This is by far the best and most complete legal discussion of the topic of HCQ and IVM prescribing I've ever seen--and I have recommended it for many legal proceedings
Dr. Nass, I intend to read every page of it. I know a doctor who had his nurse call in a script of ivermectin so she wouldn't have to get so bad and have to go to the hospital. The pharmacist refused to fill it! Others on his list also refused. She ended up going to hospital, 3 days later was put on a respirator and died the next day. Pharmacists weren't filling HCQ scripts either. His hands were totally tied. He said that big money had to have been given to them and knew then that many in our medical industry were corrupt. He said that in 1987 over 3 billion patients had taken ivermectin for scabies and other infections and for an anti-inflam with no bad side effects. - - - I'm retired & watched every one of Fauci's afternoon talks, and when Pres Trump mentioned HCQ and later on ivermectin, Fauci immediately dismissed them as being unable to help, and the media even called ivermectin horse paste.
Great post!! Readers may be interested in Robert F Kennedy Jr's approach to the next pandemic should he be elected. It includes Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin - and a boat load of that rare ingredient - Common Sense:
Did he do it under Dr. Paul Alexander's counsel when he did?
I have no idea what a subjunctive is, having only my public fool system grammar education to work with, let alone what that has to do with the price of tea in China.
CVS has a blanket ban on their pharmacists, like many other pharmacies.
There are pharmacies that will fill any lawful prescription, but no one has compiled a list of them, as far as I ave seen. FLCCC might have or know about one.
Unfortunately, compiling any kind of list like that, while helpful for us useless eaters, would put the pharmacists and business on the deep state's radar...and we will lose them.
Having asked a pharmacist in a CVS whether he would fill a prescription for ivermectin without any specific condition being mentioned and being told no was all I needed to experience. HCQ might have been different, but I didn't ask about it.
CVS has a blanket ban on their pharmacists, like many other pharmacies.
There are pharmacies that will fill any lawful prescription, but no one has compiled a list of them, as far as I ave seen. FLCCC might have or know about one.
Every world leader under the spell of the WEF was instructed to use the term, "isn't that a horse dewormer" in their daily briefings. I watched Ashley Bloomfield do it in NZ. It was so obviously orchestrated.
I had not realised that this important United States state government legal opinion had been made about the validity of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin for early COVID-19 treatment, especially as early as October 2021.
The bigger problem with health is that the only safe way to obtain sufficient 25-hydroxyvitamin D to run our immune system properly is vitamin D3 supplementation in quantities around ten times what governments recommend. (For 70 kg 154 lb body weight without obesity, 0.125 mg 5000 IU vitamin D3 a day, on average, will achieve this. Government recommendations are for 600 to 800 IU/day.) Very few people understand this.
Ultraviolet-B light on ideally white skin can produce plenty of vitamin D3, but it is not generally available except in the middle of cloud-free summer days - and it always damages DNA and so raises the risk of skin cancer. Please see the research articles cited and discussed at: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/ .
There is very little vitamin D3 in food, fortified or not, or in multivitamins. There's no such thing as a vitamin D rich food. "Vitamin D" is not a hormone.
Many and perhaps most people have less than half of the 25-hydroxyvitamin D their immune system needs to function properly. Those with dark or black skin have even lower levels. This is the most important, easily correctable, cause of their generally worse health.
The most important step to take, individually and collectively, is to have as many people as possible be well informed and choose to supplement vitamin D3 in the quantities required to maintain at least the 50 ng/mL (125 nmol = 1 part in 20,000,000 by mass) circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D the immune system needs. The above page begins with recommendations from New Jersey based Professor of Medicine Sunil Wimalawansa on how much vitamin D3 to take, as ratios of body weight, with higher ratios for those suffering from obesity. These are Prof. Wimalawansa's recently slightly simplified version of the recommendations in his 2022 article in Nutrients: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/14/14/2997 and https://nutritionmatters.substack.com/p/how-much-vitamin-d3-to-take.
