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Influence of Conflicts of Interest On Public Positions in the COVID-19 Era, The Case of Gilead Sciences

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2052297520300627

Influence of conflicts of interest on public positions in the COVID-19 era, the case of Gilead Sciences

Under a Creative Commons license
open access

Abstract

Fundings and gifts from the pharmaceutical industry have an influence on the decisions made by physicians and medical experts. In the context of the COVID-19 epidemic, several treatments are available to treat patients infected with the virus. Some are protected by patents, such as remdesivir, others are not, such as hydroxychloroquine. We wanted to observe the possible correlation between the fact, for an academic doctor in infectious diseases, of having benefited from funding by Gilead Sciences, producer of remdesivir, and the public positions taken by this doctor towards hydroxychloroquine.

Our results show a correlation (correlation coefficient = 1) between the amount received from the Gilead Sciences company and public opposition to the use of hydroxychloroquine in France.

This should open up the debate on the role of the interest links of doctors with pharmaceutical companies in the medical and scientific public debate.

For more:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/06/06/fraudulent-hcq-covid-19-study-in-lancet-exposed/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/06/01/rebuttal-on-huge-hcq-study-in-lancet/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/06/16/aaps-sues-fda-for-irrational-interference-of-access-to-life-saving-hydroxychloroquine/

 

 

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Activism, research, Treatment, Viruses

Ivermectin, A New Candidate Therapeutic Against SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7261036/

Published online 2020 May 30. doi: 10.1186/s12941-020-00368-w
PMCID: PMC7261036
PMID: 32473642

Ivermectin, a new candidate therapeutic against SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19

Khan Sharun,1 Kuldeep Dhama,corresponding author2 Shailesh Kumar Patel,2 Mamta Pathak,2 Ruchi Tiwari,3 Bhoj Raj Singh,4Ranjit Sah,5 D. Katterine Bonilla-Aldana,6,7 Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales,corresponding author7,8 and Hakan Leblebicioglu9

The recent report by Caly et al., describing the antiviral potential of ivermectin against the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in vitro arrive to the agenda of potential candidates for COVID-19 treatment []. This discovery gave hope to the researchers who are screening for drugs that can be repurposed for treating the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). Ivermectin, is a member of the avermectin family (Fig. 1); as these compounds are produced by the soil microorganism, Streptomyces avermitilis, they are called avermectins [].

Ivermectin has showed a wide range of activities, ranging from

  • broad-spectrum endo/ecto-parasiticide activity to antiviral
  • antibacteria
  • anticancer activities []

It was first introduced commercially in 1981 for use in animals. In addition to being used for treating billions of livestock and companion animals worldwide to help maintain food production and animal health, ivermectin is also used for treating several diseases in humans, e.g. a key drug in the elimination programs of onchocercosis [, ]. Ivermectin is considered a drug of choice for various parasitic diseases. As an anthelmintic drug, its mechanism of action in invertebrates mainly involves the opening of glutamate-gated and Gamma aminobutyric acid (GABA)-gated chloride channels, leading to increased conductance of chloride ions and causing subsequent motor paralysis in parasites [].

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**Comment**

Ivermectin has been used very successfully in many Lyme/MSIDS patients as well.

Lyme discoverer, Willy Burgdorfer, wrote of finding nematodes in tick guts way back in 1984 and in 2014 University of New Haven researcher, Eva Sapi, found 22% of nymphs and 30% of adult Ixodes ticks carried nematodes.  

For more:

Excerpt:

Pathologist Alan MacDonald has found three strains of borrelia living in parasitic nematode worms, worm eggs, or larvae in the brain tissue of 19 autopsies.  

MacDonald states that both worms and borrelia can cause devastating brain damage and that

“while patients are wrongly declared free of Lyme and other tick-borne infections, in reality, too often they contract serious neurodegenerative diseases which can kill them.”  

Microbiologist Tom Grier also feels patients should and their practitioners should consider anti-parasitics for nematodes, (making sure to kill all parasites in every growth stage including eggs) followed by antibiotics for Borrelia.  He states treatment would have to be aggressive to get past the Blood-Brain-Barrier, and prolonged to eradicate the Borrelia. Grier gives the caution:  Do not self treat with anthelmintics as they can cause severe inflammatory reactions and fatal encephalitis.  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/08/09/dr-paul-duray-research-fellowship-foundation-some-great-research-being-done-on-lyme-disease/

If you are a chronically infected patient and you have used many different antibiotics over an extended period of time, but still struggle with symptoms, you should discuss specific and focused parasitic treatment with your doctor. The first link listed in the comment section should help you understand the complexity of this.

