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   With over 1,200 daily COVID deaths for many weeks, the U.S. is on   
   track to reach a total of 1 million COVID-related deaths by the end   
   of March. A shameful record for 2022.   
      
   To think that every week over 8,000 Americans are dying, mostly in   
   hospital ICUs, is unbelievable – but that is no excuse for the lack   
   of serious attention by the mainstream media. Take a moment to   
   reflect that this is more deaths than those in the 9/11 attacks and   
   Pearl Harbor, combined. And it is happening every week.   
      
   The late-stage problem   
      
   Hospitals have become killing machines, places where the kiss of   
   death is a protocol following government guidelines. Despite wide   
   COVID vaccine use, deaths in hospitals because of late-stage viral   
   infection remain at a high level. Difficulty in getting COVID   
   testing quickly and often probably contributes to the high death   
   rate. Too many people do not get their COVID infection addressed   
   early. There remains too little use of monoclonal antibodies early   
   for infected people. So their infection progresses to serious lung   
   and breathing problems. That is the beginning of the end.   
      
   And it will be a long time before the new antiviral drugs from   
   Pfizer and Merck are broadly available, and there will be more   
   information ascertained on whether or not they are really safe and   
   effective for all diverse types of people.   
      
   In hospitals, patients with breathing problems and upper respiratory   
   distress are giving medical actions that may address pain but   
   inevitably lead to death, often after many weeks in the ICU. They   
   typically get the useless and harmful drug remdesivir, supplemental   
   oxygen, steroids and are intubated, put on a ventilator and usually   
   put into a coma. Eventually, they die and become another COVID   
   statistic.   
      
   It has been reported that the death rate for COVID patients   
   prescribed remdesivir (26%) exceeds the fatality rate of COVID   
   patients prescribed ivermectin, which is recorded by the Medicare   
   database at 7.2%. And remdesivir has documented serious side   
   effects.   
      
   In a few successful court actions, such late-stage COVID patients   
   were given the cheap, safe generic ivermectin and – much to the   
   astonishment of hospital doctors – have walked out of the hospital,   
   completely recovered.   
      
   And there is considerable medical research literature supporting   
   such use of ivermectin, principally because of its anti-inflammatory   
   property. As just one example, a published medical 2021 hospital   
   study found nearly a 50% reduction in deaths for patients with   
   severe pulmonary involvement, the typical late-stage COVID death-bed   
   patient condition. The many doubters of ivermectin should pay more   
   attention to the medical science literature.   
      
   But published medical articles are ignored by the medical and public   
   health establishments.   
      
   To be clear, a majority of hospitalized COVID patients have   
   diabetes, are obese or have other serious underlying medical   
   conditions. But though they get hospital attention, they do not all   
   become late-stage COVID patients with deadly breathing and lung   
   problems. Also, the omicron variant is known not to be like delta;   
   it does not attack lungs in the same way. And delta is still active   
   and deadly.   
      
   Hospital shame   
      
   Hospitals stubbornly refuse to honor the few court decisions   
   directing them to give death-bed late-stage COVID patients a chance   
   of surviving by administering ivermectin. Hospitals use an army of   
   lawyers and every dirty legal trick to overturn or delay those few   
   court decisions that reach the sensible conclusion that there is   
   nothing to lose by using ivermectin.   
      
      
   This is a medical disgrace. This is the power of corporate medicine.   
   This situation exemplifies the loss of medical freedom. This is the   
   epitome of medical tyranny. This is a total loss of medical ethics.   
   It is an extreme example of doctors failing to live up to their   
   Hippocratic Oath. They follow hospital rules and let their patients   
   die without trying what has a medical justification, without doing   
   what other doctors have successfully done.   
      
   Apparently, that weekly death total is not enough to push hospitals   
   and doctors to use what several nations have used to curb the COVID   
   pandemic and save many millions of lives.   
      
   Hospital care arguments   
      
   Consider this paradox and hypocrisy. Virtually all hospitals put a   
   priority on patient centered care. Patient-centered care focuses on   
   the patient and the individual's particular health care needs. The   
   goal of patient-centered health care is to empower patients to   
   become active participants in their care.   
      
   Clearly, denying patient and family pleas to use ivermectin with   
   people facing death is totally inconsistent with this philosophy and   
   hospital commitment.   
      
   Add to all this that demanding all patients use a one-size-fits-all   
   medical treatment or hospital protocol is also counter to   
   personalized medicine. Doctors need the freedom to use what suits   
   their patient rather than what the government dictates or accepting   
   what it withholds.   
      
      
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