Uh oh. Whats going on there? Its also not enough to just publish the argument, you need to be a researcher with a high level of notoriety. Tech entrepreneur seeks Covid-19 treatment using existing drugs July 28, 2020, 9:50 AM A COVID-19 vaccine is months away and existing drugs could be a better solution to fighting to virus.. Im going to debunk that too. I started looking for opportunities to apply my expertise in a field where it was needed, where other people werent covering it, he explained. I believe it is because they knew if they kept the original range, too many pilots would have to be grounded. You also have an excellent chance of getting a lifetime of heart damage for no extra charge. There is also a risk for QTc prolongation and rare but potentially deadly serotonin syndrome. In Norway, vaccinations began on December 27th. Claire Berlinski and Yuri Deigin. There never will be. The other theory is that hospitals get overwhelmed when covid cases get high. I think the fentanyl deaths are mostly an issue of the drugs being unpredictably strong, not so much deaths of despair. Due to proximity of vaccination we felt we should report the death, even though it is not believed to be related. Explanation: The FDA explains that its statements are not based on science. As far as his money is concerned, there were less than 500. We had 150,000 excess deaths in 2020 that werent diagnosed as covid. Its eye opening. Instead of recommending masks (which do nothing), every health authority who wants to reduce their COVID cases should be recommending this. All they need do is zero in on a bit of fragmentary data and blow it out of proportion. It can lay low for decades and then wake up to cause painful inflammation. Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Reviews of articles by: Steve Kirsch CLAIM REVIEWS The film "Died Suddenly" rehashes debunked claims and conspiracy theories about the COVID-19 vaccines CLAIM COVID-19 vaccines are linked to abnormal blood clotting, sudden deaths, world depopulation SOURCE: Richard Hirschman, Theresa Long, Steve Kirsch, Stew Peters Network Published: 29 Nov 2022 If they work, he could prove it and save thousands, maybe millions of lives. Make a donation - COVID-19 Early Treatment Fund, For Web3 Collectors, Neal Stephensons 1-Of-1 NFT Is The Ultimate Metaverse Artifact With Bespoke Utility, Thinking Like A Magician Will Help You Imagine Branded Experiences, CMOs Reconsider Your Hybrid Communications Strategy, Rhuigi Villaseor Kept His Foot On The Gas. He left the board of his own company and resigned as CEO. Heres a proof that Crawfords blog posts are wrong: In the first post, Crawford divides up countries of the world into different groups: For the 23 nations marked in green, there was a rise in excess deaths starting after vaccination campaigns began. We should already know this is false. CFR can go up and down for a few reasons. Thats not possible. Some of these might be vaccine deaths, and some might just be people that died soon after getting a shot, and the vaccine was not to blame. Kirsch twisted Morris answer of Who knows, but not 150K, and not zero, into the headline, BOMBSHELL: Top biostats professor admits we have NO CLUE # of people KILLED by COVID vaccines, in an email he sent to journalists. Every virus, without exception, should be treated early. The problem with Steves claim is that you need some place to hide all those bodies. The organization supports grantees through funding, improving study protocols, advertising trials through op-eds, newspaper and TV interviews, and finding ways to manufacture drugs faster and at lower cost. More than a year after. In a 58 page document, tech entrepreneur Steve Kirsch argues there have been over 150,000 covid vaccine deaths in the United States. They go up on schooldays and down on the weekend. Among the 65 who took fluvoxamine, none were hospitalized, compared with six of 48 (12.5%) who declined the drug (P=0.005). It is now: .12 to .3 and potentially even higher. Individual studies are flawed, and our understanding of a problem is achieved by collating these puzzle pieces to the best of our ability and interpreting the emerging picture in a way that, we hope, minimizes our biases. Apple Podcasts Preview. And, as with all of the current papers downplaying the significance of any vaccine side effect, however significant, the authors always conclude that the vaccine is doing much more good than harm without any further qualification as to why such a conclusion is valid. Here is the change log where you can see the change listed (see page 4): Here is what the policy was before the change. So, excess deaths track covid deaths. Australia got through the pandemic without any excess deaths: Deaths went down in 2020, went above the average trend a bit in November, then stayed roughly flat through 2021. Shingles is caused by the awakening of a dormant virus, varicella-zoster, in the human body. It was the start of a new outbreak, and deaths ramped up faster than tested case numbers: CFR can also go up when a big outbreak happens. Safer and more effective than COVID vaccines! Crawford claims that the covid case fatality rate (CFR) went up in Europe, right around when vaccinations began: CFR is defined as covid deaths divided by covid cases. Like investors, you dont want to invest in just one stock, says Kirsch. I think a lot of covid deniers are in a similar psychological situation. Haider says he has permanent medical licenses in five states, and has received a pandemic waiver to provide telemedicine services in 41 states. One of the drugs, Fluvoxamine, showed a 3060% reduction in hospitalizations in a large trial. In other words, the 29% rate of injury was a lower bound of injury. There are two ways Ive discovered that I may be able to save the world, he told an IEEE Spectrum reporter in 2000. Theyll defecate all over the board and fly away, satisfied of their victory. Another is to identify an asteroid that is going to hit the planet.. Those are the most likely to die. He does not accept private insurance, Medicare, or Medicaid. And you arent allowed to do that. Example video title will go here for this video. If you can spend $20 million and test every drug scientists think are worth testing, those are the first philanthropic dollars that should be spent.. Kirsch, like so many COVID misinformers, would grab hold of the free speech torch and try