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The Story of the Cover Story
By Michael Capuzzo

W
hen my daughter Grace, a God.
vice president at a New York Grace researched Ivermectin
advertising agency, came and was surprised that it is not
down with COVID-19 recently, she FDA-approved as an anti-viral
was quarantined in a “COVID hotel” to treat COVID-19, although
in Times Square with homeless people it is FDA-approved as an anti-
and quarantining travelers. The locks on parasitic agent. This would be an
her room door were removed. Nurses “off-label use,” a routine thing
prowled the halls to keep her in her room in medicine comprising some
and wake her up every night to check her 20 percent of all prescriptions—
vitals—not to treat her, because there is aspirin to prevent heart attack or
no approved treatment for COVID-19; stroke, for instance, is “off label.”
only, if her oxygen plummeted, to move This is called doctoring. And it was
her to the hospital, where there is only routine until COVID-19, when a big
a single effective approved treatment for pharma-dominated health system tried
COVID-19, steroids that may keep the to eliminate all generic competition to
lungs from failing. protect its biggest payday of all time.
The absence of treatments for Judy had the choice to fight back
COVID-19 is a global crisis, Dr. Francis or die. A worldwide revolution that will
Collins, director of the National Institutes determine the future of medicine and who
of Health, said recently on 60 Minutes, lives and dies from COVID-19—the battle COVID-19
for vaccines “are not enough.” Dangerous of Ivermectin—is fighting back, fighting for treatments
variants sweep the globe after mutating life. Grace, I’m happy to say, was prescribed that are saving
in the world’s poor and unvaccinated, Ivermectin and got better fast. the city’s sickest poor,
lockdowns persist, and millions more are If you are interested in Ivermectin, black, Mexican, and immigrants, invited
likely to die. The wonderous m-RNA check out www.flccc.net, and talk to your journalists from CNN, The Associated
vaccines need a cop buddy. doctor. Here’s a help page on how to talk to Press, and Reuters to his COVID-19
Fortunately, I knew of an early your doctor: www.COVID19criticalcare. ICU to get out the news of his life-saving
treatment for Grace. It’s a cheap generic com/guide-for-this-website. treatment, all the journalists fictionalized
drug, safer than Tylenol, FDA-approved I got onto this story on Mother’s the story to make it seem like most everyone
to treat scabies and lice in children and the Day, 2020, when my wife Teresa, who was dying when in fact most everyone was
elderly, with many other uses that make many know as the publisher and editor of living. The happy story, the truth, didn’t fit
Ivermectin a “wonder drug.” In fifty-five Mountain Home, and I watched Dr. Kory the official government science.
clinical trials with 445 scientists and 17,730 testify to the U.S. Senate about his group’s We live in a remarkable media age
patients around the world, Ivermectin has first breakthrough, a steroid treatment where a positive story on CNN, perhaps
been shown to be the most powerful drug that was saving 95 percent of COVID-19 more so than a peer review in The New
to eradicate COVID-19 in all stages of the patients when 80 percent were dying in New England Journal of Medicine, will instantly
disease, including prevention and early York City and the world was in panic. To encourage doctors in two hundred
treatment. our surprise, as longtime journalists—we countries to use a perfectly safe and legal
It’s what the world desperately needs met at The Philadelphia Inquirer—Dr. Kory drug and save humanity. I call on my fellow
now, according to Dr. Pierre Kory, a former was cancelled by a global news blackout. colleagues, including former colleagues
professor at the University of Wisconsin, Was not a treatment that could save the and friends at The Washington Post and The
Madison medical school, whose research world news? New York Times, to open their hearts and
group, the nonprofit Frontline COVID-19 While Teresa puts out the magazine, minds to legitimate, unreported doctors
Critical Care Alliance, has developed the I’ve written two New York Times-bestselling and therapies and write about all sides
most effective non-vaccine treatments in the books, Close to Shore and The Murder of the Ivermectin story, like journalists
world from safe, FDA-approved generics. Room, featuring some of the world’s most always have. It is a historic opportunity.
They have saved the lives of hundreds of brilliant scientists. Now I’ve spent months For the first time in the long journey from
thousands of people, including eighty- interviewing Kory and his colleagues, and Gutenberg to Google, journalists may be
year-old Judy Smentkiewicz of Buffalo, I’ve seen unthinkable things. When professor the ones to save the world.
the star of this month’s cover story. Judy’s Joe Varon, a top critical care doctor and
remarkable story is a “miracle,” her family Mexican-American hero recently honored
says, thanks to Pierre Kory, science, and with “Joseph Varon Day” in Houston for his

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 The Drug
That Cracked
COVID
From a Buffalo Hospital Room, a Grandmother Led
the Global Fight for the Drug That Would Save
Her Life and End the Pandemic
By Michael Capuzzo

O
n the morning of December for twenty-five, but now just immediate Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital, and
18, 2020, as the newscaster family with “COVID shaping everything,” on New Year’s Eve Michael and Michelle
announced a grim New York Michael said. Michael, fifty-seven, hasn’t got a call from the hospital that their
record for COVID-19 deaths and the lived in Buffalo for close to thirty years, mother was being admitted to the ICU. It
weatherman predicted a white Christmas and relishes the trip home. all happened so fast. “We can’t be with her,”
for Buffalo, Judy Smentkiewicz drove But now he was worried. Mom was Michael said. “We can’t hold her hand,
home from a house cleaning job, excited sleeping twelve hours a day. She couldn’t we can’t sleep in the room with her.” He
about the holiday. But her back hurt eat. She couldn’t lift the phone. “I’m started keeping notes to make sense of it
bad, and she was unusually exhausted. “I fine, I’m just tired,” she kept saying. But all. “Hearing her voice crack on the phone
thought it was my age, being eighty years Judy was always up with the sun. After as she agreed to go on the ventilator was
old, working every day,” she said. “I never raising two children as a single mother, HEART-BREAKING,” he wrote.
thought about COVID.” working thirty-five years as an office His mother was sedated and
Judy’s small house in Cheektowaga, manager for Metropolitan Life Insurance unresponsive, as if she were in a coma, as
just east of Buffalo, was all set for Christmas. Company, she was still cleaning houses five a ventilator mechanically breathed for her.
