts and dogma that seldom are discussed but which are critical to disease control. 2020-07-20 – Source: Andrew Kaufman

You can view this video from several sources. Cached versions are adjusted for optimum quality, if needed, and they provide access if original sources fail.

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**Comment**

I’ve been posting on the controversy of viral isolation/purification from the beginning. I was thankful to recently find the quote by the Chinese epidemiologist given in February.

No virus theory:

This does explain why testing is a complete joke.  You can not test for something you haven’t isolated/purified from all else.  You also can’t prove it causes illness.  Admittedly, this is far above my pay grade and the jury is still out for me; however, one thing is for certain: our corrupt public health ‘authorities’ own patents on virtually every aspect of COVID rendering them completely conflicted and not to be trusted.  It’s imperative you find good medical care with practitioners who do their own thinking and don’t simply follow orders due to government financial incentives.

They very well could save your life.

Faulty testing:

Again, no one is stating people aren’t becoming ill and even dying from something.  The question remains: what is killing people?  This is explained very well in the book, “Virus Mania: How the Medical Industry Continually Invents Epidemics, Making Billion-Dollar Profits at Our Expense.”  Also see:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2021/01/28/new-evidence-showing-fauci-and-niaid-behind-covid-19/

Some recent talks have been given by knowledgable practitioners on what illness this actually is (a bioweapon utilizing spike proteins that damage the lungs & organs).  Dr. Merrit’s talk “Biowarfare & weaponization of medicine amid COVID” can also be found here since Youtube censored it.

I write about our personal experiences with this illness here. (Scroll to comment section.  All treatments should be discussed with your practitioner.)  Similarly with Lyme/MSIDS, good doctors giving the truth on effective treatments are being heavily censored and persecuted – but these treatments exist, work well, are safe, and are inexpensive.

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Activism, Viruses

Lyme Disease As a Reversible Cause of Chronic Illness For Some Patients

https://danielcameronmd.com/lyme-disease-cause-chronic-illnesses/

LYME DISEASE AS A REVERSIBLE CAUSE OF CHRONIC ILLNESS FOR SOME PATIENTS

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As the number of individuals with chronic illnesses continues to rise, clinicians and patients are looking for reversible causes to chronic symptoms that are often debilitating to patients. Reversible causes have included dementia, [1] coma, [2] complex arrhythmia, [3] and autoimmune encephalitis. [4]

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Studies indicated that Lyme disease can lead to chronic disease including Lyme encephalopathy, [5] Lyme neuropathy, [6] chronic neurologic Lyme disease, [6] and Neuropsychiatric Lyme disease. [7]

Could Lyme disease be a reversible cause of other chronic illnesses in some patients? Having a high index of suspicion will prevent missing the diagnosis.

Following are dozens of published papers, described in an Inside Lyme Blog series, which features cases in which Lyme disease was a reversible cause of other chronic medical conditions. [8]

Brain Diseases and Neurological Disorders

80-year-old with Lyme encephalopathy instead of dementia
Chronic post-concussion syndrome symptoms due to Lyme disease
POTS patients with brain fog have neurocognitive deficits
When it looks like a brain tumor, but it is Lyme disease
Untreated Lyme disease triggers a stroke in 9-year-old boy
Lyme podcast: man with Lyme disease and stroke
Child with Lyme disease presenting as pseudotumor cerebri
Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) case resolved with antibiotics
Lyme meningitis, manifesting as parkinsonism, is fully reversed with ceftriaxone
Seizures and altered mental status after a tick bite
Dementia and normal pressure Hydrocephalus
Cognitive issues following a stroke due to Lyme disease
Stroke as a manifestation of Lyme disease
Lyme disease causes ‘false brain tumor’ in young child

Cardiac Disease

Broad range of presentations for Lyme carditis cases
Lyme carditis presenting as atrial fibrillation treated successfully
First report of Lyme disease causing mitral valve endocarditis
Lyme endocarditis in 68-year-old avid outdoorsman
Another cardiac manifestation of Lyme myocarditis
When Lyme disease mimics a heart attack
Physician-turned-patient becomes Lyme advocate – required a heart transplant

Autonomic Disorders

POTS: an autonomic disorder in Lyme disease patients
Subacute transverse myelitis caused by Borrelia infection
Femoral neuropathy as a neurologic symptom of Lyme disease
Autonomic dysfunction, small fiber neuropathy and Lyme disease
Acute transverse myelitis in a 25-year-old man with Lyme disease

