Why Is the FDA Attacking a Safe, Effective Drug?

Guest Post by David R. Henderson and Charles L. Hooper

Ivermectin is a promising Covid treatment and prophylaxis, but the agency is denigrating it.

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.”

Ivermectin fights 21 viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, the cause of Covid-19. A single dose reduced the viral load of SARS-CoV-2 in cells by 99.8% in 24 hours and 99.98% in 48 hours, according to a June 2020 study published in the journal Antiviral Research.

Some 70 clinical trials are evaluating the use of ivermectin for treating Covid-19. The statistically significant evidence suggests that it is safe and works for both treating and preventing the disease.

In 115 patients with Covid-19 who received a single dose of ivermectin, none developed pneumonia or cardiovascular complications, while 11.4% of those in the control group did. Fewer ivermectin patients developed respiratory distress (2.6% vs. 15.8%); fewer required oxygen (9.6% vs. 45.9%); fewer required antibiotics (15.7% vs. 60.2%); and fewer entered intensive care (0.1% vs. 8.3%). Ivermectin-treated patients tested negative faster, in four days instead of 15, and stayed in the hospital nine days on average instead of 15. Ivermectin patients experienced 13.3% mortality compared with 24.5% in the control group.

Moreover, the drug can help prevent Covid-19. One 2020 article in Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications looked at what happened after the drug was given to family members of confirmed Covid-19 patients. Less than 8% became infected, versus 58.4% of those untreated. Among 200 healthcare workers and others at high risk of exposure, only 2% of those given ivermectin developed Covid-19. But 10% of the control group did.

Despite the FDA’s claims, ivermectin is safe at approved doses. Out of four billion doses administered since 1998, there have been only 28 cases of serious neurological adverse events, according to an article published this year in the American Journal of Therapeutics. The same study found that ivermectin has been used safely in pregnant women, children and infants.

If the FDA were driven by science and evidence, it would give an emergency-use authorization for ivermectin for Covid-19. Instead, the FDA asserts without evidence that ivermectin is dangerous.

At the bottom of the FDA’s warning against ivermectin is this statement: “Meanwhile, effective ways to limit the spread of COVID-19 continue to be to wear your mask, stay at least 6 feet from others who don’t live with you, wash hands frequently, and avoid crowds.” Is this based on the kinds of double-blind studies that the FDA requires for drug approvals? No.

Mr. Henderson, a research fellow with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, was senior health economist with President Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers. Mr. Hooper is president of Objective Insights, a firm that consults with pharmaceutical clients.

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geo
geo

CDC, FDA etc. cannot support the anti-bactericide (parasites are bacterias) because is the proof that there is NO VIRUS involved, meaning that there is NO VIRUS to ever be found as a real “something”.
The killer SARS is nothing more than a hypothesis, …. may be the tag for some biological inert/neutral/inactive debris.

motley
motley

Why the down vote? This guy is correct. The virus has NEVER been isolated.

bbbbb

Freedomtube has a good video on this.Monkey kidneycells. Human cancercells,and a witches brew of genetic fragments,bacteria phages do Not=Virus.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Motley, Because they get on there and troll the site to make sure that there’s negative review want it to, because they want people to believe that not everybody is understanding and believe in the truth

b

U. Of Tenn. Confirmed other Real,properly conducted studies which tried several effective treatments of covd such as Amodiaquine.Science Advisory Board website details this.Many rxs work.Look into this.Studies used Ivermectin as badeline comp. Thus proving its effectiveness,thus proving the fraud of lockdowns.All is a fraud.Patriots4Truth.org,Experimentalvaccines.o,Medicalveritad.o,Justia has patents held by pfizer detailing several effective treatments involving amino acids.Research and disperse!!!!!! 🙂

Anonymous
Anonymous

Geo, your Right on the Money

Warren
Warren

Unfortunately Ivermectin nas one major flaw that they failed to address, a flaw so catastrophic that it can’t ever be approved for covid treatment. It’s patent has expired.

