Ivermectin is a promising Covid treatment and prophylaxis, but the agency is denigrating it
By David R. Henderson and Charles L. Hooper
The Food and Drug Administration claims to follow the science. So why is it attacking ivermectin, a medication it certified in 1996?
Earlier this year the agency put out a special warning that “you should not use ivermectin to treat or prevent COVID-19.” The FDA’s statement included words and phrases such as “serious harm,” “hospitalized,” “dangerous,” “very dangerous,” “seizures,”“coma and even death” and “highly toxic.” Any reader would think the FDA was warning against poison pills. In fact, the drug is FDA-approved as a safe and effective antiparasitic.
Ivermectin was developed and marketed by Merck & Co. while one of us (Mr. Hooper) worked there years ago. William C. Campbell and Satoshi Omura won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovering and developing avermectin, which Mr. Campbell and associates modified to create ivermectin.
Ivermectin is on the World Health Organization’s List of Essential Medicines. Merck has donated four billion doses to prevent river blindness and other diseases in Africa and other places where parasites are common. A group of 10 doctors who call themselves the Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance have said ivermectin is “one of the safest, low-cost, and widely available drugs in the history of medicine.”
The spin-doctors recently put out this hit-piece against Ivermectin, a safe, cheap, effective treatment for COVID. The author manipulates the fact there are some desperate self-treating people who are experiencing poisoning due to taking the animal form of ivermectin because mainstream medicine has shunned it. The hit-piece and the CDC uses this unfortunate event to recommend that “instead of prescribing ivermectin, physicians should urge patients to get ‘vaccinated’ against COVID,” use masks, social distance, and wash hands.” Federal agencies have launched an offensive against ivermectin prescribing this week, with the FDA issued a consumer warningabout ivermectin. The agency made a splash with a humorous tweet about the warning, stating, “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it.”
If you are a Lyme/MSIDS patient, you quickly learn that those entrusted with public health are charlatans who are far more interested in power and money than in guiding the public to better health. Patients suffering from tick-borne illness are kicked to the curb and told to “go home and be well,” while smug conflict-riddled authorities have patents on virtually every aspect of the disease. Similarly to COVID, they rig testing for a pre-determined outcome that suits their vested interests. These ‘authorities’ have been virtually wrong about every single issue.
In the case of Ivermectin, a drug previously considered an “essential medicine” that is safe and effective, it is now dangerous, toxic, and harmful for COVID. Why the about-face?
The international group of doctors called “Frontline COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance” or FLACCC searched for cheap drugs that could be repurposed for COVID and found Ivermectin fit the bill perfectly. They have created protocols for every stage of the illness which have saved countless lives, yet are still being highly maligned and censored, with regular hit-pieces against them by corrupt medical journals. Now courts are having to orderhospitals to give these treatments to save lives. You will not hear about these success stories from the media.
Interestingly, when I posted Dr. Kory, a member of the group, speaking at the Senate hearing on the effectiveness of Ivermectin on COVID and his frustration with all of the information being censored, I had to go back and put in a pdf of the transcript as Youtube censored the Senate hearing!
This censoringmadness has hit a new low, as doctors are now being threatened by The Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) that doctors and health professionals could be at risk of losing their medical licenses if they spread COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on social media, online and in the media. Excerpt:
“They also have an ethical and professional responsibility to practice medicine in the best interests of their patients and must share information that is factual, scientifically grounded and consensus-driven for the betterment of public health.”
Hopefully it isn’t hard to ascertain that “consensus-driven” are the key words here.
Lyme/MSIDS has a long, dark history where nearly nothing about it is accepted and agreed upon. There is no consensus when it comes to tick-borne illness and the topic is still – 40 years after discovery – hotly debated leaving many doctors too afraid to treat it. Those that do are in the cross-hairs of public health authorities and are bullied, threatened, monitored, fined, and have their licenses restricted or revoked.
