1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,600 In 1970, a Japanese biochemist by the name of Satoshi Omura discovered a bacterium that 2 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:14,240 had intriguing effects against roundworm. 3 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:18,200 He shared his discovery with his American colleague, William Campbell, who worked for 4 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:21,040 Merck Pharmaceuticals. 5 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:26,160 Campbell used the bacterium to create a medicine called Ivermectin, which was released by Merck 6 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:29,120 in 1980. 7 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:34,000 Ivermectin was found to be extremely effective against a disease called Onchocerciasis, 8 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:37,640 which is better known as river blindness. 9 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:42,900 River blindness is caused by a parasitic worm, and it has caused untold suffering and even 10 00:00:42,900 --> 00:00:48,540 death in parts of Central and South America and much of Africa. 11 00:00:48,540 --> 00:00:53,340 With the use of Ivermectin, river blindness has been largely eliminated in the Americas 12 00:00:53,340 --> 00:00:56,300 and greatly reduced in Africa. 13 00:00:56,300 --> 00:01:00,980 Billions of doses of the drug have been administered, and it's listed as one of the World Health 14 00:01:00,980 --> 00:01:03,820 Organization's essential medicines. 15 00:01:03,820 --> 00:01:07,780 Merck's patent on Ivermectin expired in 1996. 16 00:01:07,780 --> 00:01:12,480 The drug is extremely cheap to produce, and it's available all over the world in a variety 17 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:14,180 of formulations. 18 00:01:14,180 --> 00:01:29,640 In 2015, in recognition of his contributions, Dr. Omura was given the Nobel Prize for Medicine, 19 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:32,060 which he shared with Dr. Campbell. 20 00:01:32,060 --> 00:01:39,300 Fast forward to early 2020, when the COVID pandemic was spreading around the world. 21 00:01:39,300 --> 00:01:43,740 Scientists and doctors were searching frantically for drugs that could treat the disease. 22 00:01:43,740 --> 00:01:49,960 The obvious place to start was with existing drugs that had shown antiviral activity. 23 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:55,780 Early in the year, a team of scientists working at Australia's Monash University did a literature 24 00:01:55,780 --> 00:02:02,660 search and discovered that Ivermectin had shown activity against such viruses as Zika, 25 00:02:02,660 --> 00:02:05,060 West Nile, and influenza. 26 00:02:05,060 --> 00:02:10,260 They performed a series of experiments in which they found that Ivermectin displays remarkable 27 00:02:10,260 --> 00:02:16,440 activity against SARS-CoV-2 in vitro, which is to say, in test tubes. 28 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:21,980 They published their results in a paper that appeared in April of 2020. 29 00:02:21,980 --> 00:02:29,140 They found that a single treatment with Ivermectin produces a 5,000-fold reduction in viral levels 30 00:02:29,140 --> 00:02:33,820 without any cytotoxicity, meaning it didn't harm the cells. 31 00:02:33,820 --> 00:02:39,620 Along with their results, they proposed a mechanism whereby Ivermectin achieves this miraculous effect. 32 00:02:40,260 --> 00:02:46,760 Around the same time, a pair of scientists working in the United States realized that Ivermectin 33 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:51,920 was being widely used as a prophylaxis against river blindness in Africa. 34 00:02:51,920 --> 00:02:57,160 They wondered if the use of Ivermectin would have any effect on rates of COVID-19. 35 00:02:57,160 --> 00:03:02,580 They looked at countries where Ivermectin was administered to entire populations and compared 36 00:03:02,580 --> 00:03:07,440 their rates of COVID-19 to countries where they had no such program. 37 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:13,240 They found that countries that had widespread Ivermectin prophylaxis had significantly lower 38 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:15,940 rates of COVID-19. 39 00:03:15,940 --> 00:03:21,840 Meanwhile, doctors in hospitals around the world were dealing with an onslaught of patients 40 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:27,440 with COVID-19 and they had no good medicines to treat the disease. 41 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:34,080 One such doctor was Jean-Jacques Reiter, a critical care and pulmonary specialist working at Broward 42 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:39,160 Health Medical Center, the largest hospital in Miami-Dade County. 43 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:45,000 Being a lung specialist working in the ICU, Dr. Reiter was truly on the front lines of the 44 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:46,700 war against COVID. 