During the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, Dr. Anthony Fauci discouraged and prevented inexpensive treatments for AIDS and focused exclusively on AZT. He’s doing the same thing today with COVID, focusing on highly profitable vaccines and ignoring potentially safe and effective treatments.
In a new video on The Hill’s “Rising,” political commentator Kim Iversen analyzes Dr. Anthony Fauci’s support for azidothymidine (AZT) to treat HIV/AIDS and compares it to his current support for COVID mRNA vaccines.
Fauci, named head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 1984, sparked panic among Americans in the 1980s when he wrote in a medical journal that AIDS could be transmitted not only through sexual contact and sharing needles, but also through “ordinary close contact” with the infected.
Iversen says Fauci’s remarks followed the discovery of an infant diagnosed with AIDS — a case we would later learn was caused when the child passed through the womb of an infected mother.
But the damage was already done, said Iversen:
“Public panic had intensified and people were fearing they could get aids from sharing a toilet seat or even from shaking hands. People living with AIDS were being alienated and ostracized from their jobs, homes, communities, and gay men, in particular, were heavily stigmatized.”
Meanwhile, Fauci and his team of scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) went full speed ahead on developing a vaccine for AIDS. However, despite promises from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that it would roll out an AIDS/HIV vaccine, Iversen says that never happened.
Realizing the potential to earn big profits, Iversen says pharmaceutical companies soon began developing treatments for AIDS.
The British drug company, Burroughs Wellcome & Co., said its failed cancer drug AZT could be used to treat AIDS.
Few studies were done, said Iversen, and the long-term side effects were unknown. But in March 1987, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved AZT, claiming the benefits outweighed the risks.
Celia Farber, who in 1989 reported on the approval of AZT and its potential health risks, wrote at the time:
“The majority of those in the AIDS-afflicted and medical communities held the drug up as the first breakthrough on AIDS. For better or worse, AZT had been approved faster than any drug in FDA history, and activists considered it a victory. The price paid for the victory, however, was that almost all government drug trials, from then on, focused on AZT — while over 100 other promising drugs were left uninvestigated.”
The drug was “one of the most toxic, expensive and controversial drugs in the history of medicine,” Farber wrote.
In 1989, Iversen said Fauci started promoting the drug not only for critically ill AIDS patients, but for anyone who tested positive for HIV, including those who were asymptomatic and showed no sign of the disease.
“Those patients included hospital workers, pregnant women and even children,” said Iversen. “Doctors were stunned.”
Despite limited data, the NIH went all in on AZT, ignoring evidence that the drug was toxic, caused liver damage and destroyed white blood cells, Iversen said.
“The drug continued to be used for years,” she explained.
As Children’s Health Defense Chairman Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. notes in his upcoming book, “The Real Anthony Fauci,” Fauci sabotaged safe and effective off-patent therapeutic treatments for AIDS while promoting deadly chemotherapy drugs that almost certainly caused more deaths than HIV.
Iversen made the same observation: “As Fauci and the NIH focused on vaccines and AZT for the treatment of aids, hundreds of drugs went unstudied.”
Iversen said:
“Many doctors advocated that the best way to treat patients was to focus on mitigating the severity of the ailments that would ultimately kill them rather than trying to eradicate AIDS altogether, that the virus mutates too quickly to waste all resources and time on a vaccine or other preventatives that everything should be studied, all avenues explored and all options should remain on the table. But unfortunately, that’s not exactly how the AIDS epidemic was handled.
“Big pharma got their payday. Millions of dollars were allocated by Congress to vaccine research, which never produced anything effective. And meanwhile, along the way, hundreds of drugs and treatment options went unexplored. And we still don’t have a cure for HIV. The epidemic never went away like people hoped. We do, however, have effective treatments that help people live a good long life with the virus.
“There were a lot of mistakes made along the way. A lot of lessons that could have been learned, but after looking into the history of the AIDS epidemic, it’s curious if we’ve actually learned any. Here we are today, with a pandemic that is causing mass hysteria. Like the days of people demonizing gay men as the culprits behind the epidemic, we have the media demonizing the unvaccinated as the root cause for why this virus just won’t go away.”
Iversen said that while many hoped the vaccine would eliminate COVID, like AIDS, the virus appears to mutate too rapidly.