For early treatment of COVID-19, for the great majority of people with poor 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels (often 20 ng/mL or less), healthy daily vitamin D3 intakes take too long (2 months or so) to raise 25-hydroxyvitamin D to be helpful in this medical emergency. A single oral dose (for 70 kg 154 lb body weight without obesity) of 10 mg (400,000 IU) vitamin D3 takes several days to achieve 50 ng/mL 25-hydroxyvitamin D. This is due to the need for hydroxylation, primarily in the liver.
A single oral dose (for 70 kg body weight) of 1 milligram of calcifediol - which _is_ 25-hydroxyvitamin D - goes straight into circulation and raises the 25-hydroxyvitamin D level safely over 50 ng/mL in 4 hours or less. This is about 0.014 mg per kg body weight. See Prof. Wimalawansa's article and: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/#4.7 .
This calcifediol treatment is by far the most important early treatment for sepsis, COVID-19, severe influenza, Kawasaki disease, MIS-C and ARDS. Ivermectin with zinc and azithromycin comes second.
However, the most important goal is proper vitamin D3 supplementation in the whole population.
Around April 2020 is when I learned about HCQ and ivermectin during the afternoon talks that Fauci & Scarf Lady made on TV. I'm retired, so I watched them "educate" the public. Trump was there, watching them speak. He mentioned HCQ, which sent a look of disgust on Fauci's face. About a week later Trump mentioned ivermectin with Fauci & Birx looking on when he spoke. Both were dead set against ivermectin b/c if a drug was already out there that could ameliorate the condition, then they wouldn't be able to justify making a vaccine. The media did their job of discrediting it, calling it a horse dewormer. Shortly after that is when our doctor friend tried to prescribe it for his nurse at his clinic when she was coming down with it. No pharmacist would fill his script. She got so ill that she went to the hospital and died within a week, the day after she was put on a respirator.
The situation is extremely serious, but has been the case in many aspects of health policy since before the COVID-19 pandemic: The authorities, with the connivance or at least support of the majority of medical professionals and the mainstream media, are in some important respects, acting in ways which violate proper scientific and moral principles and have the pervasive effect of harming and killing the public, as well as misleading us about what is really needed to be healthy.
Kevin Bass just wrote an article showing that many health professionals and health policy experts believed, before and in the earliest months of the COVID-19 pandemic, that lockdowns were overall harmful: https://kevinbass.substack.com/p/the-great-lockdown-reversal-part. Yet, within a few months, the majority supported lockdowns - or at least any opposition to them was so thoroughly suppressed that the public had the impression that the lockdowns were life-saving and supported by most people who were knowledgeable in the field.
The problem can be split in two: Firstly, why, in the long-term (before the COVID-19 pandemic) did the apparent (and probably real) majorities of healthcare professionals, immunologists, epidemiologists, virologists, vaccinologists etc. support strategies which were in fact harmful overall. The most obvious of these are, or should be, suppression of vitamin D3 supplementation, which is needed for immune system health, and the over-promotion and enforcing of numerous kinds of vaccine, when only a subset of these are actually effective, with (perhaps, I am not so sure of this) properly acknowledged risks. For instance, flu vaccines have no impact on hospitalisation or death from influenza or other respiratory diseases, for those aged 65. See the research cited and discussed at: https://nutritionmatters.substack.com/p/influenza-vaccines-do-not-reduce.
Secondly, for the substantial number, perhaps the majority of these experts who did think and speak correctly about an important medical / health question, such as lockdowns, why did they cave in and either change their thinking or at least not continue protesting when governments and whoever else is actually running things adopted the measure they initially believed would be harmful?
Perhaps some part of the answer to the second question is the (probably) instinctual and also socialized and consciously thought desire for unity among leaders when the whole community is (apparently, or at least possibly - it cannot always be known for sure) faced with a rapidly developing situation which involves disastrous outcomes, including especially lots of deaths and the spread of disease. In a crisis, people tend to rally around their leader, since leadership is the best chance the tribe will survive the threats to its very existence. Even if the leader is making sub-optimal choices, it is generally better (at least in terms of fighting off a pack of lions or another marauding tribe), to follow the leadership than dispute the leader's decisions or try to install a new leader.