Daughter Michelle, who lives a few miles mornings a week with her girlfriends to The doctors said there was little more they
away and talks to her mother five times a “keep busy.” On December 22, three days could do, and her chances of survival were
day, put up the tree and the decorations before Christmas, Judy tested positive for bleak. Judy was getting the global standard
and the snowman on the front lawn of COVID-19. of COVID-19 care recommended by the
grandma’s house with her daughter until “We were devastated,” Michael World Health Organization, the National
it looked like a scene from It’s a Wonderful said. The family Christmas Eve dinner Institutes of Health, and all major public
Life. Son Michael came up from Florida was cancelled, Judy spent Christmas in health agencies. It was called “supportive
with his wife Haley to help his sister cook quarantine in her house, four days after care.” Judy was told to stay at home since
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After the battle of her life: Judy

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 Pill continued from page 6 for all stages of COVID-19. doctors and nurses and goodbyes and cries
there was nothing the doctor could do for Even with the rollout of vaccines, they of loved ones echoing from a Zoom call,
her anyway, it was best to keep patients are “not the whole answer,” Dr. Francis they turned blue and suffocated to death.
away from doctors and everyone else, until Collins, director of the NIH, said recently But as Judy lay dying in the small
she had trouble breathing in week two. on 60 Minutes, with variants that threaten to hospital eight miles northeast of Buffalo,
That was the sign the disease had entered defeat vaccines in rich countries constantly almost six hundred miles south in Norfolk,
its potentially fatal stage and it was time to sweeping the Earth after mutating in that Virginia, Dr. Paul Marik, sixty-three, the
go to the hospital where doctors couldn’t do majority of poor 7.9 billion humans who endowed professor at the Eastern Virginia
much but more supportive care. In other won’t get a big pharma jab any time soon. Medical School and a world-renowned
words, Judy would have to save herself. According to The Wall Street Journal, global clinician-researcher, was unknowingly
“There is no antiviral drug proven to be deaths in 2021 will soon exceed 2020, and preparing to save her life with a “wonder
effective against the virus,” The New York millions more are expected to die. “People drug” that obliterates COVID-19.
Times said on March 17, 2020, under the are going to continue to get sick,” Collins Discovering the drug was one thing, but
headline “Hundreds of Scientists Scramble said. “We need treatments for those people.” getting it to Judy’s doctors in time to save
to Find a Coronavirus Treatment.” It was Michael was calling the doctors and her, getting it to the many thousands of
day seven of the pandemic, when the global nurses constantly, but “we heard nothing people who needed it, would be a harrowing
death toll was 7,138. “When people get but bad, bad news. Mom wasn’t getting journey to rival the Iditarod mushers’ 1925
infected,” the Times said, “the best that any better. It’s going to be a long haul, serum run of 675 miles through ice and
doctors can offer is supportive care—the she’s in bad shape, prepare yourself.” The snow to Nome, Alaska so Dr. Curtis Welch
patient is getting enough oxygen, managing doctors and nurses said they had exhausted could stop the diphtheria epidemic. But this
fever and using a ventilator to push air into all treatment options, and like so many “Great Race of Mercy” had far less chance of
the lungs, if needed—to give the immune others Judy was highly likely to die. When success, for the obstacles were not in nature
system time to fight the infection.” The an eighty-year-old COVID-19 patient goes but in the minds and hearts of other men.
global death toll was more than 3.3 million on a ventilator, they said, it’s a highly likely Marik was accustomed to beating the
as this story went to press, and scientists are death sentence—eighty percent of them odds. The legendary professor, a 6-foot,
still scrambling. The NIH and WHO are don’t survive. The prolonged critical illness 230-pound, balding, barrel-chested, bear
still recommending Tylenol and water in was typically about a month with little or of a man with a crisp native South African
2021. There is still no approved treatment no change until, surrounded by helpless accent touched with the South after thirty

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Smentkiewicz and bring the pandemic
to an end.
This was not something many
people thought possible. But while the
world was living the nightmare of the
COVID-19 pandemic like a Michael
Crichton sci-fi horror production where
the planet is facing a plague apocalypse,
millions die, and doctors can do nothing
as brilliant pharmaceutical scientists
race to develop vaccines to save the
globe in the final scene, Paul Marik
had a different movie in his head. He
was startled and appalled that all the
national and international public health
agencies recommended that the most
well-trained, well-equipped doctors in
history stand down and wait on big
pharma’s lab scientists while the worst
pandemic in a century devastated the
world. “It’s therapeutic nihilism to say
that doctors can do nothing,” Marik
said. “Supportive care is no care at all.”
What Marik did was assemble four of
his closest friends, who also happen to
be four of the top academic critical care
doctors in the world. He challenged
them to join him in an expert panel to
continually review the literature while
treating their COVID-19 patients and
developing treatment protocols—low-
cost generic therapies that countless
black and brown and poor people all
over the world would need, he saw
from the beginning, or face a coming
catastrophe without treatments or
vaccines.
These five doctors set out to save
the world, with a better chance at it
than most. Pulmonary critical care
specialists often lead medical teams at
hospitals in a crisis. “Lungs are the most
common organ that fails in the ICU
and in the context of many diseases,”
says Dr. Pierre Kory, Marik’s protégé.
“Pulmonary critical care physicians
(are)…the most widely skilled, and the
most knowledgeable and experienced
in all facets of disease and all levels
of severity to the extent that no other
doctor comes close.” ICUs were getting
hammered by the new respiratory plague
all around the world, but Marik had
assembled a group of intensivists with
nearly 2,000 peer-reviewed papers and
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At age fifty, the youngest of the group was Pierre Kory, a big,
passionate doctor-scientist like Marik, and his protégé. Kory was a
highly published former associate professor and critical care service
chief at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the director of
the Trauma and Life Support Center at University Hospital, one
of the top academic medical centers in the world. If you go by
the traditional measure of lives saved by research breakthroughs
or bedside care, Marik, Meduri, Varon, Iglesias, and Kory—four
brilliant immigrants from South Africa, Italy, Mexico, Cuba,
and one brash New Yorker—are the finest COVID-19 clinician-
researchers of the pandemic.
They made their first major breakthrough in March 2020,
by the third week of the pandemic when only 3,800 Americans
had died. It was based on the idea that COVID-19 has one
great weakness: the coronavirus doesn’t kill anybody. In a
mechanism so diabolical Marik believes “human beings aren’t
smart enough to have figured it out,” the trillions upon trillions
of coronaviruses that overwhelm and sicken the host don’t kill it.