Mygirl....maybe

Why Is the FDA Attacking a Safe, Effective Drug?

That’s a rhetorical question, right?

Ivermectin is cheap, cheap, cheap and has little to no side effects compared to the ‘vaccines’s side effects of death and paralysis and blood clots and myocarditis and… it’s not making Fauci and Gates and all the other pharmaceutical bigwigs filthy rich and it doesn’t contain a tracking device that’s primed for the 5G roll outs nor does it cause miscarriages and other little problems.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Effective how? It makes you go from positive for Covid to negative for Covid? Using what test?

PCR

When all measurements rely on this flawed test, nothing is measureable. Nothing is effective or ineffective.

Harrington Richardson: Got Lamp Posts?
Harrington Richardson: Got Lamp Posts?

The PCR test was being improperly regulated. It was set to detect minuscule amounts when it should have been set to detect only larger amounts of this virus or whatever it is. As I understand it, it was set to detect amounts so small that it was detecting strands of material which are parts of things in us normally that are also in Covid, causing the test to say it had detected Covid. It is also my understanding this was done intentionally and they were informed it would not work properly.

bbbbb

High cycle thresholds can amplify things such as artifacts from viruses and bacteria,it Never was designed to detect viruses according to Kerry Mullis,the inventor.Convenient how he died right before covd wuhan wargames and scamdemic.mmmmmmmmmm?????????! 🙂

bbbbb

Not about test,its about healing.Ivermectin is derived from Avermectin.There Are other healing agents,but you want antinflammatory,antibacterial,antifungal/parasite,and immune support.

Robin
Robin

BS on the down votes- people know you trolls are on here

Ben Lurken
Ben Lurken

I posted this Question on another thread which doesn’t seem to be active so posting here.

I have a prescription of 36 3mg ivermectin tabs. Even though I explained to the prescribing Dr. on the phone that I wanted it just in case, I think she misunderstood and prescribed as a prophylactic’s.

Instructions say to take 6 tabs now, then repeat in 48 hours, and again in 1 week for 3 weeks.

Can someone please tell me the dosage to take if I determine I have early symptoms. TIA.

Make Liberals Cry Again
Make Liberals Cry Again

If that were true, then Ivermectin would not be available to Lupus patients … but it is.

Ouirphuqd
Ouirphuqd

All of the federal government emanating from Washington DC is in the panic mode of being proven fraudulent on every level. They are just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, we all know there is something seriously wrong. When it is all said and done, the suffering of the American people and the citizens of the world will be beyond recognition!

Doc Adams
Doc Adams

Hopefully enough of the bureaucracy will start realizing the dangers of the vax and refuse it. Then we will see if President Dementia will fire them. The idiot will be in a real conundrum then. Nothing more than a clusterfuck of parasites: Fuck ’em all.

Stucky

Sigh and cry. Haven’t we beaten this horse to death already?

It’s all bout the Benjamins, baby.

That, and utter control of the masses.

THE END.

Two if by sea.
Two if by sea.

Actually Stuck, the more positive articles out there, the more that can be sent on to those in the community that you wish to enlighten.
I’ve got some really ignorant, left leaning and jabbed neighbors that I’m steadily trying to convince ( without calling them idiots. Yet.)

Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams

Don’t waste your time. They ARE idiots. No one is changing their minds at this point.

Mygirl....maybe

Yup. When you see them out and STILL wearing the muzzle you realize there are many, many stupid people in the world. Then you have the millions of illegals (from Congo, Philippines, and points far beyond South of the Border) that Biden* is letting in, not one checked for disease and allowed to run free as little invading rodents and infecting the native population with stuff way worse than Covid…like untreatable TB.