Hydroxychloroquine was the first widely discussed *drug* which might be used for treating (really early treatment, not late stage) COVID-19. Ivermectin was the second, and became even better known. It is my strong impression that HCQ has some benefits, if used early, but that given the the choice between this and IVM, IVM would generally be safer and more effective.
However, the first and most important preventive and early treatment for COVID-19 was and remains vitamin D.
Even today, most people in the medical freedom movement (as it has emerged and grown in response to the errors of the mainstream COVID-19 pandemic response), tend not to think much about nutrition, including vitamin D, because (like far too many medical professionals and other supposed experts) they cannot imagine that nutrition is so important. Like most medical professionals and other supposed experts, it seems that even 4 years after the pandemic began, most medical freedom movement people still think drugs are the most important intervention against COVID-19.
They are mistaken. Most people's immune system is operating at a fraction of its proper strength due to inadequate circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D (calcifediol), which is made primarily in the liver from ultraviolet B -> skin produced or ingested vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol). Even with a completely optimal health care system, lots of exercise, all the best choices of food (there are only traces of vitamin D3 in a handful of foods) and all other nutritional supplements, and all the best choices of drugs and vaccines (there are probably some which are worth taking, at least for some people), without proper vitamin D3 supplementation, human health would be blighted by weakened and for some crippled immune systems due to lack of 25-hydroxyvitamin D.
As early as 25 March, 2020, researchers, experienced doctors and other people (such as myself) have been trying to raise awareness of the need for proper vitamin D3 supplementation to tackle COVID-19 - both to reduce the risk of severe symptoms and to reduce disease intensity in general, which has the direct effect of greatly reducing transmission by reducing the average number of viruses shed per infected person. I started writing to the WHO and other authorities in mid-March, and started my first website on this later in March. Please see the research cited and discussed at: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/.
John Umhau MD, MPH, CPE, of Maryland, https://www.verywellmind.com/john-umhau-4798192 is a retired Commander of the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service, who researched vitamin D for decades, and was unable to find any part of the U.S. public health administration which would take a real interest in vitamin D. (He told me this, in personal conversation.) He wrote about vitamin D and COVID-19 on 2020-03-25 in the prominent medical website MedPage Today: https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/85596
In January 2021 he wrote, with Richard H. Carmona, MD, MPH (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Carmona), Vatsal G. Thakkar, MD, an op-ed for a major newspaper (I don't recall which one, but it was probably the New York Times) on the need for proper vitamin D supplementation to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. It was rejected, despite it being co-written by Richard Carmona, the 17th Surgeon General of the United States, from 2002 to 2006 under President George W. Bush. So they put it in MedPage Today: https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/90530
Even now, after 4 years of COVID-19 killing, directly and/or through the corrupted, deadly, pandemic responses, tens of millions of people, only a subset of the population understand the need for proper vitamin D3 supplementation in order that the immune system can work properly.
There is almost no vitamin D3 in food, and ultraviolet B light, which can generate it in the skin, is not available all year round and always damages DNA, so raising the risk of skin cancer.
A significant step in raising awareness of the need for proper vitamin D3 supplementation to enable the immune system to work properly was Dr Pierre Kory's interview with Tucker Carlson: https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1768033041568727391 (3.8M views. Transcript of the ivermectin and vitamin D3 part of the interview https://nutritionmatters.substack.com/p/dr-pierre-kory-talks-with-tucker.) He states that "They are terrified of vitamin D" - and then cites Bill Grant's 2008 article on the suppression of vitamin D for decades, using the same tactics as Pierre Kory observed regarding ivermectin: "Vitamin D acceptance delayed by Big Pharma following the Disinformation Playbook" Orthomolecular Medicine News Service 2018-10-01 https://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v14n22.shtml.
Respect for the profession of medicine has never been as low as it is now, because of the machinations of those in charge...taking over and trampling on the rights of all others. Hopefully, one day the mercenaries will be gone who are in tyrannical control of the Medical Industry...and intelligent, dedicated and caring practioners will be back...and will fluorish.
