By Joe Briggs
SUWANEE, Ga. | The news of U.S. COVID-related deaths approaching 900,000 and overwhelmed hospitals after two years is alarming. More concerning is why the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is blocking our doctors from prescribing off-label use of known drugs for home use to prevent, treat, and reduce hospitalization rates.
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Why has India, a country with four times the U.S. population, experienced a COVID death count less than half of ours? Sorting the world COVID deaths by country show the equatorial and frequently poorest nations have the lowest counts. Doctors there and in Mexico City have repurposed existing malaria and parasite drugs distributed in a kit for home use. The kits contain ivermectin, hexachoroquine, and iodine throat & nose rinses. Japan, Bulgaria, Egypt, and other nations have also approved their use.
The U.S. health agencies went all-in on a new mRNA vaccine. Instead of backing the risk with at-home early treatment using in-pharmacy medications, the FDA sought to quash them then discredit the prescribing doctors even though they did so within long-standing FDA ‘re-purpose’ guidelines. Why?
The FDA says it hasn’t approved ivermectin or hexachloroquine for COVID because they have not been shown effective in a double-blind, peer-reviewed trial. It has warned doctors to not prescribe them and tells us that taking the wrong dose can be deadly. What are they waiting for? Approving drugs and dosages is their mission statement. Failure to do so is what leads to desperation and misuse.
Ivermectin is a Nobel Prize-winning therapeutic that has been proven safe with over four billion doses. There are dozens of trials and documented cases both in the US and internationally that point to the safety and efficacy of these drugs for prevention and early treatment of COVID for about $1 a day. Sure, some of the trials and methods do not meet FDA standards. But the data speaks loudly.
My 75-year-old vaccinated aunt came home from the doctor recently with a 104-degree temperature and a COVID diagnosis. She was given no prescription or advice on how to treat it other than go to the emergency room if it gets worse. My 58-year-old vaxxed and boosted brother tested positive and says he feels like he got hit by a truck.
Yet my 55-year-old anti-vax brother-in-law who licks ivermectin Rosacea cream from a tube he bought on EBay is doing great. So is my 48-year-old unvaxed nephew and wife who both took ivermectin bought at Tractor Supply when they got COVID and recovered in a few days. Another brother tested positive last Fall and his doctor prescribed ivermectin which cleared it right up. My four college-age kids have all been vaxxed but but have all had COVID afterwards. So here I am fully vaccinated, feeling vulnerable, and my doctor telling me that they can’t prescribe anything because the FDA hasn’t approved anything.
The problem today is not an under-performing vaccine. It’s the failure of the FDA to acknowledge what works, determine recommended dosages and treatments, and to support frontline doctors willing to repurpose existing drugs into a safe home treatment to reduce symptom progression to hospitalization.
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