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Does FDA Document Prove COVID Vaccine Shedding Is Real?!

Did an FDA document just prove that COVID-19 vaccine shedding is real?! Take a look at the viral claim, and find out what the facts really are!

Claim : FDA Doc Proves COVID Vaccine Shedding Is Real!

People are sharing articles (archive | archive) by Natural News and Infowars, which claimed or suggested that an FDA document just proved that COVID-19 vaccine shedding is real!

Here is an excerpt from those articles. Feel free to skip to the next section for the facts!

PROOF: Documents from FDA, Pfizer show that COVID “vaccine” shedding is REAL

Up until now, most of the research exposing Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) “vaccines” as dangerous – and exposing those who take them as disease and death spreaders – has come from independent sources. Now, the truth is coming from the federal government and Big Tech.

It took the sleuthing public, including the diligent truth-seekers at the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC) advocacy group, a while to find all this, but we now know from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) itself that mRNA gene therapy products like those manufactured by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna do, in fact, shed onto others from those who take them.

A 2015 FDA document called “Design and Analysis of Shedding Studies for Virus or Bacteria-Based Gene Therapy and Oncolytic Products” defines shedding as “the release of [viral or bacterial gene therapy products] … from the patient through one or all of the following ways: excreta (feces); secreta (urine, saliva, nasopharyngeal fluids etc.); or through the skin (pustules, sores, wounds).”

The same document goes on to explain, according to the FDA, what gene therapy products are:

“All products that mediate their effects by transcription and/or translation of transferred genetic material.”

Since both the mRNA injections for COVID and adenovirus vaccines fall into this category, this is a clear-cut admission from the FDA itself that people who are “fully vaccinated” for COVID shed these poisons onto others through contact or close proximity, vindicating independent researchers who have been warning about this threat for years.

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Truth : FDA Doc Does Not Prove COVID Vaccine Shedding Is Real!

This is yet another example of anti-vaccine fake news, and here are the reasons why…

Fact #1 : The FDA Document Is From 2015

Let me start by pointing out that the FDA document in question is almost 9 years old, being originally published in August 2015.

In other words – it was published 4 years before the COVID-19 pandemic, and 5 years before the first COVID-19 vaccines were approved.

Fact #2 : FDA Document Does Not Apply To COVID-19 Vaccines!

The FDA document was an industry guidance paper (PDF) called Design and Analysis of Shedding Studies for Virus or Bacteria-based Gene Therapy and Oncolytic Products.

The title itself is clear – it only refers to “Virus or Bacteria-based Gene Therapy and Oncolytic Products“.

COVID-19 vaccines are not gene therapy (gene modification) products, and they are not oncolytic (cancer killing) products either. So the FDA document does not apply to them!

Fact #3 : Shedding Only Occurs With Live Attenuated Virus Vaccines

Vaccine shedding actually refers to viral shedding, which can only (potentially) occur with live attenuated virus vaccines. Such vaccines alters the virus to make it weakened or even harmless, but still “live”.

There are no COVID-19 vaccines that are based on the live attenuated SARS-CoV-2 virus. Therefore, vaccine shedding cannot possibly occur with any COVID-19 vaccine currently-approved by the WHO.

All currently-approved COVID-19 vaccines are based on other vaccine technologies like inactivated virus (killed virus), viral vector (using a different virus), mRNA (using mRNA instructions), or subunit vaccines (using isolated viral proteins).

To be clear – mRNA vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, highlighted in the Natural News and Infowars articles, do not cause vaccine shedding.

Fact #4 : Viruses Multiply, Vaccines Won’t

I should also point out that if the spike protein is so dangerous, then it is even more important to get vaccinated against COVID-19. After all, viruses multiply, while the vaccines won’t!

Even if we simply look at the mRNA vaccines alone, they contain a limited number of mRNA instructions that encode for the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. The mRNA instructions enter a limited number of cells, which then produce and display those spike proteins on their surfaces, to trigger our immune system.

If you are infected by the actual SARS-CoV-2 virus though, it quickly hijacks your cells to produce millions of copies – each covered with spike proteins, which then infect even more cells, in an ever-expanding chain reaction.

Until your immune system learns to stop and defeat the SARS-CoV-2 virus, it will keep producing millions and millions of viruses that will circulate through your body, delivering those nasty spike proteins everywhere.

So if you are really worried about the spike protein, you should really get vaccinated against COVID-19!

Fact #5 : Natural News Is Known For Fake News

Natural News is a far-right, anti-vaccination conspiracy theory and fake news website that is known for publishing / promoting pseudoscience, disinformation, and far-right extremism.

Writing in the journal Vaccine, Anna Kata identified Natural News as one of numerous websites spreading “irresponsible health information”. According to John Banks, Natural News founder Mike Adams uses “pseudoscience to sell his lies” and is “seen as generally a quack and a shill by science bloggers.”

Dr. David Gorski called Natural News “one of the most wretched hives of scum and quackery on the Internet,” and the most “blatant purveyor of the worst kind of quackery and paranoid anti-physician and anti-medicine conspiracy theories anywhere on the Internet”.

Its articles have been regularly debunked as fake news, so you should never share anything from Natural News. Here are some of its fake stories that I fact checked earlier:

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Study Shows 10X Ivermectin Can’t Prevent Severe COVID-19!

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The I-TECH study that was just published in JAMA showed that high-dose ivermectin cannot prevent patients from developing severe COVID-19!

Take a look at the peer-reviewed study, and find out why ivermectin really is useless against COVID-19.

I-TECH Study of 10X Ivermectin Dose to Prevent Severe COVID-19

Ivermectin proponents like the FLCCC have claimed that ivermectin works best as a prophylaxis or in early cases of COVID-19, preventing people from getting severe COVID-19.

Ivermectin’s efficacy as a prophylaxis was already dealt a fatal blow, when the FLCCC’s cheerleader himself – Dr. Pierre Kory and his daughter got sick from COVID-19 despite being on the I-MASK+ ivermectin protocol.

Keep in mind that the FLCCC only advocates taking one ivermectin tablet a week, which doubled after it failed to protect Dr. Kory from COVID-19.

The I-TECH (Ivermectin Treatment Efficacy in COVID-19 High-Risk Patients) Study aimed to address the other question – can ivermectin prevent COVID-19 patients from developing severe disease?

Registered in the Clinical Trials database as NCT04920942, it was a multi-centre open-label randomised controlled trial of 490 patients using 5X the dose of ivermectin recommended by the FLCCC.

patients who were 50 years and above, with co-morbidities were selected because they are most likely to develop severe COVID-19
patients had to be hospitalised, with Stage 2 / 3 (mild to moderate) COVID-19
patients were randomised at a 1:1 ratio to :
a) IVM group receiving ivermectin + standard of care
b) SOC group receiving only standard of care
IVM group patients received 2X the standard dose of ivermectin (0.4 mg/kg/day) for 5 days – 5X higher than recommended by the FLCCC

I-TECH Study : 10X Ivermectin Can’t Prevent Severe Covid-19!

After follow-up ended on 25 October 2021, the team released a preliminary report in November 2021, before it was peer-reviewed and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) on 18 February 2022.

I read through the I-TECH paper published in JAMA Internal Medicine, and summarised their key findings in the tables below.

No Significant Difference In Clinical Outcomes

There was little difference between the two groups. In other words – ivermectin offered no clinical benefit to those who took it, even at 2X the usual dose.

Keep in mind that even COVID-19 vaccines have to show a minimum of 50% efficacy. That minimum level of efficacy was not demonstrated in the I-TECH trial, even at 5X the dose recommended by the FLCCC.

Outcomes	Ivermectin	Standard of Care	Significance (p <0.05)
Progress to severe COVID-19	21.6%	17.3%	0.25, not significant
Time to severe COVID-19 (mean)	3.2 days	2.9 days	0.51, not significant
Patients requiring ventilation	1.7%	4.0%	0.17, not significant
Patients admitted to ICU	2.5%	3.2%	0.79, not significant
In-hospital mortality	1.2%	4.0%	0.09, not significant
Length of hospital stay (mean)	7.7 days	7.3 days	0.38, not significant
Total symptom resolution (day 5)	51.3%	53.0%	0.72, not significant
Normal chest radiography (day 5)	25.6%	24.9%	0.92, not significant

Ivermectin proponents are pointing out that more people died in the control group than with ivermectin. However, the truth is that 4 deaths in the control group were from nosocomial sepsis, not COVID-19.

If we adjust for that, this is what the true comparison of COVID-19 mortality would be like – even less significant.

Outcomes	Ivermectin	Standard of Care
In-hospital mortality	1.2%	2.4%

Ivermectin proponents are also complaining that the study did not properly match the two groups, while ignoring the inconvenient fact that the ivermectin group has almost twice as many people who were fully-vaccinated than the control group.

That alone would have greatly improved the ivermectin group’s chances of warding off serious COVID-19, and death. And yet, the ivermectin group did not show any significant advantage over the control group.

In fact, if the study authors perform a sub-group analysis with equal number of fully-vaccinated individuals, it’s likely that the mortality rate will be similar.

Significantly More Side Effects

The study also revealed that the ivermectin group suffered significantly more non-serious side effects, particularly diarrhoea.

The ivermectin group also experienced significantly more serious side effects :

4.3X more serious side effects reported
3.1X more Grade 3 side effects than the standard of care group
5.3X more Grade 4 side effects than the standard of care group

Two patients who received ivermectin, for example, suffered heart attacks during the short trial period.

Side Effects	Ivermectin	Standard of Care	Difference
Non-Serious Side Effects	15.8%	4.8%	+ 3.3X
Serious Side Effects – Myocardial infarction – Arterial injury – Severe Anaemia – Hypovolemic Shock	1.7% 0.83% – 0.41% 0.41%	0.4% – 0.4% – –	+ 4.3X – – – –
CTCAE Grade 1	9.5%	2.8%	+ 4X
CTCAE Grade 2	3.3%	1.2%	+ 2.8X
CTCAE Grade 3	2.5%	0.8%	+ 3.1X
CTCAE Grade 4	2.1%	0.4%	+ 5.3X

Summary : 10X Ivermectin Does Not Prevent Severe COVID-19

I should also point out that I-TECH was an OPEN LABEL trial, which means participants are aware and consent to receiving ivermectin.

That alone would skew the results in favour of the ivermectin group, as participants would benefit from the placebo effect.

Yet the results show that ivermectin did not prevent those who received it from progressing to severe COVID-19, despite taking 5X the dose recommended by the FLCCC, and 10X the standard dose.

On the other hand, 1 in 59 patients who took ivermectin for just 5 days reported serious side effects.

Based on the I-TECH trial results, there can be no doubt – ivermectin cannot protect patients from developing severe COVID-19, even at 10X the standard dose.

So ask yourself – how then can ivermectin work at 2X the dose once a week, as recommended by proponents like the FLCCC?

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Pierre Kory Got COVID-19 Despite Taking Ivermectin!

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Dr. Pierre Kory and his daughter got infected with COVID-19, despite taking the FLCCC ivermectin prophylaxis protocol!

Watch our video, and find out WHY he got COVID-19 despite taking ivermectin!

Dr. Pierre Kory Got COVID-19, Despite Taking Ivermectin!

Sometime in August 2021, Dr. Pierre Kory admitted in an FLCCC Zoom call that he got infected with COVID-19, several days after his daughter caught it.

Imagine that – the FLCCC cheerleader himself was infected with COVID-19, despite taking the I-MASK+ ivermectin prophylaxis he had been promoting for months!

That FLCCC session video was posted in several places (including YouTube), but quickly deleted soon after. It’s as if ivermectin proponents are trying to bury the video to avoid the public finding out that their ivermectin hero contracted COVID-19…

Thanks to the awesome detective work by Dr. Jickee, I managed to get my hands on the FLCCC video! To avoid the video being taken down, I created this mash-up with my own text commentary.

You will be able to see and hear Dr. Pierre Kory himself admit that he contracted COVID-19, despite telling the US Senate twice that “if you take it, you won’t get sick [with COVID-19]”

Why Dr Pierre Kory Got COVID-19 Despite Taking Ivermectin…

To be clear – I’m not ecstatic that Dr. Pierre Kory was infected by COVID-19. It only seemed inevitable, based on current evidence.

But I am certainly enthusiastic about the teaching moment here, even if it’s only anecdotal – the value of which Dr. Kory ironically touts to be as valuable as RCTs… #eyeroll

Fact #1 : Dr. Pierre Kory Admitted He Contracted COVID-19

Ivermectin proponents have to STOP LYING that Dr. Kory did not get infected with COVID-19, or that he didn’t get sick with it.

In the video above, Dr. Pierre Kory admitted that, despite being on the FLCCC I-MASK+ ivermectin protocol…

his daughter infected him with COVID-19, and
he got sick from his COVID-19 infection.

No, he didn’t die (fortunately), but he definitely got infected and sick from COVID-19.

Fact #2 : Dr. Pierre Kory Did Not Get Infected By COVID-19 Patient

Many ivermectin proponents falsely claimed that Dr. Kory was infected while working on the “frontlines”, where the viral load is so high that the chances of a “breakthrough infection” is significant.

The truth is Dr. Pierre Kory resigned from his hospital – Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center sometime in January 2021, so he had no contact with COVID-19 patients.