It doesn’t go far enough. Every free state should immediately pass legislation that does not allow ANY state board actions against any doctor for their treatment of patients with drugs approved for any other purpose. It is up to the doctor to treat as they see fit and repurpose whatever drugs they choose to for anything they choose. The whole idea of top down driven treatment protocols has to be the very worst way to define what right looks like. The absolute opposite is what works. Treatment of anything is a market. Let the market work to find the best treatments and then let doctors go forth and use the best treatments regardless of if they are free of any pharmaceutical products or packed full of them.
I wish the Ontario public health bureaucracy and the College of Physicians and Surgeons could be controlled and held to account by democratic lawmakers this same way. When my bed-bound elderly demented mother somehow got scabies in the nursing home (due to chronic understaffing, with undertrained overworked temps hired as a result of the illegal jab mandates that forced so many to quit), she suffered agonizing itching and bleeding scabs from neck to knees for four months without treatment (except steroids and morphine which made her worse and accelerated the bedsores). This was directly caused by the provincial government's orders to pharmacies to not stock ivermectin (the standard scabies treatment). Ivermectin was removed from the list of funded drugs, and the College punished any doctor who tried to prescribe it for ANY reason. They bloody well KNEW it cured Covid!!! Somehow a doctor at the nursing home got through the flaming hoops and my mom was treated with ivermectin, which cost me nearly $100 Cdn for two doses. She died shortly after, but at least free of scabies.
I filed a complaint with the KY pharmacy board after a pharmacist refused my Rx for ivermectin for a patient. The board did nothing. I do not know if the board actually looked at the Ivermectin data or if they just believed the lies. Most doctors and pharmacists do not have enough integrity to actually look at the data about ivermectin.
Ivermectin is much safer than many of the drugs that are prescribed and dispensed every day. That pharmacist refused a legal order for a drug for a patient with an infection that could have killed him. There were no repercussions. How many times in a career does a pharmacist refuse a Rx? My guess is that it is very rare. This was evil. I am glad that the patient recovered anyway. If the patient had died his family could have sued the pharmacist for malpractice.
Dr. Nass, I intend to read every page of it. I know a doctor who had his nurse call in a script of ivermectin so she wouldn't have to get so bad and have to go to the hospital. The pharmacist refused to fill it! Others on his list also refused. She ended up going to hospital, 3 days later was put on a respirator and died the next day. Pharmacists weren't filling HCQ scripts either. His hands were totally tied. He said that big money had to have been given to them and knew then that many in our medical industry were corrupt. He said that in 1987 over 3 billion patients had taken ivermectin for scabies and other infections and for an anti-inflam with no bad side effects. - - - I'm retired & watched every one of Fauci's afternoon talks, and when Pres Trump mentioned HCQ and later on ivermectin, Fauci immediately dismissed them as being unable to help, and the media even called ivermectin horse paste.
Sorry - I know my comment was off our topic, but I just had to get that off my chest.
It was perfect and valuable.
Bonnie ⬆️⬆️⬆️👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
no need to apologize, this is a public forum, if a reader is not interested, they can simply
move on
Your comment is pertinent to the discussion.
We need to hear, and read, a record of how patients were treated and murdered.
Amazon has a book that has 5 stars. "What the Nurses Saw".
Great post!! Readers may be interested in Robert F Kennedy Jr's approach to the next pandemic should he be elected. It includes Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin - and a boat load of that rare ingredient - Common Sense:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1672662399860592640
There won't be a "next pandemic" if President Trump is elected in November.
He has lapped the field. The Dems are in full panic mode, and they are dangerous.
DJT knows this, he always sees what is coming.
If there were, he could crow about his beloved Operation Warp Speed again.
But he wouldn't, under Dr. Paul Alexander's counsel.
Did he do it under Dr. Paul Alexander's counsel when he did?
I have no idea what a subjunctive is, having only my public fool system grammar education to work with, let alone what that has to do with the price of tea in China.