These are some of the disease they used to check for and discovered were coming in with the illegals…from a 2013 paper…

The communicable diseases of public health significance include tuberculosis, syphilis, chancroid, gonorrhea, granuloma inguinale, lymphogranuloma venereum, Hansen disease (leprosy), and the following two disease categories: 1) quarantinable diseases designated by a presidential executive order (as provided under Sect. 361[b] of the Public Service Health Act), which include cholera, diphtheria, infectious tuberculosis, plague, smallpox, yellow fever, viral hemorrhagic fevers, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and influenza caused by novel or reemergent influenza viruses, and 2) events or conditions that are reportable as a public health emergency of international concern to the World Health Organization under the International Health Regulations of 2005 (polio, smallpox, SARS, influenza, and other public health emergencies of
international concern) (9).

Well, upon reading that list and living in South Texas, I just may start wearing a mask too…

Anonymous
Anonymous

Ask them if you can have their golf clubs after they die from the jab.

If they choose not to do their own research and us
If they choose not to do their own research and us

Two if by sea, don’t waste your breath. If they choose not to do their own research and use some common sense that’s on them not you. You did your Christian and neighborly duty by giving them some information. what they do with it is on their own

B.Les White
B.Les White

B. Les was one of those plucky young pharma reps in the early 2000’s. The words “SAFE and EFFECTIVE” were drilled into our heads. In turn, we repeated the mantra ad nauseum to the the doctors we sold to ($250 honorarium checks for attending a dinner i.e. an educational based lecture didnt hurt either)

Stucky

And Stucky was one of those plucky young computer guys.

In da ‘puter field it was all about CPU speed … typically measured in TPS (Transactions Per Second).

HP would run benchmarks proving that HP computers were a helluva lot faster than DEC. Of course, HP did the testing and never disclosed the “dirty little secrets” used to get their astounding results.

DEC would run pretty much identical benchmarks proving that DEC computers were a helluva lot faster than HP. Of course, DEC did the testing and never disclosed the “dirty little secrets” used to get their astounding results.

It was truly a “my dick is bigger than yours” contest. The salesreps and us tech guys ate it up, believed every word of it. Looking back, I wonder, how in the fuck could I ever have been so gullible??

I’m betting — really — that had there been a Covid-1985, that I would have taken the shot. Sadly, not kidding.

Well, one of the actual and real benefits of getting old is that, for most people … true WISDOM comes along for the ride.

True Wisdom is this —-> an old man shaking his fist at a young brainwashed whipper-snapper and yelling, — “Your sales pitch is bullshit, and you are full of shit! NOW GET OFF MY PORCH!!!”

Sensop

I remember when I worked for TRW (before Northrop-Grumman gobbled them up) we had DEC main cpu systems that serviced a network of work stations at my work site. (This was around the same time as the release of the first “portable” PCs by IBM, which were packaged to look like sewing machines.) One of the DEC upgrades at my worksite was a main CPU/system called “Vaxxine” … kind of humorous now.

Stucky

Ha! The HP equivalent of the time was the Vectra. Sort of close to “vector” vaccines.

It was an ugly fucker.

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brian
brian

Started out with a Wang… sported 2 – 5 1/4 drives and dos. Programming in Basic, dabbled with Fortran. When we went ‘online’ it was with a 1200 baud modem screech’n and only bulletin boards for information. Mostly useful, interesting information unlike today where its mostly commercial and political rubbish. Ahhh the good ol days where drinking from a garden hose wasn’t life threatening because everyone, well most, had an immune system and a brain.

Is there a Wang version of vaccine!?!?

Stucky

Holy cow!! I was working as a programmer at northAmerican van lines when they got one of the first true word processors using the Wang Office Information System (OIS) back in 1977.

It was in a separate room, apart from the IBM mainframes. Some of us got The Tour. They said it was a “word processor”. And I thought to myself, “How in the fuck do you process WORDS??” Really.

brian
brian

Lotus Office suit – WordPerfect and a spreadsheet. My wife would have to wait for the word processor to catch up so she could start typing again. If I remember correctly it took 4 – 5 disk inserts to load the program.