Sleep Disorders

Lyme disease is associated with various sleep disorders

Psychiatric Illnesses

16-year-old boy with Lyme disease presenting as depression
Don’ t confuse somatic symptoms with depression in early Lyme disease
Oppositional behavior in children with Lyme disease
Can Lyme disease trigger obsessive compulsive symptoms?
Depression common in Lyme disease patients
Suicidal behaviors in patients with Lyme and associated diseases
7-year-old girl with Lyme disease presenting as attention deficit disorder
Treatment options for an anxious, suicidal patient with a history of Lyme disease

Movement Disorders

Subacute Parkinsonism as a complication of Lyme disease

Auditory Problems

Study finds hearing loss and tinnitus common in patients with tick-borne diseases
Lyme disease patient with permanent tinnitus and hearing loss

Autoimmune/Immune System Disorders

Lyme podcast: Sjögren’s syndrome secondary to Lyme disease
Can Lyme disease trigger an autoimmune disease? – Adult-onset Still’s disease (AOSD)
Lyme disease mimics autoimmune disorder in elderly woman – dermatomyositis
Could Lyme disease be another infection associated with the onset of Guillain-Barre syndrome?
PANDAS and Lyme disease in a 7-year-old child

Dermatological Conditions

6-year-old girl with a rare cutaneous presentation of Lyme disease – areolar lymphocytomainvolving her breast
Lyme disease mimics cellulitis skin infection
Lyme disease misdiagnosed as shingles in 62-year-old man

Sensory Impairments

What is that smell?

Eye or Ocular Disorders

Study looks at uveitis due to Lyme disease
69-year-old man with Lyme disease and double vision
Visual changes due to Lyme disease
Growing list of eye problems in Lyme disease
Lyme disease causes vision loss in 46-year-old woman

Inflammatory Disease

Can Lyme disease trigger sarcoidosis?

Joint Infections

Lyme disease mimics prosthetic joint infection following knee replacement

Gastrointestinal Illnesses

Neurologic Lyme disease presenting as abdominal pain in 71-year-old patient
Lyme disease manifests as abdominal pain in young child

 Kidney Disease

Doctors recognize Lyme disease in a patient with kidney disease
Kidney failure and disseminated rashes associated with Lyme disease

Conclusion: Substantial variability exists in the presenting features and clinical course of patients with Lyme disease. A diagnosis depends upon a thorough clinical evaluation, physical and neurologic examinations, along with laboratory testing. An accurate diagnosis and proper treatment can improve the outcome of patients with reversible causes of chronic symptoms.

References:
  1. Bello VME, Schultz RR. Prevalence of treatable and reversible dementias: A study in a dementia outpatient clinic. Dement Neuropsychol. Jan-Mar 2011;5(1):44-47. doi:10.1590/S1980-57642011DN05010008
  2. Edlow JA, Rabinstein A, Traub SJ, Wijdicks EF. Diagnosis of reversible causes of coma. Lancet. Dec 6 2014;384(9959):2064-76. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62184-4
  3. Pozzolini A, Rio T, Padeletti M, De Ponti R, Leonelli FM, Bagliani G. Complex Arrhythmias Due to Reversible Causes. Card Electrophysiol Clin. Jun 2019;11(2):375-390. doi:10.1016/j.ccep.2019.03.002
  4. Pandit AK, Ihtisham K, Garg A, Gulati S, Padma MV, Tripathi M. Autoimmune encephalitis: A potentially reversible cause of status epilepticus, epilepsy, and cognitive decline. Ann Indian Acad Neurol. Oct 2013;16(4):577-84. doi:10.4103/0972-2327.120476
  5. Logigian EL, Kaplan RF, Steere AC. Successful treatment of Lyme encephalopathy with intravenous ceftriaxone. J Infect Dis. Aug 1999;180(2):377-83. doi:10.1086/314860
  6. Logigian EL, Kaplan RF, Steere AC. Chronic neurologic manifestations of Lyme disease. N Engl J Med. Nov 22 1990;323(21):1438-44. doi:10.1056/NEJM199011223232102
  7. Fallon BA, Nields JA. Lyme disease: a neuropsychiatric illness. Am J Psychiatry. Nov 1994;151(11):1571-83. doi:10.1176/ajp.151.11.1571
  8. Inside Lyme Science blog. https://danielcameronmd.com/daniel-cameron-md-lyme-blog/ Last accessed 12/19/20.