: )
No, unfortunately Fauci and Birx overruled him and plotted to exclude him from planning, as I understand the history.
and that is a problem, none the less, ask a better question, and keep asking
crow he did, it is you and others who do not comprehend the crowing
There is no way a quax was developed that quickly, soooo ask a better question
he did and does crow, though you or I do not know exactly why...
No need to play this ridiculous game of doc / script for easily attained OTC substances.
You can buy it WAYYYYYYYYYYY cheaper on Amzon or your local feed store
Making bad decisions have consequences. Please get off that plantation, its burning.
The cheapest easiest source for Iver is "horse paste"
One can purchase it from Amazon or local feed store.
No need to involve Pharms or MD's. Other online sellers too.
The vet version is identical. Dosing is easy.
It is also useful for felines having mange etc.
Great info. Thanks!
rrrrr - read my reply to taylor-kathleen above. Trump a week later mentioned ivermectin, but they were very cold to him.
CVS has a blanket ban on their pharmacists, like many other pharmacies.
There are pharmacies that will fill any lawful prescription, but no one has compiled a list of them, as far as I ave seen. FLCCC might have or know about one.
CVS is a criminal racket biz, I called once just to find a retail price.
Was treated to many minutes of Vax salesmanship. I will never go in
another for any reason and suggest that this is the best possible decision.
Unfortunately, compiling any kind of list like that, while helpful for us useless eaters, would put the pharmacists and business on the deep state's radar...and we will lose them.
do not so characterize thyself
The fall of the Medical cartel and their bosses should be heralded
Regardless there is nothing one can do to reattached the avalanche
The question is not whether we will "lose them" the question is what will replace...
So the Wellness Company is putting themselves on the deep state's radar?
I have had and do have a hydroxychloroquine script filled by CVS. The script is for treatment of 'pseudo-gout' though. Still and all...
Having asked a pharmacist in a CVS whether he would fill a prescription for ivermectin without any specific condition being mentioned and being told no was all I needed to experience. HCQ might have been different, but I didn't ask about it.
for all this guy knew you were setting him up
Try another solution.
really do not need hydroxy, Iver is a direct replacement, cheaper, easier to acquire
money saved can be used for other therapeutics
CVS has a blanket ban on their pharmacists, like many other pharmacies.
There are pharmacies that will fill any lawful prescription, but no one has compiled a list of them, as far as I ave seen. FLCCC might have or know about one.
no kidding
when there is no problem it is wise not to create one
CVS is a very unwise choice
Every world leader under the spell of the WEF was instructed to use the term, "isn't that a horse dewormer" in their daily briefings. I watched Ashley Bloomfield do it in NZ. It was so obviously orchestrated.
the fake news echo chamber is pathetic
I had not realised that this important United States state government legal opinion had been made about the validity of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin for early COVID-19 treatment, especially as early as October 2021.
The bigger problem with health is that the only safe way to obtain sufficient 25-hydroxyvitamin D to run our immune system properly is vitamin D3 supplementation in quantities around ten times what governments recommend. (For 70 kg 154 lb body weight without obesity, 0.125 mg 5000 IU vitamin D3 a day, on average, will achieve this. Government recommendations are for 600 to 800 IU/day.) Very few people understand this.
Ultraviolet-B light on ideally white skin can produce plenty of vitamin D3, but it is not generally available except in the middle of cloud-free summer days - and it always damages DNA and so raises the risk of skin cancer. Please see the research articles cited and discussed at: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/ .
There is very little vitamin D3 in food, fortified or not, or in multivitamins. There's no such thing as a vitamin D rich food. "Vitamin D" is not a hormone.
Many and perhaps most people have less than half of the 25-hydroxyvitamin D their immune system needs to function properly. Those with dark or black skin have even lower levels. This is the most important, easily correctable, cause of their generally worse health.