But in the second week of the disease, all the coronaviruses die,
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 Is there a doctor in the
house?: Dr. Pierre Kory’s
December testimony on
Ivermectin to a U.S. Senate
committee saved many lives
and changed the world;
(right) a Japanese fan lauds
Kory on social media.

Courtesy Frank Junghanns

Courtesy Pierre Kory

Pill continued from page 11 colleagues receive more than five hundred FLCCC to get the word out to the world
world, but later studies made both therapies emails a day from doctors and patients and save humanity.
the global standard of hospital care. In begging for help to beat COVID-19, and Emmy Award-winning publicist Joyce
addition, Kory, Marik, et. al published the they answer all of them, comforting patients Kamen of Cincinnati and former CBS
first comprehensive COVID-19 prevention and their families, coaching other doctors, News correspondent Betsy Ashton of New
and early treatment protocol (which and saving lives. Emails like this (unedited): York City set aside their lives and began
they would eventually call I-MASK). It Dear Dr Marik I am from a remote working tirelessly to reach every famous
is centered around the drug Ivermectin, place(Muzaffarpur,Bihar) in India.people are TV newsperson, scientist, and public
which President Trump used at Walter Reed not that rich and can’t effort costly treatment.i health expert you know and hundreds you
hospital, unreported by the press, though used your MATH PLUS protocol in TOTO don’t, the handful of science writers who
it may well have saved the president’s to save hundreds of life at very low cost.since have won Pulitzer Prizes, the five thousand
life while he was instead touting new big there is limited govt facility I have managed science writers on a special news wire who
pharma drugs. pts with SPO2 of even 72% at room air with haven’t, every science desk from CNN
The doctors published their home oxygen,proning and MATH PLUS. I to NBC News to the Atlantic magazine,
breakthroughs in real time on the website don’t have words to thank you for this.you every governor and member of Congress,
of their nonprofit research group, the Front deserve to get Nobel Prize for your protocol. President Trump, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and,
Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance Words are not supporting me enough to thank when the time came, President-Elect Biden.
(www.flccc.net ), so doctors anywhere in you. Dr Vimohan Kumar Nobody responded.
the world could find them and use them Many prominent doctors and scientists Marik thought it might be a good idea
immediately. Marik, Kory, Varon, Meduri, around the world believe that Marik, if doctors who were actually saving lives
and Iglesias became heroes of the pandemic Kory, Meduri, Varon, and Iglesias deserve with treatments that could save almost
to intensivists around the globe who used the Nobel Prize in medicine. Dr. Keith everybody could spend a few minutes on the
their protocols to save thousands of lives, Berkowitz, director of the Center for podium sharing their knowledge with the
and to practitioners at many hospitals in Balanced Health on Madison Avenue in world after Trump made his speeches and
the U.S., including the St. Francis Medical New York City and Dr. Robert Atkins’ Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx talked about
Center in Trenton, New Jersey, where Dr. former medical director, and Dr. Howard flattening the curve and obeying lockdowns
Eric Osgood posted the MATH+ protocol Kornfeld, founder of the Recovery Without so millions wouldn’t die. “People are dying
on a private Facebook group for thousands Walls Clinic in Marin County, California, needlessly,” Marik said. “We’ve cracked the
of ICU doctors after it stopped the dying found Marik while looking in the literature code of the coronavirus.” Nobody seemed
in his hospital, and talked it up with his for COVID-19 treatments for their patients, to care.
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 Pill continued from page 12 well known as a standard treatment for There were no effective, lifesaving,
Kory even testified to the Senate scabies and lice, from nurseries to nursing approved COVID-19 treatments that
on May 6, 2020, his first appearance homes. A veterinary version keeps millions doctors had used to slow down or stop the
before the committee seeking COVID-19 of family dogs and cats, farm animals, coronavirus in the history of the pandemic,
treatments, that steroids were “critical” and cattle safe from worms and parasitic in any phase of the disease, except the one,
to saving lives and received silence and diseases. An over-the-counter medicine corticosteroids, that Marik and company
scorn. Six weeks later, the publication in France, Ivermectin is safer than Tylenol had discovered.
of the Oxford University Recovery Trial and “one of the safest drugs ever given to Now they had discovered another
proved that the FLCCC doctors were right, humanity,” Dr. Marik said, with “3.7 billion treatment, even more powerful, that could
and corticosteroids became the accepted doses administered in forty years, that’s B save the world.
worldwide standard of care, changing the for billion, and only extremely rare serious Surely, Marik thought, the world
trajectory of the pandemic. Now, millions side effects.” would listen this time.
of deaths later, steroids remain “the only An earlier Australian study, reported As Judy lay dying in Millard
therapy considered “proven” as a life-saving in the journal Antiviral Research, showed Fillmore hospital, her doctors did not
treatment in COVID-19,” he says, and only that Ivermectin, which blocked other have Ivermectin in their treatment bag.
in “patients with moderate to severe illness.” RNA viruses like Dengue virus, yellow But they did have Remdesivir, and they
No approved treatment to stop the fever virus, Zika virus, West Nile virus, gave a dose to Judy. Manufactured by
sick from getting sicker and overloading influenza, the Avian flu, and HIV1/AIDS Gilead Sciences, one of the world’s largest
hospitals, where they face possible death, in vitro, decimated the coronavirus in vitro, pharmaceutical companies, Remdesivir
yet exists. All the non-vaccine big pharma wiping out “essentially all viral material by costs $3,000 a dose. It is the only anti-viral
designer treatments for COVID-19 48 hours.” But more research was needed treatment for hospitalized COVID-19
have largely failed to show an impact on in human beings. patients approved by the NIH COVID-19
mortality, Kory says, including Remdesivir But by October Marik’s concerns were Treatment Guidelines Panel, and as a result
and monoclonal antibody therapy. The answered. The studies were well-designed is a standard of COVID-19 care in many
Holy Grail COVID-19 treatment remains university trials that showed amazing hospitals, even though many doctors say it
elusive. On November 11, 2020, Dr. anti-COVID-19 activity at the normal doesn’t work, and the WHO recommends
Fauci co-authored a paper for JAMA:The doses used to treat parasites. Though small against it. It has been shown in studies to
Journal of the American Medical Association, and endlessly diverse by large, Western have no mortality benefit for COVID-19
“Therapy for Early COVID-19, A Critical big pharma “one-size-fits all” random patients. (Coincidentally, seven members of
Need,” explaining that early treatments “to control trials, the Ivermectin studies were a the NIH COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines
prevent disease progression and longer-term mosaic of hundreds of scientists and many Panel acknowledge in financial disclosures
complications are urgently needed.” thousands of patients in trials all over the that they have received research support or
A month earlier, Dr. Marik had found world, all showing the same remarkable consultant payments from Gilead, or sit
exactly what Dr. Fauci was seeking. The efficacy against all phases of COVID-19 no on the advisory board of the $60 billion
discovery astounded him. matter what dose or age or severity of the company). As The Washington Post reported,
In the professor’s continual review of patient. “Penicillin never was randomized,” “Remdesivir may not cure coronovirus, but
“the latest (and best) literature,” he picked Marik says. “It just obviously worked. it’s on track to make billions for Gilead.”
up a surprising “data signal” in October Ivermectin obviously works.” Remdesivir had “absolutely no effect”
from emerging studies in Latin America. Marik was astonished. “If you were to on his mother, Michael Smentkiewicz says.