Multiple backups of backups because as you’d know the 5.25s were prone to, can’t read… And they made lousy coasters too…

bbbbb

Mmmmmmmm……Greatgameindia.c had a good article yesterday about lack of actual isolation and verification of a purified covd virus.In the comments a smart reader linked Justia.c patents held by pfizer.Said patents describe aminoacids helpful to us against retroviruses.Also detailed are various other helpful meds in particular cytochrom families.Please read,save,wuicjly disperse for all to analyze and bring into worldwide discussions.The mafiastyle contracts shoved down the throats of countries are criminal and appalling.Pfizer heads need to publicly roll!! 🙂

Svarga Loka
Svarga Loka

And I went to the dinners, but I was not high enough in the hierarchy to get any money. I whored out just for the food. I am pretty sure I would have gotten the COVID-2000-shot, too, but not the COVID-2010 one.

B.Les White
B.Les White

Must be a PA or NP. Hope you got a few good round of golf and cigars in before the PHARMA guidlines in ‘04. Those were the good old days. Once dropped 3k of company money on quail shoot for 3 podiatrists :). I was trying to cure the world of toe nail fungus

And Stuck is right about swallowing the bullshit. I would’ve taken anyhing my benevolent employee pushed my way in those days. Also used to believe and respect physician. 20 yrs of watching them behind the curtain in the OR has washed that away. Mostly they are just extreme narcissist convinced of their own infallability.

Doc Adams
Doc Adams

Had a short-timer once for a GP-I was “placed” with him then learned he was retiring within a year. For my first and only annual physical with the moron he sent me packing with 6 scripts. One was for the toe nail fungus pill and another was for a standing order to have my liver function checked every 3 months because of the “remote possibility” the fungus med might-just might-not go well with my liver. Before I got to the sidewalk I tore up every one of the scripts.

bob

Teatree oil or Vicksvapor run on the fungus+Nystatin would work.

Ken31
Ken31

At least now people are starting to realize the how corrupt the FDA has always been. A safety agency sounds good, but it centralizes power so that it can be captured by bad actors.

FDA allows a lot of poisons in food that it should not. These are compounds that can only harm, but they allow in low levels because they boost profits. Their only purpose is profit. How does it make sense to put very dangerous compounds in food products, just because they are not in high enough concentrations to kill outright?

In my lifetime many experiments have been conducted in the real world. One of them is the hypothesis: Can exogenous toxins additively contribute to chronic pathologies? The answer is yes. There is no question. We can’t say which ones are responsible for what or by how much, but we can tell something is going on. It is qualitative, but it is conclusive.

The FDA and allopathic medicine in general can’t hide behind the shortcoming of science forever. One of the major ones is how difficult is is to study chronic effects from low levels of toxicity. It is very expensive and time consuming and then you have the age old problem of extrapolating from models to humans. No industry wants to know what they are selling is poison. The government will defend its most productive industry.

To the government, productive industry is who can pay the most bribes and taxes. Industry and its regulatory bodies always seem to agree that it is better to ask for forgiveness than to admit what they know, when it comes to safety.

Mygirl....maybe

Go read the ingredients on a box of cake mix. Propylene Glycol is in there, and for the uninitiated, that’s antifreeze, along with a host of other chemicals….Now, when I bake a cake it’s flour, sugar, eggs, butter, milk and baking powder, non aluminum) salt and vanilla extract and that’s it, nothing else. Add cocoa for chocolate cake and voila.

Learn to cook if you want to be happy for the rest of your life…

DirtpersonSteve
DirtpersonSteve

Propylene Glycol and Ethylene Glycol are two very different chemicals. EG is the green & highly toxic antifreeze.