The most important step to take, individually and collectively, is to have as many people as possible be well informed and choose to supplement vitamin D3 in the quantities required to maintain at least the 50 ng/mL (125 nmol = 1 part in 20,000,000 by mass) circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D the immune system needs. The above page begins with recommendations from New Jersey based Professor of Medicine Sunil Wimalawansa on how much vitamin D3 to take, as ratios of body weight, with higher ratios for those suffering from obesity. These are Prof. Wimalawansa's recently slightly simplified version of the recommendations in his 2022 article in Nutrients: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/14/14/2997 and https://nutritionmatters.substack.com/p/how-much-vitamin-d3-to-take.
For early treatment of COVID-19, for the great majority of people with poor 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels (often 20 ng/mL or less), healthy daily vitamin D3 intakes take too long (2 months or so) to raise 25-hydroxyvitamin D to be helpful in this medical emergency. A single oral dose (for 70 kg 154 lb body weight without obesity) of 10 mg (400,000 IU) vitamin D3 takes several days to achieve 50 ng/mL 25-hydroxyvitamin D. This is due to the need for hydroxylation, primarily in the liver.
A single oral dose (for 70 kg body weight) of 1 milligram of calcifediol - which _is_ 25-hydroxyvitamin D - goes straight into circulation and raises the 25-hydroxyvitamin D level safely over 50 ng/mL in 4 hours or less. This is about 0.014 mg per kg body weight. See Prof. Wimalawansa's article and: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/#4.7 .
This calcifediol treatment is by far the most important early treatment for sepsis, COVID-19, severe influenza, Kawasaki disease, MIS-C and ARDS. Ivermectin with zinc and azithromycin comes second.
However, the most important goal is proper vitamin D3 supplementation in the whole population.
That is a very knowledgeable post, and your protocols would have precluded much morbidity and mortality over the past years.
Many thanks!
Around April 2020 is when I learned about HCQ and ivermectin during the afternoon talks that Fauci & Scarf Lady made on TV. I'm retired, so I watched them "educate" the public. Trump was there, watching them speak. He mentioned HCQ, which sent a look of disgust on Fauci's face. About a week later Trump mentioned ivermectin with Fauci & Birx looking on when he spoke. Both were dead set against ivermectin b/c if a drug was already out there that could ameliorate the condition, then they wouldn't be able to justify making a vaccine. The media did their job of discrediting it, calling it a horse dewormer. Shortly after that is when our doctor friend tried to prescribe it for his nurse at his clinic when she was coming down with it. No pharmacist would fill his script. She got so ill that she went to the hospital and died within a week, the day after she was put on a respirator.
The situation is extremely serious, but has been the case in many aspects of health policy since before the COVID-19 pandemic: The authorities, with the connivance or at least support of the majority of medical professionals and the mainstream media, are in some important respects, acting in ways which violate proper scientific and moral principles and have the pervasive effect of harming and killing the public, as well as misleading us about what is really needed to be healthy.
Kevin Bass just wrote an article showing that many health professionals and health policy experts believed, before and in the earliest months of the COVID-19 pandemic, that lockdowns were overall harmful: https://kevinbass.substack.com/p/the-great-lockdown-reversal-part. Yet, within a few months, the majority supported lockdowns - or at least any opposition to them was so thoroughly suppressed that the public had the impression that the lockdowns were life-saving and supported by most people who were knowledgeable in the field.
The problem can be split in two: Firstly, why, in the long-term (before the COVID-19 pandemic) did the apparent (and probably real) majorities of healthcare professionals, immunologists, epidemiologists, virologists, vaccinologists etc. support strategies which were in fact harmful overall. The most obvious of these are, or should be, suppression of vitamin D3 supplementation, which is needed for immune system health, and the over-promotion and enforcing of numerous kinds of vaccine, when only a subset of these are actually effective, with (perhaps, I am not so sure of this) properly acknowledged risks. For instance, flu vaccines have no impact on hospitalisation or death from influenza or other respiratory diseases, for those aged 65. See the research cited and discussed at: https://nutritionmatters.substack.com/p/influenza-vaccines-do-not-reduce.