Ivermectin, a safe, cheap, FDA-approved say, tell me the characteristics of a perfect But Michael refused to accept the reality
anti-parasitic drug, was showing remarkable drug to treat COVID-19, what would you that nothing could be done. “I’m stubborn,
anti-viral and anti-inflammatory activity ask for?” he said. “I think you would ask I’m pushy, I’m the loudest guy in the room,”
as a repurposed drug—the most powerful firstly for something that’s safe, that’s cheap, he says. Anguished that they couldn’t enter
COVID-19 killer known to science. that’s readily available, and has anti-viral the hospital to see his mother and comfort
Marik had been keeping tabs on and anti-inflammatory properties. People her, Michael, Michelle, their families, and
Ivermectin but hadn’t included it in would say, “That’s ridiculous. There could friends—eight of them in all—spent New
his protocols. He knew the drug as a not possibly be a drug that has all of those Year’s Eve standing outside the hospital
core medicine on the  WHO Model List characteristics. That’s just unreasonable. But with their hands on the brick wall under
of Essential Medicines, and it is well- we do have such a drug. The drug is called her window, praying for her recovery. They
established in the literature as a “wonder Ivermectin.” linked arms and sang and called out her
drug” that won the 2015 Nobel Prize for its If it were universally distributed at name to the high square window lit against
discoverer, Japanese microbiologist Satoshi a dose that costs ten American cents in the dark. “We felt we needed to be on that
Ōmura, for nearly eradicating two of the India and about the cost of a Big Mac ground, blessing the doctors, blessing my
“most disfiguring and devastating diseases” in the United States, he said, Ivermectin mother, staking our claim for healing,”
in history, river blindness and elephantiasis, would save countless lives, crush variants, Michael says. “My wife said people live on
that had plagued millions of people in Africa eliminate the need for endless big pharma love,” he says, “and they feel you.”
countries, one of the great achievements in booster shots, and end the pandemic all New Year’s Day came. The calendar
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 Pill continued from page 24 trained me and the ones I trained, they’re the last three months…from many centers
going out of their minds, people are dying. and countries around the world showing
turned, but Judy was the same. In the Are you kidding me? I went to New York the miraculous effectiveness of Ivermectin.
morning Michael went by himself to the to save lives.” It basically obliterates transmission of this
hospital parking lot and shouted into Kory is the son of two New York virus. If you take it, you will not get sick.”
the cold gray air up toward his mother’s intellectuals, one a Jewish radiologist who The scientific evidence was
window. “We’re here for you!” he cried. survived the Holocaust, the other a French overwhelming, he said. The data from
“We’re not ready for you to go! We’re here PhD linguist. He is a New York liberal, twenty-seven studies, sixteen of them
fighting! We’re not leaving town until you renowned pulmonary critical care specialist, randomized controlled trials, demonstrated,
get out of the hospital.” award-winning professor and researcher, with highly statistically significant,
But by now the Smentkiewiczs believed and a big, brawling, blunt-spoken, and overwhelmingly positive, consistent, and
they needed a miracle. Michael put out a deeply idealistic physician whose lectures reproducible rates, that people who got sick
wider appeal to the universe, calling upon are famously a river of eloquence until he with COVID-19 were far more likely to
some fifty of his “prayer brothers” around gets worked up. Then out comes a torrent quickly get better at home when they took
the country to pray for his mother’s life. of scientific data roiling with moral outrage Ivermectin. They didn’t go to the hospital.
Thoughts and prayers from a wide network against medical institutions that turn their Housemates of people with COVID-19
centered on the room in the small hospital backs on human suffering. “I’m a New who took Ivermectin didn’t get infected.
in Williamsville, New York. Yorker,” he says. “I tell it like it is.” People who got moderately ill in hospitals
At 11:35 a.m. on New Year’s Day, In an impassioned, nine-minute didn’t go to the ICU; they got better quicker
with the annus horribilis of 2020 finally testimony, Kory implored the Senate and and went home faster. Hospitals didn’t
gone and buried, the universe delivered its the NIH to read his scientific review, get overrun. The drug even saved elderly,
answer. That was the morning Jan, Michael’s later published in the American Journal of critically ill COVID-19 patients from
mother-in-law in Atlanta, who had also Therapeutics, that presented a “mountain of dying compared to those routinely dying
been praying for Judy’s life, picked up her data” showing that Ivermectin stopped all elsewhere. Six prevention studies showed
phone and thought, “This is how the Lord phases of COVID-19. The peer reviewers, Ivermectin reduced the risk of getting
works in my life. There on my phone is including three senior career scientists, COVID-19 by 92.5 percent, superior to
this video and the words ‘Ivermectin’ and two at the Food and Drug Administration, many vaccines. Dr. Hector Carvallo, a
‘COVID.”’ supported Kory’s conclusion that Ivermectin professor of medicine at the University of
Jan clicked on the link. A large, “should be systemically and globally Buenos Aires, gave 788 doctors and other
intense physician, six-foot-one inches adopted…for both the prophylaxis and health care workers in three medical centers
tall and lineman-wide with horn-rim treatment of COVID-19.” weekly Ivermectin prophylaxis, with a
glasses wrapping a bald head, was being It was Tuesday, December 8, and the control group of 407 doctors and others
interviewed on Fox 10 News Now, KSAZ- news was bleak. On CNN Dr. Fauci asked who didn’t get the drug. In the control
TV in Phoenix, Arizona. It was Pierre Kory, the American people not to get together for group 236 people, or 58 percent, “had
president and chief medical officer of the Christmas or Hanukkah to prevent “a surge become ill with COVID.” Among the 788
FLCCC, who had testified that morning to upon a surge” after Thanksgiving. There who got Ivermectin, “no infections were
the U.S. Homeland Security Government were 286,189 deaths already and new cases recorded.”