PG is a clear liquid that tastes sweet. It is chemically almost identical to glycerine and the two are used almost for many of the same purposes. PG is used mainly because it is cheaper and synthetic.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Not sure if EG has a color but do understand that antifreeze makers select the color they want in their product. Toyota red is about twice as expensive; most Toyota dealers use the much cheaper, bulk green stuff. I think Honda used to have a blue antifreeze that was just as expensive. GM used to have an orange color; not sure what they have these days.

bbbbb

Propylene Glycol=PEG is in most vaccines.It’s in most hygiene items as well as laundry products.Its dangerous and cumulative.This adjuvent is one top reason for anaphylactic shock from jab.This is a well-known risk documented by many studies as well as the cdc and NIH.Women are more prone to this due to all the hygiene products,smelly laundry soap/dryersheets,hairspray,room deoderizers,etc.Straw that broke camels back when they then load up on jabs,which I bet more women get regularly than men.Women try sooooo hard to be good and acceptable,it’s killing them.
Alot of these tocins and pollutants are made by co.s which then sell you the drugs and teeatments for the diseases they cause.

mark
mark
bbbbb

Deathjabbed are More Likely to die as their immune system is now a factory spewing out spike proteins.They have immune system priming.Dr. Tenpenny,Dr. Mercola,Dr. Cowan,Dr. Richardfleming.com,Dr. Kauffman.Vaccineconsequences.org,Experimentalvaccines.org,Medicalveritas.org,Whatreallyhappened.c,Stopthecrimes.ccovidhoax.c,Patriots4Truth.org,Freedomtube.c,Brandnewtube.c

RiNS

Because the shortest pencil is better than the longest memory.
The FDA, the CDC, the NIH and the NIAID
need to memory hole all this in order to enforce
the incoming Davo’s inspired Globalist tyranny

Stucky

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bbbbb

‘Cept pdfs,screenshots,saved videos,texts,crossreferences,photos.

KaD
KaD

MONEY. The vaccine companies have made record breaking profits this past year – around 33 BILLION dollars. How much of that do you think is being kicked back into palm greasing?

RiNS

Check this out folks!

Every gubmit probably signed on the same terms..

The Mafia could never do a better deal than this..

What an extortion racket.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20616251-albanian-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-contract
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Make Liberals Cry Again
Make Liberals Cry Again

A vaccine cannot be approved and distributed if a cure for the related disease exists. If the FDA would admit Ivermectin and/or Hydroxychloroquine are valid cures for COVID, then the clotshots would have to stop. That is exactly why the FDA has and is attacking these drugs. The vaccines were not created to stop COVID. COVID was created to start the vaccines.

Anonymous
Anonymous

I have read most of what is written here and would like to add a small comment. The FDA has, basically, two levels of approval. This may, or may not, be written exactly this way but comes to the same end. The first level of approval is for “Use in Humans”, the second is for a specific issue or malady. I have the feeling the second is for the cover and protection of the Pharmaceutical manufacturer that went to the trouble of developing the medication and the cost of doing so. As a Physician I was under a lot of scrutiny relative to the first but not the second level of approval. There are many medications that are used “Off Label” and that is where I put the Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin. These are both antiparasitics and, if you look at a virus, it is a parasite as well because it cannot survive without a host. That said, it is not like the parasites that are treated by the above meds. What it seems to do best is prevent entry into the hosts (patient’s) cells and that stops it from doing the damage we have seen. From that point of view, it seems to be best used as a “prophylaxis” (preventative) against the virus present. The the addition of an antibiotic such as azithromycin or doxycycline is only of use against an accompanying bacterial infection that will take advantage of the weakened state created by the virus. I have been watching several of the medical blogs that relate to what I am licensed to do, and there have been several comments by other medical professionals suggesting that those of them that have been taking Hydroxychloroquine for RA (Rheumatoid Arthritis) or SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus), both “autoimmune disorders”, have not had a viral infection since they started that treatment. Just saying we might be thinking of using these meds prophylactically.

Robin
Robin

Thank you for putting out the truth, too many people just are ignorant and don’t do their research, but rather follow blindly

Robin
Robin

People do your research- all the truth is out if you would just look. Not Google or FB.

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