“The same way Fauci discouraged and prevented inexpensive treatments from being talked about, researched and prescribed” in the 1980s is the “same thing that’s happening today,” said Iversen.
Governments should be exploring every possible option to treat COVID, Iversen said, including inexpensive treatments, and treatments that aren’t so profitable for the pharmaceutical industry.
“Everything should be studied,” Iversen said, “but just like what happened during the AIDS epidemic that just doesn’t seem to be happening.”
Watch the “Rising” segment here:
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Did he not screw up in a similar fashion with Tamiflu?
Excellent. Everyone needs to put that fucken hack doctor on notice.
He is a chicken little as if the AZT debacle didnt prove it.
ZFG, out.
P.S. his mom should have swallowed.
Fauci is the only late term abortion that I approve of.
He s the modern day Dr. Mengele. He would of made the Nazi’s proud.
It’s long been speculated that AZT killed for more people than AIDS itself because the drug was so toxic. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence the death rate for AIDS significantly went down in the USA around the same time AZT was pulled from the market.
I have IGNORED “Kovid” from day 1, it IS pathetic.
Passing through the womb is what caused the infant to contract aids or the fact that mother and baby share blood? SMH
AND don’t forget about us Hemophiliacs! Fauci was head then too! What? You don’t remember what the Medical Drug Makers & the Government did to us?
Well, let me expound. Us, Hemophiliacs, in the 80’s trusted that the medicine our Drs prescribed to us to stop our internal bleeding was safe. It was NOT it contained HIV & Hep C! Yes, most of the 10,000 Hemophiliacs in the US died as a direct result of taking the medicine Fauci & his team deemed was safe.
So, NO ty they will NOT be sticking any more tainted meds into MY arm!
After writing this, I saw that it looked like a Christmas list. Well, December is approaching.
If somehow we regain control of this dumpster fire, the Medical Industry should be nationalized, appropriating all assets of the major players. As long as I’m fantasizing anyway, corporate officers of the would be tried for the various corruptions they are guilty of, and if they caused harm, they would be executed. The Security State would be abolished. All employees fired or terminated as appropriate to their case. Political infrastructure around DC would be outlawed. The death penalty would be mandatory for malfeasance in a federal office. The federal Reserve would be abolished, and the treasury would be tasked with trying to save something from the current fiscal disaster.
I am sure there are areas I haven’t mentioned, but if I get the above, it will be a wonderful Christmas.
The medical industry IS nationalized … informally. That’s why we’re in the state we’re in. Putting it “officially” in the hands of government bureaucrats is lunacy.
From the comments of the two male Hill hosts, I would have asked them to explain Israel or Iceland, with overwhelming % of vaxxed population and the evident loss of protection from the jab, as well as majority of hospitalizations among the jabbed.
Or the pair of elephants in the room, Ivermectin and HQC.
I picked up my new rifle form the gun builder on Sunday . I wonder how tight the groups will be on a Dr. Farce target . I’m hoping with the custom loads it’ll be under .5 inch groups .
Again, from a friend in Ireland…..
http://www.zephaniah.eu/index_htm_files/The%20Real%20Story%20of%20HIV%20The%20Deadly%20Virus%20that%20Never%20Dies.pdf
excellent paper…
a key point “Governments should be exploring every possible option to treat COVID, Iversen said”
diet, exercise, vitamins, other drugs. control groups etc, real scientific approach that i learned in 4th grade.
if it is the scourge of humanity as it is touted as being then why wouldn’t all things be considered/studied/tested? (rhetorical)
Handwashing, stay home when sick or exposed to the sick…masks are worthless and idiots go out with them on after being around covid positive exposures and tell others to ‘mask up! if not vaccinated’ (with an unapproved, ineffective shot)! (true story)
This liddl’e boy has endeared himself to drug companies and therefore WORTHLESS to anyone but them. I think this COVID thing has proved this.
Even at the expense of your very lives. The boy is complete WUBBISH and he really needs to be h anged for this destruction he has caused upon the WHOLE world.
What would you expect from a runt with a 2, maybe 3″ pencil dick?
Was the AIDs virus another Fauci gain of function masterpiece?
“Botched” implies he was incompetent. He didn’t botch it. He sabotaged it, intentionally.