Secondly, for the substantial number, perhaps the majority of these experts who did think and speak correctly about an important medical / health question, such as lockdowns, why did they cave in and either change their thinking or at least not continue protesting when governments and whoever else is actually running things adopted the measure they initially believed would be harmful?
Perhaps some part of the answer to the second question is the (probably) instinctual and also socialized and consciously thought desire for unity among leaders when the whole community is (apparently, or at least possibly - it cannot always be known for sure) faced with a rapidly developing situation which involves disastrous outcomes, including especially lots of deaths and the spread of disease. In a crisis, people tend to rally around their leader, since leadership is the best chance the tribe will survive the threats to its very existence. Even if the leader is making sub-optimal choices, it is generally better (at least in terms of fighting off a pack of lions or another marauding tribe), to follow the leadership than dispute the leader's decisions or try to install a new leader.
Hydroxychloroquine was the first widely discussed *drug* which might be used for treating (really early treatment, not late stage) COVID-19. Ivermectin was the second, and became even better known. It is my strong impression that HCQ has some benefits, if used early, but that given the the choice between this and IVM, IVM would generally be safer and more effective.
However, the first and most important preventive and early treatment for COVID-19 was and remains vitamin D.
Even today, most people in the medical freedom movement (as it has emerged and grown in response to the errors of the mainstream COVID-19 pandemic response), tend not to think much about nutrition, including vitamin D, because (like far too many medical professionals and other supposed experts) they cannot imagine that nutrition is so important. Like most medical professionals and other supposed experts, it seems that even 4 years after the pandemic began, most medical freedom movement people still think drugs are the most important intervention against COVID-19.
They are mistaken. Most people's immune system is operating at a fraction of its proper strength due to inadequate circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D (calcifediol), which is made primarily in the liver from ultraviolet B -> skin produced or ingested vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol). Even with a completely optimal health care system, lots of exercise, all the best choices of food (there are only traces of vitamin D3 in a handful of foods) and all other nutritional supplements, and all the best choices of drugs and vaccines (there are probably some which are worth taking, at least for some people), without proper vitamin D3 supplementation, human health would be blighted by weakened and for some crippled immune systems due to lack of 25-hydroxyvitamin D.
As early as 25 March, 2020, researchers, experienced doctors and other people (such as myself) have been trying to raise awareness of the need for proper vitamin D3 supplementation to tackle COVID-19 - both to reduce the risk of severe symptoms and to reduce disease intensity in general, which has the direct effect of greatly reducing transmission by reducing the average number of viruses shed per infected person. I started writing to the WHO and other authorities in mid-March, and started my first website on this later in March. Please see the research cited and discussed at: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/.
John Umhau MD, MPH, CPE, of Maryland, https://www.verywellmind.com/john-umhau-4798192 is a retired Commander of the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service, who researched vitamin D for decades, and was unable to find any part of the U.S. public health administration which would take a real interest in vitamin D. (He told me this, in personal conversation.) He wrote about vitamin D and COVID-19 on 2020-03-25 in the prominent medical website MedPage Today: https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/85596
In January 2021 he wrote, with Richard H. Carmona, MD, MPH (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Carmona), Vatsal G. Thakkar, MD, an op-ed for a major newspaper (I don't recall which one, but it was probably the New York Times) on the need for proper vitamin D supplementation to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. It was rejected, despite it being co-written by Richard Carmona, the 17th Surgeon General of the United States, from 2002 to 2006 under President George W. Bush. So they put it in MedPage Today: https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/90530
40 to 60 ng/mL circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D has been known since at least 2008 as the level which everyone should aim to attain: https://www.grassrootshealth.net/project/our-scientists/ .
Even now, after 4 years of COVID-19 killing, directly and/or through the corrupted, deadly, pandemic responses, tens of millions of people, only a subset of the population understand the need for proper vitamin D3 supplementation in order that the immune system can work properly.
There is almost no vitamin D3 in food, and ultraviolet B light, which can generate it in the skin, is not available all year round and always damages DNA, so raising the risk of skin cancer.
