The Highwire with Del Bigtree - THE WAR ON IVERMECTIN – A SHORT FILM

Episode Date: December 26, 2023

From Plandemic Series Creator Mikki Willis comes the short film ‘The War on Ivermectin,’ based on the book ‘The War on Ivermectin’ by critical care pioneer, Dr. Pierre Kory. Watch, Share, and buy the book wherever books are sold, or at icandecide.shop.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

More breaking news this evening, Joe Rogan announced on social media today that he has COVID. So we immediately threw the kitchen sink out of all kinds of meds, monoclonal antibodies, ivermectin. One of those drugs he mentioned ivermectin is something more often used to deworm horses. So things are clearly bad, but they're being made even worse by people who have refused to take the vaccine and instead are swallowing horse dewormer. Ivormectum is ineffective against COVID, but could put you in a coma. It can kill you.

can kill you. There's no clinical evidence that indicates that this works. It goes beyond that. We actually know that it doesn't work. We should talk about that. That bothered you. It should bother you too. They're lying at your network about people taking human drugs versus drugs from veterinary. Calling it a horse to wormers, not a flattering thing. I get that. It's a lie. They shouldn't have said that. Why did they do that? I don't know. You're the medical guy over there. Ivermectin can be a very effective medication. Touted as a miracle prevention and cure by far right commentators, and anti-vaxxers, Ivermictin is a treatment for lice and... What initially led this was an FDA Twitter account that used the term yawl to express

denigration of Ivermectin as a horse drug. The truth is that the dose that's used for horses by body weight is the same dose that's recommended for humans, but it's formulated and manufactured to a quality standard that's very different. The CDC put out a national advisory on this, warning the whole country against taking this drug Ivermectin formulated for horses and cows and sheep. With that memo fired to every doctor, then suddenly me and all my early treatment colleagues around the country, we were faced with problems like we'd never had before. So it was the first time in history that we ever saw a doctor who could be prosecuted for using a generic, safe, and effective drug for the application that doctor thought was appropriate.

My group of five, the core five of us ICU doctors, collectively were some of the most highly published doctors in the history of critical care medicine. Paul Merrick is the most published practicing intensivist in the world. As we sit here today, I'm the most published person in my field in history. But when COVID-19 hit, my clinical and academic world was turned upside down. That's when our lives started going sideways professionally. Paul started getting numerous complaints against him that he's never had in his career. For the first time in my entire career, I could not be a doctor.

I had to stand by idly. I had to stand by idly watching these people die. From the FDA, emergency use authorization of medical products and related authorities. For the FDA to issue an emergency use authorization, there must be no adequate, an available alternative to the candidate product for diagnosing, preventing, or treating the disease or condition. If Ivermectin were an effective treatment, the vaccines never would have gotten emergency use authorization in the U.S.

If a viable therapeutic strategy existed for outpatients, then the logic supporting universal vaccination with largely experimental products is no longer supportable. The war on Ivermectin is waged by very powerful forces with a lot of money. I mean, public health was built on an obsessive global vaccination policy, which Ivermectin would have threatened. We've got Pfizer's third quarter earnings. Revenue, they're projecting to be $98 to $102 billion. Pfizer, Biontek, and Moderna.

Do you know how much profit they made from these shots? $1,000 every second from Wuhan virus vaccines? You're talking about hundreds of billions of dollars in geopolitical implications that would be significantly affected if the people had access to a safe and widely available medicine. This is an incredibly cheap drug. It's off license. It's generic. It can be manufactured in huge amounts in India. Remarkably low cost. Merck's patent on ivermectin expired in 1996. In 2021, Merck-Rexec-released a statement claiming that ivermectin, was not an effective treatment against COVID-19, and bizarrely claimed, quote, a concerning lack of safety data

and the majority of studies. It was plenty safe for Merck to distribute widely when it was still under patent, but now they're claiming the safety record is insufficient. Folks need to understand that just because there is an article out there that asserts that something is false, recognize that those are paid. Every major media outlet in the United States

shares at least one board member with at least one drug company. Let me put in perspective for you. These board members wake up, they go to a meeting at Merck or Pfizer, and then they have their driver take them over to a meeting with NBC to decide what kind of programming that network is going to err. They can't be honest and objective about Big Pharma because Big Pharma pays their bills. In fact, one analysis claimed that nine out of the top 10 drug makers spent more on marketing than they did on research.