Fact #3 : Dr. Pierre Kory Was Infected By His Daughter

As Dr. Kory explained in the video, he was actually infected by his daughter who got COVID-19 several days earlier.

This is an important point to note for three reasons :

the I-MASK+ ivermectin protocol failed to prevent his daughter from getting COVID-19,
the I-MASK+ ivermectin protocol failed to prevent his daughter from transmitting it to him,and
Dr. Kory got infected despite not being in a “dangerous frontline environment”.

Of course, we have to assume he took reasonable precautions after his daughter got infected, like wearing a face mask, keeping her isolated, and maintaining good hand hygiene.

If he did not, now that would be highly irresponsible, wouldn’t it? And hypocritical too, since the I-MASK+ protocol recommends wearing “a cloth, surgical, or N95 mask”.

Fact #4 : Dr. Pierre Kory Was On I-MASK+ Protocol

As he shared in his video testimonial, Dr. Kory was on the original I-MASK+ protocol of 0.2 mg of ivermectin once a week.

He claimed that he was “probably Day 7” of his last ivermectin dose, but that’s his opinion which is, again… NOT backed by any evidence.

I should also point out that the I-MASK+ protocol that the Dr. Kory and the FLCCC have been advocating consists of many supplements and ivermectin, 5-6 pills of which are taken EVERY SINGLE DAY.

1,000 to 3,000 IU of Vitamin D3
2,000 mg of Vitamin C
250 mg of Quercetin
50 mg of Zinc
6 mg of Melatonin

So it would be disingenuous for him to claim that he only got COVID-19 because he was on Day 7 of his ivermectin dose…

Unless the truth is – the other components of the I-MASK+ protocol are USELESS against COVID-19?

Fact #5 : Dr. Pierre Kory’s Daughter Was Infected Several Days Earlier

As Dr. Pierre Kory himself said, his daughter was infected several days earlier.

That actually refutes his claim that he was infected specifically on Day 7 of his ivermectin dose, because the SARS-CoV-2 virus does not wait around to infect people on a specific day.

The only way that would happen is if he took precautions around her except for the most vulnerable day – the day before his next dose of ivermectin.

It is far more likely that Dr. Pierre Kory got infected by his daughter days earlier. Due to the incubation period, he only started getting symptoms several days later.

You would have expected an experienced doctor like Dr. Kory to know that…

Fact #6 : Dr. Kory Admitted Ivermectin Not Working Against Delta Variant

Despite earlier claiming that ivermectin works on all COVID-19 variants, Dr. Pierre Kory himself admitted in the video above that ivermectin is failing to prevent infections from “new variants”.

In an earlier tweet, he even admitted that the Delta variant patients are “not showing responses to MATH+“, even saying that the FLCCC Alliance members are “demoralized and frightened“.

Did the FLCCC back the wrong horse, ivermectin? Will Ivermectin proponents now stop claiming that ivermectin works better than vaccines against the new variants?

I have experienced and am getting reports from FLCCC Alliance members that Delta variant patients crashing into ICU’s… are not showing responses to MATH+. We are demoralized and frightened. Early treatment is CRITICAL. Every household should take I-MASK+ upon first symptoms.

— Pierre Kory, MD MPA (@PierreKory) August 9, 2021

Fact #7 : FLCCC Doubled Dose Of Ivermectin

Unfortunately, Dr. Pierre Kory and the FLCCC are doubling down on ivermectin… literally. They are now calling for the doubling of how much ivermectin to take :

prevention : 0.2 mg/kg of ivermectin TWICE a week, instead of once a week
early treatment : 0.4 mg/kg of ivermectin, instead of 0.2 mg/kg

However, even he admitted in the video above that this change is NOT backed by evidence, and is merely their opinion.

Goodness gracious… medical advice NOT backed by any real evidence.

Fact #8 : Ivermectin Has Half-Life Of Just 18 Hours

I honestly don’t see how the original or new FLCCC ivermectin protocol would work, since ivermectin has a plasma half-life of 18 hours according to Merck.

That means the ivermectin concentration in your blood reduces to HALF in 18 hours, and just a QUARTER in 36 hours.

Even taking ivermectin TWICE A WEEK makes little sense, since there would be little ivermectin left in the body by the end of the second day!

Fact #9 : Ivermectin Have Not Been Proven Effective Against COVID-19

As of 15 November 2021, ivermectin has not been proven to improve clinical outcomes or prevent transmission.

June 2021 study in The Lancet : No improvement in symptoms or clinical outcomes with triple-dose ivermectin
February 2021 study in The Lancet : No difference in transmissibility with double-dose ivermectin.

That is why the WHO and the vast majority of health authorities around the world DO NOT advocate using ivermectin to prevent or treat COVID-19.

Is it any wonder why Dr. Kory got infected with COVID-19 despite taking ivermectin? There never was any conclusive evidence that ivermectin could CLINICALLY prevent or cure COVID-19.

Fact #10 : FLCCC Ivermectin Protocol Is Not Cheap!

Antivaxxers claim that vaccines are being promoted for profit, but the truth is – there are MUCH LARGER PROFITS to be made through the FLCCC ivermectin protocol!

The FLCCC’s recommended I-MASK+ ivermectin protocol costs more than two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, after one month.

On top of that, their I-MASK+ ivermectin protocol requires you to take 5-6 pills every day for as long as the COVID-19 pandemic lasts, while most COVID-19 vaccines only require two doses, and a third booster dose.

Unscrupulous doctors are also charging exorbitant fees to prescribe ivermectin, while COVID-19 vaccines are generally offered for FREE in most countries!

Please SHARE this article with your family and friends, so that they too can learn the the lessons offered by Dr. Kory’s COVID-19 infection…

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Is COVID-19 Vaccine Useless Against Delta Variant?

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Is the COVID-19 vaccine really useless against the Delta variant of COVID-19?

Let’s take a look at this new claim, and find out what the FACTS really are!

Claim : COVID-19 Vaccine Is Useless Against Delta Variant!

Captain Wong Ang Peng from the MAECC is at it again, crying wolf about the COVID-19 vaccines to promote ivermectin.

He managed to get The Malaysian Insight to post his letter, which has gone viral on WhatsApp after it was actively shared by ivermectin proponents and antivaxxers.

It is a very long letter, so just SKIP to the next section for the facts…

Delta variant demolishes vaccine claim of less severe Covid for inoculated

Wong Ang Peng

A flurry of new scientific information challenges the presumption of efficacy and demolishes the Covid-19 vaccines’ claims that they are a guard against severe infection.

THE Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 is now a serious global concern. The spate of scientific reports on Delta variant surfacing over the last few weeks showing those fully vaccinated against Covid-19 are no better off, or even disadvantaged, is cause for policymakers to rethink.

This flurry of new scientific information challenges the presumption of efficacy and demolishes the vaccines’ claims that they are a guard against severe infection.

Like in many parts of the world, the Delta is now the dominant variant in Malaysia. It is highly infectious and virulent.

The Health Ministry has randomly sequenced 265 Covid-19 samples from August 16-29 in various parts of the country, all of which turned out to be of the Delta variant.

Health Ministry data since August 12 have shown a rising infection rate among the fully vaccinated (14 days after the second dose), from 12.5% to 33.7% on September 5.

The infection breakthrough is a paradox that policymakers have difficulty rationalising.

From August 12 to September 4 there has been a consistent number of fully vaccinated cases admitted into the intensive care units for categories 4 and 5 infection. Cases average 33.9 a day, demolishing the claim that vaccines can prevent severity of Covid-19 infection, a claim that is based on the relative risk reduction in the vaccines’ original clinical trials.

The single-digit difference among the 20,000-odd subjects, if calculated via absolute risk reduction, is insignificant. Furthermore, the claim is linked to the original coronavirus strain and not the mutated Delta variant.

Besides not being protected against severe Covid-19, the fully vaccinated are more prone to infection and carry much higher viral loads than the unvaccinated.

Recent published studies on SARS-CoV-2 and the Delta variant all pointed to breakthrough infection in Israel (Gazit et al, 2021); Britain (Technical Briefing 20 on SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern, August 6, 2021); Japan (Liu et al, 2021); and Vietnam (Chau et al, 2021)

Infection breakthrough, also known as vaccine escape, is now self-evident. Swedish virologist Dr Geert Vanden Bossche first spoke on vaccine escape and cautioned against introducing vaccination in the middle of a pandemic.

Establishment scientists who pooh-poohed Bossche’s idea have now humble pie to eat.

Of the four recent studies, the findings of Gazit et al and Chau et al are most incriminating to the diminished usefulness of the Covid vaccines against the Delta variant.

Gazit and colleagues concluded that the vaccinated had 13.06 times increased risk for breakthrough infection with the Delta variant compared to those previously infected, who were 5.96 times at increased risk for breakthrough infection, and 7.13 times increased risk for symptomatic disease.

Chau and colleagues in the Oxford-Vietnam study concluded that breakthrough Delta variant infections of the vaccinated had 251 times higher viral loads compared to those infected with the old strain before the vaccine was administered. Infected vaccinated cases also took longer to become PCR negative and had lower levels of vaccine induced-neutralising antibodies compared to the uninfected.

With regard to immunity, the Gazit et al study found that “natural immunity confers longer lasting and stronger protection against infection, symptomatic disease and hospitalisation caused by the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2, compared to the BNT162b2 two-dose vaccine-induced immunity”.

Earlier studies conducted in Israel and more than a dozen other studies comparing mRNA vaccine-induced antibodies and antibodies developed through natural infection have shown natural immunity to be far superior. As such, relying on the vaccines as the sole strategy to attain herd immunity is a fallacy that has no scientific basis.

There is now clear evidence that the vaccines may not be as effective as presumed.

Countries that are highly vaccinated are also reporting the most deaths per million (ourworldindata.org). Israel, one of the highest vaccinated nations, is an interesting case study. Despite having inoculated 63% of its 9.3 million population, it has the world’s fastest surging infection rate with a daily average of 6,225 cases in August, and the world’s highest cases per million with 1,115 cases per million on September 2. The fully vaccinated are now also infected.

Meanwhile the push for universal vaccination continues. There is no doubt that vaccines have their benefits, especially the attenuated virus protein version developed using the old technology.

Our health officials must carefully weigh the risks over benefits, monitor medium and long-term adverse reactions, and avoid corporate interest-driven decisions.

They must not rely only on reports channelled through establishment healthcare agencies but be open to fringe reports and alternative views. Above all, draw lessons from the Israeli conundrum.

The entire armament repertory must be employed to fight this Delta variant and the Covid war.

Unite the people, including those with dissenting views. It is not too late to incorporate ivermectin as an additional weapon. – September 7, 2021.

* Captain Dr Wong Ang Peng is a researcher with an interest in economics, politics, and health issues. He has a burning desire to do anything within his means to promote national harmony. Captain Wong is also a member of the National Patriots Association.

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Truth : COVID-19 Vaccine Protects Against Delta Variant!

Captain Wong Ang Peng is part of MAECC – a pseudoscientific group that is actively promoting ivermectin as an alternative to COVID-19 vaccines.

Let’s go through his claims, and find out what the FACTS really are…

Fact #1 : KKM Did Not Randomly Sequence COVID-19 Samples

Captain Wong Ang Peng claimed that the Malaysia Health Ministry (KKM) randomly sequenced 265 COVID-19 samples – all of which turned out to be of the Delta variant.

That’s not true.

First of all, the samples were not randomly selected, they were selected as suspected variants to be confirmed through genome sequencing.

Secondly, the research was not conducted by KKM itself but the Institute of Medical Research (IMR), the UITM Integrative Pharmacogenomimcs Institute (iPROMISE), and the UNIMAS Institute of Health and Community Medicine.

Fact #2 : New COVID-19 Cases Are NOT Necessarily Of Delta Variant

It is very misleading and wrong for him to claim that the 265 samples were randomly selected, because it suggests that all new COVID-19 cases are of the Delta variant.

That is simply NOT true.

Very little genomic testing is being conducted in Malaysia – just over 1,200 cases, which is less than 0.065% of all detected cases.

There is simply not enough data to draw any strong conclusion, much less suggest that all new COVID-19 cases are of the Delta variant.

Fact #3 : Percentage Of Breakthrough Infections Is Misleading

The use of percentage to judge the effectiveness of a vaccine is misleading, because :

in a population with 0% vaccination, there will be ZERO breakthrough infections – does that mean that the vaccine is 100% efficacious?
in a population with 100% vaccination, there can only be breakthrough infections – does that mean that the vaccine is 100% useless?

As the vaccination rate increases, the percentage of breakthrough cases versus infections of the unvaccinated will undoubtedly increase.

However, the number of hospitalisations and deaths will drop, and over time, so will the number of new cases.

Fact #4 : Vaccines Protect Against Hospitalisation + Death

COVID-19 vaccines vary in efficacy from just 50% to 95%, which means there will ALWAYS be some breakthrough infections.

There will be more breakthrough case with less efficacious vaccines, and fewer breakthrough cases with more efficacious vaccines, but they ALL offer excellent protection against severe COVID-19 and death!

People who are fully-vaccinated can get infected, but will either be asymptomatic or suffer only a mild disease.