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Activism, Treatment, Viruses

Heparin As A Therapy For COVID-19: Current Evidence and Future Possibilities

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32519894/

. 2020 Jun 10.

doi: 10.1152/ajplung.00199.2020.Online ahead of print.

Heparin as a Therapy for COVID-19: Current Evidence and Future Possibilities

Joseph Alan Hippensteel 1, Wells B LaRiviere 2, James F Colbert 1, Christophe J Langouët-Astrié 1, Eric P Schmidt 1
Affiliations expand

Abstract

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), the clinical syndrome associated with infection by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has impacted nearly every country in the world. Despite an unprecedented focus of scientific investigation, there is a paucity of evidence-based pharmacotherapies against this disease. Due to this lack of data-driven treatment strategies, broad variations in practice patterns have emerged. Observed hypercoagulability in COVID-19 patients has created debate within the critical care community on the therapeutic utility of heparin. We seek to provide an overview of the data supporting the therapeutic use of heparin, both unfractionated and low molecular weight, as an anticoagulant for the treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Additionally, we review preclinical evidence establishing biological plausibility for heparin and synthetic heparin-like drugs as therapies for COVID-19 through anti-viral and anti-inflammatory effects. Finally, we discuss known adverse effects and theoretical off-target effects that may temper enthusiasm for the adoption of heparin as a therapy in COVID-19 without confirmatory prospective randomized controlled trials. Despite previous failures of anticoagulants in critical illness, plausibility of heparin for COVID-19 is sufficiently robust to justify urgent randomized controlled trials to determine the safety and effectiveness of this therapy.

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**Comment**

Heparin has also been used successfully for Lyme/MSIDS in many patients.  While not curative, it does help many symptoms for those who suddenly find they have hyper coagulation.  My husband used it and it made a huge difference.  He has since successfully switched to

Interestingly, heparin used prophylactically has prevented Lyme in vitro:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/02/05/non-anticoagulant-heparin-as-a-pre-exposure-prophylaxis-prevents-lyme-disease-infection/

Excerpt:

The drug heparin is structurally similar to these GAGs and inhibits Bbsl attachment to PGs, GAGs, cells, and tissues, suggesting its potential to prevent LD. However, the anticoagulant activity of heparin often results in hemorrhage, hampering the development of this compound as LD PrEP.

 

 

 

 

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research, Treatment, Viruses

All-Cause Mortality During COVID-19: No Plague & A Likely Signature of Mass Homicide by Government Response

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341832637_All-cause_mortality_during_COVID-19_No_plague_and_a_likely_signature_of_mass_homicide_by_government_response

All-cause mortality during COVID-19: No plague and a likely signature of mass homicide by government response

Technical Report (PDF Available) · June 2020 with 12,644 Reads

DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.24350.77125
D. G. Rancourt

Ontario Civil Liberties Association

Abstract
The latest data of all-cause mortality by week does not show a winter-burden mortality that is statistically larger than for past winters. There was no plague. However, a sharp “COVID peak” is present in the data, for several jurisdictions in Europe and the USA. This all-cause-mortality “COVID peak” has unique characteristics:
  • Its sharpness, with a full-width at half-maximum of only approximately 4 weeks
  • Its lateness in the infectious-season cycle, surging after week-11 of 2020, which is unprecedented for any large sharp-peak feature;
  • The synchronicity of the onset of its surge, across continents, and immediately following the WHO declaration of the pandemic
  • Its USA state-to-state absence or presence for the same viral ecology on the same territory, being correlated with nursing home events and government actions rather than any known viral strain discernment.

These “COVID peak” characteristics, and a review of the epidemiological history, and of relevant knowledge about viral respiratory diseases, lead me to postulate that the “COVID peak” results from an accelerated mass homicide of immune-vulnerable individuals, and individuals made more immune-vulnerable, by government and institutional actions, rather than being an epidemiological signature of a novel virus, irrespective of the degree to which the virus is novel from the perspective of viral speciation.

