By Modesto P. Sa-onoy
Yesterday I quoted a portion of the statement of the experts before the US Senate where they said, “US government health agencies were giving due attention to expensive drugs and vaccines with huge commercial interest and funding, and not being bothered to pay any attention to safe, cheap and effective generic drugs as Ivermectin which would not generate large profits for the big pharma firms.”
If this refusal of government health agencies in the US to even bother with an inexpensive, safe and effective drugs as Ivermectin to favour the large pharmaceutical companies, can we say less of the same attitude of the health officials in the Philippines? We often think that American officials are incorruptible but here we have the statement of the doctors that lambast them for favouring the big pharma. That spells corruption – nobody twists the truth without getting much in return. And so in the Philippines we cannot smell sweet roses but rotten balut.
The independent health experts noted that “In view of the worsening case on Covid-19 infections in our country, many unanswered questions and lack of data on the long term safety aspects of the Pfizer experimental mRNA vaccine (which our country has already decided to purchase) and the current production problems faced by vaccine manufacturers overseas (with the possibility of delays and supply inadequacies), the government should have a ‘Plan B’”.
What is the “Plan B”? The experts suggested that the US government “should quickly approve Ivermectin to provide a safe, cheap and effective weapon against Covid-19. The clinical trials by the Ministry of Health on the efficacy of Ivermectin can continue but we should not need to wait (and let many more people suffer and die from Covid-19 in the meantime) since Ivermectin has ALREADY been PROVEN to be VERY SAFE over the last 30 years or so.”
What have we to lose by approving Ivermectin today? Unless the government can show death or adverse effects, it has no legal and moral to deny people the treatment they need to survive, lifting personal and economic restrictions, exercise of their freedom of worship and of travel.
Malaysia has given a signal that Ivermectin is an option for doctors to prescribe against Covid-19. Its MOH gave conditional approval to the controversial Pfizer experimental mRNA vaccine (which was given Emergency Authorisation by US FDA despite the inconclusive human clinical trials in US) without having to do any clinical trials in Malaysia. That was a risk but I think it was worth it especially as more information point to the effectiveness of this drug.
Going back to the US, Dr. Kory, President of the FLCCC Alliance, added that “By no longer recommending against ivermectin use doctors should feel more open in prescribing ivermectin as another therapeutic option for the treatment of Covid-19. This may clear its path towards FDA [Food and Drug Administration] emergency use approval.
“Ivermectin is one of the world’s safest, cheapest and most widely available drugs,” explained. “The studies we presented to the NIH revealed high levels of statistical significance showing large magnitude benefit in transmission rates, need for hospitalization, and death. What’s more, the totality of trials data supporting Ivermectin is without precedent.”
Dr. Kory also pointed out that “ivermectin has been the subject of dozens of studies and anecdotal success stories since it was found to reduce Covid-19 in a laboratory last June. I’ve been treating Covid pretty much every single day since the onset. When I say ‘miracle’ I do not use that term lightly. That is a scientific recommendation based on mountains of data that has emerged in the last three months.”
Such data he said “emanates from places like India, the second most populated nation in the world, which embraced the treatment protocol advanced by FLCCC, and has watched its case and fatalities rate drop in ‘steep decline’. Though India has four times the population of the U.S., it has less than half of the coronavirus related deaths.”
Other examples he cited come from Bangladesh, Peru, Argentina, Brazil and several other South American countries that demonstrated the effectiveness of ivermectin.
If the health authorities had listened rather than wait for questionable and expensive vaccines, how many lives could have been saved?