Remember when the consensus for COVID was to put everyone under medically-induced comas with ventilators and it killed some 85 percent of patients who received the “treatment”? I personally know of a man who was only offered that specific treatment at a local hospital. Thankfully, he declined and lived to tell the tale. Was he offered HCQ or Ivermectin or even IV vitamin C? Nope, because those treatments aren’t “consensus-driven,” or peddled by our corrupt public health authorities who stand to gain a lot of money by continuing to push the fear narrative.
These ‘authorities’ have done all in their power to inflate case numbers with a faulty, worthless test which is designed to be positive, and inflate the deathcount to perpetuate fear so everyone believes their only recourse is to take their lucrative, fast-tracked, experimental mRNA injection that isn’t approved, hasn’t gone through extensive safety testing, isn’t even a vaccine, that is causing microscopic blood clotting, and is allowing a toxic spike protein which has been labeled a “bioweapon” to go systemically into the body where it is accumulating in tissues and organs,crossing the blood, brain barrier – and is associated with Parkinson’s and Prion diseases.
An entire group of doctors have written a paper on how these experimental injections are “needless, ineffective, and dangerous,” on the healthy and sick alike.
Hardly sounds like“consensus” to me.
Yet, observe which side gets air-play with the bought-out media, which has already attacked doctors daring to speak against the “consensual” accepted narrative.
Hint: it won’t be for doctors who only stand to lose their jobs.
Finding an independent physician not beholden to a major hospital or corporation could end up saving your life, Dr. Marilyn Singleton tells The New American magazine’s Alex Newman in this episode of Conversations That Matter.
Dr. Singleton, a lawyer who served as president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), noted that healthcare is increasingly being centralized, thanks in part to government policy. This severely impacts the ability of doctors to treat patients as they think best, and the freedom of patients to find doctors who will respect them and do the right thing.
However, in this interview, Dr. Singleton tells Americans how they can search for an independent doctor, and she gives doctors ideas about how to remain independent by cutting ties with government.
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Nobody understands this phenomenon better than Lyme/MSIDS patients who have to hunt for independent doctors who will dare treat them, as the standard CDC treatment is woefully inadequate and ineffective for anything but acute cases – and even then, sometimes doesn’t work for various reasons.
Now with the COVID debacle, it’s also true that there is a great need to find an independent doctor willing to treat you with cheap, effective COVID treatments that have been proven to work but are highly censored and denied by our corrupt public health ‘authorities’, mainstream medicine, and media as they are all trapped in the government’s corrupt paradigm.
There is a wide-spread concerted effort to monopolizemedicine (and everything else). When government centralizes everything – they remove your choices as a patient and consumer. This is costing peopletheir lives – and has been an issue for decades with Lyme/MSIDS patients. Never forget that the AMA (founded by quacks who weren’t even doctors) was found guilty of conspiring against the chiropractic profession to destroy it. Decades later, it still isn’t over, and it, along with the corrupt FDA and other governmental agencies continues to try to monopolize medicine.
New study finds evidence of Lyme bacteria in brain tissue
The research shows how pathogens that cause Lyme can linger in the body despite early treatment.
MAINE, Maine — According to the U.S, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Lyme disease can cause long-term health effects including fatigue, chronic pain, heart issues, and neurological problems.
A new study by Tulane University shows that Lyme bacteria can persist in a patient’s brain. Researchers found Lyme bacteria in the brain tissue of an elderly woman even after she had received 10 days of antibiotics following a tick bite.
The study was recently published in “Frontiers in Neurology,” the leading peer-reviewed journal for neurologists. It’s a breakthrough that could lead to changes in recommendations for treatment, including longer courses of antibiotics to address a growing public health crisis. (See link for article)
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Excerpt:
“This is not a pathogen you want in your brain,” she said.
But that’s exactly whatresearchers found in a 69-year-old woman who donated her brain to Columbia University for research before she died from dementia-related complications.
The woman received 10 days of antibiotics. She went on to develop late-stage Lyme.
Despite years of IV treatment, the woman suffered from sleep disorders, personality changes, and dementia.Lyme pathogens were also found in her spinal cord.
Embers states that Borrelia evades the immune system by changing its proteins and burying into the body. It can also evade antibiotics.
Lyme bacteria is persistent and evasive in the human body.
A doctor goes onto state that blood testing is often negative.