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Lyme, research

Managing Mental Health & Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Lyme Disease

https://www.lymedisease.org/neuropsych-lyme-jane-marke/

Managing mental health and neuropsychiatric symptoms of Lyme disease

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By Dr. Jane Marke

The mental health problems associated with Lyme disease are varied and often call for a variety of specialists to help the patient: child psychiatrists, adult psychiatrists, and family therapists or social workers.

Parents especially must deal with a variety of issues: the symptoms themselves that children present, the stress of and between family members, parents and relationships, as well as getting and coordinating treatment and education for their children.

Children can present with myriad symptoms including attention deficit disorder, anxiety, autism, depression, eating disorders, insomnia, learning disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, opposition disorder, PANS/PANDAS.

Any change in personality without obvious cause should raise suspicion. Children often present with “school refusal” because they are feeling unwell in a way they cannot express in words.

This could be due to sensitivity to light, sounds, or sensory integration. The activity of a classroom filled with children, social stimulation, and tasks to be accomplished maybe experienced as overwhelming, even bordering on painful.

The child may have changes in mood that approaches bipolar disorder seen in adults and be oppositional, angry, and difficult to manage.

Parenting these children is an unbelievable stress. They require a pediatrician who will treat the Lyme, a psychiatrist who understands it, and frequently, a social worker or psychologist who can help navigate the school situations and provide support to the family. Sometimes the parents find themselves at odds and end up in marital therapy.

Adult issues are different

Adults are a different story. Young adults dealing with college and post-college years miss key experiences they were anticipating to move into adulthood and lose out on their sense of entering adulthood.

They may present with any psychiatric disorder: bipolar disease, severe anxiety, depression, depersonalization, or OCD.

Hypersensitivity to light, sound, and smells can be profound, and the hypersensitivity may produce illusions or a sense of hallucination. Sometimes they are hospitalized in psychiatric hospitals with other very ill patients and the experience can be traumatizing.

Older adults may develop major psychiatric symptoms which interfere with their ability to work or care for family.

All these situations and stimuli can present major psychological issues for the affected patient. They may have personality changes. Their preoccupation with symptoms may make them seem self-centered or un-empathic with family or friends. They experience loss of sense of value, purpose, meaning and worth.

Relationship problems arise from feeling like a burden or being perceived as a burden by others and there is guilt and shame over psychiatric symptoms. It’s a lonely illness.

Project Lyme recently sponsored a webinar for the public on the mental health challenges of Lyme patients. Dr Rosalie Greenberg addressed the issues of children, I addressed the issues of adults, and social worker Audrey Amir addressed emotional and social issues.

You can watch the video here:

Click here to watch on YouTube.

Jane Marke, MD, practices integrative psychiatry and psychotherapy in New York City.

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Lyme, PANS, Psychological Aspects

I DO NOT CONSENT: Forms To Print & Give to Your Employer and Political Representatives

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Testing and “vaccination” have inherent risks.  These medical interventions have maimed and killed people outright.  It is widely known certain high risk individuals should forego “vaccination” altogether and depending upon the test and risks, testing as well, particularly when you understand COVID testing is a complete and utter farce.  Vaccinating pregnant women should be a crime against humanity.

There is a growing concern over forced/mandatory testing and “vaccines,” and rightly so.  Some employers are mandating the COVID experimental, fast-tracked injections for employment.  These injections aren’t vaccines at all due to their inability to stop viral transmission or infection.  Here is an ongoing list of severe adverse reactions and deaths due to these injections.

There’s also the issue that the mortality rate of COVID-19 is nearly the same as any year due to the flu.  Then there’s the issue that even if you do contract it, you have over a 99% chance of survival – meaning it isn’t very deadly, and certainly doesn’t warrant the present hysteria and tyranny. Lastly there’s the issue of effective and inexpensive treatments for it.  

Therefore: NO “VACCINE” IS NEEDED.  

Treatments:

But of course all these effective treatments as well as the health professionals speaking out about them are being tyrannically censored so the public remains in the dark, is fearful, and believes the only answer is taking their lucrative, albeit dangerous injections.