Affairs Committee in Washington that he and deaths were reaching a “frightening Kory had been working with a senior
and his colleagues had discovered a drug peak” and accelerating faster than ever, ABC data scientist in Boston named Juan
that could swiftly end the global pandemic News reported. “The end of the pandemic Chamie, who discovered that Ivermectin
and return life on Earth to normal. is in sight,” Fauci said. “The vaccine…will dropped case and death rates off the cliff
Kory is a COVID fixer. He went to end the pandemic and return us to as near in numerous regions around the world.
COVID-19-wracked hospitals during normal or normal as possible, but we have The huge Indian state of Uttar Pradesh,
outbreaks, when patients were dying to do our part right now.” which with 232 million people would
and doctors were overwhelmed, with the Then came the bright, confident voice be the fifth biggest country in the world,
mission to stop the dying and restore order of the big physician from the Midwest mass distributed Ivermectin to 200 million
to the ICU. When the pandemic hit, Kory saying that science had discovered a way people last fall and by winter was reporting
helped prepare the university hospital in for schoolchildren to go back to school and few if any deaths in the country. The state is
Madison to handle a forecast surge. Then workers to work, and for families to put a still not suffering as badly as its neighbors in
he went east to help save New York City star on the Christmas tree and candles on that crisis-stricken country. In Peru, tens of
when the death rate exceeded that of the the menorah with new hope. thousands of rural residents in eight states
medieval plague, taking over as the ICU “We have a solution to this crisis,” he often took animal-grade Ivermectin—
attending chief at the main COVID ICU said. “There is a drug that is proving to be of some in the form of de-worming horse
at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center. miraculous impact,” Kory said. “When I say paste—through a large, door-to-door
“I’m a lung specialist, I’m an ICU miracle, I do not use that term lightly. And I humanitarian mission because doctors and
doctor. My city is being destroyed by the don’t want to be sensationalized when I say health ministers in the capital city of Lima
worst pandemic in a century, and it’s a lung that. It’s a scientific recommendation based refused to give the “peasants” the human
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levels, with no reported harm from the all over the world, from doctors, nurses, a rapid meta-analysis, an epidemiolocal
medicine’s impurities, while they soared in scientists, and civil rights activists; from statistical multi-study review considered
Lima, where Ivermectin was not dispensed people watching their loved ones die the highest form of medical evidence,
amongst the ivory towers of medicine. from COVID-19 and begging for help. to the director of the NHS, members of
Kory’s data was corroborated by Dr. Eighty-five-year-old Nobel Prize winner parliament, and a video to Prime Minister
Andrew Hill, a renowned University of Ōmura in Japan, a legend in microbiology, Boris Johnson with “the good news…
Liverpool pharmacologist and independent promptly asked his research team to that we now have solid evidence of an
medical researcher, and the senior translate Kory’s paper into Japanese to be effective treatment for COVID-19…”
World Health Organization/UNITAID placed on his institute website. Thousands and Ivermectin should immediately “be
investigator of potential treatments for of social media fans were moved by Kory’s adopted globally and systematically for the
COVID-19. Hill’s team of twenty-three bravery and the big heart of a doctor who prevention and treatment of COVID-19.”
researchers in twenty-three countries had cared about his patients, hailing him as a Ignored by British leaders and media,
reported that, after nine months of looking knight fighting big pharma, big media, big Lawrie convened the day-long streaming
for a COVID-19 treatment and finding politics, big everything. “Never give up, BIRD conference—British Ivermectin
nothing but failures like Remdesivir— Pierre Kory!” implored a young woman Recommendation Development—with
“we kissed a lot of frogs”—Ivermectin in Japan. Overnight, the American doctor more than sixty researchers and doctors
was the only thing that worked against was a folk hero to great masses of people from the U.S., Canada, Mexico, England,
COVID-19, and its safety and efficacy weary of death and lockdowns and hungry Ireland, Belgium, Argentina, South Africa,
were astonishing—“blindingly positive,” for things not forgotten—the hush of the Botswana, Nigeria, Australia, and Japan.
Hill said, and “transformative.” Ivermectin, theater, the clatter of seats in the classroom They evaluated the drug using the full
the WHO researcher concluded, reduced just before the teacher started, the wonder “evidence-to-decision framework” that
COVID-19 morality by 81 percent. of human touch—and a prophet to doctors is “the gold standard tool for developing
Kory nearly broke down pleading with who saw the Hippocratic Oath subsumed clinical practice guidelines” used by the
the NIH to review the “immense amounts by regulators, politicians, and journalists WHO, and reached the conclusion that
of data that shows that Ivermectin must picking COVID-19 drugs if they worked Ivermectin should blanket the world.
be implemented and implemented now,” for Wall Street or Washington, whether “Most of all you can trust me because
and reverse its negative recommendation the doctor thought they worked for the I am also a medical doctor, first and
of August 27, when no data was available. patient or not. foremost,” Lawrie told the prime minster,
“We have 100,000 patients in the In South Africa, where use of Ivermectin “with a moral duty to help people, to do no
hospital right now dying,” he cried out was criminalized, civil rights activists hung harm, and to save lives. Please may we start
to the committee. “I’m a lung specialist, posters with Kory’s data urging revolt, and saving lives now.” She heard nothing back.