Another woman was mentioned in the article who had to hunt to find practitioners willing to treat her. After finding two, she finally got relief after going on a regimen of antibiotics, anti-viral medications, and supplements; however she still suffers from numbness & leg pain.
https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/10/30/study-shows-lyme-msids-patients-infected-with-many-pathogens-and-explains-why-we-are-so-sick/ For the first time, Garg et al. show a 85% probability for multiple infections including not only tick-borne pathogens but also opportunistic microbes such as EBV and other viruses….In addition to tick-borne co-infections and non-tick-borne opportunistic infections, pleomorphic Borrelia persistent forms may induce distinct immune responses in patients by having different antigenic properties compared to typical spirochetes32,33,34,35. Nonetheless, current LD diagnostic tools do not include Borrelia persistent forms, tick-borne co-infections, and non-tick-borne opportunistic infections.
None of this is new, and everything experienced by these patients has been experienced by thousands of others for 40 years. Spirochetes were found in Vicky Logan decades ago.
Vicky’s doctor, Dr. Kenneth Liegner wrote a lengthy book chronicling Vicky’s story and his unrelenting efforts to get her IV treatment which kept her alive.
He also gave details about a 2001 International Lyme Conference in New York where attendees were censored by having their microphones shut off whenever they brought up the issue of chronic Lyme disease. Wormser denied to Liegner that the event was CDC sponsored, which is an important detail as it possibly could have been opened up by legislators; however, distributed materials showed the event was in fact CDC-sponsored.
But the real zinger occurred when Liegner requested an autopsy on Vicki and the pathologist not only refused, he refused to even letan outside pathologist use the facilities to perform it.
The reason? Wait for it…..
……danger of infection to himself and his staff.
But, I thought Lyme disease was benign and similar to the common cold – easily cured with 21 days of doxy?
Liegner wasn’t about to let the ball drop and found a way to get Vicki to the Chief of Neuropathology at Columbia Presbyterian where her autopsy results are now available to all. Without this critical step, propelled by Liegner, the pathologist at Hudson Valley Hospital would have successfully prevented medical knowledge of chronic and neurologic Lyme disease as well as the cause of her hypotension, a missed diagnosis of myocardial infarction.
Under “Microscopic Description” it states, “The autopsy shows histopathologic findings consistent with the neurological manifestations of chronic Lyme disease.”
In the 1800’s, Texans had the battle cry, “Remember the Alamo.”
For Lyme patients, advocates, and the doctors who dare to treat them, we have a battle cry too:
“Remember Vicki Logan.”
Call me crazy, but the continued denial of Borrelia persistence despite a plethora of research demonstrating it in both animals and humans is akin to the current COVID madness despite effective treatments, and denial of COVID injection adverse reactions and deaths. Our corrupt public health ‘authorities’ and conflict-riddledresearchers have already determined what fits in their accepted narrative and a persistent infection just doesn’t fit, as it would render the need for lucrative Lyme vaccines null and void and we certainly can’t take away that lucrative cash cow.
The number of Babesia cases appears to be rising and as a recent article in the Washington Post reports, the tick-borne infection can be deadly when symptoms go unrecognized.
In hopes of raising awareness, one family shares their story of a Babesia diagnosis that came just a little too late.
Jeff, a 51-year-old husband and father, was hospitalized with symptoms of jaundice, agitation and inability to urinate. It took 3 days before he was diagnosed with Babesia. But his symptoms had been present for at least one month — unrecognized, as the infection progressed.
Tiny tick leads to deadly infection
As his wife tells writer Abby Schwartz from the Washington Post,¹ Jeff frequently hiked outdoors near their home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. About a month prior to being admitted into the hospital, he had removed a tick, “no bigger than a poppy seed.”
In hindsight, “he may have had Babesia for a month,” Schwartz writes.
Diagnosis comes too late
For several weeks, Jeff reportedly had Babesia symptoms including fevers and night sweats. But clinicians presumed he had a kidney infection and prescribed a course of antibiotics. He improved briefly.