Even so, you are strongly advised to maintain COVID-19 precautions, at least until herd immunity is achieved.

COVID-19 Vaccine	Protection Against
COVID-19 Vaccine	Symptomatic Infection	Severe Disease	Death
Pfizer Comirnaty	95.0%	100%	100%
Gamaleya Sputnik V	91.6%	100%	100%
Moderna mRNA-1273	94.1%	100%	100%
AstraZeneca AZD1222	62% ~ 90%	100%	100%
Sinopharm BBIBP-CorV	79% ~ 86%	90%	100%
Sinovac Biotech	50.65%	83.7%	100%
J&J Janssen COVID-19	66.0%	85%	100%
CanSino Biologics	65.7%	90.98%	100%

Fact #5 : Vaccines Still Protect Against Delta Variant

It has been known since June 2021 that the Delta variant causes more breakthrough infections.

However, it is false and misleading to claim that the breakthrough infection rates are rising because the COVID-19 vaccine does not work against the Delta variant.

Take a look at the table below, which I compiled of the latest 7 days with full data from KKM. It shows that even with just under 50% of the adult population in Malaysia fully-vaccinated :

less than 28% of all new cases were fully vaccinated.
less than 25% of new cases requiring hospitalisation were fully vaccinated
just over 20% of new cases had severe COVID-19 requiring an ICU bed were fully vaccinated

What this means is unvaccinated people are 3X more likely to require hospitalisation, and 4X more likely to develop severe COVID-19.

This shows that the COVID-19 vaccine you received still offers great protection against moderate and severe disease, even with the Delta variant.

Date	Fully Vaccinated Population*	New Cases	Moderate Disease	Severe Disease
29/8	44.5%	23.9%	23.4%	14.6%
30/8	45.9%	23.9%	21.5%	18.9%
31/8	47.2%	26.4%	21.4%	32.8%
1/9	48.7%	28.9%	19.4%	18.8%
2/9	50.2%	29.2%	30.4%	13.5%
3/9	51.6%	30.4%	26.8%	25.1%
4/9	53.0%	32.1%	29.9%	18.3%
Average	48.7%	27.8%	24.7%	20.3%

* Data taken from 15 days prior : 14 days for full efficacy + 1 day to account for discrepancy in reporting time

Fact #6 : Delta Variant Not Caused By “Vaccine Escape”

Captain Ang falsely claimed that the Delta variant was caused by “vaccine escape” – the virus mutated to evade the vaccine, like antibiotic resistance – an idea propagated by Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche.

When it comes to the Delta variant, that would be IMPOSSIBLE because it was detected in India in October 2020 – months before the first COVID-19 vaccinations started!

Fact #7 : Natural Immunity Is Risky

It is true that getting infected by COVID-19 imparts strong natural immunity for at least 6-8 months. However, there are a few caveats :

not everyone develops natural immunity – 1% to 10% will not develop neutralising antibodies.
its protection is not guaranteed – 10% to 20% can get reinfected within 7 months
immunity is greatly reduced in the elderly – up to 50% of people over 65 years in age can be reinfected.

There is also that pesky problem with natural immunity – you have to get infected with COVID-19, which has an average mortality risk of 2.2% – 22 people out of every thousand infected people will die.

Recommending that people develop natural immunity is as asinine as asking people NOT to wear seatbelts so that they will develop stronger bones after fracturing them in car accidents… if they survive them!

Fact #8 : Attenuated Virus Protein Vaccine Does Not Exist

In order not to appear as an antivaxxer, Captain Ang proffered a red herring – he’s in favour of the attenuated virus protein vaccine.

Only trouble is – there is NO SUCH THING as an attenuated virus protein vaccine!

He probably mixed it up with the live attenuated virus vaccine, which is a vaccine that uses a weakened virus (not a protein) to trigger immunity.

While such a live attenuated virus vaccine can elicit a strong immune response, it cannot be used in people with compromised immune system because it can trigger the very disease it seeks to protect you from

In any case, there is no approved live attenuated virus vaccine for COVID-19, so he was basically suggesting that none of the current COVID-19 vaccines are good, and that is simply FALSE.

All approved COVID-19 vaccines have been proven through clinical trials to be safe and effective.

Fact #9 : Ivermectin Has Not Been Proven To Work Against COVID-19

Ivermectin has been shown to work against COVID-19 in vitro studies (labs studies), but does NOT improve clinical outcomes or prevent transmission.

June 2021 study in The Lancet : No improvement in symptoms or clinical outcomes with triple-dose ivermectin
February 2021 study in The Lancet : No difference in transmissibility with double-dose ivermectin.

That is why the WHO and practically the vast majority of health authorities around the world do NOT advocate using ivermectin to prevent or treat COVID-19.

In fact, the FLCCC cheerleader himself – Dr. Pierre Kory – was INFECTED WITH COVID-19 despite taking ivermectin as prophylaxis!

Dr. Kory also admitted that ivermectin is failing to prevent infections from “new variants”, and that the FLCCC Alliance members are “demoralized and frightened“.

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Did Malaysia Approve Ivermectin For COVID-19?!

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Did Malaysia just approve ivermectin for COVID-19 treatment? Find out what the FACTS really are!

Claim : Malaysia Approved Ivermectin For COVID-19!

This is the viral message that is circulating on WhatsApp, with a link to a FreeMalaysiaToday article, called “Hospitals can apply for ‘off-label use’ of Ivermectin, says health ministry“.

It is very long, so just skip to the next section for the facts!

Woohoo!! GOOD NEWS!! IVERMECTIN is being recognised!!

Malaysia bucks the tide of heavy Pharma lobby and Approves IVERMECTIN!!

“Malaysian Government approves the use of Ivermectin for Covid19 treatment The Malaysian Ministry of Health is allowing hospitals to use Ivermectin “off-label”, meaning for purposes beyond what has been decreed. This is a huge step forward. Those patients who want ivermectin can ask for it.

Ivermectin acts in 3 ways.

Pre infection and in the early stage of covid-19, the drug has been shown to disrupt virus replication. This means the virus cannot multiply in your body.

If the virus has already set in before treatment, the next effect of ivermectin is to flush out the viral debris that triggers the immune response resulting in the cytokine storm which destroys lung tissue.

If ivermectin is administered late, its anti-inflammatory properties help to ease the air duct congestion and heal some of the tissue damage.

In 30 years of using ivermectin for humans, there have been minimal reports of adverse reactions. Best of all, even those who have been vaccinated can take ivermectin safely. The way ivermectin works is independent of virus variant, so all those scary new variants don’t have to be scary anymore.

The constant pressure from the ivermectin lobby has borne results. Let us all take advantage of it. If you are at risk, ask for ivermectin.

[07/07, 02:12] BG Dato Goh Seng Toh TUDM: Am very happy today cos my friend’s wife who was tested Covid 19 positive was declared cleared of the Covid19 virus by the doctor at the Government Quarantined Centre this morning. She was on Ivermectin, vitamin C, fresh fruits and simple foods for 5 days. She was so happy. Please consider taking Ivermectin with vitamin C and zinc if any of your family members is infected with Covid19 virus. Early treatment with Ivermectin is even better. Don’t wait until stage 3 or 4
[07/07, 02:12] BG Dato Goh Seng Toh TUDM: Happy too as MoH allow prescription of ivermectin for treatment upon request though off label … saving life and easing the full icu capacity is utmost important
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[07/07, 05:38] Mej Mior Rosli TUDM(B): I have been promoting ivermactin but many laughed at me..

32 countries have used it to combat Covid19..

This medication for initially for animals is safer than panadol if used for human.. eg it is dangerous to take 10 panadol at a time but no harm if you take 10 invermactin ..( actually 1 tablets per week is good enough for prevention..

It kills any Covid19 variants..

The current vaccination does not protect you from the new more dangerous delta variant.. because the current vaccine only protect the alpha variant.

WHO does not regulate, it only gives guidelines.. and no country is obliged to follow WHO’s guidelines.. some countries have better experts and qualified scientists.

MOH has been stubborn and bowed to the big pharmaceutical companies.. something to ponder on and why…🤔

There are hundred of medical journal by experts who have made more than ten years clinical test yet MOH put a blind eye on them.

India used ivermactin on the new delta variant and the pandemic is under control in a short period of time..

Indonesia is manufacturing it now..

Philippines initially ban it but when two of their ministers contracted with Covid19, they saved by the Ivermectin that they were allowed use.

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Truth : Malaysia Did Not Approve Ivermectin For COVID-19!

The truth is this is an “updated” combination of two prior fake news :

This time, the fake news creator blatantly claims that Malaysia has approved ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19.

The entire piece is nothing but fake news, and here are the facts…

Fact #1 : Malaysia Did Not Approve Ivermectin To Treat COVID-19

First, it must be made clear – Malaysia did NOT approve ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment or prophylaxis.

You cannot legally get a prescription for ivermectin to treat COVID-19 in Malaysia. In fact, it is ILLEGAL to sell ivermectin for human use in Malaysia.

Fact #2 : Hospitals Have To APPLY To Use Ivermectin To Treat COVID-19

The Malaysia Ministry of Health (KKM) did not “allow” hospitals to use ivermectin as an “off-label” treatment of COVID-19.

They only said that hospitals can APPLY to the Drug Control Agency (DCA) for the “off-label” use of ivermectin.

KKM also said that the use of off-label medication “must be done in a monitored environment“.

Fact #3 : Off-Label Application Has Long Existed

The ability for hospitals to apply for off-label use of medications have long existed.

This permission to apply for off-label use isn’t something new, or exclusive to ivermectin.

Fact #4 : Informed Patient Consent Is Required

As off-label use of medicine can be detrimental to the patient, it is important for the doctor to inform the patient of the risks and obtain his/her consent.

The treating physician in the hospital is required to fully explain the risks to the patient, who must then consent to the off-label use of ivermectin before it can be administered.

The signed consent form is then kept as part of the patient’s record.

Fact #5 : Ivermectin Mechanism Of Action Has Not Been Determined

The person who wrote the fake message claimed that ivermectin acts against COVID-19 in 3 ways. Its mechanism of action is currently unconfirmed.

There is no evidence that ivermectin will disrupt virus replication, which occurs after the cell is infected.

There is also no evidence that ivermectin will “flush out the viral debris”, or that it is the dead virus that causes a cytokine storm.

And there is also no evidence that the (proposed) anti-inflammatory properties of ivermectin can heal tissue damage.

Fact #6 : COVID-19 Breathing Difficulties Caused By Pneumonia + ARDS

The fake news writer claims that ivermectin helps to “ease the air duct congestion“. It suggests that he/she falsely believes that COVID-19 creates asthma-like breathing difficulties.

Breathing difficulty in COVID-19 is caused by pneumonia and/or ARDS (Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome).

COVID-19 causes damage to the blood vessels, causing them to fluid into your lungs. The fluid fills the air sacs in your lungs, which limits their ability to take in oxygen.

You start getting breathless and ARDS develops, leaving you unable to breathe on your own. This is when you require oxygen support, or mechanical ventilation.

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Fact #7 : Ivermectin Has Not Been Proven To Work Against COVID-19

Ivermectin has been shown to work against COVID-19 in vitro studies (labs studies), but does NOT improve clinical outcomes or prevent transmission.

June 2021 study in The Lancet : No improvement in symptoms or clinical outcomes with triple-dose ivermectin
February 2021 study in The Lancet : No difference in transmissibility with double-dose ivermectin.

That is why the WHO and practically the vast majority of health authorities around the world do NOT advocate using ivermectin to prevent or treat COVID-19.

Fact #8 : Ivermectin Has Not Been Tested Against COVID-19 Variants

The fake news writer claims that with ivermectin “all those scary new variants don’t have to be scary anymore.”

What he/she left out was the fact that ivermectin has NOT been tested against COVID-19 variants!

In fact, the Internet’s most prominent cheerleader of ivermectin – Dr. Pierre Kory, was infected by COVID-19 despite being on FLCCC ivermectin prophylaxis!

Other people who took ivermectin to protect against COVID-19 ended up dying, or developed severe COVID-19!

Fact #9 : Ivermectin Isn’t That Safe

The fake news writer claimed that “In 30 years of using ivermectin for humans, there have been minimal reports of adverse reactions.”

That’s probably because no one has been stupid enough to self-medicate using ivermectin!

Now that so many people are self-medicating with ivermectin, we are getting reports of :

In fact, it is DANGEROUS for people like Major Mior Rosli and Dr. Kenny Yong to claim that it is safe to take 10 or 15 ivermectin tablets!

Fact #10 : 32 Countries Are Not Using Ivermectin To Combat COVID-19

There is no evidence that 32 countries have officially used ivermectin to combat COVID-19, much less reported any success with it.

Countries that ivermectin proponents have been promoting – India, Peru, Mexico, Chile, Brazil, South Africa – have all failed to control COVID-19.

Just look at their COVID-19 case numbers below. Does it look like ivermectin helped them at all?

In fact, India dropped the use of ivermectin on 27 May 2021, after it proved to be ineffective against their COVID-19 surge.

Fact #11 : Current Vaccines Offer Good Protection Against Delta Variant

Major Rosli’s claim that current vaccines do not protect against the more dangerous Delta variant is FALSE.

