The COVID Response. What We Got Wrong.

Part V: The Treatments 

Today, I’m going to take on yet another topic that was front page news for months… and then, simply disappeared.

Do you remember when, early in 2020, President Trump talked about certain medications that held out hope for treating COVID? Three of those he mentioned the most in tweets and White House briefings were ivermectin, remdesivir, and hydroxychloroquine.

The CDC and the mainstream press attacked him viscously for this. They accused him of witch-doctory. They said he was putting lives in danger by encouraging people to take them. Do you remember that?

There was a huge outcry, in particular, against hydroxychloroquine. That was the one that was going to kill people that took it. Do you remember? Well, Trump was merely reporting on early studies on these drugs. Since then, lots of new data has been collected. And though subsequent studies have shown that hydroxychloroquine is not useful in treating COVID, those early studies were showing positive results. Here’s one example from the NIH.

As for ivermectin and remdesivir – they are not miracle cures, but Trump never said they were. Recent findings are mixed, but some have shown them to be “somewhat” to “very” effective in mitigating the symptoms of COVID.

One major study, for example, found that a three-day course of remdesivir given to non-hospitalized patients who were at high risk for COVID-19 progression resulted in 87% lower risk of hospitalization or death than a placebo. And though the FDA keeps insisting that ivermectin doesn’t work against COVID, many of the studies they point to on their website show that it does. Click here.

We now know that none of these drugs are dangerous, if taken as prescribed. And some of them have become recommended treatments by respected medical establishments all over the world. So, where was the CDC and the mainstream media as these positive results started to come out?

When I continue with this series on fake COVID news, I’ll tell you why I think we were scared into an irrational and ultimately damaging response to the virus.