September 5, 2021 – In December of 2020, Dr. Pierre Kory, a pulmonary critical care specialist, and president of the Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC) testified before Congress. Specifically, he had been invited to testify to the United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. In so doing, he spoke about the treatments he and his colleagues at the FLCCC have seen, as they have reported successfully treating symptoms of COVID-19.
The doctor’s testimony was impassioned, articulate and forthright – urging the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), to look at all the cohort study data with positive responses. His testimony was moving, as his rousing and emphatic pleas, were visceral. He spoke of the successes of treating a variety of patients – real world studies around the world – placebo vs real time case studies.
According to Dr. Kory, Ivermectin performed as if it were a ‘wonder drug’ to prevent – as well as treat COVID-19. To date, the FDA has not approved Ivermectin for use in treating or preventing COVID-19 in humans. However, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) has convened a “guideline development group” – whose background is not disclosed, and that their position on Ivermectin is that it only be used in clinical trials.
The organization states:
“due to the small sizes and methodological limitations of available trial data, including small number of events.”
Meaning there is insufficient data to be conclusive as to whether it helps patients already hospitalized and afflicted with COVID.
Most importantly, WHO’s position on Ivermectin as a prophylactic has NOT been studied. With WHO stating:
“The panel did not look at the use of ivermectin to prevent COVID-19, which is outside of scope of the current guidelines.”
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Despite the WHO’s position, Dr. Pierre Kory’s testimony before Congress was powerful. The doctor provided a number of charts and graphs to make his point of successes around the world in treating COVID patients, as well as its efficacy when used as a prophylactic for COVID. He spoke of the drug’s successful use in the US, and especially in many impoverished countries around the world that did not have the money for the expensive drugs – those currently being used and developed in the US. His point: that the countries who were relying on the drug, were having great success with it – unlike the regular outcome of drugs used and approved by the CDC and FDA for the treatment of COVID in the US.
The captivating testimony of Dr. Kory, and his documentary evidence, appears in the video below:
What is the FLCCC?
According to Dr. Kory and the FLCCC’s website, they are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, comprised of doctors who take their Hippocratic Oath seriously – weighing the benefit vs risk of a novel use of a known drug – Ivermectin to treat seriously ill patients with COVID-19. According to Kory, because as doctors they took the Hippocratic oath – to first do no harm – they have weighed the pros and cons of Ivermectin use for COVID – and are energized to treat patients whose health outcome is going in the wrong direction with conventional treatments. The thrust of Kory’s testimony – to have the US government agencies – CDC, NIH, FDA recognize the significance of Ivermectin, so that more lives can be saved.
Not only is Dr. Kory the FLCCC president and spokesperson, he is also one of several doctors working with the drug Ivermectin to save lives of their COVID-19 patients, as well as witness to other COVID patients being successful treated with it around the globe. Testimonies of former COVID-19 patients and ‘long haulers’ discuss how the COVID-19 treatment they received from Dr. Kory and other FLCCC members saved their lives. Some of the testimonies include using Ivermectin as a prophylactic when in proximity to COVID positive family members.
Litigating to Save Lives
Not many people think of turning to an attorney rather than doctors to save lives – but several patients in New York hospitals have done just that. It has been reported, but is still not widely known, that lifesaving measures can come to families that push the envelope to get their hospitalized loved ones the treatment they need – when hospital doctors run out of options to save them.
Enter West Seneca, New York attorney, Ralph Lorigo, who has been litigating COVID treatment cases with remarkable results. Lorigo has won several emergency orders on behalf of clients – where a family member has hired him to help a family member lying comatose or intubated in a hospital bed, with few if any options. Without litigation, hospitals and their staff have been reluctant to provide Ivermectin to COVID patients as it is not approved for off-label use for COVID patients, even though it has proven to be a safe and effective drug for humans since the 1970’s, but for other uses.
But the number one issue is patients’ rights. When do patients have the right to direct their own healthcare – especially, when the medical establishment can’t offer them a lifeline…?
Until the WHO and the CDC get on board, there will be an uphill battle to authorize Ivermectin for COVID use and as a prophylaxis for COVID. For more information on this topic, visit: https://covid19criticalcare.com/ to learn more.
Updated: September 8, 2021 – The Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC) held their online weekly discussion, with a distinguished panel, including Dr. Fred Washgul, an esteemed pulmonologist and Critical Care Specialist, and Attorney Ralph Lorigo who has been fighting the medical establishments to get the life-saving anti-viral drug – Ivermectin to those patients of whom the medical establishment has exhausted all “approved” medical treatments, including Remdesivir and monoclonal antibodies.
Also making an appearance in the online discussion, many of the family advocates who have fought hard and long to get their loved ones the lifesaving drug ‘Ivermectin.’ The program itself was graced by a 65 year old woman, saved by Ivermectin due to the diligence and steadfastness of her advocate daughter, Natalie Kingdollar. All spoke of how the drug changed the trajectory of their illness, and about the hospitals that were reluctant to administer the life-saving drug, as well as the volley of court battles that ensued. Fortunately, most judges allowed the use of the life-saving drug – all while hospital attorneys fought against it.
Dr. Washgul – the Human Cost of Ignoring Compelling Data
Most troubling, Dr. Washgul of the FLCCC spoke about the data the CDC and other government agencies use to play down the effectiveness of Ivermectin, which he states are based upon flawed studies from Oxford University. Washgul spoke in detail, of how the flawed data had been used, incorporating the wrong steroid in their data gathering, rather than the correct one. He also discussed that the Oxford data were based upon a handful of studies, where Ivermectin studies number in the high double-digits.
Sadly, it was brought forward that a number of pharmacy chains are denying Ivermectin prescriptions doctors have written for the treatment of COVID. It is almost surreal that a medication that has been used since the 1970’s as an effective anti-parasitic and antiviral drug, providing outstanding results with benign or non-existent side effects, would be denied to those who may be helped – including those who have exhausted all ‘approved’ treatments and are dying…
The FLCCC attributes the ‘reluctance’ of the NIH, CDC and FDA to approve the ‘off-label’ use of Ivermectin to ‘BigPharma’ with its tentacles into the US government and the regulatory agency approval process. Dr. Washgul postulates that if Ivermectin were approved for regular treatment of COVID, the Emergency Authorization for the COVID vaccine and the other therapies would come to a screeching halt – causing Big Pharma, hospitals and suppliers to lose bundles of money. From their standpoint, hospitals would lose huge amounts of money – where Remdesivir costs $3,000 to administer to a a patient, while Ivermectin, a generic drug costs pennies. The question that should be asked, Where are all the health insurance companies on this? They are paying out enormous amounts of money for hospitalizations and treatments. Unless the insurers don’t want to make waves with government regulators, and are just planning to pass it on to the ultimate consumer – the taxpayer?
The Bottom Line…
The sad but true bottom line is, when you think it’s not about the money, but about saving lives – it’s really all about the money. When doctors and pharmacists are fearful to speak out, there can be no doubt there is more to this story than what the American people are being told. Doctors are witness to those who recover from Ivermectin – but we never hear these stories. They are silenced by their employers, put in fear of losing their jobs.
The question everyone should be asking, now that Texas has put in place a right to life movement banning all abortions – putting life above all else, How can any state, or the US government sit back and allow their own people to needlessly die? Don’t the taxpayers who helped build this nation get a fighting chance to save their own lives? Don’t they too have a right to life?
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