Public Health England’s data have shown that the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines offer robust protection against the Delta variant, after two doses.

COVID-19 Variant	Symptomatic COVID-19		Hospitalisation
COVID-19 Variant	1 Dose	2 Doses	1 Dose	2 Doses
Alpha (UK)	50%	66%	76%	86%
Delta (India)	33%	60%	71%	92%

Fact #12 : Australia Does Not Use Ivermectin Against COVID-19

Australia does NOT use ivermectin to prevent or treat COVID-19.

Here is the 1 June 2021 conclusion on ivermectin by the Australian Department of Health :

There is currently insufficient evidence to support the safe and effective use of ivermectin, doxycycline and zinc (either separately, or in combination) for the prevention or treatment of COVID-19.

More robust, well-designed clinical trials are needed before they could be considered an appropriate treatment option.

Fact #13 : Singapore Does Not Use Ivermectin Against COVID-19

Singapore does NOT use ivermectin to prevent or treat COVID-19.

Here is the 18 June 2020 conclusion from the Singapore Ministry of Health’s COVID-19 Rapid Review :

There is insufficient high-quality evidence to show chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine are effective for post-exposure prophylaxis or treatment of COVID-19.

Instead, evidence to date suggests the use of these agents is associated with more harms than standard of care.

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Did Japan Approve Ivermectin For Use Against COVID-19?

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Did Japan approve ivermectin for use against COVID-19?

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Claim : Japan Approved Ivermectin For Use Against COVID-19!

People are sharing an article by GNEWS claiming that Japan approved ivermectin for use against COVID-19!

The article link (removed) is often shared with one of these comment :

IVERMECTIN APPROVED IN JAPAN!

Japan Approved Ivermectin For COVID-19!

Truth : Japan Did Not Approve Ivermectin For Use Against COVID-19!

The truth is that this is a rehash of earlier fake news. As of 28 August 2021, Ivermectin is NOT approved in Japan for use against COVID-19.

Here are the FACTS…

Fact #1 : Dr. Haruo Ozaki Wanted Off-Label Use Of Ivermectin

Dr. Haruo Ozaki suggested that doctors be allowed to prescribe ivermectin and dexamethasone “off-label” at a press conference on 9 February 2021.

He said, “I would like the government to consider treatment at the level of the family doctor.”

On 13 August 2021, he stated that “It is necessary to thoroughly study the clinical trials, but it seems that we are at the stage where it is okay to have the patient give an informed consent, and get permission to use it“.

Dr. Haruo Ozaki may be the Chairman of the Tokyo Medical Association, but he can only make suggestions. He is not the Japanese Health Ministry and cannot approve ivermectin for use against COVID-19.

Fact #2 : Ivermectin Still NOT APPROVED In Japan For Use Again st COVID-19

As of 28 August 2021, Japan still does NOT allow Ivermectin to be used to treat or prevent COVID-19.

In their July 2021 edition of COVID-19 treatment guidelines, Ivermectin is still listed in the category of drugs whose “efficacy and safety have not been established“.

Only two drugs have been approved (as of 28 August 2021) by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare for use against COVID-19 in Japan :

Remdesivir
Baricitinib

It is therefore FALSE for anyone to claim that Japan approved ivermectin for use against COVID-19.

Fact #3 : Tokyo Metropolitan Government Does NOT Recommend Ivermectin

Even the Tokyo Metropolitan Government itself does NOT recommend the use of ivermectin.

In their latest 28 June 2021 FAQ on COVID-19, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government states :

There are currently no antiviral drugs that are known to be effective against the coronavirus disease, so treatment aims to relieve symptoms.

In other words, the same Metropolitan government that Dr. Haruo Ozaki advises did NOT accept his suggestion to allow the off-label use of ivermectin.

Fact #4 : Japan Health Ministry Warns Against Taking Ivermectin

On 21 February 2021, the Japanese Health Ministry warned against importing ivermectin for use against COVID-19.

The Health Ministry warned that even if people are taking ivermectin at their own risks, its side effects may not be covered by government relief.

“Generally speaking, no one guarantees what’s inside imported medicines. It’s extremely dangerous to take them on one’s own judgment,” said an official of the ministry’s Tuberculosis and Infectious Diseases Control Division.

Fact #5 : Kitasato University Still TRYING To Conduct Ivermectin Trial

Ivermectin was discovered by Satoshi Ōmura of the Kitasato University, and William Campbell of Merck.

So it comes to no surprise that the Kitasato University would try to conduct a clinical study to examine the efficacy of ivermectin against COVID-19.

The study, CORVETTE-01 (Study in COvid-19 Patients With iveRmectin), kicked off on 16 September 2020 with the aim of recruiting 240 participants.

However, as of the latest 24 June 2021 update, the study has not even recruited its target of 240 participants.

Fact #6 : Ivermectin Is Not 100% Safe

Ivermectin is generally a safe and well-tolerated drug, but it has not actually been widely used.

Ivermectin proponents like to tell us that 3.7 billion doses of ivermectin have been prescribed over the last 40 years. That’s just 92 million doses a year.

In 2018, 41 billion doses of Atorvastatin were prescribed – 11X more doses in a single year than all ivermectin doses ever sold in the last 40 years.

On top of that, the ivermectin protocols being promoted by FLCCC, Professor Thomas Borody, Dr. Amir Farid and random people on social media have NEVER been tested for safety or efficacy.

So no one really knows whether the dosage or treatment regimen they are advocating are safe, or even work against COVID-19!

In fact, when people started self-medicating with ivermectin, doctors started to see cases of liver damage, which even resulted in at least one liver transplant.

Patients treated with ivermectin was also shown to require invasive mechanical ventilation EARLIER than those who did not take ivermectin.

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Fact Check : Survivor Lillian On How To Survive COVID-19?

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Lillian is a COVID-19 survivor, who went viral with her testimony of ivermectin in treating COVID-19.

Find out why she is WRONG, and WARN your friends!

Survivor Lillian On How To Survive COVID-19?

Lillian, who is a fan of Dr. Kenny Yong, gave her testimony on the efficacy of ivermectin in the DrKENNY CoVid19 SURVIVOR Q&A WhatsApp group on 11 August 2021.

It went viral after people shared it as evidence that ivermectin helped her and her husband recover from COVID-19.

A lady who has recovered from covid recently, recorded her personal experience in the horrible government’s hospital and was lucky to get to private hospital later. She mentioned taking ivermectin and other supplements. Worth listening , she gives many advices 👇

In her audio message (which you can listen below), she explained how her family started taking ivermectin, high-dose vitamins C and D3 to protect themselves after her son tested positive for COVID-19.

Ivermectin proponents like the FLCCC, MAECC and Dr. Kenny Yong claim that ivermectin alone can protect against COVID-19. Yet, her entire family got infected with COVID-19.

Even though they continued to take ivermectin and high-dose vitamins, Lillian’s and her husband’s condition worsened.

Just over a week later, they ended up breathless – just like Dr. Kenny Yong and his mother. Only then did they seek help.

They were hospitalised and given oxygen support, but she complained that the hospital was too crowded, and did not give them edible food or enough water.

Pictures of Serdang Hospital, shared by COVID-19 survivor, Lillian

They both transferred out to ICUs in private hospitals, where she said she continued to take ivermectin and supplements. This time though, she said that they worked.

She spent 11 days in the ICU and was discharged several days later, still requiring oxygen supplementation.

Lillian gave her testimony to support the use of ivermectin, but frankly, she serves as an object lesson on how NOT to treat or prevent COVID-19.

Just like Dr. Kenny Yong, they chose to self-medicate with ivermectin and supplements, and only sought medical help when they were both breathless.

At that point, their lungs were damaged and they required high-flow oxygen. It took them more than 2 weeks and many days in expensive ICUs to recover from COVID-19.

Does that sound like ivermectin and supplements worked in preventing or treating COVID-19? Or does it sound like they were a BIG FAILURE on both counts?

Don’t tell Lillian that. She continues to believe that taking ivermectin and supplements saved their lives.

I feel so sorry for the doctors and nurses who actually saved their lives. And not forgetting the high-flow oxygen that kept both Lillian and her husband alive.

Let me be VERY CLEAR about why Lillian’s testimony demonstrates why ivermectin and vitamin supplements are USELESS in preventing or treating COVID-19 :

The ivermectin prophylaxis failed – Lillian and her family were ALL infected by COVID-19.
Ivermectin failed to protect Lillian and her husband from developing severe COVID-19.
Both Lillian and her husband had to be hospitalised in the ICUs for more than a week, even though they continued to take ivermectin and supplements.
Even after she was discharged, Lillian needed oxygen supplementation. You can even hear how breathless she is in the audio message!
Ivermectin has not been shown to work against COVID-19 outside of a lab. In fact, the latest clinical studies show that it offers no clinical benefit against COVID-19, and it doesn’t stop transmission either.
The FLCCC is a fringe group of doctors that promotes alternative treatments for COVID-19, that they themselves did not even test in any trial to prove that they work!

Survivor Lillian : Voice Recording + Summary

Here is Lillian’s viral voice message, followed by my brief summary :

https://www.techarp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Lillians-testimony.mp3?_=1

On 9 July 2021, her eldest son tested positive for COVID-19 and quarantined at home.
They took ivermectin, 2000 IU of Vitamin D3 and Vitamin C to protect themselves, but one by one, they all “went down with COVID-19”.
Her third son was next to get infected, followed by her second son, and then both she and her husband were also infected.
Her sons recovered quickly, but Lilian and her husband took a worse turn.
On 18 July, they were both breathless and they were taken to a makeshift ward in the Serdang Hospital, where they were given oxygen support.
She complained that the makeshift ward was too crowded, and only her husband was given a bed. She was asked to sit on a wheelchair instead.
She claimed that they were neither given enough water or edible food, and the ward was unhygienic.
On the fourth day, they opted to get treated at two different private hospitals, where she claimed that they were admitted to the ICUs because of neglect at the Serdang Hospital.
She said that she took 3 ivermectin capsules a day as well as other supplements.
When she was admitted, her C-reactive protein reading was 173
It fell to 11 after 6 days, and was untraceable after 8 days. She claimed her doctors were surprised by how fast it fell.
She spent 11 days in the ICU, and transferred to the normal ward on the 12th day, and discharged on the 14th day, but still required oxygen supplementation.

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Fact Check : Dr. Kenny Yong On How To Survive COVID-19

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Dr. Kenny Yong is a COVID-19 survivor who is preaching fake and unproven cures.

Find out why he’s putting people’s lives at risk, and WARN your friends!

Dr. Kenny Yong : Rise Of An Antivax Doctor

Dr. Kenny Yong rose from obscurity to a social media celebrity of sorts, after releasing an audio message claiming to be a COVID-19 survivor who was chosen by God to teach us how to survive it too.

He now runs both a Telegram group, as well as a WhatsApp group, where he promotes fake or unproven treatments like ivermectin, as well as vaccine antibody tests, while sharing anti-vaccination videos and opinions – the irony of which is lost on his followers.

In this voice message, he explained how his mother was vaccinated with the Sinovac vaccine that resurrected like a zombie, and infected him and his whole family.

That is an outright lie because the viruses in the Sinovac vaccine are completely dead, but people still believe his lies. Even today, he continues to peddle that lie.

Ironically, he self-medicated himself and his mother with ivermectin and other alternative treatments like high-dose vitamins, ultraviolet blood irradiation, stem cells and even ozone therapy… and FAILED!

Instead of seeking medical help as soon as things got worse, they only sought help more than a week later when they were both breathless.

Even though they both managed to get beds in hospitals that were filled to the brim, Dr. Kenny Yong berated the doctors arrogant for not giving them both his preferred “alternative treatments for COVID-19”.

In the end, his mother died of COVID-19, and Dr. Kenny Yong himself only survived after being resuscitated on four different occasions.

Dr. Kenny Yong : COVID-19 Survivor Peddling Falsehoods

Despite failing to treat himself or his mother with his alternative treatments, Dr. Kenny Yong believes that he is a Messiah chosen by God to teach us how to defeat COVID-19 like he did.

He is no Messiah. In fact, he is an object lesson on how NOT to treat or prevent COVID-19.

He refused to get vaccinated, and falsely blamed his own mother for infecting him and his family with COVID-19 from the Sinovac vaccine, which is impossible.

And when they both got infected, he put both their lives at risk by self-medicating with ivermectin and other alternative treatments.

They were only admitted to the hospitals when they “crashed” on Day 8, after a week of alternative treatments. This clearly shows that ivermectin and all those alternative treatments they took were USELESS!

Yet, he continues to promote ivermectin, even though it FAILED to prevent his entire family from getting COVID-19, and when they all got infected, FAILED to prevent both him and his mother from getting severe COVID-19.

And he calls the doctors who treated them “stupid”, “assholes” and “royal circus clowns” – the same doctors who saved him from dying FOUR TIMES.