Then, he took a turn for the worst. “Jeff was weaker, sweating, unable to sleep,” his wife explains. “His breathing was labored. The whites of his eyes had yellowed, and his bilirubin was climbing, a sign that red blood cells were breaking down at an unusual rate or of liver trouble.”
He was moved to the ICU and placed in a medically-induced coma and put on a ventilator. Doctors noted that his symptoms resembled malaria, but still did not suspect a tick-borne infection.
“His team periodically woke him, and he would squeeze his wife’s hand.”
On Tuesday, an infectious disease doctor shared some positive news. “We think we have a diagnosis.”
They suspected that Jeff had Babesiosis, a potentially deadly infection caused by parasites Babesia microti, which is typically transmitted through a tick bite.
He was prescribed an antibiotic (azithromycin) and antiparasitic (Atovaquone) medication for 7 to 10 days.
On Thursday, he died — just 2 days after starting treatment.
“If Jeff had been diagnosed early, when he first complained of night fevers, it might have been different for him,” writes Schwartz.
Since Jeff’s death, his wife and family have worked to raise awareness about Babesia.
Babesia signs and symptoms
Most people infected with Babesia do not show symptoms or have mild to moderate flu-like symptoms such as fatigue, chills, sweats, headache, body aches, nausea, and loss of appetite, which can appear days or even months later. (There is no telltale rash as with Lyme disease.)
Individuals most at-risk include the elderly and people with immunocompromised conditions. In fact, the death rate among those with an impaired immune system is as high as 20%, explains Peter Krause, a senior research scientist at Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Medicine.
Although it is usually transmitted through a tick bite, Babesia can be acquired through a tainted blood transfusion.
Babesia cases are reported mostly in the Northeast and Upper Midwest but the disease is “increasing in frequency and geographic range,” warns Krause.
Babesia: Not recognized by all doctors
“It has to step up to the level of an infectious-disease specialist being brought in before it might get diagnosed, whereas in an area where it’s more prevalent, some of the front-line people, the emergency room doctors or urgent care doctors, might be a little more attuned to it,” says Sorana Segal-Maurer, an infectious-disease specialist at New York-Presbyterian Queens Hospital.¹
Editor’s notes:
I disagree with three statements made by doctors interviewed for the story:
I have Babesia patients who do not improve with only 7 to 10 days of treatment.
I have Babesia patients who are sick who do not meet the risk criteria described above.
I have Babesia patients who removed the tick in less than 24 hours and still became ill.
When vaccines that don’t provide robust immunity are overused, they allow viruses to mutate in potentially hazardous ways. COVID variants with measurably different behavior emerged in mid-December 2020, which coincides with the rollout of the first COVID shots
While variants were identified in various areas before the shots were introduced in those same regions, vaccine makers were conducting large-scale trials on thousands of people in those areas well before the shots became available to the public, and before variants were detected
The COVID shots do not prevent infection or transmission, hence the variants created inside vaccinated individuals will spread. This hypothesis was confirmed in a 2015 study, which found that “imperfect vaccination can enhance the transmission of highly virulent pathogens”
Research shows fully vaccinated individuals who develop breakthrough infections with the Delta variant have the same viral loads as unvaccinated individuals infected with this virus, hence both groups can spread the infection to the same degree
Data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show 74% of COVID-19 diagnoses in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, between July 6 through July 25, 2021, and 80% of hospitalizations, were among the fully vaccinated
Will mass injections against COVID-19 encourage the mutation of more dangerous versions of SARS-CoV-2? In the video above, WhatsHerFace questions why the U.K. government is procuring 6 million pounds’ worth of body bags, or “temporary body storage,” even as government officials announce that the current vaccination rate has “created a protective wall” against the infection.1
If that’s true, why are they expecting an “excess death scenario” requiring massive numbers of body bags? The procurement agreement will remain in effect for a period of four years. Does the U.K. government know something they’re not sharing with the public?
Have they peeked at the actual science and realized that mass vaccination during an active pandemic might encourage mutations that evade vaccine-induced defenses, or that the gene-modifying injections might render the vaccinated more susceptible to serious illness and death through a mechanism known as antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE) or the more descriptive term, paradoxical immune enhancement (PIE)?
