Dr Tess Lawrie: Why Are We Not Using Ivermectin For Covid? 7 May 2021

Why Are We Not Using Ivermectin For Covid? Dr Tess Lawrie, MBBCh, DFSRH, PhD The Evidence-based Medicine Consultancy Ltd and EbMCsquared Truth Over Fear Summit, 7 May 2021 complete annotated transcript with inlined slides: https://ratical.org/PandemicParallaxView/DrTessLawrie-IVM-for-Covid-050721.html

See Also: The Drug that Cracked Covid - In this Buffalo Hospital Room, a Grandmother Led the Global Fight for the Drug That Would Save Her Life and End the Pandemic, Michael Capuzzo, 1 May 2021 http://tinyurl.com/FLCCC-Drug-Cracked-Covid

Excerpt:

Why does ivermectin pose such a threat to the pharmaceutical industry? Well, what is an emergency use authorization after all? And when can they be granted?

This consumer information leaflet states that the FDA may issue an EUA when certain criteria are met, which includes that there are no adequate, approved, available alternatives. Thus, when ivermection and other generic medicines are approved for use in the prevention and treatment of Covid, there may be no need for the development of novel treatments against Covid or indeed mass vaccination. In fact, EUAs of novel treatments in many countries would need to be considered and perhaps withdrawn and the novel treatments would be subject to more rigorous efficacy and safety testing before approval.

In February and March, despite expediting EUAs for novel treatments, the world health authorities have been very slow to act with regard to ivermectin insisting that there’s insufficient evidence. In addition they stress that taking ivermectin could be dangerous. For example, this FDA statement, which says The FDA has not reviewed the data to support the use of ivermectin in Covid-19 patients to treat or to prevent Covid. However, some initial research is underway. Taking a drug for an unapproved use can be very dangerous. This is true for ivermectin too.

The press, apparently informed by the health authorities, have also commonly highlighted that health agencies have repeatedly said ivermectin remains mostly for veterinary use and human consumption could be highly toxic. This is very serious disinformation.

[F]or those of you who don’t know what ivermectin is, [it] has been used for almost 40 years and around 4 billion doses have been given to humans. In 2015 its discovers won the Nobel prize for Medicine, because this medicine has provided immeasurable benefit to humankind. As such, ivermectin is on the World Health Organization’s list of Essential Medicines.

Given Merck’s obvious conflicts of interest, what is surprising is the blanket acceptance of Merck’s statement on ivermectin as fact by the health authorities...

Let’s examine ivermectin’s safety profile, according to the WHO Uppsala University Collaborative Pharmacovigilance Database. Since 1992 and up to the 19th of April this year only 5,215 adverse events and 19 deaths have been registered on the WHO’s database for ivermectin. Compare this to over 500,000 adverse events and over 3,440 deaths registered for the Covid vaccines in the past few months. Billions of doses of ivermectin have been given to people over the last four decades and only millions of doses of the current vaccine have been given. Given the data, why are the authorities not expressing concern about the safety of the Covid vaccines? They owe doctors and the public an urgent explanation for these double standards.

Do you know about the Access to Covid Tool Accelerator? Launched at the end of April, 2020, the WHO ACT accelerator brings together governments, scientists, business, civil society, philanthropists, and global health organizations. The ACT Accelerator requires a total of 38.1 billion US dollars to fully fund its work on developing Covid tests, treatments, vaccines, and health systems to tackle Covid on a global scale. While donors commit to fund the scale-up of the ACT Accelerator tool, they warn that additional funding is critical to support its success. This additional funding needed is currently in the region of $22 billion.

I humbly suggests that additional funding of the ACT Accelerator tool may not be necessary when generic drugs, such as ivermectin that costs as little as 3 cents a tablet, are approved for use against Covid...

The authorities are ignoring the facts. Why aren’t we using ivermectin? Ask yourself who would have lost out if people had had access to effective generic medicines in March last year?

As doctors and scientists, we currently find ourself at a peculiar place in medical history. Where rigorous scientific evidence, doctor’s expertise and experience, the foundations of our practice have been undermined by a relentless onslaught of disinformation. Why won’t the world’s health authorities and developed country governments approve ivermectin for Covid? I’ll leave it up to you to figure out. But if I could offer one piece of advice from my heart to yours, please take responsibility for your health. Stop outsourcing it.