I’m an ICU specialist. I’ve cared for more a group of physicians won permission from In Charlottesville, Virginia, Dr. David
dying COVID patients than anyone can the Ministry of Health in Zimbabwe on Chesler, an internist/geriatrician for forty-
imagine. They’re dying because they can’t January 27, 2021, to treat COVID-19 with four years with hundreds of COVID-19
breathe. They can’t breathe…and I watch Ivermectin; case fatalities dropped in one patients in six nursing homes, wrote to
them every day, they die….I can’t keep month from seventy a day to two a day, “and Dr. Fauci, telling him essentially that he
doing this. If you look at my manuscript, our hospitals are virtually empty,” said Dr. had found the early treatment Fauci was
and if I have to go back to work next week, Jackie Stone, who was subsequently taken in urgently looking for. Dr. Chesler explained
any further deaths are going to be needless for questioning for her use of a controversial that facing the choice with his elderly
deaths, I cannot be traumatized by that. drug. In Phnom Penh, Cambodia, a doctor COVID-19 patients to “either provide
I cannot keep caring for patients when I trained in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was my patients with the standard of care,
know they could have been saved by earlier using Kory’s data to persuade the Ministry basically first aid, with Tylenol, oxygen
treatment with a drug…that will prevent of Health of Ivermectin’s efficacy and was and monitoring, until they became sick
the hospitalization, and that is Ivermectin.” making a personal appeal to the king. enough to be sent to the hospital, or to
Kory’s testimony, titled “I can’t do “Thank you for your amazing courage and try something more proactive with the
this anymore” on YouTube, went viral and love for humanity,” he wrote. “You’re a real hope of the patients not becoming so ill
reached eight million views and counting doctor who is living up to the Hippocratic and then losing their lives,” he had since
before being censored by YouTube for Oath. All doctors need to follow your successfully treated “over 200 high-risk
“misinformation”; it was the Howard Beale example!!” COVID patients” with Ivermectin, many
speech that captured the gestalt of a new In Bath, England, Dr. Tess Lawrie, a over 100 years old, with none dying or
time. But unlike the fictional newsman prominent independent medical researcher needing “heroic” oxygen support. Fauci
in the movie Network who had thousands who evaluates the safety and efficacy of never replied.
throwing open their windows with 1970s drugs for the WHO and the National Everywhere the problem was the
angst and shouting “I’m mad as hell and Health Service to set international clinical same, Kory said. The WHO, NIH, and
I can’t take it anymore!” this prophet was practice guidelines, read all twenty-seven other public health agencies were suddenly
real, and many lives and the fates of nations of the Ivermectin studies Kory cited. recommending only COVID-19 therapies
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drug,” he adds. “If it doesn’t come from the In subsequent days, the WHO guidelines
proven by the “gold standard” of large mountaintop, it doesn’t exist,” Kory says. committee, after promising a thorough
randomized controlled trials of treatment “The people on the ground, we cannot do review for months, quashed Ivermectin
and placebo groups, which were powerful any more science that’s considered credible. without a vote, as a lesser advising committee
but had several limiting flaws, including We’re discredited as controversial and as threw out all the strongest evidence first—
the fact that they took months to complete promoting unproven therapies and our including the WHO consultant’s own
and cost ten to twenty million dollars that Facebook groups are shut down, Twitter report—and “having thrown out most
only big pharmaceutical companies could accounts are locked, YouTube videos are of the evidence,” Kory said, “they called
afford. They had thrown out all the other removed and demonetized. It’s really almost the remaining few crumbs of very low
time-tested forms of clinical and scientific totalitarian what’s happening when we’re certainty.”
medical investigation still taught in all just well-meaning scientists trying to do the Ivermectin is the generic name for
the medical schools, such as observational right thing by our patients.” Merck’s Stromectol, which they developed
trials (which had eliminated widespread As Kory left the Senate hearing room in 1981. Though the drug went off patent
crib death), case histories, and anecdotes. that morning in December after his in 1996, Merck still distributes millions
They also restricted the use of essential Ivermectin testimony, his face was dark of doses each year in Africa for free,
off-label and generic drugs with blatant with disgust. The hearing was dead before with a statue honoring the drug and the
disinformation campaigns that reminded it started. When Republican Senator Ron great humanitarian eradication effort in
Kory of big tobacco’s efforts to hide the Johnson of Wisconsin (with whom Kory its headquarters and one at the WHO
dangers of smoking. In effect, the public decidedly shares no political sympathies) in Geneva. But recently Merck issued
health authorities eliminated the full called the hearing on early COVID-19 a stern warning that seemed written
toolbox of essential scientific methods and treatments, The New York Times ran an by marketing, Kory says, “as it had no
drugs that doctors use every day, including advance story eviscerating it as a panel scientific data to support the conclusion,”
the most effective early, prophylactic, and of anti-science kooks promoting “fringe that Ivermectin was suddenly dangerous.
late-stage treatments for COVID-19, which theories,” a “forum for amplifying dubious Another pharmaceutical company’s CEO
were developed by frontline doctors, not theories and questionable treatments privately noted that “People must think
pharmaceutical companies. pushed by President Trump,” including Merck knows what they’re talking about
Kory never tires of reminding critics hydroxychloroquine. The hearing was because it’s their drug,” but Merck has
that the modern Hippocratic Oath, the boycotted by all seven Democrats (who “tremendous disincentives” to say nice
World Medical Association Declaration have received a total of $1.3 million in big things about the generic pill, as it has
of Helsinki, makes it abundantly clear pharma bucks from Pfizer, AstraZeneca, already spent hundreds of millions of dollars
that all medical research is secondary to Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Gilead, and developing an oral anti-viral COVID-19
the doctor’s clinical judgement in the others), and four of the seven Republicans, treatment, rival to Ivermectin, that may be
moment, whether the patient is dying of including Utah’s Mitt Romney (more than priced at $3,000 a dose.
COVID-19 or giving birth. The doctor is $3 million received from big pharma), A news blackout by the world’s leading
morally compelled to use their best clinical Ohio’s Rob Portman ($542,400), and media came down on Ivermectin like an
judgement and the “best available evidence” Florida’s Rick Scott (more than $1 million iron curtain. Reporters who trumpeted
in that instant, not tomorrow or next year in stock in Gilead Sciences, maker of the COVID-19 terror in India and Brazil
when more data is published. As the WMA Remdesivir). didn’t report that Ivermectin was crushing
puts it: “The health of my patient will be Michigan Senator Gary Peters, the the P-1 variant in the Brazilian rain forest
my first consideration.” Clearly the medical Democratic chairman, walked out after and killing COVID-19 and all variants in
establishment is now routinely violating reading an opening statement saying India. That Ivermectin was saving tens of
that ancient oath, Kory says, and as a result the hearing was “playing politics with thousands of lives in South America wasn’t
he “feels estranged from most, but not all, public health.” Kory was outraged. “I news, but mocking the continent’s peasants
of my colleagues.” want to register my offense at the ranking for taking horse paste was. Journalists denied
In the new world of medicine, member’s opening statement,” he said. the world knowledge of the most effective
the COVID world, he says, “Only big “I was discredited as a politician. I am a life-saving therapies in the pandemic, Kory
randomized controlled trials by big pharma/ physician and a man of science. I’ve done said, especially among the elderly, people of
big academic medical centers are accepted nothing, nothing, but commit myself to color, and the poor, while wringing their
by big journals, while others are rejected,” scientific truth and the care of my patients.” hands at the tragedy of their disparate rates
while only studies in big journals are But the next day the assault continued. of death.