Where Are the Variants Coming From, and Why Now?
WhatsHerFace highlights some of the answers given by health professionals on social media when asked why no problematic variants emerged during the first year, when no COVID injections were available, and only popped up after the mass injection campaign started.
According to one such answer, “Our surveillance sucked in the beginning and it takes time for variants to come about but once they come they become rampant.” Interestingly, as noted in a February 15, 2021, article in The Conversation,2 variants with “measurably different behavior” did not emerge until mid-December 2020, which just so happens to be the exact time at which the first COVID shots were rolled out.
Fact checkers have tried to debunk any connection between COVID shot rollouts and the emergence of variants by showing that variants were identified in various areas before the shots were introduced in those same regions. However, as noted by WhatsHerFace, vaccine makers were conducting large-scale trials in those areas well before the shots became available to the public.
For example, Pfizer enrolled more than 46,000 participants in the U.S., Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, Germany and Turkey,3and Oxford/AstraZeneca injected 23,000 participants in the U.K., Brazil and South Africa.
“Now this is very interesting,” WhatsHerFace says, “because you’ll actually find that each of the areas where variants first emerged just happen to be the same countries where the trials took place.”
The Backstory of the Delta Variant
The Delta variant (B.1.617.2) was initially identified in India December 1 and 11, 2020. While the COVID jabs were not rolled out in India until mid-January 2021, Phase 3 trials for Biotech’s Covaxin were initiated in Bharat, India, November 16, 2020. By December 22, 2020, 22,500 volunteers had received the jab.
On a side note, the Indian government released Covaxin to the public before Phase 3 trials were completed and in the absence of any safety or efficacy data. According to some vaccinologists, the emergence of potentially more problematic variants following mass vaccination rollouts during an active pandemic is precisely what you’d expect.
Dr. Geert Vanden Bosche,4 whose resume includes work with GSK Biologicals, Novartis Vaccines, Solvay Biologicals and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, published an open letter5 to the World Health Organization, March 6, 2021.
In the letter, Bosche warned that implementing a global mass vaccination campaign during the height of the pandemic could create an “uncontrollable monster” where evolutionary pressure will force the emergence of new and potentially more dangerous mutations.
“There can be no doubt that continued mass vaccination campaigns will enable new, more infectious viral variants to become increasingly dominant and ultimately result in a dramatic incline in new cases despite enhanced vaccine coverage rates. There can be no doubt either that this situation will soon lead to complete resistance of circulating variants to the current vaccines,” Bossche wrote.6
‘Leaky’ Vaccines Promote Mutations
In short, when vaccines that don’t provide robust immunity are overused, they allow viruses to mutate in potentially hazardous ways. When you overuse an antibiotic that fails to eradicate the bacteria, antibiotic-resistant bacteria are allowed to flourish.
In the same way, overuse of a vaccine that doesn’t provide immunity can allow the virus to mutate inside vaccinated individuals into variants that evade vaccine-induced immunity.
And, as we already know, the COVID shots do not prevent infection or transmission, hence the variants created inside vaccinated individuals will spread, attacking both vaccinated and unvaccinated alike. This hypothesis was confirmed in a 2015 study7 in PLOS Biology, which found that “imperfect vaccination can enhance the transmission of highly virulent pathogens.” As explained by the authors:8
“There is a theoretical expectation that some types of vaccines could prompt the evolution of more virulent (‘hotter’) pathogens. This idea follows from the notion that natural selection removes pathogen strains that are so ‘hot’ that they kill their hosts and, therefore, themselves.
Vaccines that let the hosts survive but do not prevent the spread of the pathogen relax this selection, allowing the evolution of hotter pathogens to occur. This type of vaccine is often called a leaky vaccine. When vaccines prevent transmission, as is the case for nearly all vaccines used in humans, this type of evolution towards increased virulence is blocked.
But when vaccines leak, allowing at least some pathogen transmission, they could create the ecological conditions that would allow hot strains to emerge and persist.
This theory proved highly controversial when it was first proposed over a decade ago, but here we report experiments with Marek’s disease virus in poultry that show that modern commercial leaky vaccines can have precisely this effect: they allow the onward transmission of strains otherwise too lethal to persist.