A significant step in raising awareness of the need for proper vitamin D3 supplementation to enable the immune system to work properly was Dr Pierre Kory's interview with Tucker Carlson: https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1768033041568727391 (3.8M views. Transcript of the ivermectin and vitamin D3 part of the interview https://nutritionmatters.substack.com/p/dr-pierre-kory-talks-with-tucker.) He states that "They are terrified of vitamin D" - and then cites Bill Grant's 2008 article on the suppression of vitamin D for decades, using the same tactics as Pierre Kory observed regarding ivermectin: "Vitamin D acceptance delayed by Big Pharma following the Disinformation Playbook" Orthomolecular Medicine News Service 2018-10-01 https://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v14n22.shtml.
Respect for the profession of medicine has never been as low as it is now, because of the machinations of those in charge...taking over and trampling on the rights of all others. Hopefully, one day the mercenaries will be gone who are in tyrannical control of the Medical Industry...and intelligent, dedicated and caring practioners will be back...and will fluorish.
It doesn’t go far enough. Every free state should immediately pass legislation that does not allow ANY state board actions against any doctor for their treatment of patients with drugs approved for any other purpose. It is up to the doctor to treat as they see fit and repurpose whatever drugs they choose to for anything they choose. The whole idea of top down driven treatment protocols has to be the very worst way to define what right looks like. The absolute opposite is what works. Treatment of anything is a market. Let the market work to find the best treatments and then let doctors go forth and use the best treatments regardless of if they are free of any pharmaceutical products or packed full of them.
How’s that government run Obama working out? Trust in the medical syndicate is never been lower.
Finally a rational decision. Problem being that licensed professionals hang in the balance.
The grist wheel grinds slowly, but verily doth it grind...
It has become increasingly popular to suggest that ALL cancer is in fact parasitic disease.
That would topple the cartal rather quickly. The fact that anti parasite meds have worked
provide some empirical evidence that the assertion is valid.
Check out "The 2nd Smartest Guy in the World" here on SS. He has a lot of information on that.
cartel, the auto correct is terrible
excellent.
My state! ❤️ so grateful when this came out!
Need a link to send to a great team of lawyers.
The link is in the article
Mission accomplished, Dr. Nass! I didn't think you would get this information out as fast as you did. Thanks so much and keep up the good work!
I wish the Ontario public health bureaucracy and the College of Physicians and Surgeons could be controlled and held to account by democratic lawmakers this same way. When my bed-bound elderly demented mother somehow got scabies in the nursing home (due to chronic understaffing, with undertrained overworked temps hired as a result of the illegal jab mandates that forced so many to quit), she suffered agonizing itching and bleeding scabs from neck to knees for four months without treatment (except steroids and morphine which made her worse and accelerated the bedsores). This was directly caused by the provincial government's orders to pharmacies to not stock ivermectin (the standard scabies treatment). Ivermectin was removed from the list of funded drugs, and the College punished any doctor who tried to prescribe it for ANY reason. They bloody well KNEW it cured Covid!!! Somehow a doctor at the nursing home got through the flaming hoops and my mom was treated with ivermectin, which cost me nearly $100 Cdn for two doses. She died shortly after, but at least free of scabies.
Spread the word, colleagues! Lay siege to the Medical Industrial complex! Storm the fortress!
You are attempting to classify "run on" sentence and expose ignorance
Its substack that removes punctuation.
If you have nothing to say better to disappear.
I filed a complaint with the KY pharmacy board after a pharmacist refused my Rx for ivermectin for a patient. The board did nothing. I do not know if the board actually looked at the Ivermectin data or if they just believed the lies. Most doctors and pharmacists do not have enough integrity to actually look at the data about ivermectin.
Ivermectin is much safer than many of the drugs that are prescribed and dispensed every day. That pharmacist refused a legal order for a drug for a patient with an infection that could have killed him. There were no repercussions. How many times in a career does a pharmacist refuse a Rx? My guess is that it is very rare. This was evil. I am glad that the patient recovered anyway. If the patient had died his family could have sued the pharmacist for malpractice.
Bennet Cecil, M.D.
Some would call it murder...