What Happened to India in May 2021?

Written By: Maddie Wing & Monique Martin

The purpose of this story is to create awareness as to what is happening in other countries with respect to Covid and to encourage the reader to learn more.

This past May, the front pages of all the nation's newspapers were headlined with stories about COVID killing over 4,000 people in India daily. There was a shortage of hospital beds, treatments, oxygen, and ventilators. Incinerators were running 24 hours a day and human funeral pyres were clogging the Ganges. India was ravaged by COVID and many Indians were angry that COVID vaccines being manufactured in India (such as AstraZeneca, Sputnik V, and Covaxin) were sent to the West. The Serum Institute of India is the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer. Meanwhile, India was less than 3% fully vaccinated (COVID Resource Center) at the time.

So what happened to India? Why hasn't there been more news? As the death toll continued to skyrocket and vaccines scarce, India turned to a repurposed common medication that had shown promise against viruses in 2015. Within 6 weeks of initiating the drug, the incidence of Covid and Covid-related deaths plummeted (www.flccc.net). This Nobel Prize-winning drug also helped several other developing nations combat Covid, worldwide.

Nearly every state in India saw a massive decline in cases and deaths, except those that did not use the new treatment, like Kerala. In August, Kerala, a southwestern Indian state with a population of 35.8 million was responsible for 18,582 of the 32,937 new cases in India and over a quarter of India’s new deaths. Delhi, the capital city of India, with a population of 31.1 million, used the repurposed drug and only registered 53 new cases and zero COVID-related deaths in August. The difference between these two areas demonstrated that the “new treatment” was both life-saving and prophylactic. (The Desert Review)

With this kind of success in the thick of a pandemic, developing nations like India with 4 times the population of the US at 1.4 billion people, were able to stifle Covid even better than developed Western nations with their sole reliance on vaccines. The magic drug used is an FDA-approved human drug adopted globally for the oral treatment of parasites, such as river blindness, scabies, lice, and roundworm. It is also used commonly in the United States as a cream to treat rosacea. Having been given nearly 4 billion times with minimal side effects, it is considered extremely safe. Despite being a Nobel Prize-winning drug, it has never been approved for the treatment of viral diseases in the United States. A google search reveals that it has been studied for its antiviral effects for the past decade especially in the treatment of Zika, dengue fever, yellow fever, West Nile, chikungunya, and Venezuelan equine encephalitis, etc. Today we have over sixty worldwide studies and global evidence in millions of its efficiency in treating people with COVID and even long-haulers. To date there have been 64 recent studies using this drug in 47,617 people showing a 66% improvement in Covid-19 treatment outcome. However, Remdesivir with only 1 study on 1,063 patients showing only a 31% improvement, was granted Emergency Use Authorization by the FDA.

This interesting medication is most commonly used in the U.S. as an antiparasitic for livestock and pets and some patients have resorted to using an animal-grade version which I do not recommend, particularly because it contains PEG-polyethylene glycol. Many pharmacies are refusing to fill human prescriptions because they say the drug is not approved for the treatment of Covid. Ten to twenty percent of prescriptions in the US are for “off-label” indications, which means that these drugs don’t have FDA approval for the condition they are being dispensed for, this may include medications that are currently in your medicine cabinet as well. The FDA does not regulate how doctors prescribe medication.

As the vaccine formulated against the extinct alpha variant spike protein is lasting only up to 6 months, we find ourselves in a new situation, trying to create immunity with a vaccine to a coronavirus that is no longer circulating and has mutated its spike protein to the delta, gamma, lambda, and mu versions. In addition, there are absolutely no randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blinded studies to show the efficacy and safety of more jabs. Currently, the FDA advisory committee has recommended against further vaccinations for non-immunocompromised patients under 50. In Israel, patients are now considered “unvaccinated” if their vaccine was over 6 months ago and they are recommending more jabs with the same vaccine. As there are no studies regarding the efficacy or safety of more vaccines, the world has turned to Israel which is performing an “in-situ” study on its population in “real” time.

How can we change the narrative and dispensing of the drug that had a game-changing effect in India? We encourage you to get educated and advocate for your health. Write your congressperson, governor, and representative to request that well studied effective medical options be granted for Emergency Use Authorization based on the excellent data available and that pharmacies stop blocking the dispensing of the drug in case you may need access to this drug in the future. We need to demand an end to medical censorship especially from the non-scientific community.

Check out www.flccc.net, a COVID global medicine information site created by renowned critical care doctors who’ve treated thousands of patients since March 2020. Their site and protocols are constantly being updated as more information and studies become available. In addition, journalist Michael Capuzzo has written a 10,000-word essay on India’s miracle drug titled The Drug that Cracked Covid on www.documentcloud.org. For more information, please read the attached citations.

References:

“(PDF) Meta-Analysis of Randomized Trials of Ivermectin to Treat SARS-CoV-2 Infection.” ResearchGate, www.researchgate.net/publication/348610643_Meta-analysis_of_randomized_trials_of_ivermectin_to_treat_SARS-CoV-2_infection. Accessed 12 Sept. 2021.

“Ivermectin for COVID-19: Real-Time Analysis of All 116 Studies.” C19ivermectin.com, c19ivermectin.com. Accessed 12 Sept. 2021.

“Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center.” Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, coronavirus.jhu.edu/vaccines/international.

Junghanns, Frank Benno. “Home.” FLCCC | Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance, covid19criticalcare.com.

Kory, Pierre, et al. “Review of the Emerging Evidence Demonstrating the Efficacy of Ivermectin in the Prophylaxis and Treatment of COVID-19.” American Journal of Therapeutics, vol. 28, no. 3, 2021, p. e299, journals.lww.com/americantherapeutics/Fulltext/2021/00000/Review_of_the_Emerging_Evidence_Demonstrating_the.4.aspx#JCL-P-38, 10.1097/MJT.0000000000001377.

MD, Justus R. Hope. “India’s Ivermectin Blackout - Part III: The Lesson of Kerala.” The Desert Review, www.thedesertreview.com/opinion/columnists/indias-ivermectin-blackout---part-iii-the-lesson-of-kerala/article_ccecb97e-044e-11ec-9112-2b31ae87887a.html. Accessed 18 Sept. 2021.

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