accepted by big public health agencies for “All the gods of science and medicine” Three days after Kory’s testimony,
drug recommendations, and only drugs as Marik calls them, descended to crush an Associated Press “fact-check reporter”
recommended by big public health agencies the little Nobel-Prize winning pill. The interviewed Kory “for twenty minutes in
“escape media/social media censorship.” New York Times headlined, “A Senate which I recounted all of the existing trials
“This leaves you with a system where hearing promoted unproven drugs and evidence (over fifteen randomized and
the only thing that’s considered to have dubious claims about the coronavirus,” multiple observational trials) all showing
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False. There’s no evidence Ivermectin has awfully fishy. “This channel is telling you, doctors for the right to use the little generic
been proven a safe or effective treatment ‘You gotta take Ivermectin,’ but you got pill that cracked COVID-19.
against COVID-19.” Like many critics, people like QAnon, conspiracists, telling Dr. Manny Espinoza was dying of
she didn’t explore the Ivermectin data or you what to take,” he said. He and his sister COVID-19 in his Texas hospital when his
evidence in any detail, but merely dismissed returned to the hospital parking lot to pray, wife, Dr. Erica Espinoza, asked the doctors
its “insufficient evidence,” quoting instead and floated a cluster of mylar balloons, to try Ivermectin as a last resort, and was
the lack of a recommendation by the NIH including a pink heart, up to their mother’s refused. Erica hired a life-flight helicopter
or WHO. To describe the real evidence in window. But nothing was working. Finally, to take Manny to the Houston hospital of
any detail would put the AP and public he watched the video, and thought Kory FLCCC co-founder Joseph Varon for the
health agencies in the difficult position of was “incredible,” with top credentials, cheap little pill that in four days had her
explaining how the lives of thousands of “and his passion is crazy.” Within minutes, husband sitting up smiling and telling their
poor people in developing countries don’t “I called the ICU and told the attending children about the “miracle” that saved his
count in these matters. physician, ‘We want my mother to be on life. “We see this every day,” Dr. Varon says.
Not just in media but in social media, this medication.’” “They say it’s a miracle, I say it’s the science,
Ivermectin has inspired a strange new The doctor said no. Ivermectin wasn’t but it’s the truth.” In Atlanta, Georgia,
form of Western and pharmaceutical approved for COVID-19, and “we don’t eighty-four-year-old Lou Gossett Jr., the
imperialism. On January 12, 2021, the experiment on our patients.” But Michael Oscar-winning black star of An Officer and
Brazilian Ministry of Health tweeted to pushed harder. “I’m a bull,” he said. a Gentleman, gravely ill with COVID-19,
its 1.2 million followers not to wait with After several back and forths, a hospital checked out of a hospital and was three days
COVID-19 until it’s too late but “go to a administrator gave approval for one dose, from his lungs failing, doctors said, when
Health Unit and request early treatment,” 15 milligrams of Ivermectin. Less than his son connected him with an FLCCC
only to have Twitter take down the official twenty-four hours later, “Mom is off the doctor in Florida who gave him Ivermectin.
public health pronouncement of the ventilator.” Gossett quickly recovered and made a very
sovereign fifth largest nation in the world The nurses were shocked. Michael short film for the FLCCC doctors that ends:
for “spreading misleading and potentially was jubilant. The next day his mother was “I’m very grateful to all of you for literally
harmful information.” (Early treatment sitting in a chair talking to him on Zoom. saving my life.”
is code for Ivermectin.) On January 31, But then Judy regressed. They moved her In Cushing, Oklahoma (pop. 7,826),
the Slovak Ministry of Health announced to a cardiac floor, her heart was racing, and Dr. Randy Grellner saw Kory’s testimony
its decision on Facebook to allow use of “she was going downhill,” Michael says, and started giving his patients Ivermectin,
Ivermectin, causing Facebook to take down and he asked the doctor for another dose which he’d used safely for years for parasites,
that post and removed the entire page it of Ivermectin. This time the “no” from the for COVID-19 because he was “tired of the
was on, the Ivermectin for MDs Team, doctor and administration was final. That heartache…tired of the misery…I’ve seen
with 10,200 members from more than day the family retained Buffalo lawyer enough death and despair.” In a few weeks
100 countries. Ralph Lorigo, who studied Kory’s video and the overwhelmed clinic dropped from
In Argentina, Professor and doctor the FLCCC website and sued the hospital to twenty-five new COVID-19 cases a day
Hector Carvallo, whose prophylactic studies give their mother more Ivermectin. to two. “The first thing that surprised me
are renowned by other researchers, says all Judge Henry Nowak of the New York was how fast was the recovery in seventy-
his scientific documentation for Ivermectin State Supreme Court agreed to hear the five and eight-five-year-old people,” Dr.
is quickly scrubbed from the Internet. case on an emergency basis as “a matter of Grellner said. “I know there’s controversy.
“I am afraid,” he wrote to Marik and his life and death.” He ruled that a woman was I have no political motivation. I don’t have
colleagues, “we have affected the most dying in the middle of a pandemic with any desire except to put husbands and wives
sensitive organ on humans: the wallet...” As no known treatment for COVID-19 and back together. If you’re getting problems
Kory’s testimony was climbing toward nine a safe, long-established drug had affected from an organization that you work for
million views, YouTube, owned by Google, her “miraculous turnaround,” and ordered that says you can’t use it, I would question
erased his official Senate testimony, saying it the Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital that organization. If we’re not doing what
endangered the community. Kory’s biggest to immediately start Judith Smentkiewicz is best for the patient, then we need to find
voice was silenced. on four more doses of Ivermectin, per her another occupation.”