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For more:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/14/wuhan-lab-got-3-7-million-from-u-s-government/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/26/sars-cov2-biological-weapon-update-with-professor-boyle-another-must-see-video-showing-fauci-behind-funding-china-to-do-covid-19-research/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/06/11/nobel-prize-winner-on-the-coronavirus/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/05/14/bioweapon-labs-must-be-shut-down-scientists-prosecuted/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/05/20/cdc-crimes-possible-sherman-provisions-clayton-acts-violated/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/05/21/redfield-birx-can-they-be-trusted-with-covid/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/05/12/shedding-light-on-the-dishonorable-record-of-dr-fauci-a-real-mengele/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/05/08/time-to-fire-dr-fauci-and-dr-tam/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/02/coronavirus-if-they-lied-then-why-wouldnt-they-lie-now/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/03/cdc-centers-for-damaged-credibility/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/16/israeli-study-reveals-covid19-lockdown-was-pointless/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/06/03/testing-for-covid-19-neither-necessary-nor-effective-covid-19-on-its-way-out/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/06/15/new-research-shows-majority-may-already-have-resistance-to-covid-19/

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research, Viruses

Child Taken Due To COVID-19

https://parentalrights.org/it-finally-happened-child-taken-due-to-covid-19/

Well, they’ve finally done it.

We’ve been watching for it all along, hoping against hope that the System would prove us wrong and somehow behave itself. But we kept watching, because we know what the System is made of.

Sure enough, it finally happened.

“Today in dependency court madness, LA County Dept. of Children and Family Services (DCFS) recommended that the court remove my client’s child from their physical custody after the parent tested positive for COVID-19. This is a non-offending parent. The judge ruled in favor of DCFS and detained.” (emphasis added)

So says a Los Angeles-area attorney in a post on Facebook last week. (We have not yet been able to confirm the case, but the lawyer’s account remains live on Facebook.)

He continues,

“Let that sink in . . . DCFS is asking for children to [be] removed from their parents’ custody due to COVID-19 despite the parent making the appropriate arrangements for their child.” (emphasis added)

To be clear, right now we are talking about one child in one courtroom. The family, who we understand are working on filing a writ of habeus corpus to have their child returned, hasn’t had time yet to finish that writ, let alone file for a full appeal.

However, once there is one rotten ruling, it becomes easier for others to follow.

Some of you have been sounding alarms ever since reports came out that child welfare forms were changed to indicate COVID-19 was present in the home at the time of the child’s removal.

Our analysis at the time was, and remains, that the change in the form was not intended to make COVID-19 an excuse for separating families. It was intended as a means to warn a potential foster family or group home that an in-coming child has been exposed to the virus.

But, like so many of you, we also saw the potential for danger, and we have kept our ear to the ground. Sure enough, now an LA County judge has taken the plunge down the rabbit hole.

To state the matter plainly, the government has no authority to remove a child from their private home simply because the child or a parent has contracted COVID-19.  This is especially true if, as indicated by this family’s lawyer, the parents have made appropriate arrangements to see to it the child can be taken care of somewhere away from the infected parent.

In such instances, there is absolutely no need for the court to even be involved.

This is not—this will not be—the new normal. Under no circumstances will we stand by while innocent families suffer the humiliating and life-shattering trauma of unnecessary, unconstitutional, unconscionable separation.

We are working to know more about this situation, and we will certainly stay vigilant in watching for more instances, and for tracking what happens in this case.

Thank you for joining us in this fight. Standing together, we will make sure this does not become “the new normal.” Families have a right to be together; let’s make sure that right is protected.

Sincerely,

Michael Ramey
Executive Director

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For more: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/06/10/separating-newborns-from-moms-can-have-lasting-psychological-effects-yet-thats-exactly-what-the-cdc-wants-to-do/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/06/12/marathon-county-proposes-ankle-bracelets-for-virus-violators/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/03/31/how-surveillance-5g-are-being-fast-tracked-under-the-pretext-of-fighting-coronavirus-study-showing-risks-to-health/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/06/13/100-billion-contact-tracing-deal-by-bill-gates-just-before-pandemic/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/05/28/ios-13-5-update-apple-makes-the-iphone-face-mask-contract-tracing-app-ready/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/05/15/us-states-rush-recruiting-covid-19-contact-tracers-are-overcompensating-for-their-incompetence-with-authoritarianism/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/06/10/misdiagnosis-censorship-and-contact-tracing/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/04/20/why-we-need-the-parental-rights-amendment/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/02/22/doctors-afraid-to-refer-injured-children-for-evaluations-fear-an-abuse-specialist-might-jump-to-the-wrong-conclusion/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/03/05/door-opened-for-international-law-to-override-parental-rights-in-u-s/

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Activism, Viruses