45 00:03:46,700 --> 00:03:51,780 One day, he found himself talking to the son of an elderly woman who was doing very poorly 46 00:03:51,780 --> 00:03:54,960 in her fight against COVID in the ICU. 47 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:59,580 Keep in mind that this was at a time in the pandemic when those who were dying of COVID 48 00:03:59,580 --> 00:04:03,660 were not even allowed to visit with their loved ones before they passed. 49 00:04:03,660 --> 00:04:07,720 They often had to say their final words via telephone. 50 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:10,420 Let's let Dr. Reiter tell the story from here. 51 00:04:10,420 --> 00:04:15,980 I called the patient's son up and said, listen, you may want to call mom. 52 00:04:15,980 --> 00:04:17,660 Mom is deteriorating rapidly. 53 00:04:17,660 --> 00:04:20,060 She's likely going to end up on a ventilator. 54 00:04:20,060 --> 00:04:21,460 So talk to her now. 55 00:04:21,460 --> 00:04:23,060 So we went back and forth. 56 00:04:23,060 --> 00:04:24,520 It's like, doctor, there is something else. 57 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:25,520 There must be something else. 58 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:26,520 I'm like, no, sir. 59 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:27,680 I have nothing. 60 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:29,960 Nobody has anything. 61 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:35,240 But luckily for this patient, this man was not going to give up so easily. 62 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:37,860 And he pushed Dr. Reiter to think of a treatment. 63 00:04:37,860 --> 00:04:43,920 I tell him, listen, there is this one study that I reviewed two days ago in test tubes 64 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:46,240 in vitro about the use of ivermectin. 65 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:48,180 It was like, okay, so let's do it. 66 00:04:48,180 --> 00:04:48,680 Okay. 67 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:55,680 So she got ivermectin within 48 hours, her FL2 requirements were coming down again, and 68 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:58,240 probably within a week or so, she was discharged to home. 69 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:04,900 Dr. Reiter went on to treat a series of COVID patients with ivermectin, and he published the 70 00:05:04,900 --> 00:05:09,740 results in a preprint paper, which appeared in June of 2020. 71 00:05:09,740 --> 00:05:15,240 Later in 2020, he testified before a Senate committee about his experiences treating COVID 72 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:17,640 patients with ivermectin. 73 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:23,840 Of the hundreds of outpatient treated by my team, only two, I repeat, two were admitted 74 00:05:23,840 --> 00:05:25,180 to the hospital. 75 00:05:25,180 --> 00:05:27,580 Neither one of them died. 76 00:05:27,580 --> 00:05:29,900 Neither one of them needed intubation. 77 00:05:29,900 --> 00:05:36,280 At the same time, all around the world, a number of unintended controlled studies on 78 00:05:36,280 --> 00:05:41,860 the use of ivermectin to prevent COVID-19 were being carried out. 79 00:05:41,860 --> 00:05:46,740 One such study took place at the Valley View Care Home in North York, Ontario, Canada. 80 00:05:46,740 --> 00:05:52,280 A daughter of one of the residents of the care home reported her experience on the YouTube 81 00:05:52,280 --> 00:05:54,620 channel of Dr. Jennifer Hibbard. 82 00:05:54,620 --> 00:05:58,840 Her mother lived on the fourth floor of the care home, which experienced a scabies outbreak 83 00:05:58,840 --> 00:06:00,620 in March of 2020. 84 00:06:00,620 --> 00:06:05,800 The residents of that floor were treated with ivermectin, which eliminates scabies. 85 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:10,700 Residents of other floors were given smaller doses of ivermectin to prevent scabies. 86 00:06:10,700 --> 00:06:15,940 The staff of the care home were not given ivermectin, and many of them tested positive 87 00:06:15,940 --> 00:06:20,580 for COVID-19 when the pandemic swept Ontario in the spring. 88 00:06:20,580 --> 00:06:26,260 Despite the staff coming into constant contact with the residents, here's what happened. 89 00:06:26,260 --> 00:06:30,460 On the fourth floor, which is the floor that had the scabies outbreak and they received 90 00:06:30,460 --> 00:06:36,820 the highest dose, had the most infected staff and not one single resident was infected with 91 00:06:36,820 --> 00:06:39,200 COVID. 92 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:45,140 As anecdotal reports and studies like these started to pile up, they caught the attention 93 00:06:45,140 --> 00:06:48,460 of doctors working on the front lines against COVID. 94 00:06:48,460 --> 00:06:56,000 One such doctor was Pierre Corey, a pulmonologist and ICU specialist working at New York's prestigious 95 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:58,860 Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital. 96 00:06:58,860 --> 00:07:03,280 New York suffered one of the worst outbreaks of COVID in the entire world. 97 00:07:03,280 --> 00:07:11,740 So a pulmonologist working in the ICU of a hospital in that city probably had a closer view of COVID-19 98 00:07:11,740 --> 00:07:14,580 than almost any other doctor on earth. 