Lyme/MSIDS patients (and there’s a lot of us) are at high risk for adverse effects due to having an imbalanced immune system that is already keyed up fighting infections.  There is also evidence that “vaccines” can reactivate latent infections, so those who finally have achieved their health back could have a reactivation of symptoms after a “vaccine” – necessitating treatment which is already hard to come by – not to mention expensive.  Vaccines are also often contaminated  with retroviruses, viruses, cancer, and are filled with dangerous adjuvants and toxins which could be contributing to Autism and other illnesses.  Then there’s the moral and medical issues of using fetal cell lines in “vaccines”. In one such trial using fetal cell lines, 81% of the 108 participants suffered at least one adverse reaction within seven days after “vaccination”.  And to top the cake, our public ‘authorities’ own patents on vaccines – and make money off them.  

Are these people to be trusted for advice?

With all of this in mind, please watch this brief 12 minute video:  https://needtoknow.news/2020/04/mandated-vaccinations-what-you-will-need-to-say-no/

Jerry Day has created a notice-of-liability to give to anyone who tries to force vaccines on you. Even though they may refuse to sign, it shows they have been informed that vaccines can cause damage. He offers a second document that lists the reasons individuals have the right to reject vaccines. He says the documents act as an insurance policy if anything goes wrong with a forced vaccine, because it is proof of your objection to the vaccination and, thereby, makes the administrators of the vaccine personally subject to penalty and prosecution. In other words:

If you do not object and make your position clear, you may be presumed to agree with unconstitutional laws and harmful public policy.
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  • EmployerCoercion  Some employers seem to have the foolish, ignorant and unlawful notion that they have privilege to force vaccination as a condition of employment. This is not only wrong, it is extremely unfair and difficult for employees who wish to protect their health and safety and control their own medical options. Employers who attempt to require medical treatments for their employees should receive a stern demand to cease with notice of major consequences if they fail to do so.  The download template in the link is such a document/notice. It can be very powerful to share this form with fellow employees so that the employer will face major disruption if medical rights are not observed.
This site does not contain professional advice, only layman opinion. If you are being coerced to receive medical treatments it may be wise to seek legal counsel and take legal actions to protect your health, safety and rights.

Also make sure to print out and send this Vaccine Injury Table to your employer and political representatives.  Many falsely believe “vaccines” are safe and effective, when they have caused severe injury and death and the current COVID-19 injections don’t stop you from becoming ill and many contract COVID-19 after receiving all the shots.

Lastly, many are coming out stating the COVID-19 and the injections are bioweapons, which turn your body into a “spike protein” manufacturing facility which may never shut off.  Doctors are reporting that those getting the injections are now making those around them ill.  If you scroll to 45:00 in the bioweapon link, you can hear Dr. Tenpenny discuss possible mechanisms for why this is happening.  It’s not “shedding” per say, but a transmission due to adenoviruses within the shots being released through breath, and other forms of excretion from those who got injected to those around them causing innocent bystanders to become ill. 

In this MSN hit-piece it is revealed that a private school recently issued a letter stating, ‘vaccinated’ adults:

“may be transmitting something from their bodies” that could be impacting the “reproductive systems, fertility, and normal growth and development in women and children.”  

To the denialists, please see this article  which states the Pfizer mRNA vaccine clinical trial study design WARNS against proximity (shared air inhalation or skin contact) between vaccine participants and the “unvaccinated” as a possible vector of HARM.

The article also states there is a plausible epigenetic molecular mechanism in Biology where the “vaccinated” may affect the health status of the unvaccinated.

The MSM hit-piece brings in all sorts of irrelevant material designed to infuriate the reader with politics, but the fact remains, people around those getting these injections are being impacted in negative ways.  We were warned by a GSK whistleblower early on that these injections cause sterility, and these injections are leaving a trail of devastated mothers.  I’ve also heard reports that doctors who have pregnant patients are warning that those receiving the COVID-19 injections can no longer come to their office due to negative reactions in pregnant women.

Prudence should always err on the side of caution but MSM, our public ‘authorities’, and injection manufacturers are rolling full-steam ahead in spite of case after case of negative outcomes – and much that remains in the dark.

While much remains unknown, the cases of severe reactions and deaths continue to mount.  “Authorities” continue to deny any relationship between these injections and the negative experienced reactions which are occurring daily.

Please share widely.

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Activism, vaccines