Thus, the use of leaky vaccines can facilitate the evolution of pathogen strains that put unvaccinated hosts at greater risk of severe disease.”
This research was reported in a number of mainstream media publications, including Live Science,9 Newsweek10 and National Geographic.11 Quanta Magazine also took a deep dive into it in May 2018, closing the article with the following observation:12
“… the most crucial need right now is for vaccine scientists to recognize the relevance of evolutionary biology to their field. Last month, when more than 1,000 vaccine scientists gathered in Washington, D.C., at the World Vaccine Congress, the issue of vaccine-induced evolution was not the focus of any scientific sessions.
Part of the problem, [disease ecologist Andrew] Read says, is that researchers are afraid: They’re nervous to talk about and call attention to potential evolutionary effects because they fear that doing so might fuel more fear and distrust of vaccines by the public …”
The COVID shots, which do not make you immune against the virus but rather only lessen symptoms of infection, are a perfect example of leaky vaccines that can allow the virus to mutate within the mildly ill host, who then transmits the mutated virus to others. In this way, the shots can fuel a never-ending chain of outbreaks.
NPR Highlights How Vaccines Drive Viral Evolution
In a February 9, 2021, article,13NPR highlighted this risk, stating that “vaccines could drive the evolution of more COVID-19 mutants.” According to NPR science correspondent Richard Harris, “the virus is always mutating. And if one happens to produce a mutation that makes it less vulnerable to the vaccine, that virus could simply multiply in a vaccinated individual.”
Simply having a virus mutating inside you isn’t necessarily dangerous, however. The viral load also plays an important role in determining how potentially dangerous a vaccinated individual who carries a mutation might be. If your viral load is low, the risk of you transmitting the mutated virus to others is also low. If your viral load is high, then the risk of transmission increases accordingly.
When it comes to the Delta variant, there’s bad news for those who have received one or more COVID shots, as research14 shows fully vaccinated individuals who develop breakthrough infections with the Delta variant have the same viral loads as unvaccinated individuals who are infected with this virus. As reported by Reuters August 2, 2021:15
“Among people infected by the Delta variant of the coronavirus, fully vaccinated people with ‘breakthrough’ infections may be just as likely as unvaccinated people to spread the virus to others, new research suggests. The higher the amount of coronavirus in the nose and throat, the more likely the patient will infect others.
In one Wisconsin county, after Delta became predominant, researchers analyzed16viral loads on nose-and-throat swab samples obtained when patients were first diagnosed. They found similar viral loads in vaccinated and unvaccinated patients, with levels often high enough to allow shedding of infectious virus.
‘A key assumption’ underlying current regulations aimed at slowing COVID-19 transmission ‘is that those who are vaccinated are at very low risk of spreading the virus to others,’ said study coauthor Katarina Grande of Public Health Madison & Dane County in Madison, Wisconsin.
The findings, however, indicate ‘that vaccinated people should take steps to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus to others,’ she added.”
Lambda Variant Shows Signs of Vaccine Resistance
The latest coronavirus on the block is Lambda, which was first identified in Peru. It’s now spreading through South America. Like the Delta variant, Lambda is more infectious than the original SARS-CoV-2 virus. Unlike Delta, it appears more resistant to vaccine-induced antibodies.
According to Reuters,17 three spike protein mutations “help it resist neutralization by vaccine-induced antibodies.” While some claim the emergence of Delta and Lambda is justification for a third booster shot, Rockefeller University researchers point out that a third dose might raise the number of antibodies, but it won’t improve their ability to neutralize viruses.18,19
If a third dose can’t neutralize any of the variants any better than two doses, then we’re back at the beginning of this vicious cycle where imperfect neutralization drives additional mutation.
The Rockefeller University paper also highlights the superior protection offered by natural immunity, which is what you get after you’ve recovered from an infection. According to the authors,
“memory antibodies selected over time by natural infection have greater potency and breadth than antibodies elicited by vaccination.”
For transparency, one of the coauthors, Michel Nussenzweig, told Reuters that if an updated injection capable of protecting against one or more specific variants were to become available, “then that would be the choice.”