Dr. Kenny Yong and Dr. Vijaendreh Subramaniam of MAECC

Let me be VERY CLEAR about why Dr. Kenny Yong is not being honest with us, and why he’s peddling dangerous falsehoods :

Inactivated virus vaccines cannot be resurrected. The Sinovac vaccine, for example, is made by using a chemical to scramble the virus’ genetic code, leaving its carcass to serve as the vaccine.
It is impossible for his mother to get COVID-19 from her Sinovac vaccine. It is also wrong for him to blame her for infecting him and his family.
He falsely claims that natural immunity works better than vaccines – 50% of survivors 65 years or older can get reinfected, for example.
He almost died 4 times getting that natural immunity, and his mother died.
Ivermectin has not been shown to work against COVID-19 outside of a lab. In fact, the latest clinical studies show that it offers no clinical benefit against COVID-19, and it doesn’t stop transmission either.
He also falsely claimed that it’s wonderful to take 15 ivermectin tablets – a senior citizen overdosed and fell unconscious!
The other alternative treatments he tried has not been tested or found to work against COVID-19 – stem cells, high-dose vitamins, ultraviolet blood irradiation, ozone therapy.
The FLCCC is a fringe group of doctors that promotes alternative treatments for COVID-19, that they themselves did not even test in any trial to prove that they work!

Dr. Kenny Yong : Voice Recording + Summary

Here is Dr. Kenny Yong’s viral voice message, followed by my brief summary :

https://www.techarp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Kenny-Yong-testimonial-WhatsApp-Audio-2021-08-09-at-23.56.40.mp3?_=2

He claimed that his mother was infected by COVID-19 from the Sinovac vaccine, and she in turn infected him and his family.
He started feeling “not good” from 1 – 3 July 2021
His PCR test came back positive for COVID-19 on 3 July 2021
Day 1 to 6 : He was “doing ozone [therapy], high-dose vitamins (including Vitamin C), ivermectin, ultraviolet blood irradiation and ozone step 1 and step 2 major autoimmune therapy
He and his mother (who also tested positive) were doing well from 3 – 7 July 2021, and they implanted 100 million units of stem cells
Nevertheless, both of them took an acute turn for the worst on Day 7, and “crashed” on Day 8.
He claimed that they both belong to a special “Day 8 deterioration” group that requires steroid treatment at the hospital.
His mother was admitted to the Sungai Buloh Hospital on 9 July, and was doing okay until 11 July.
But he claimed the hospital gave his mother the “wrong steroid”, claiming that she should have been given methylprednisolone from Day 1, as recommended by FLCCC.
He claimed that in her last 5 days at the Sungai Buloh Hospital, his mother had “Happy Hypoxia” with SpO2 of 52%, but they deprived her of a ventilator.
He also claimed that his mother was yelling for a ventilator for those 5 days but passed away on the morning of 16 July 2021.
He also complained that his family was not allowed to visit his mother while she was in the hospital.
Dr. Kenny Yong himself was admitted to the Sungai Long Hospital where he was given Clexane, a low-molecular weight heparin, for 15 days to treat COVID-19 hypercoagulability.
He claimed he was doing well but then “crashed” because they were giving him the “wrong steroid” – 80 mg of dexamethasone for the first four days, instead of methylprednisolone as recommended by FLCCC.
He claimed he stopped breathing for 4 times during his hospitalisation on 15 July, after which they switched him to 180 mg of methylprednisolone for the next 4 days, which he said turned things around.
Even though he was in the ICU, he claimed he was able to smuggle vitamin C, zinc, sodium bicarbonate, all of which he put into his own drip.
So he claimed that he was not saved by the hospital’s intervention, but his own treatments.
He also claimed that he was chosen by God to explain everything to other doctors and people how to treat COVID-19.
He called the DG Health of Malaysia and his doctors and specialists “stupid”, “assholes” and “royal circus clowns”.
He finally recovered and tested negative for COVID-19 on 21 July 2021.

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FLCCC Allegedly Said 15 Ivermectin Tablets Safe To Take?!

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When one senior citizen overdosed on 15 ivermectin tablets, people laughed and asked – who asked him to take so many pills?

Allegedly, it was FLCCC who said it was safe to take 15 ivermectin tablets in a single day!

Senior Citizen Overdosed On 15 Ivermectin Tablets!

On 14 August 2021, the National Poison Centre of Malaysia reported two cases of ivermectin poisoning.

Ivermectin Poisoning Case #1

A 35 year-old person took a single ivermectin tablet, and suffered breathing difficulties for 5 days.

Ivermectin Poisoning Case #2

A senior citizen fell unconscious after taking 15 ivermectin tablets in one go.

This report of ivermectin poisoning came on the heels of reports of liver damage from ivermectin use in other countries.

Ivermectin supporters immediately claimed that no one would take 15 ivermectin tablets, and that senior citizen should have followed the recommended dose.

FLCCC Allegedly Said 15 Ivermectin Tablets Safe To Take??

Now, that 15 ivermectin tablet dose stuck with me for a reason, and then I realised why.

Dr. Kenny Yong first became “famous” when he released his long voice message advocating ivermectin.

In that viral voice message, he shared that FLCCC had recently advocated higher ivermectin doses, saying that it was safe even at 2 mg / kg – 10 times the standard dose.

Dr. Pierre Kory (from the FLCCC) was talking about 0.6 mg per kilo per day or higher.

And in his message during the Ivermectin Day in Malaysia and Ivermectin Day in Indonesia, Dr. Pierre Kory was no longer talking about 0.2 / 0.4 mg/kg, he was talking about 0.6 mg/kg.

And the real message is the sicker the patient, the higher the dosage actually.

And if you really study Dr. Paul Marik’s slide and education (from the FLCCC), you would be able to understand that Dr. Paul Marik was talking about about the safe dose of ivermectin is even up to 2 mg per kilo(gram) per day.

So if you are an 80 kg guy, 2 mg/kg/day = 160 mg per day, you understand or not? That gives you about 15 tablets of 12 mg (ivermectin).

You can take 5 tablets in the morning, 5 tablets in the afternoon, and 5 tablets in the evening. 5-5-5 is 15 tablets, 12 mg. It’s wonderful!

You would be able to have 2 mg per kg, that’s okay, that’s a safe dose.

This is an anti-parasite medication that you maximally get some diarrhoea.

You can listen to the section where Dr. Kenny Yong explained how the FLCCC said that 15 tablets of 12 mg ivermectin is not only safe, he thinks it’s wonderful!

https://www.techarp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/15-Ivermectin-Tablets-Recommendation-by-Dr.-Kenny-Yong.mp3?_=3

In case you don’t know who Dr. Pierre Kory and Dr. Paul Marik are, they are both part of the small FLCCC group promoting ivermectin.

I have not seen the FLCCC actually advocate taking so much ivermectin. In fact, I pointed out that the FLCCC actually uses VERY LITTLE ivermectin!

The FLCCC does consistently claim that ivermectin is incredibly safe, and ivermectin advocates have been claiming that it is safe even at 10X the standard dose.

It is therefore not surprising to hear Dr. Kenny Yong claim that the FLCCC said that ivermectin is safe even at 10X the standard dose.

So now you know why people are self-medicating with such high doses of ivermectin.

It is because of people like Dr. Kenny Yong, and other ivermectin advocates who keep claiming that ivermectin is perfectly safe even at extremely high doses.

Didn’t A Study Show 15 Ivermectin Tablets Are Safe To Take?

Ivermectin advocates will point to the 2002 Guzzo et. al. study, which showed that ivermectin was safe at “up to 10 times the highest FDA-approved dose of 200 microg/kg“.

However, they will gloss over the fact that the study only gave participants a “single dose of 90 or 120 mg“.

Not only is that lower than the 160 mg dose that Dr. Kenny Yong claimed is “wonderful”, the study did not evaluate the safety of taking multiple doses on a daily or weekly basis.

There is currently no clinical or RCT study that conclusively shows that ivermectin is safe to take on a regular basis, whether at regular or high doses.

So if you plan to self-medicate with ivermectin, understand that you are volunteering to be a lab rat.

I should also point out that the FLCCC has a disclaimer that warns that their “ivermectin protocols” are for educational purposes only.

This protocol is solely for educational purposes regarding potentially beneficial therapies for COVID-19. Never disregard professional medical advice because of something you have read on our website and releases. It is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment in regards to any patient.

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National Poison Centre : Two Cases Of Ivermectin Poisoning!

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The National Poison Centre of Malaysia just reported two cases of ivermectin poisoning!

Here is what you need to know about ivermectin poisoning!

National Poison Centre : Two Cases Of Ivermectin Poisoning!

Ever since MAECC and FLCCC started promoting ivermectin as an easy way to prevent or cure COVID-19, people have been buying illegal ivermectin to self-medicate.

Unfortunately, ivermectin isn’t as safe as their supporters claim.

On 14 August 2021, the National Poison Centre of Malaysia reported that they were informed of two cases of ivermectin poisoning.

Ivermectin Poisoning Case #1

A 35 year-old person took a single ivermectin tablet, and suffered breathing difficulties for 5 days.

Ivermectin Poisoning Case #2

A senior citizen fell unconscious after taking 15 ivermectin tablets in one go.

The National Poison Centre also reminded people that ivermectin has not been approved for use as a treatment or prophylaxis for COVID-19 in Malaysia.

They warned that the wrong usage of ivermectin can result in side effects like vomiting, diarrhoea, stomachache, and dizziness; or adverse effects like hypotension, breathing difficulties, lung damage and death.

They also warned that there is no antidote for ivermectin poisoning, so people should NOT self-medicate with ivermectin.

Ivermectin Poisoning : How Risky Is It?

Ivermectin is known to be generally safe. Ivermectin supporters will tell you that about 3.7 billion doses have been given over the last 40 years, with very few side effects.

However, there are two problems with those claims :

3.7 Billion Doses Isn’t Really A Lot…

3.7 billion doses over 40+ years isn’t a lot. That’s just 9 million doses a year.

In 2018, 41 billion doses of Atorvastatin were prescribed – 11X more doses in a single year than all ivermectin doses ever sold in the last 40 years.

Ivermectin Is Generally Given As A Single Dose

Ivermectin is generally given as a single dose, or two doses at most. It was never meant to be taken on a regular basis.

The current protocols being promoted by all sorts of people involve taking ivermectin on a regular basis, and that has not been proven to be safe.

Ivermectin Poisoning Reinforces Need For Clinical Tests

The ivermectin protocols being promoted by FLCCC, Professor Thomas Borody, Dr. Amir Farid and random people on social media have NEVER been tested for safety or efficacy.

So no one really knows whether the dosage or treatment regimen they are advocating are safe, or even work against COVID-19!

In fact, when people started self-medicating with ivermectin, doctors started to see cases of liver damage, which even resulted in at least one liver transplant.

Patients treated with ivermectin was also shown to require invasive mechanical ventilation EARLIER than those who did not take ivermectin.

The Missouri Poison Center even issued a warning in February 2021 about ivermectin :”

There have been reports of intentional ivermectin overdoses which can cause serious symptoms such as seizures, coma, lung and heart problems.

Please don’t rely on these unverified and unsubstantiated advice to take ivermectin against COVID-19.

We already have a safe and efficacious way to prevent COVID-19 – the COVID-19 vaccines!

So please protect yourself and your family by vaccinating against COVID-19.

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Fact Check : Ivermectin Dose + Protocol By Dr. Amir Farid?

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Advice on ivermectin dose and protocol by Dr. Amir Farid is circulating on WhatsApp.

Let’s take a look at his advice, and find out what the FACTS really are!

Claim : Ivermectin Dose + Protocol By Dr. Amir Farid

This ivermectin dose and protocol by Dr. Amir Farid has been circulating on WhatsApp, teaching people how to take ivermectin to prevent and cure COVID-19.

It is rather long, so SKIP to the next section for the FACTS.

IVERMECTIN DOSE & PROTOCOL.
By Dr Amir Farid

(For best absorption, take AFTER FOOD)
Ivermectin is Best as PREVENTION. Can reduce infection by 86%.

Take 12mg/every week, (adult 50kg and above) even after vaccination (because many still get infected, some die, after completing vaccination) until COVID new cases are low.

(If weight is 90 kg or above, take every 5 days instead of weekly)

CLOSE CONTACT, HIGH EXPOSURE RISK.
If you are a close contact, or the risk of exposure is high, take the second dose 2 days after the first dose. Then continue the weekly dose.

EARLY TREATMENT ( COVID POSITIVE)
The earlier you start Ivermectin, the better. Most effective in the first 7 days after exposure to infected person, not from the day symptoms start (which may happen 3-10 days after exposure)

IF POSITIVE BUT NO SYMPTOMS
Take 1tab (12mg)/daily X 5-7 days.
Then continue 1tab/per week for 5 weeks or more to prevent Long COVID.

IF GOT SYMPTOMS
Take 2 tab (24mg)/a day X 5-7 days.
Then continue 1 tab/per week for 5 weeks or more to prevent Long COVID.

Note that late treatment is less effective, but there have been many cases who recovered despite taking Ivermectin late.
So better late than not taking at all.
——
There are other protocols being proposed. I find this is easiest to remember and follow.
——
Some may experience the side-effects of Ivermectin which include nausea, diarrhea, headache, rash etc. Allergic reaction can happen, like for all drugs.

IVERMECTIN
CONTRAINDICATIONS & PRECAUTIONS

Not suitable if:

1. On Warfarin
2. On certain immuno-suppresant drugs
3. Severe liver disease
4. Severe asthma
5. History of severe allergy
6. Pregnant
7. Breast feeding.
8. Children below 5 yrs
9. Children below 15kg weight.