But Jan heard him. After a few minutes family doctor’s prescription. In Buffalo, after a forty-minute hearing
of watching the interview with Dr. Kory on The hospital refused to carry out the on the fate of Judy Smentkiewicz, the
New Year’s Day morning, she’d heard quite judge’s order. The hospital’s lawyer insisted lawyer for the Millard Fillmore hospital
enough. Her fingers flew on a text to her on a hearing to make his case that no patient agreed that she could take Ivermectin if the
daughter, Haley: “This is the drug Michael’s has the right to choose their own medicine. family doctor delivered the prescription,
mother needs to be on…now!!!!...You need The debate ensued as Judy lay dying. “The and after a lot of hassles (including the
to take charge of Nonnis healing.” world has gone mad,” Kory said. All over the hospital couriering Ivermectin from another
Haley showed the text to her husband. world, people were fighting for their lives hospital), “At eleven o’clock that night
But Michael Smentkiewicz wasn’t interested. not only against the coronavirus but against she was administered the second dose of
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Ivermectin,” Lorigo says. She immediately more days because she was still a little in an FLCCC webinar hosted by former
started improving. With three more doses “breathy.” Alarm bells went off in my CBS correspondent Betsy Ashton that is an
of Ivermectin, he said, “she’s off the cardiac mind after many interviews with Pierre Ivermectin 60 Minutes, with Kory talking
floor, she’s back on the COVID floor, she’s Kory. I got word to Dr. Kory, who called to the public and answering their questions.
cured of COVID, she’s released.” Michael Smentkiewicz, who heard the Recently he reported that Mexico, the “light
A week later, Natalie Kingdollar, doctor’s voice and became emotional. and model of the world,” solved an India-
whose sixty-five-year-old mother Glenna “It’s him, it’s the guy,” he said, holding his like COVID-19 crisis last fall by testing and
Dickinson was dying of COVID-19 on a phone out for the family to hear. “Listen treating the population with Ivermectin,
ventilator in Rochester General Hospital— to his voice.” Kory walked the rehab center and now has some of the lowest case and
the doctors had exhausted all treatment through the complicated step-down use death rates on the globe. He also posted an
options—read the Buffalo News story of of corticosteroids for elderly COVID-19 interview with a prominent surgeon and
Judy’s recovery, a life-saving flicker in the patients that is more attentive than the hospital owner in Visakhapatnam, India,
media blackout, and persuaded the ICU one-size-fits-all government protocols, who treats many COVID-19 patients in
doctors to give her mother Ivermectin. which cause of lot of needless deaths when the tragic current “COVID tsunami,” and
Twelve hours later, after one 12 mg dose doctors treat on cruise control, Kory says. passed on the hopeful news that the All
that her daughter picked up at Walgreens After a month in rehab, Judy went home, India Institute of Medical Sciences in New
for eighty-three cents, Glenna’s vitals were happy and healthy, to her children and her Delhi has recently approved Ivermectin
much improved. She was “completely stable grandchildren. for early and home treatment, “a game
and doing much better,” Lorigo said. They She was quite amazed to learn changer for India and for the world,” the
reduced her ventilator 50 percent, no longer from her children that while she was surgeon said. Ivermectin “saved India in
had to “flip” her from her back to her belly lying unconscious and near death with 2020 after it got official permission in Uttar
for better oxygen flow, and they moved her COVID-19 she became a front-page story Pradesh in August followed by many other
to a “step-down ICU.” in The Buffalo News and a Joan of Arc figure states,” he wrote, but starting in January
Glenna’s doctor, who prescribed the in a new revolution, the grandmother with many political changes, it “has been
Ivermectin, is Thomas Madejski, internist who won the first legal fight in the battle getting BAD propaganda by big pharma
and chief of medicine at Medina Memorial of Ivermectin. It is an unprecedented and big scientists,” and many doctors
Hospital, former president of the New York civil rights uprising of doctors, nurses, stopped using it, collapsing prevention
State medical society, a clinical instructor in scientists, Nobel-Prize winning biologists, and home treatment and seeding the crisis
medicine and pharmacy at the University of billionaire health philanthropists, civil of overloaded hospitals and many needless
Buffalo, who sits on the Board of Trustees rights activists, and thousands of ordinary deaths.
of the American Medical Association as an people across Europe, Asia, South America, “ We BEG health agencies and
expert in geriatric medicine. As medical Africa, Canada, and the United States mainstream media in other countries,” the
director of a nursing home he says he fighting a global, big-data-driven medical Indian doctor wrote, “NOT to give BAD
has successfully used Ivermectin to quell establishment. They’re fighting for the lost PROPAGANDA of Ivermectin. Ivermectin
COVID-19 among elderly patients in three little things, the little data—the sanctity of is saving India and Africa.”
New York counties. the doctor-patient relationship, the survival As he reported the news that night,
Now Dr. Madejski, who has treated of the Hippocratic Oath, and the most Kory expressed disgust with “the physician-
Glenna for fourteen years, prescribed important of civil rights, the right to life. scientists in the ivory towers and public
a full course of Ivermectin to complete Kory sometimes despairs at the health agencies” who are “just not getting
the treatment, and was denied. The forces against him. “Our little Ivermectin it.” It was up to doctors now to save lives as
ICU doctors and Rochester General has so many big enemies,” he says. “It’s the scientists are “completely disconnected
refused to administer the medication David versus ten Goliaths.” But word is to how to treat this disease and what to
because Ivermectin isn’t approved to treat getting out. More than twenty countries do.” His mentor takes the longer view.
COVID-19 by the FDA (the budget of representing some 20 percent of the Earth’s “The saddest thing for us is we know this
which, as it happens, is 75 percent funded population use Ivermectin, many in their can make a difference and save lives,” Marik
by big pharmaceutical companies). Another national protocol. Every day it seems Kory says, “and it seems like nobody really cares
state supreme court judge, relying on the hears from someone like the Toronto and wants to listen to us.” But “we feel we
science provided by Pierre Kory and the doctor, a Bulgarian, who used Kory’s data can’t be silenced, we just can’t be, because
FLCCC, ordered the hospital to dispense to convince the health ministers in his you know the truth will ultimately prevail.”
a handful more of the pills, per the doctor’s home country to sign on. Kory talks every “This is how science always progresses,”
script, and Glenna got off the ventilator and day to his growing base of 17,000 Twitter says Dr. Berkowitz, who takes hope from
is now home, cured of COVID-19. followers, and his peer-reviewed paper on the recovery of Judy Smentkiewicz. “This is
A few days before Judy was released Ivermectin recently exploded online as one what being a doctor is,” he said. “It says in
from the hospital, the writer of this story of the most-discussed scholarly papers ever the Talmud, if you save one life, you save
was interviewing her son Michael about posted out of seventeen million tracked by the entire world.”
the happy news that she was headed home, Altmetric.

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