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Ivermectin Could Destroy Justification For Lockdowns And Vaccine Mandates

https://www.theepochtimes.com/if-ivermectin-recognized-justification-for-lockdowns-and-vaccine-mandates-would-evaporate-doctor_4222068.html
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2010-title21/pdf/USCODE-2010-title21-chap9-subchapV-partE-sec360bbb-3.pdf
https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/why-you-should-not-use-ivermectin-treat-or-prevent-covid-19
https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/therapies/antiviral-therapy/ivermectin/
https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-collins-and-fauci-attack-on-traditional-public-health_4187173.html


Federal health agencies haven’t recognized ivermectin as an effective
treatment for COVID-19 patients. According to Doctor Leland Stillman,
the reason is more political than scientific, because otherwise there
would be no basis for lockdowns or vaccine mandates.

    “If ivermectin were recognized by the public health and academic
establishment as the drug that it is, that treats acute viral
illnesses, one of which is COVID-19, the entire justification for
lockdowns, mandates, let alone vaccine research and development would
evaporate overnight,” Stillman told The Epoch Times in a recent
interview.

Dr. Leland Stillman in an interview with The Epoch Times in Arizona in
December, 2021. (The Epoch Times)

According to Section 564 of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (pdf),
the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) can
only issue emergency use authorization if certain criteria are met,
including “there is no adequate, approved, and available alternative
to the product.”

So if there’s an approved alternative, the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA)—an agency in HHS—can’t issue emergency use
authorization for COVID-19 vaccines.

Stillman said it’s not a conspiracy theory or even an isolated opinion
that ivermectin works for treating COVID-19, because tens of thousands
of physicians all over the world have recognized its effectiveness.

File photo: A package of ivermectin tablets. (Natasha Holt/The Epoch Times)

The Frontline COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC), a nonprofit
organization working on protocols to treat patients with COVID-19,
regards ivermectin as a core medication used in the prevention and
treatment of COVID-19. Its website cites 142 studies, among which 93
are peer-reviewed, and 75 with results comparing treatment and control
groups showing ivermectin works.

However, the FDA has repeatedly said that “currently available data do
not show ivermectin is effective against COVID-19.”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) directed The
Epoch Times to contact the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for
COVID-19 treatments. NIH referred to their online guidelines about
ivermectin: “There is insufficient evidence for the COVID-19 Treatment
Guidelines Panel to recommend either for or against the use of
ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19. Results from adequately
powered, well-designed, and well-conducted clinical trials are needed
to provide more specific, evidence-based guidance on the role of
ivermectin in the treatment of COVID-19.”

Stillman explained why many doctors are silent on recognizing
ivermectin as an effective drug for COVID-19, a disease caused by the
CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.

    “And the reality that’s really important for people to understand
is that doctors can lose their licenses or lose their board
certification, which is very important for their income based on
insurance guidelines, for speaking out as I have chosen to,” Stillman
said.

Stillman said he is able to speak up because he’s one of very few
doctors in the country who takes cash and doesn’t work with insurance
companies.

Graduated from University of Virginia School of Medicine in
Charlottesville, Virginia, Stillman is now practicing medicine in
Kissimmee, Florida. His focus is to help people achieve health with
integrative medicine, which combines a number of different modalities,
such as traditional Chinese medicine, herbs, nutrition, diet,
exercise, and lifestyle changes.

Two prominent scientists, Martin Kulldorff, previously a professor at
Harvard Medical School, and Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of Medicine
at Stanford University, also explained why many scientists are silent
on this issue as well.

In an article published in The Epoch Times last month, the two
professors said NIH and its National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases (NIAID), which is headed by Anthony Fauci, control
a scientific research budget of billions of dollars every year, and
“channel research dollars to nearly every infectious disease
epidemiologist, immunologist, and virologist of note in the United
States and UK.” So it would be unwise for scientists to upset these
health agencies.

    “There’s a lot of politics on this,” Stillman said, referring to
the COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

    “And the way it’s been politicized is really disgraceful and
unfortunate. At the end of the day, it’s all about how these
corporations who are profiting immensely off of the pandemic.”

Stillman said freedom is the way out of the current problem.

    “Freedom is absolutely the solution,” Stillman said.

    “Because if you really allow doctors to treat patients on their
own terms, without insurance companies, without all this, it can be
very affordable, and it can be very effective.

“Because the reality is that a lot of the care being provisioned right
now, it’s just being provisioned based on some bureaucrat’s idea of
what’s good medicine, not based on what the patients actually want and
think is worth it to them.”