Hope this is clear.

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Fact Check : Ivermectin Dose + Protocol By Dr. Amir Farid?

This advice on ivermectin dose and protocol by Dr. Amir Farid is misleading and dangerous, and here are the FACTS why…

Fact #1 : Ivermectin Not Approved For Human Use In Malaysia

Ivermectin is not approved for human use in Malaysia, only animal use. It is also not approved for use against COVID-19.

However, hospitals can apply for the off-label use of ivermectin, which must be done in a monitored environment.

So it is WRONG for any doctor or medical specialist to advice people to self-medicate with ivermectin, more so using an unapproved protocol.

Fact #2 : Sale Of Illegal Ivermectin Punishable By Fine And/Or Jail

People selling illegal ivermectin in Malaysia are subject to these penalties :

Individuals : Up to RM25,000 and/or 3 years of prison for the first offence, and up to RM50,000 and/or 5 years of prison for subsequent offences
Companies : Up to RM50,000 for the first offence, and up to RM100,000 for subsequent offences.

Fact #3 : Ivermectin Should Be Taken Before Food

Dr. Amir Farid doesn’t seem to know that ivermectin should be taken on an empty stomach!

In fact, it’s best not to eat any food for two hours before or after taking ivermectin, for optimal absorption.

Instead, he is advising people to do the opposite. Can you really trust him to know what he’s talking about?

Fact #4 : Ivermectin Dose + Protocol Not FLCCC Compliant

The main group pushing ivermectin is FLCCC, and Dr. Amir Farid has spoken up in favour of the FLCCC.

However, the ivermectin dose + protocol that he is recommending has NOTHING to do with the FLCCC ivermectin protocol.

FLCCC recommends taking ivermectin just once a month to prevent COVID-19. Dr. Amir Farid is asking people to take it once a week.

FLCCC recommends taking ivermectin just twice after getting infected with COVID-19. Dr. Amir Farid is asking people to take one to two tablets for 5-7 days.

Fact #5 : Ivermectin Dose + Protocol NOT Based On Any Study

Medicine doses are calibrated for safety and efficacy though clinical studies.

However, Dr. Amir Farid’s recommended ivermectin dose and protocol does not appear to be based on any study.

It is not even based on the FLCCC ivermectin protocol, which itself isn’t based on any study either.

So it is unknown why Dr. Amir Farid believes his ivermectin dose and protocol works. There is certainly no proof of it working.

Fact #6 : Ivermectin Not Proven To Work Against COVID-19

Ivermectin has been shown to work against COVID-19 in lab (in vitro) studies, but does NOT improve clinical outcomes or prevent transmission.

June 2021 study in The Lancet : No improvement in symptoms or clinical outcomes with triple-dose ivermectin
February 2021 study in The Lancet : No difference in transmissibility with double-dose ivermectin.

That is why the WHO and the vast majority of health authorities around the world DO NOT advocate using ivermectin to prevent or treat COVID-19.

Fact #7 : Dr. Amir Farid Raided For Prescribing Ivermectin

On 16 June 2021, Dr. Amir Farid’s clinic was raided for supplying ivermectin to patients, “falsely claiming that it can prevent COVID-19“.

Dr. Amir Farid confirmed the raid by the Malaysia Health Ministry, but declined to provide further details.

Fact #8 : Dr. Amir Farid Made False Claims In MAECC Briefing

Dr. Amir Farid was part of the first MAECC briefing on ivermectin, where he made several false claims :

Malaysia can recover from the COVID-19 pandemic “in a matter of weeks” if ivermectin is used (false)
doctors swore the Hippocratic oath and must be compliant with the Nuremberg Code and the Helsinki Declaration (false)
it is unethical to insist on more clinical trials to investigate the efficacy of ivermectin (false)

Fact #9 : People Have Overdosed On Ivermectin

Self-medicating with ivermectin can lead to overdosing because the tablets available in most countries, including Malaysia, are formulated for animal use.

In February 2021, the Missouri Poison Center even issued a warning :

There have been reports of intentional ivermectin overdoses which can cause serious symptoms such as seizures, coma, lung and heart problems.

Fact #10 : Not Safe To Buy Ivermectin Online

Due to the hype in ivermectin, scammers are pushing online sales of ivermectin at ridiculous prices, like the Scam Alert : Ziverdo Kit To Treat COVID-19!.

A single strip usually costs just US$0.30 (RM1.20), but is being sold for anywhere between US$9 to US$25 (RM35 to RM100).

Even worse – there is no way to know if you are actually purchasing ivermectin, or fake tablets labelled as ivermectin.

Those who purchase and consume ivermectin are putting themselves at risk.

So please advise your family and friends NOT to purchase ivermectin. They should instead protect themselves from COVID-19 by getting vaccinated!

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Fact Check : LifeSiteNews Promotion Of Ivermectin + FLCCC

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LifeSiteNews is promoting ivermectin and the FLCCC, claiming that it has “proved to be incredibly effective at both preventing and treating COVID-19“.

Let’s go through LifeSiteNews’ claims on ivermectin and FLCCC, and see what the FACTS really are!

LifeSiteNews Promotes Ivermectin + FLCCC

The Catholic anti-abortion website, LifeSiteNews, recently promoted ivermectin and the 5-man FLCCC team that created the ivermectin protocol against COVID-19.

The author, Michael Haynes, even suggested that ivermectin “may well have saved” President Trump’s life“, but “has been subject to widespread suppression and misinformation” to “promote financial revenue over saving lives“.

Fact Check : LifeSiteNews Promotion Of Ivermectin + FLCCC

LifeSiteNews is a well-known purveyor of fake news, so it’s not surprising to see them post fake news on ivermectin and the FLCCC.

Let’s go through the various claims LifeSiteNews made about ivermectin and the FLCCC, and find out what the FACTS really are…

Claim #1 : FLCCC Discovered COVID-19 Causes Inflammation + Blood Clots
Verdict : FALSE

LifeSiteNews claimed that the FLCCC team “realized in March 2020” that COVID-19 causes “organ inflammation and blood clotting“, and they then developed their MATH+ protocol.

The truth is Chinese scientists had long noted that inflammatory response and coagulopathy in COVID-19 patients.

Case in point – this 11 March 2020 study published in the Lancet by Chinese scientists showed that :

50% of people who died from COVID-19 had coagulopathy.
90% of inpatients with COVID-19 pneumonia had coagulopathy.

They also suggested that the coagulopathy was caused by :

systemic pro-inflammatory cytokine responses
ACE2 receptors on myocytes and vascular endothelial cells

This multi-centre cohort study was carried out in Wuhan, during the early days of COVID-19 – in January 2020.

Did the FLCCC publish any paper to document and prove their “realisation” in March 2020? No.

Claim #2 : MATH+ Protocol Made Global Standard Of Hospital Care
Verdict : FALSE

LifeSiteNews quoted Michael Capuzzo, who claimed that the MATH+ protocol developed by FLCCC was made the “global standard of hospital care“. That’s not true.

On 2 September 2020, the WHO strongly recommended the use of systemic corticosteroids in patients with severe and critical COVID-19, but recommended against using systemic corticosteroids in non-severe COVID-19.

The MATH+ protocol is made up of Methylprednisolone, Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C), Thiamine (Vitamin B1) and Heparin.

Methylprednisolone is a corticosteroid and is thus part of the global standard of hospital care for COVID-19.

However, the rest of the MATH+ protocol is NOT part of the global standard of hospital care.

Claim #3 : MATH+ Protocol Proven By Latest Studies
Verdict : FALSE

LifeSiteNews quoted Michael Capuzzo, who claimed that the MATH+ protocol was recommended against by health bodies throughout the world but subsequently made global standard of hospital care, “courtesy of later studies“.

The truth is the use of corticosteroids to treat the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) seen in COVID-19 was born out of experience with the SARS epidemic in 2002 and 2003.

So when COVID-19 hit at the end of 2019, Chinese doctors immediately tried to use corticosteroids to treat their patients.

If you look at the 11 March 2020 Chinese study, you can see that the Chinese already succeeded in using corticosteroids in January 2020!

On top of that, the RECOVERY trial tested eight existing drugs in March 2020, including dexamethasone – a corticosteroid.

By June 2020, researchers were able to confirm that corticosteroids like dexamethasone can reduce mortality in severe and critical COVID-19.

The FLCCC did not run a single clinical trial to prove that the MATH+ protocol works better than just corticosteroids against COVID-19.

Claim #4 : MATH+ Protocol Hailed As Eminently Successful
Verdict : FALSE

LifeSiteNews claimed that the MATH+ protocol was “hailed as eminently successful” and the FLCCC doctors were fast becoming “heroes of the pandemic”.

The truth is – the FLCCC had nothing to do with the success of corticosteroids in treating COVID-19.

The Chinese discovered the efficacy of corticosteroids in treating ARDS in SARS-CoV-1 – which is closely related to the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

As early as March 2020, they showed that corticosteroids were effective in improving outcomes for COVID-19 patients. This was confirmed by the RECOVERY trial by June 2020.

That’s why the FLCCC is not being feted. They had NOTHING to do with the discovery of corticosteroids as a treatment for COVID-19.

Claim #4 : Ivermectin Proven To Work
Verdict : FALSE

LifeSiteNews wrote about how Dr. Kory from the FLCCC testified before the US Senate Homeland Security Committee in December 2020 that “ivermectin basically obliterates transmission of this virus” and that “if you take it, you will not get sick“.

Ivermectin has been shown to work against COVID-19 in lab (in vitro) studies, but does NOT improve clinical outcomes or prevent transmission.

June 2021 study in The Lancet : No improvement in symptoms or clinical outcomes with triple-dose ivermectin
February 2021 study in The Lancet : No difference in transmissibility with double-dose ivermectin.

That is why the WHO and the vast majority of health authorities around the world DO NOT advocate using ivermectin to prevent or treat COVID-19.

Claim #6 : Ivermectin Worked In Peru + India
Verdict : FALSE

LifeSiteNews claimed that “thousands, even millions, were given the drug, with COVID cases and deaths plummeting as a result“.

As these latest COVID-19 charts show, that is simply NOT TRUE. Both countries continue to suffer badly from COVID-19.

Despite the use of ivermectin, India suffered a massive and disastrous wave of COVID-19 infections and deaths from March 2021 onwards. That’s why India stopped using ivermectin on 27 March 2021.

Claim #7 : Only New Pharmaceutical Drugs Will Be Approved
Verdict : FALSE

Michael Capuzzo claimed that “the only thing that’s considered to have sufficient evidence or proven efficacy is essentially a big new pharmaceutical drug”. That’s also FALSE.

As I pointed out above, corticosteroids which are patent-free and very cheap, were recommended as a global standard of care by the WHO on 2 September 2020.

I should also point out that the FLCCC ivermectin protocol not only uses VERY LITTLE ivermectin, it requires you to consume 5-6 pills every day, at great cost.

Prophylaxis	US Price
FLACC I-MASK+ Protocol	$1.03 per day $31 per month $375 per year
AstraZeneca Vaccine (2 doses)	$8
J&J Vaccine (1 dose)	$10
Moderna Vaccine (2 doses)	$30
Pfizer Vaccine (2 doses)	$39

Claim #8 : President Trump Was Given Ivermectin
Verdict : FALSE

Michael Capuzzo also claimed that former President Trump was given ivermectin, which “may well have saved the president’s life“.

LifeSite co-founder and president Steve Jalsevac suggested that Capuzzo’s claims could indeed be true, even though Capuzzo provided no reference for his claim.

The treatment that former President Trump received when he was infected with COVID-19 did NOT include ivermectin :

Dexamethasone
Remdesivir
Regeneron REGN-COV2 monoclonal antibodies
Zinc
Pepcid – an antacid
Aspirin
Vitamin D
Melatonin

FLCCC Ivermectin Lies : A Sin In Christianity

LifeSiteNews is well-known purveyor of fake news, and devout Christians should be wary about the lies they tell.

As LifeSiteNews is a faith-based Catholic publication, whose many readers and fans are devout Christians, it would be remiss of me not to remind everyone that…

LYING IN A SIN IN CHRISTIANITY

One of the Ten Commandments state that “thou shalt not beat false witness against thy neighbour“.

And the Bible has many verses on lying :

Proverbs 6:17-19 – Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil, a false witness who pours out lies and a person who stirs up conflict in the community.

Proverbs 12:22 – The Lord detests lying lips, but he delights in people who are trustworthy.

Proverbs 25:1 – Telling lies about others is as harmful as hitting them with an ax, wounding them with a sword, or shooting them with a sharp arrow.

Peter 3:10 – Whoever would love life and see good days must keep their tongue from evil and their lips from deceitful speech.

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Is Ivermectin Prophylaxis Cheap? Here Is What It Really Costs!

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Is ivermectin prophylaxis against COVID-19 really cheap, as its proponents claim?

Take a look at the ivermectin prophylaxis protocol that FLCCC is advocating, and find out what it really costs!

FLCCC Ivermectin Prophylaxis Against COVID-19

Dr. Paul E. Marik of the FLCCC is advocating that health authorities use his I-MASK+ protocol to prevent and treat COVID-19.

