Has The Red Carpet Been Rolled Out For A Mainstream Pivot On Ivermectin?
Just yesterday even more ivermectin controversy started: this time around joint nonclinical research being done with the drug by Japanese company Kowa Co Ltd.
Except, instead of the “normal” ivermectin controversy - which consists of arguing over whether or not the drug is “horse paste” despite its discovery being nominated for a Nobel Prize for use in humans, it being including on the World Health Organization’s list of essential medicines and being dosed hundreds of millions of times to human beings by doctors - this week’s controversy was about how Kowa’s research was reported on Tuesday.
Reuters initially ran the headline:
“Japan's Kowa says ivermectin effective against Omicron in phase III trial”.
That headline was incorrect, and Reuters was forced to retract it. They re-ran the story with a title congruent with the facts:
Ivermectin shows ‘antiviral effect’ against COVID, Japanese company says
Both ivermectin advocates and detractors claimed victory on the day.
The corrected Reuters headline
Advocates claimed victory because it was yet another study - despite being a nonclinical joint study - that showed antiviral effects from the medicine in vitro. Ivermectin is already a well-known antiviral.
Ivermectin skeptics like the Washington Post claimed the article was “botched”, but still were forced to admit the truth: the “actual news” was that ivermectin was found to carry an “antiviral effect” against Omicron and other coronavirus variants in joint non-clinical research.
The facts as put forth in the corrected version of the Reuters article still seemed to be a net positive:
Japanese trading and pharmaceuticals company Kowa Co Ltd on Monday said that anti-parasite drug ivermectin showed an "antiviral effect" against Omicron and other coronavirus variants in joint non-clinical research.
The company, which has been working with Tokyo's Kitasato University on testing the drug as a potential treatment for COVID-19, did not provide further details
Kowa and Kitasato University appear to be in the midst of a clinical trial studying whether or not ivermectin is effective, though it was difficult to confirm the details due to a language barrier at the source of the information.
A translated version of Kowa’s Japanese PR seems to confirm that ivermectin is in the midst of a clinical trial for Covid. Included in the translated PR were the following lines:
It is expected to be applied as a therapeutic drug (tablet) for all new coronavirus infectious diseases.
In this clinical trial, the dosage and administration already approved as a therapeutic agent for parasitic infections
Although it is different, we are confirming its efficacy and safety in clinical trials.
Kowa confirmed the clinical effect of ivermectin on SARS-CoV-2 and was one of the first to the public.
But, let’s put aside the Kowa study for a second.
What most people don’t know is that this Japanese trial, whether successful or not - whether clinical or nonclinical - would only serve to supplement robust data already available about ivermectin’s effectiveness on Covid-19.
The website c19ivermectin.com keeps a running tally of such studies, and aggregates the data as it comes in.
The website keeps a chronological log of studies, news, theories, of all types of information available about ivermectin that can be aggregated, including meta analyses, dating back to April of 2020. At most recent update, it includes 147 studies, 96 peer reviewed, 77 with results comparing treatment and control groups. (It currently includes the Kowa writeup, but has yet to correct the Reuters headline as of the time of this writing.)
The website also notes that Ivermectin has been officially adopted for early treatment in all or part of 22 countries (39 including non-government medical organizations).
And when the left undoubtedly writes this collection of data off as “anti-vaxx” (a label that is being tossed around with less care for its meaning than ‘white supremacy’ nowadays), remind them that the site also encourages the use of vaccines, stating:
“Vaccines and treatments are both valuable and complementary. All practical, effective, and safe means should be used. Elimination of COVID-19 is a race against viral evolution. No treatment, vaccine, or intervention is 100% available and effective for all current and future variants. Denying the efficacy of any method increases mortality, morbidity, collateral damage, and the risk of endemic status.”
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I don’t want to rehash the geographic locations that have had success using ivermectin against Covid - with Uttar Pradesh probably being the most obvious - but I do want to point out that it isn’t just this collection of data suggesting there may be efficacy.
