Posted on 04/23/2024 6:00:12 AM PDT by Heartlander
[The following is a chapter of Lori Weintz’s book, Mechanisms of Harm: Medicine in the Time of Covid-19.]
Tragically, the government-backed mechanical (ventilators) and pharmaceutical (remdesivir, mRNA shots, etc) interventions didn’t work to remedy the respiratory illness problem. Instead, they added an additional layer of chaos on top of the virus mania that had captured the world.
Jordan Schachtel
Investigative journalist
December 13, 2023
In the interview with Zuckerberg, in addition to mentioning HCQ, Fauci said, “There’s a drug called remdesivir, which is…developed by Gilead as an antiviral. We tried it in Ebola. It didn’t work as well as some of the other drugs, but it’s there.” It was really, really there; remdesivir manufacturer Gilead spent $2.45 million lobbying Congress in the first quarter of 2020, which was also when Congress drafted and passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act that included funding for vaccines and treatments in response to the pandemic.
“Didn’t work as well” was a gross understatement. During the 2018 Ebola drug trials funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), remdesivir (brand name Veklury) was one of four different drugs used to treat Ebola. Those in the remdesivir group had the highest overall deaths, with a mortality rate of over 50 percent in the first 28 days. Trial participants who received remdesivir also had significantly elevated markers for liver and kidney damage, leading the safety board to terminate its use mid-trial.
A drug with remdesivir’s profile was not a good candidate for much of anything. It’s not that it just wasn’t effective against Ebola; it’s toxic. Why would Fauci even consider it?
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr explains one reason in his book The Real Anthony Fauci (TRAF). It has to do with perception. The NIH had to appear to be doing something about the pandemic in the short term, even though the long-term goal was the vaccine. RFK, Jr states:
“Optics required that NIH devote some resources to antiviral therapeutic drugs; critics would complain if [Fauci] spent billions on vaccines and nothing on therapeutics. However any licensed, repurposed antiviral that was effective against Covid for prevention or early treatment…could kill his entire vaccine program because FDA wouldn’t be able to grant his jabs Emergency Use Authorization. Remdesivir, however, was an IV remedy, appropriate only for use on hospitalized patients in the late stages of illness. It would therefore not compete with vaccines.” (TRAF p. 64 emphasis added)
The fact that the FDA’s advisory committee, the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC), the one that met today and voted to recommend to the FDA to grant the EUA (for the Covid-19 vaccines) that’s really important…because what it shows is that the process that we have here in the United States is, decisions and recommendations are made by independent bodies…we want to make sure that we impress the American public that decisions that involve their health and safety are made outside of the realm of politics, outside of the realm of self-aggrandizement, and are made, in essence, by independent groups.Dr. Anthony Fauci
Director NIAID
December 11, 2020
Dr. Fauci states that decisions involving American’s health and safety are made “outside of the realm of politics,” but nothing could be further from the truth. The other reason RFK, Jr. gives for Fauci’s interest in remdesivir is money. National Institutes of Health (NIH) employees are allowed to put their name on patents, and thereby profit from product approval. For example, NIH is listed on the patent for Moderna. Tellingly, Anthony Fauci’s household net worth increased during the pandemic from $7.5 million to $12.6 million.
In addition to the conflict of interest at NIH, with employees profiting from products they approve, a large portion of the operating budget for NIH, which includes agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is provided by pharmaceutical companies – the very companies whose products the FDA regulates. In short, there was money to be had in remdesivir, and none to be had by using already approved medicines that were no longer under patent restrictions, and therefore inexpensive.
Investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson found that at the time of the remdesivir review, eleven members of the NIH’s Covid-19 Treatment Guidelines panel had financial ties to Gilead. A review of the panel members during the past year finds myriad relationships between NIH panel members and various drug companies. Gilead, flush with the prospect of remdesivir becoming the treatment for Covid, predicted remdesivir would bring in $3.5 billion in 2020 alone.
In April 2020, knowing remdesivir’s dismal and dangerous profile, Fauci’s NIAID began the clinical portion of a 29-day remdesivir trial on hospitalized US volunteers. The Protocol Details Summary states that, “The drug has been tested before in people with other diseases,” but neglects to mention its complete failure in the Ebola trial.