I mention that, because the competing interest statement on that paper reveals the Rockefeller University “has filed a provisional patent application in connection with this work … (US patent 63/021,387). The patent has been licensed by Rockefeller University to Bristol Meyers Squib.”
An identical competing interest statement can also be found on other recent papers, including a preprint paper20 titled “Development of Potency, Breadth and Resilience to Viral Escape Mutations in SARS-CoV-2 Neutralizing Antibodies.”
At the time of writing, I got nothing but error messages when trying to access the U.S. patent office to confirm what U.S. patent 63/021,387 might be, but based on the papers bearing this competing interest statement, it sounds like the Rockefeller University might be patenting a new COVID shot against variants.
First COVID Shots Appear Ineffective Against Newer Variants
At the same time that Moderna and Pfizer raise prices on their individual COVID shots by 10% and 25% respectively,21evidence of their ineffectiveness continues to mount.
In a July 30, 2021, report,22 Sharyl Attkisson cited data23 from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which show that 74% of COVID-19 diagnoses in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, between July 6 through July 25, 2021, and 80% of hospitalizations, were among the fully vaccinated.
“The report contradicts multiple false reports that have claimed the vaccines are ‘100% effective’ in preventing hospitalization,” Attkisson writes.24
“It also contradicts false reports that have implied vaccinated people are not spreading Covid-19. According to CDC, the fully vaccinated are showing just as high of a ‘viral load’ as unvaccinated people who get infected.
CDC published new data25 on the topic in its weekly report. It says that most of the identified cases of Covid-19 in a Barnstable County, Massachusetts, town, in July (74%) were among fully vaccinated people.
Most, but not all, had the Delta variant. Additionally, four of five hospitalized patients were fully vaccinated. Only one was not fully vaccinated. Today, CDC also acknowledged that Covid-19 viral load is ‘similarly high’ in both vaccinated and unvaccinated people. That’s a result, say officials, of the Delta variant.
From the start, virologists said that there would be natural variants to Covid-19. They also accurately predicted that effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccines would wear down in a matter of months, not years. Now, CDC is confirming that the current Covid-19 vaccines are not working effectively against Covid-19.
In contrast, the millions of Americans who have fought off Covid-19 infections, either with or without symptoms, are proving to have greater and longer lasting immunity, so far, than those who have been vaccinated. That, too, was predicted by virologists.”
Americans are now told the Delta variant is a pandemic among the unvaccinated, even though the data doesn’t support this claim. The CDC appears to be trying to prop up this narrative by not reporting breakthrough infections in vaccinated individuals unless they are hospitalized or die.
Even then, they acknowledge them only if they have a positive PCR test run at a cycle threshold (CT) below 28,26 whereas unvaccinated people are still tested at a CT of 40 or above. The higher the CT, the greater the chance of a false positive.
Israeli Data Show Waning Effectiveness of Pfizer Shot
Israel is now recommending a third booster shot for people over the age of 60, as data27 show the Pfizer injection is only 39% effective (relative risk reduction) against the Delta variant, down from 64% relative effectiveness two weeks earlier.
As of August 2, 2021, 66.9% of Israelis had received at least one dose of Pfizer’s injection; 62.2% had received two doses.28 A day earlier, August 1, director of Israel’s Public Health Services, Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis, announced half of all COVID-19 infections were among the fully vaccinated.29 Signs of more serious disease among fully vaccinated are also emerging, she said, particularly in those over the age of 60.
Alternative Treatments
In closing, remember there are several different treatment protocols for COVID-19 that appear just as effective for variants as for the original virus, including the following:
Nebulized hydrogen peroxide for prevention and treatment of COVID-19, as detailed in Dr. David Brownstein’s case paper30 and Dr. Thomas Levy’s free e-book, “Rapid Virus Recovery.” Levy believes nebulized hydrogen peroxide can also be an invaluable strategy for combating spike protein toxicity31 because, in addition to being a powerful antiviral, it will also augment and speed up cellular healing, in part by improving oxygenation
Madison Area Lyme Support Group 