People are more than welcome to make up their own minds on what they think about ivermectin. Personally, regardless of whether or not the Japanese study was presented accurately or inaccurately at first by Reuters, it’s still my belief that it’s not going to matter in the future, because history will eventually side with the truth.
And the truth, I believe, is that ivermectin very likely works to treat early stage Covid, as was suggested in Uttar Pradesh and as has been claimed by doctors like Pierre Kory. It may not be a “cure” or “work like magic”, but I believe through rigorous clinical studies in the years to come, it will be found to have had efficacy in early stage Covid.
One thing is for sure: the truth is coming in the form of future data from clinical trials. There’s no getting around the fact that the controversy over ivermectin has led to a deluge of studies and that the results of these will eventually start pouring in.
This leads me to the thought that if the powers that be know that ivermectin will likely show some efficacy, they also know the clock is ticking on how long they can hang on the “horse paste” narrative.
I couldn’t help but think when this Japanese study popped up yesterday that the timing sure would be convenient now for the mainstream media to start a pivot on ivermectin.
Now that Moderna has received official FDA approval for its vaccine and Pfizer is happily seeking Emergency Use Authorization to jab kids as young as 6 months - and now that major drug manufacturers have had their antiviral Covid pills approved - maybe it can finally be time to pump the brakes on the ivermectin hysteria and allow the truth and reason to nudge their way in.
In other words, the fat pigs are finally finished stuffing their gluttonous faces at the trough of the FDA, stocked with newly-printed U.S. dollars. Unable to physically consume anymore, and noticing that all but a few molecules of feed are even left, they can now reluctantly relinquish their positions at the front of the line and waddle away, leaving the rest of the animals a chance to squabble over the remains.
All of the major pharmaceutical companies (and their lobbyists) finally getting the approvals that they want for all of their Covid drugs may roll out the red carpet for us to finally embrace reality and the truth, which I believe is that ivermectin has efficacy.
What we’re seeing now in the media is a massive pivot regarding Covid.
With the emergence of omicron and many geographic locations around the world lifting their Covid restrictions – and most notably politicians understanding they can’t win an election by locking us in our homes, as George Gammon elaborated on for my subscribers the other day - the media pivot on Covid has been pronounced since 2022 began.
And not unlike the pivot we’ve already seen on the lab leak and whether or not vaccines would end the virus, I’m expecting we see a similar pivot on ivermectin.
Of course, I could be wrong. I don’t mind being wrong. I exist on the fringe, as my readers know. In the words of Peter Venkman:
“If I'm wrong, nothing happens! We go to jail - peacefully, quietly. We'll enjoy it!”
But if I’m not…and the narrative on ivermectin does in fact change to wind up as “Duh, of course ivermectin works and we’ve known it all along, it just doesn’t work as well as [insert big pharma drug here]” everybody responsible for suppressing over the last 2 years needs to be held accountable for what, in my opinion, may wind up amounting to crimes against humanity.
At the highest levels, those perpetuating the narrative on Covid and what is and is not an acceptable treatment will need to face consequences. Useless mainstream media automatons like human hot air balloon Brian Stelter and lobotomized mimbo Don Lemon are almost too meaningless to even worry about at this point. Their viewers have already given up on them, and with good reason. Irrelevance is consequence enough.
Look: this is all hypothetical. I’m assuming that the media and the mainstream will embrace ivermectin, which they may never do.
There’s many of us out there that have looked at the facts on our own and understand that the drug likely has efficacy, but that doesn’t make us right.
And I’m sure that, one more time, we can deal with the unpleasant circumstances of being right, but unheard or suppressed – it’s the way of the world when you challenge the global elitist narrative.
But mark my words: if they try to shove it back in our face and act as though we all should’ve known it all along with an arrogance that only central planners can bring to the table - it’s then that I can assure you I will peacefully do my part to ensure that those in power are held accountable.
- Source : Tyler Durden - Zero Hedge