Before Fauci’s remdesivir study was completed, a study conducted in China was released that should have put remdesivir out of the running.
The Chinese study found that intravenous remdesivir:
In short, patients were worse off taking remdesivir than if they received the placebo.
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I’m so sorry you lost your father.
And in such a terrible way.
God bless you and your family.
What burns me up is there are still plenty of ads on the TV:
If it’s COVID, PAXLOVID.
Whenever I talk to people who talk about how many people they knew that died of Covid, I ask them did they die in the hospital or at home, and if in the hospital did they get remdesivir and/or a vent. Without fail,they all died in the hospital with Remdesivir.
On the flip side, I know some people who had a pretty rough time, and had all the comorbidities that we were told would mean they would die of Covid. My sister has a long list of health issues including COPD, heart issues/blood clotting disorder, obesity, many more. She was told she would die from Covid and her docs begged her to go in. She refused and just kept up with supplements and O2. It dipped pretty low at times, but she pulled through. My father in law was bedridden with dementia, and he pulled through with oxygen, corticosteroid and antibiotics. The hospice nurse said all her patients choosing no treatment as hospice patients at home survived Covid, despite getting very sick, the ones in nursing homes/hospitals did not.
There is something to this although we will never know.
Thank you. It was a tough time. I lost my wife to lung cancer 3 months after I lost my father. She was 50 years old. She didn’t have a chance to get treated. She was diagnosed and passed away three weeks later. Thank God I have two grown up daughters and my brothers close by. Younger people who don’t want kids don’t know the importance of family. They are told not to have children by so many outside influences. They don’t realize how fast life can leave you by yourself.
“patients choosing no treatment as hospice patients at home survived Covid, despite getting very sick, the ones in nursing homes/hospitals did not.”
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Saw similar.
That drug has a well-earned nickname: Run-Death-Is-Near.
Know 2 folks that got “hospital”, went in and got “the protocol” and came out in a box.
I hope I live to see the day when all these evil satan worshippers get punished here on earth for what they did, and I include killing my brother among their crimes....
When I first read up on Remdesivir, it was the Ebola trial. Fauci also had a drug in that ebola trial. Remdesivir was removed first and I believe organ failure and death was specified. Fauci’s drug was removed next. See, Fauci gets to patent and profit from drugs taxpayers develop - as do FDA and other workers.
I do wonder what brand name Fauci’s drug was (probably) eventually released under. I don’t know that it ever was, but if Remdesivir was too toxic to benefit anyone and it’s in use, what would stop Fauci from ‘selling’ his drug on the market?
It was known that Remdesivir shut down kidney’s first. Patients hospitalized (eventually) when they could no longer breathe with respiratory infection, they were put on ventilators, pumped with IV’s and Remdesivir began shutting down the ability for their kidney’s to excrete the IV fluid. The patients were immobilized, not allowed to sit up, so they lay on their backs with fluids in their bodies backing up into their lungs, causing pulmonary edema, and when they died, they were diagnosed as having died of “Covid”.
I do not have a specific link for you ... wish I did, but I have heard several discussions during interviews & I think on podcasts, regarding low O2 saturation levels with COVID. Dr. McCullough is one, probably Dr. Kory, etc. ... docs who were TREATING COVID early, have talked about seeing very low O2 levels, but the patients were tolerating those low levels. Some supportive oxygen was given, but they were conscious, talking, not what you’d think you would see at the low levels they were registering. IF they went to the hospital with those low readings, it was ‘vent time’. I believe there was some thinking that microclots in small blood vessels were causing the low readings, but I can’t say that for sure.
Anyway, lots of elderly folks and/or those with comorbidities got through COVID as long as they were kept out of the hospitals.
Ohh...your beloved wife as well...heartbreaking!
Hang in there, and be strong, as you clearly have been.
By no means are you left alone. But you already knew that.
RunDeathIsNear
SS1
Thanks for the kind words. We were together since we were 19 years old. I learned how precious life is and how fast it can be taken away. I tell my kids to spend time with loved ones while they’re here because one day they can be gone.
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