"If this drug (hydroxychloroquine) had been used at the beginning of the pandemic, it would have saved hundreds of thousands of lives that were needlessly lost. It was suppressed for a year while patients waited for vaccines. Whatever we think of vaccines, this lost year led to hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths of patients who could have been treated. And this is at the heart of the whole pandemic. That it was not so much about protecting public health, but about selling vaccines and patented drugs at huge profits to the pharmaceutical industry with the collusion of the FDA and the CDC. And that is what we have been fighting for the last two and a half years. Not with the virus per se, but with our corrupt response to the virus."Dr. Harvey Risch, Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology at Yale University.
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According to Helena Stehlik, M.D., the use of drugs "was not decided by practitioners, but by politicians."
"The fight against ivermectin was incredibly strong and it was worldwide, it wasn't just in this country, it went like a carbon copy all over the world," says Dr. Stehlik. The positive results of the trials "had to be blocked, otherwise they wouldn't get vaccine authorisations, because if there was a cure, they wouldn't get an EUA, which stands for emergency use authorisation."
"The cost is high compared to other countries, because in India, a covid treatment cost about two dollars," the doctor alludes to the good results reported, for example, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, where local authorities successfully tested ivermectin in spring 2020 and, as of 20 August of the same year, it was officially approved for the treatment of patients with covid-19 and also administered as a preventive.
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