For prevention of COVID-19, Dr. Paul Marik is recommending that we take these medication :

Ivermectin : 0.2 mg/kg on day 1, day 3 and then every 4 weeks
Vitamin D3 : 1,000 to 3,000 IU every day
Vitamin C : 2,000 mg every day
Quercetin : 250 mg every day
Zinc : 50 mg every day
Melatonin : 6 mg every night

For early treatment of COVID-19, the doses go way up :

Ivermectin : 0.2 mg/kg on day 1 and day 3
Vitamin D3 : 4,000 IU every day
Vitamin C : 4,000 to 6,000 mg every day
Quercetin : 500 mg every day
Zinc : 100 mg every day
Melatonin : 10 mg every night
Aspirin : 325 mg every day

The standard dose of ivermectin is 0.2 mg/kg, so that is not actually controversial. An adult of 60 kg would therefore require a dose of 12 mg of ivermectin.

Ivermectin Prophylaxis : How Cheap Is It?

Ivermectin proponents insist that its use is being suppressed because its patent ran out, and so Big Pharma does not benefit from its sale.

That is not really true, because all pharmaceutical companies that make ivermectin will make money off it. Even Merck, whose patent ran out in 1996, still makes money off ivermectin.

So let’s ignore the argument about patents. Let’s just look at the cost of the ivermectin prophylaxis protocol that FLCCC is promoting.

Ivermectin is not sold over the counter in many countries, as it is only used in animals. So it is often sold at inflated prices online.

Here is an example I found on Shopee earlier this month. A strip of 10 tablets cost RM150 (US$36). That’s RM15 (US$3.60) per 12 mg tablet.

There may also been reports that some doctors were illegally selling ivermectin at RM35 per tablet (US$8.45), and RM150 (US$36) per strip.

But the good news is FLCCC’s ivermectin prophylaxis actually uses very little ivermectin! You only take it once a month!

Then I took a look at the supplements Dr. Marik showcased in his video to work out their costs :

Nature Made Vitamin D3 (1,000 IU, 300 softgels) : US$10.29
Nature Made Vitamin C (500 mg, 150 tablets) : US$11.66 (up&up brand not available)
Vital Quercetin (250 mg, 100 capsules) : US$29.10
Windmill Zinc Sulphate (50 mg, 90 tablets) : US$7.45
Now Foods Melatonin (3 mg, 180 capsules) : US$9.92

Based on those prices, here is my comparison of the COST of the I-MASK+ prophylaxis protocol versus a selection of COVID-19 vaccines :

Prophylaxis	US Price
FLACC I-MASK+	$1.03 per day $31 per month $375 per year
AstraZeneca Vaccine (2 doses)	$8
J&J Vaccine (1 dose)	$10
Moderna Vaccine (2 doses)	$30
Pfizer Vaccine (2 doses)	$39

As you can see, the ivermectin prophylaxis that FLCCC is promoting costs more than COVID-19 vaccines after just 1 month!

So it really doesn’t make financial sense to choose the FLCCC ivermectin prophylaxis over COVID-19 vaccines.

In fact, the table above shows that it is not the pharmaceutical companies making the big bucks through vaccines, but the SUPPLEMENT INDUSTRY making big bucks from the FLCCC ivermectin prophylaxis!

There is no doubt that the FLCCC ivermectin prophylaxis is ridiculously expensive, and only serves to line the pockets of the supplement industry.

Ivermectin Prophylaxis : Other Issues…

There are other issues with the ivermectin prophylaxis that FLCCC and their supporters are advocating.

Taking Pills Every Day…

The FLCCC calls for people to take ivermectin like a monthly supplement, together with large amounts of vitamin D3, vitamin C and other supplements every single day!

And for how long does FLCCC expect people to pop these pills? Until the pandemic is over? That could be months!

How long do you think people can keep up with the daily regime of popping 5 to 6 pills? What if they forget?

It would be far EASIER for people to simply get vaccinated. Most COVID-19 vaccines require two doses, but some require only one dose.

Would you prefer to just get one or two injections, or consume 5 to 6 pills every single day, until the pandemic is over?

Ivermectin Not Proven To Prevent COVID-19…

The biggest problem with the ivermectin prophylaxis that FLCCC is advocating is that – it hasn’t actually been proven to prevent COVID-19.

The latest Lancet study on high-dose ivermectin – triple of what FLCCC is advocating – showed no difference in clinical outcomes!

This February 2021 study that was also published in The Lancet showed that ivermectin did NOT reduce transmission of SARS-CoV-2.

Even more troubling – neither Dr. Marik nor the FLCCC has actually run any clinical trial to test and confirm the efficacy of their ivermectin prophylaxis protocol!

FLCCC Uses Very Little Ivermectin…

What’s even more surprising is how little ivermectin FLCCC is actually using in their ivermectin prophylaxis against COVID-19.

They are not only using the standard ivermectin dose, it is only taken once every 4 weeks! Even if you were exposed, you only take ivermectin for two days!

The bulk of their ivermectin prophylaxis protocol involves eating lots of supplements on a daily basis.

If ivermectin really works against COVID-19, why is it used so little in the FLCCC ivermectin protocol?

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Fact Check : Duque Allows Use Of Ivermectin By Doctors?

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Is it true that Filipino Secretary of Health Duque now allows the use of ivermectin by doctors in the Philippines?

Find out what’s the new viral claim about ivermectin in the Philippines, and what the FACTS really are!

Claim : Duque Allows Use Of Ivermectin By Doctors!

Nicanor Perlas claimed in two of his blogs that Francisco Tiongson Duque III, the Filipino Secretary of Health, now allows the use of ivermectin by doctors in the Philippines.

Doctors can now prescribe Ivermectin. Secretary of Health, Dr. Francisco Duque III, said he had “no problem with doctors who want to use Ivermectin”.[1] Sec. Duque made the statement at a 09 June 2021 public Congressional Hearing on Ivermectin (HR 1711).[2]

The hearings also revealed that medical associations that have been opposed to the use of Ivermectin had no objections to doctors prescribing Ivermectin if the latter is used on an individual basis. What these medical societies oppose is the issuance of a public policy allowing the use of Ivermectin on a national basis. But Duque affirmed that doctors have the freedom to prescribe Ivermectin as they wish.

Nonetheless, the net result of this new policy[3] is that the use of Ivermectin is now allowed on a large scale as long as there are doctors willing to prescribe the use of Ivermectin by patients on an early treatment or preventive basis. This also means that doctors in a city or a town can convene and/or agree together to prescribe on an individual basis to the residents of local government units (LGUs). And these doctors will not lose their medical licenses.

Citizens also can now contact, via phone or email, doctors open to the use of Ivermectin even if these doctors do not reside in the same geographic area. These doctors can prescribe the use of Ivermectin digitally and send the medicine via courier.[4]

Duque Allows Use Of Ivermectin By Doctors? Not Quite…

Did Filipino Secretary of Health, Francisco Tiongson Duque III, really say that he now allows the use of ivermectin by doctors in the Philippines? Not quite…

I looked into Nicanor’s article a little closer and watched the 9 June 2021 video on the Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability public hearing (HR 1711).

Unfortunately, I do not understand Tagalog, so I cannot verify whether Secretary Duque did indeed say that he had “no problem with doctors who want to use ivermectin”.

However, there are still a few facts we can readily ascertain…

Fact #1 : Secretary Duque Did Not Announce Any New Policy

Nicanor Perlas claimed that Secretary Duque announced a new policy. But that’s not really true.

“the net result of this new policy[3] is that the use of Ivermectin is now allowed on a large scale“

Secretary Duque did not announce any new policy, and how do we know that?

If you hover over note [3], you will see that he came up with that himself!

This is indeed a new policy on the use of Ivermectin because Duque made these statements before a public Congressional hearing. If Duque later retreats from this statement, then he would be guilty of an illegal act called perjury.

At around 3:21:15, Secretary Duque said, “We will make the reiteration that the use of ivermectin prescribed by a physician where it is clear to the physician and to the patient that there is an indication for prescribing ivermectin“.

“There is CSP (Compassionate Special Permit) and compounding authorisation for licensed pharmacists to compound the ivermectin preparation.”

You can only reiterate something that is already in effect. Hence, it is merely a clarification of an existing policy.

And right after that, Congresswoman Bernadette Herrera-Dy asked Secretary Duque to look into the DEU or EUA of ivermectin.

That would not be necessary if Secretary Duque agreed to allow the free use of ivermectin against COVID-19.

Fact #2 : Special FDA Permit For Ivermectin Use

Nicanor Perlas claimed that Secretary Duque “affirmed that doctors have the freedom to prescribe Ivermectin as they wish“.

He also said that “These doctors can prescribe the use of Ivermectin digitally and send the medicine via courier.”

That does not appear to be true.

At around minute 48 of the video, Secretary Duque explained that hospitals who want to use ivermectin for their COVID-19 patients can apply for a special permit from the FDA.

At around minute 58, he repeats that those who want to use ivermectin against COVID-19 can apply for the Compassionate [Use] special permit.

Fact #3 : Ivermectin Not Been Proven To Work Against COVID-19

Nicanor Perlas claimed that “ivermectin is a drug that scientists and doctors have found to be very effective and safe for the early treatment of COVID-19“.

There is simply no compelling evidence of such a claim.

The latest ivermectin study that was published in The Lancet showed NO DIFFERENCE in clinical outcomes, even though they used TRIPLE the dose recommended by the FLCCC.

And this February 2021 study that was published in The Lancet showed that ivermectin did NOT reduce the transmission of SARS-CoV-2.

FLCCC remains the only group promoting the use of ivermectin against COVID-19.

Fact #4 : FLCCC Protocol Doesn’t Use Ivermectin Much

Despite FLCCC’s promotion of ivermectin, it doesn’t actually figure much in their I-MASK+ protocol.

For prophylaxis, ivermectin is only taken once every 4 weeks! Even if you were exposed, you only take ivermectin for two days!

On top of that, ivermectin is only used at its standard dose of 0.2 mg/kg, when the latest Lancet study using TRIPLE that dose for 5 days straight showed “no difference” in clinical outcomes.

The bulk of the I-MASK+ protocol involves eating lots of supplements on a daily basis.

If ivermectin really works against COVID-19, wouldn’t it figure much more in their protocol?

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MAECC : Ivermectin To Control COVID-19 In 6 Weeks?

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MAECC claims that ivermectin will allow us to control COVID-19 in just 6 weeks, and the Malaysian media did not bother to fact check them.

So I took it upon myself to go through their video, and find out if what they said is true or false.

MAECC : Ivermectin Can Control COVID-19 In 6 Weeks!

On 21 June 2021, MAECC (Malaysian Alliance for Effective COVID Control) held a press conference, claiming that ivermectin works and can control COVID-19 in 6 weeks.

Who is MAECC? They call themselves an alliance of 6 medical and health associations, comprising of :

SNH : Society of Natural Health, Malaysia
MAAFIM : Malaysian Association for Advancement of Function and Interdisciplinary Medicine
PPIM : Persatuan Pengguna Islam Malaysia
MSCM : Malaysian Society for Complementary Medicine
NMAM : Naturopathy Medicine Association Malaysia

MAECC Ivermectin Briefing : A Fact Check

Unfortunately, it appears that the Malaysian media just blindly reported on whatever MAECC said about ivermectin, and did not bother to fact-check.

So I took it upon myself to go through their video, and find out if what they said is true or false.

As always, I welcome corrections if I made any mistakes, or suggestions for improvements.

Dr. Paul E. Marik’s Presentation

The MAECC briefing started with a pre-recorded briefing by Dr. Paul E. Marik on ivermectin’s efficacy against COVID-19.

Nowhere in his presentation did he mention that ivermectin can control COVID-19 in Malaysia in just 6 weeks.

I fact checked his short presentation in my article, Ivermectin + Supplements : Better Than COVID-19 Vaccines?

MAECC Statement

Dr. Amir Farid Isahak read out the MAECC statement, calling for ivermectin and supplements to be used as a prophylaxis and treatment against COVID-19.

The official MAECC statement claimed that Malaysia can recover from the COVID-19 pandemic “in a matter of weeks” if ivermectin is allowed to be used.

Fact Check : There’s no evidence that ivermectin has helped any country recover from the COVID-19 pandemic “in a matter of weeks”.

The MAECC statement claimed that medical and healthcare practitioners and researchers have sworn the Hippocratic oath and compliant with the Nuremberg Code and the Helsinki Declaration.

Fact Check : Doctors have to comply with modern ethical standards, which are inspired by the Hippocratic oath, but not actually sworn to the Hippocratic oath per se.

The Nuremberg Code is a set of research ethics principles on human experimentation, used in the Nuremberg trials after World War 2. It has not been adopted as law or official ethics guidelines by any association or country.

The Helsinki Declaration is a set of ethical principles that govern human experimentation. It is not legally binding, but serves as a higher standard to which the medical community should abide with.

The MAECC statement went on to say that it is unethical to insist on more clinical trials to investigate the efficacy of ivermectin in all stages of COVID-19.

Fact Check : Article 32 of the Helsinki Declaration actually states that “unproven methods should be tested in the context of research where this is a reasonable belief of possible benefit”.