99 00:07:14,580 --> 00:07:21,140 In the spring of 2020, Dr. Corey teamed up with Dr. Reiter and Dr. Paul Merrick to form the 100 00:07:21,140 --> 00:07:27,080 Frontline COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance or FLCCC. 101 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:34,800 In October of 2020, the FLCCC released the iMask Plus protocol, a protocol which centers on the 102 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:39,840 use of ivermectin for preventing and treating COVID-19. 103 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:47,100 In early November of 2020, the FLCCC released a paper in which they reviewed the studies 104 00:07:47,100 --> 00:07:52,220 on the use of ivermectin as a prophylaxis and treatment for COVID-19. 105 00:07:52,220 --> 00:07:54,600 This paper was a meta-analysis. 106 00:07:54,600 --> 00:08:00,460 A meta-analysis is a study which looks at many other studies and analyzes their results. 107 00:08:00,460 --> 00:08:08,300 They found that ivermectin was extremely effective in both preventing and treating COVID-19. 108 00:08:08,300 --> 00:08:13,020 Here are the findings of nine studies on the use of ivermectin as a prophylaxis against 109 00:08:13,020 --> 00:08:14,820 COVID-19. 110 00:08:14,820 --> 00:08:20,980 In this figure, anything to the left of one indicates that ivermectin is more effective 111 00:08:20,980 --> 00:08:22,980 than the control. 112 00:08:22,980 --> 00:08:27,840 Here is a figure from the FLCCC showing the effect of the introduction of ivermectin on 113 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:32,000 daily death rates in various states in the country of Peru. 114 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:37,540 As you can see, the introduction of ivermectin resulted in an immediate and sustained decrease 115 00:08:37,540 --> 00:08:39,840 in COVID-19 mortality. 116 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:45,460 Likewise, here is a figure showing COVID-19 case rates in the various states of Mexico. 117 00:08:45,460 --> 00:08:51,120 The southern state of Chiapas was the only Mexican state to widely distribute ivermectin. 118 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:56,140 Note the huge reduction in COVID-19 cases and compare it to neighboring states. 119 00:08:56,140 --> 00:09:00,740 The paper also discusses a study conducted in Argentina where a large group of healthcare 120 00:09:00,740 --> 00:09:03,120 workers was given ivermectin. 121 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:09,220 Of the 788 workers who were given ivermectin, none of them contracted COVID, whereas over 122 00:09:09,220 --> 00:09:14,500 50% of the controls who weren't given ivermectin did contract COVID. 123 00:09:14,500 --> 00:09:21,060 The FLCCC paper also looked at 12 studies of the use of ivermectin to treat people who had 124 00:09:21,060 --> 00:09:23,600 been infected with SARS-CoV-2. 125 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:29,800 All 12 studies, including 7 randomized control studies, showed that ivermectin was superior 126 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:32,800 to the control. 127 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:39,840 On December 8th of 2020, members of the FLCCC appeared before a Senate subcommittee on the 128 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:45,060 early treatment of COVID-19, which was chaired by Senator Ron Johnson. 129 00:09:45,060 --> 00:09:50,060 Here's some of Dr. Corey's testimony to the committee. 130 00:09:50,060 --> 00:09:55,380 Mountains of data have emerged from many centers and countries around the world showing the 131 00:09:55,380 --> 00:09:58,920 miraculous effectiveness of ivermectin. 132 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:03,500 It basically obliterates transmission of this virus. 133 00:10:03,500 --> 00:10:06,340 If you take it, you will not get sick. 134 00:10:06,340 --> 00:10:10,820 I cannot keep caring for patients when I know that they could have been saved with earlier 135 00:10:10,820 --> 00:10:11,320 treatment. 136 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:16,060 And that drug that will treat them and prevent the hospitalization is ivermectin. 137 00:10:16,060 --> 00:10:22,160 All I ask is for the NIH to review our data that we've compiled of all of the emerging data. 138 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:24,140 We have almost 30 studies. 139 00:10:24,140 --> 00:10:30,340 Everyone is reliably and reproducibly positive showing the dramatic impacts of ivermectin. 140 00:10:30,340 --> 00:10:37,520 Now, given all the deaths and economic destruction caused by COVID-19, you would think that the 141 00:10:37,520 --> 00:10:42,920 government and the health agencies and the media of the United States would have welcomed 142 00:10:42,920 --> 00:10:45,420 this news with open arms. 143 00:10:45,420 --> 00:10:47,020 But that's not what happened. 144 00:10:47,020 --> 00:10:54,580 Instead, a coalition of powerful forces acted together to completely suppress any information 145 00:10:54,580 --> 00:11:01,940 on the effectiveness of ivermectin in treating and preventing COVID-19. 146 00:11:01,940 --> 00:11:05,540 So now, let's take a close look at who suppressed ivermectin.