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The royal wedding is brought to you by Pfizer. If asked the question, did you know how much influence your former employer had on big media and so on? I had no idea. It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry has a great deal of sway. on what goes on. If you can shape the message, then you can shape the world, and that's what they've done. When was the last time you turned down the news and ever got an update about how the rest of the world is handling COVID? A group of South African doctors has launched an urgent court application. They're seeking easier access to ivermectin. Globally, at least five countries want to use ivermectin

to treat COVID-19, including India and Argentina. There are numerous concrete tests in medical journals around the world that ivermectin does work. The earliest reports we had, one of them we had in Peru, where they got into a good mode of using multi-drug treatment with an ivermectin-based approach that they were crushing their curves. And the president of the Tokyo Medical Association announced to all doctors during a summer surge

that they should use ivermectin in the treatment. Within weeks, the hospitalization rates reported out of Japan were lower than at any other time in the pandemic. The real proof positive came when COVID-19 really hit hard in Mexico City. They finally, after lots of struggle, came in with an ivermectin-based multi-drug approach and literally cleared out the hospitals. And then we had reports all the way through that various states in India. In India, the government has been widely promoting the use of ivermectin.

State leaders have just declared that Uttar Pradesh is now officially COVID-free, a region with nearly as many people as the entire The entire United States is totally COVID-free. The miracle success of Uttar Pradesh, not one mention of Ivermectin being used. In the countries that it has been used, in the countries where the studies are, the results are not good, they are overwhelming. They are well over 90% success rate. In the United States, it's a horsy-wormer, it's horse-paced,

and only the illiterate, ignorant, or unvaccinated use it. The key paradox is if you look at the mortality rate in the United States, States, one of the most highly funded medical care systems in the world. And what we find is the mortality in the United States is among the worst in the world. If you look at these innumerable failed policies, there's only one way to understand them. They are literally written by pharmaceutical companies. They can design trials to fail to disprove the use of cheap medicines, and they can make things appear that they don't work.

I sit as a non-voting member of the Active Committee for Drugs. with NIH. I've seen the dynamics of what are going on with all those trials, which most of which have failed. Unfortunately, it's eminently possible to manipulate the outcomes of a clinical study. If you want a study to fail, that's dead easy. Now their fourth quote-unquote negative study of Ivermectin in a major medical journal, and each time is a media frenzy. There was a systematic review looking at randomized controlled trials that have been done, and they found that there was

no benefit for Ivermectin in reducing. Do you see mortality, death to COVID-19, no reduction in symptoms or duration of symptoms for COVID-19, so it does not work. People need to understand that academics have been threatened with losing their position and threatened with getting no further research grants if they speak out against the narrative. Guess why that is? Two-thirds of the world's non-commercial biological research is funded by just three bodies. the Welcome Trust in the UK, the NIH and specifically the NIAID under Tony Fauci, and the

Philem Linda Gates Foundation. There's this pattern that is consistent with a concerted effort to mislead the public by withholding information using modern technology, media, censorship, really, let's call it what it is, thought control. He could actually control exactly what people think and that is our job. Whenever you have clear-cut evidence that a drug works, you have an ethical obligation to immediately let the people know so that they could have access. What are you telling people is the optimal profile?

I want a pill, orally administered, single pill, given for seven to ten days, little drug-drug interaction and low toxicity. Give me that and I'll be really happy. Ivermectin has been used safely for decades, has no known drug interactions, won a Nobel Prize for its success treating humans, and is on the WHO's list of the safest, most effective medicines in the entire world. And it showed an 86% effectiveness to prevent people from contracting COVID. Ivermectin has been used over 4 billion times, and it's used for a wide variety of treatments. Ivermectin has been shown to possess different anti-information, antiviral, and anti-tumor properties. That is the thing about ivermectin. It's not good. It's great.

Breaking news, the FDA lawyer announces that ivermectin can be prescribed for COVID-19. I have never seen an evidence-based this large with 81 control trials. 10 years of in vitro studies in the lab against a dozen RNA viruses all showing that ivermectin stops replication. It literally is, in my mind, the single greatest public health achievement in our history of infection control in the world.