In other words, MAECC’s insistence that ivermectin should be used without waiting for clinical trials goes AGAINST the Helsinki Declaration.

MAECC Ivermectin Q&A Session : A Fact Check

Then MAECC held a Q&A session with their expert panel that consisted of :

Datuk Dr. Selvam Rengasamay (SAHAMM)
Professor Dr. Mustafa Ali (MAAFIM)
Dr. Abd Wahab Khalid Osman (MAAFIM)
Dr. Vijaendreh Subramaniam (MAAFIM)

Let’s go through what some of the panelists said about ivermectin and COVID-19. For sake of brevity, I will only address the points that I found to be false or partially false.

Claim #1 : Enough Research On Ivermectin Efficacy
Verdict : False

Prof. Dr. Mustafa Ali stated that the papers (studies) on ivermectin are adequate to be convinced that ivermectin works very well against COVID-19 as treatment and prophylaxis. “We are very sure of that“.

Dr. Vijaendreh somewhat contradicted Dr. Mustafa later by saying that ivermectin is “not the magic pill that will solve” COVID-19.

The truth is ivermectin has not yet been proven to be efficacious against COVID-19.

The latest ivermectin study that was published in The Lancet showed NO DIFFERENCE in clinical outcomes, even though they used TRIPLE the dose recommended by the FLCCC.

Claim #2 : A Local Ivermectin Trial Has Not Been Initiated
Verdict : False

Dr. Selvam Rengsamy recommended that the authorities use their emergency powers to initiate a trial – “If you want to do a trial to justify its use, it has to be initiated quickly“.

He also said that, “The problem is the local studies are being demanded. We have not done, but others have done.”

The truth is the Malaysia Ministry of Health (KKM) had already initiated their ivermectin trial on 6 June 2021, called I-TECH – Ivermectin Treatment Efficacy in COVID-19 High-Risk Patients.

Claim #3 : Local Ivermectin Trial Only For Stage 3 + Stage 4
Verdict : Partially False

Prof. Dr. Mustafa later stated that there is a local ivermectin clinical trial, but it’s only for Stage 3 and Stage 4 patients.

The I-TECH trial, that is being conducted by the Institute of Medical Research, is enrolling patients with mild or moderate COVID-19 symptoms – Stage 2 to Stage 3.

Claim #4 : Ivermectin Can Terminate COVID-19 Transmission
Verdict : False

When asked if it is really possible that COVID-19 can be controlled in Malaysia in just 6-8 weeks, Dr. Vijaendreh said, “that claim is obviously made based on experiences in countries that have instituted such widespread usage in the population“.

Dr. Vijaendreh said that ivermectin would “terminate the transmission” of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. There is no evidence of that.

Ivermectin has been shown to inhibit the replication of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, but that’s not the same thing as preventing the transmission of the virus.

In fact, this February 2021 study that was published in The Lancet showed that ivermectin did NOT reduce the transmission of SARS-CoV-2.

Dr. Vijaendreh later clarified that it may not stop transmission 100% but it will reduce it significantly. However, that remains to be confirmed.

Claim #5 : WHO Recognises Ivermectin As World’s Safest Drug
Verdict : False

Prof. Dr. Mustafa Ali stated that ivermectin is the “safest drug in the world recognised by WHO“.

That’s simply not true. WHO did not recognise that ivermectin (or any other drug) is the safest drug in the world.

In fact, WHO recommends that (as of 31 March 2021), ivermectin should “only be used within clinical trials“!

Ivermectin is merely one of the 460 or so drugs in the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines.

Claim #6 : India, Peru, Mexico Used Ivermectin Successfully
Verdict : False

Dr. Wahab said, “India, Peru, Mexico – they have all done it. They’re doing very well. And the Philippines have also seen improvements“.

The moderator, Capt. Dr. Wong then chimed in, “Peru, Chile, Brazil, South Africa – many countries“.

That’s not true. India had earlier adopted ivermectin for use in mild or asymptomatic COVID-19, but that is no longer the case.

On 27 May 2021, India dropped ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine and favipiravir, azithromycin, doxycycline, zinc and even plasma therapy.

As for ivermectin’s efficacy in the countries they mentioned, I think it can be summarised by these charts.

Does it look like any of these countries controlled COVID-19 in 6 to 8 weeks?

Claim #6 : WHO + US CDC Do Not Endorse Anything That Works
Verdict : False

Dr. Selvam Rengsamy said that “they have never endorsed anything that works. Honestly. I mean, they don’t endorse anything that is natural, that is safe and extremely effective, with zero side effects“.

That is categorically not true, even if we merely look at the narrow context of COVID-19 treatments.

The WHO Solidarity Trial, for example, found that corticosteroids were effective in treating severe and critical COVID-19.

Hence, corticosteroids are now part of the standard of care worldwide for patients with severe or critical COVID-19.

And both the WHO and US CDC have strongly endorsed COVID-19 vaccines, which have all been proven to offer robust protection against COVID-19.

Claim #7 : Ivermectin Is Only Way To Cut Chain Of Infection
Verdict : False

Prof. Dr. Mustafa Ali said in the end that there is only one solution (to cut the chain of infection) he can think of – use ivermectin.

The truth is there are many ways to cut the chain of infection. We just need to target ANY of these six links in the chain of infection :

Entry Portal (how the virus gets in)
The SARS-CoV-2 virus gets in through our eyes, nose and mouth. To break this link in the chain :
– Wear a face mask / respirator and face shield / eyewear.
– Maintain good hand hygiene.
The Reservoir (where the virus lives)
The SARS-CoV-2 virus lives in our respiratory tract. To break this link in the chain :
– Enact lockdowns to prevent people from socialising.
– Maintain physical distance from other people.
Exit Portal (how the virus gets out)
The SARS-CoV-2 virus exits the host through droplets and aerosols. To break this link in the chain :
– Wear a face mask / respirator.
– Maintain physical distance from other people.
– Improve indoor aeration.
Transmission (how the virus spreads)
The SARS-CoV-2 virus spreads through droplets and aerosol. To break this link in the chain :
– Enact lockdowns to prevent people from socialising.
– Wear a face mask / respirator and face shield / eyewear.
– Maintain good hand hygiene.
Viable Host
The SARS-CoV-2 virus can only replicate in a vulnerable host. To break this link in the chain :
– Vaccinate against COVID-19!

Now that vaccines are readily available, getting vaccinated against COVID-19 is our best way out of this pandemic.

So stop obsessing over ivermectin and supplements as a prophylaxis. We already have prophylaxis that works – COVID-19 vaccines!

Why pop pills every single day, when you can get protected against COVID-19 with just 1 to 2 injections?

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Ivermectin + Supplements : Better Than COVID-19 Vaccines?

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The FLCCC is promoting the use of ivermectin and supplements over vaccines, to protect against COVID-19.

Find out what whether ivermectin and supplements really work better than vaccines against COVID-19!

FLCCC : Ivermectin + Supplements Better Than COVID-19 Vaccines

On 21 June 2021, MAECC (Malaysian Alliance for Effective COVID Control) held a press conference, claiming that ivermectin works and can control COVID-19 in 6 weeks.

You can read my fact check of the MAECC expert panel @ MAECC Ivermectin Briefing : Control COVID-19 In 6 Weeks?

The MAECC briefing started with a pre-recorded briefing by Dr. Paul E. Marik on ivermectin’s efficacy against COVID-19.

He describes how his I-MASK+ and MATH+ protocols focus on pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis and early treatment on COVID-19.

For prevention of COVID-19, Dr. Paul Marik is recommending that we take these medication :

Ivermectin : 0.2 mg/kg on day 1, day 3 and then every 4 weeks
Vitamin D3 : 1,000 to 3,000 IU every day
Vitamin C : 2,000 mg every day
Quercetin : 250 mg every day
Zinc : 50 mg every day
Melatonin : 6 mg every night

For early treatment of COVID-19, the doses go way up :

Ivermectin : 0.2 mg/kg on day 1 and day 3
Vitamin D3 : 4,000 IU every day
Vitamin C : 4,000 to 6,000 mg every day
Quercetin : 500 mg every day
Zinc : 100 mg every day
Melatonin : 10 mg every night
Aspirin : 325 mg every day

Dr. Paul Marik then shared this slide on WHO VigiAccess, to demonstrate what he called “misinformation” on the safety of ivermectin.

When it came to the COVID-19 vaccines, he claimed they resulted in over 5,000 deaths (the 1,928 deaths in the slide was apparently outdated).

Ivermectin + Supplements : Better Than COVID-19 Vaccines?

Do ivermectin and supplements really work better than COVID-19 vaccines? Let’s consider these facts…

Fact #1 : Dr. Marik Misrepresented VigiAccess Data

Let’s start with the slide that Dr. Marik used to prove that ivermectin is safer than COVID-19 vaccines.

He claimed that the WHO VigiAccess system showed that ivermectin resulted in only 16 deaths, while COVID-19 vaccines caused over 5,000 deaths so far.

That’s completely false.

The WHO VigiAccess system just collects data from pharmacovigilance surveillance systems like the US VAERS and the UK Yellow Card.

Those are open reporting systems, where anyone from anywhere can report any side effect without verification.

I wrote about them earlier (here, here, here), showing how I can create fake adverse effect reports in VAERS and Yellow Card.

It is irresponsible and wrong to claim that COVID-19 vaccines are dangerous using unverified pharmacovigilance reports by the public.

Fact #2 : FLCCC Protocol Doesn’t Use Ivermectin Much

Despite FLCCC’s promotion of ivermectin, it doesn’t actually figure much in their I-MASK+ protocol.

For prophylaxis, ivermectin is only taken once every 4 weeks! Even if you were exposed, you only take ivermectin for two days!

On top of that, ivermectin is only used at its standard dose of 0.2 mg/kg, when the latest Lancet study using TRIPLE that dose for 5 days straight showed “no difference” in clinical outcomes.

The bulk of the I-MASK+ protocol involves eating lots of supplements on a daily basis.

If ivermectin really works against COVID-19, wouldn’t it figure much more in their protocol?

Fact #3 : Vaccination Far EASIER Than Daily Supplements

The FLCCC calls for people to take ivermectin like a monthly supplement, together with large amounts of vitamin D3, vitamin C and other supplements every single day!

And for how long does FLCCC expect people to pop these pills? Until the pandemic is over? That could be months!

It would be far EASIER to simply get vaccinated. Most COVID-19 vaccines require two doses, but some require only one dose.

Would you prefer to just get one or two injections, or consume 5 to 6 pills every single day, until the pandemic is over?

Fact #4 : Vaccination Far CHEAPER Than Daily Supplements

COVID-19 vaccines are provided FREE of charge in most countries around the world, whereas supplements are certainly not free. Neither are they cheap!

Sure, anti-vaccination proponents claim that COVID-19 vaccines are expensive, and ultimately the people end up paying for it.

But exactly how expensive are COVID-19 vaccines? And how do they compare against the ivermectin + supplement course that FLCCC is advocating?

I took a look at the supplements Dr. Marik showcased in his video to work out their costs :

Nature Made Vitamin D3 (1,000 IU, 300 softgels) : US$10.29
Nature Made Vitamin C (500 mg, 150 tablets) : US$11.66 (up&up brand not available)
Vital Quercetin (250 mg, 100 capsules) : US$29.10
Windmill Zinc Sulphate (50 mg, 90 tablets) : US$7.45
Now Foods Melatonin (3 mg, 180 capsules) : US$9.92

Ignoring the cost of ivermectin (since it’s so rarely used and you can’t buy it over-the-counter), here is my comparison of the COST of the I-MASK+ prophylaxis protocol versus a selection of COVID-19 vaccines :

Prophylaxis	US Price
FLACC I-MASK+	$0.90 per day $27 per month $328 per year
AstraZeneca Vaccine (2 doses)	$8
J&J Vaccine (1 dose)	$10
Moderna Vaccine (2 doses)	$30
Pfizer Vaccine (2 doses)	$39

As you can see, the supplements that FLCCC is promoting cost more than COVID-19 vaccines after just 1-2 months!

So it really doesn’t make financial sense to choose daily supplements over COVID-19 vaccines.

In fact, the table above shows that it is not the pharmaceutical companies making the big bucks through vaccines, but the SUPPLEMENT INDUSTRY making money hand over fist!

Fact #5 : Vaccines, Not Ivermectin, Proven To Protect Against COVID-19

We already have prophylaxis for COVID-19 – vaccines. They are cheaper and more convenient than popping pills every single day.

So there is simply no reason to advocate for ivermectin as prophylaxis. More so when vaccines have been proven to protect against COVID-19, while ivermectin has not!

The Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines, for example, were shown in large Phase 3 trials involving over 70,000 people, to offer 94% to 95% efficacy against symptomatic COVID-19.

The latest Lancet study on high-dose ivermectin – triple of what FLCCC is advocating – showed no difference in clinical outcomes!

I should also point out that FLCCC has not run any clinical trial to test and confirm the efficacy of their I-MASK+ or MATH+ protocols.

So why bother with ivermectin that has not yet been proven to work? Just stick with COVID-19 vaccines that have already been proven to be safe and effective, cheaper and far more convenient!

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