to convince his followers that the only way to settle the issue would be to debate it publicly. Not so much. We need someone to fund trials on cheap drugs to figure out which one, or which combination, actually works. In the middle of this article, I present an argument that should win one of Steves prizes. Steve offered a million dollars to prove that there had been less than 500 vaccine deaths in the US. The next on the list, Camostat, has a good theory for why it might work. He built some other cool startups, but he never became a household name. Ive already praised his early treatment project. You may opt-out by. The post was exaggerated, later trials showed the drug was good but nowhere near 100% effective. Steve Kirsch, however, believes these vaccines are incredibly harmful and has been saying as much publicly, which led to all 12 members of the scientific advisory board of his COVID-19 company to resign. His openness and creativity paid off when, to Steve's surprise and delight, one such treatment worked. Please consider making a donation on their website. But hed still be doing the world a favor. The ethical problem here is the misleading claims," Joffe said via email. Cardiologist next week. The government message is not as interesting to many people. It was just one row: Here are what it looks like as of Oct 24, 2022 (click the image to see the context): So its now two rows, one for less than 300 ms (it used to be 200 ms), and a second row to handle 300 ms or more. They also have no excess deaths. Anti-vax sites are interesting to people because theyre encouraged to do their own research. Debating pseudoscience-peddling, bad-faith actors is a recipe for disaster. Q drops were interesting to people because Q would say mysterious, cryptic things and people would try to parse them. A simple, easy way to reduce your risk of getting COVID by over 70%. And it was a large positive effect, like 65%, or 75%, or more For fluvoxamine, people say you only have two studies -- a double blind randomised control trial and a real-world evidence trial, where the patients got to choose. I am asymptomatic. The standard term for this debate tactic is gish gallop, its a trick where you just throw out so much bullshit that your opponent doesnt have the time to respond to it all. It could have still helped to get the word out maybe if Steve had written an honest post he could have done some good. Crawford pretends hes found some hidden signal of vaccine deaths. Deaths are free to go up, but reported case numbers are constrained by testing. Edited excerpts: In your advocacy, you focus on early treatment of Covid-19. Neither Medium, SendGrid, nor Facebook returned requests for comment from MedPage Today. If covid mutates, the vaccines could become less effective, maybe even useless. Vaccines came out first. There are actually lots of other reasons why case fatality rates change, over time. "May 2021 saw the lowest number of COVID-19 deaths, with 205 among the . The two arguments we can repurpose is that in every single case, you must treat it early and you must treat it hard that way youll get better results. If you plot the US CFR from the beginning of the pandemic, it declines dramatically: Covid wasnt actually 50% fatal in March 2020. They can make changes every month. Right after Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapsed from a cardiac arrest after a tackle and was resuscitated on the field, antivaxxers immediately pounced, blaming COVID-19 vaccines even as CPR . Lenze (who reports consulting fees from Jazz Pharmaceuticals, the maker of Luvox CR) and colleagues acknowledge that they could not validly monitor the most severe baseline symptom of COVID-19 over time, and that "the potential effects of fluvoxamine on symptomatic improvement are unknown.". Others are investigational and only available in clinical trials. As more studies are done, its going to be crystal clear why so many people are dying suddenly, especially kids. The change is important, because it proves what Steve actually thinks. Weekly episodes of "The Evolutionary Lens" are co-hosted with Heather Heying, in which we use an evolutionary toolkit to reveal patterns in nature--including human nature. Excess heart disease deaths tracked covid deaths, through the pandemic: Graph the deaths state by state, and you can find some more patterns. He wants to be recognized for it. Its totally possible that the covid vaccines have some dangerous side effects. Gates had some puzzling connection to Jeffrey Epstein. Our bodies do not make the coronavirus; they simply make the spike protein, and that protein becomes stuck inside the membrane of the cell that makes it. They're Called Vaccines. Opens in a new tab or window, Visit us on Twitter. But we still need a backup plan, we need treatments to take 2nd and 3rd place. Those were not all vaccine deaths, because we only started vaccinating people on December 14th. 9 hr ago. He has asked his readers on Substack to fill out a very unscientific survey (could be the most important survey youll ever take) to see if they know anyone who died after receiving a COVID vaccine. Steve KirschPhoto: The COVID-19 Early Treatment Fund. The mRNA vaccines give some young men myocarditis after the 2nd shot. Steve Kirsch went on those websites and I think he emailed everyone who was open to alternative treatments.". Steve Kirsch a mega donor for the Democratic Party Who has donated over $20 million to the Democrats will not give the Democrats one more penny. Both will initially be with no out of pocket cost to the person being vaccinated. A few days later, over 60 doctors wrote another letter saying: "We are concerned due to mounting data and. It was crazy because it said that cabal controls the media and all the tech companies but the cabal isnt strong enough to control Youtube. I think this means that Musk likes to watch dicks while Bezos likes to ride them. Steve also challenged me to a debate. MedPage Today explores how the old antidepressant has made its way to the COVID spotlight. Faced with a handful of studies of fluvoxamine against COVID-19, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration earlier this week declined a request for its emergency use authorization. Unproven therapies such as fluvoxamine require study to determine their safety and effectiveness for new indications, such as outpatient treatment for COVID-19, he said. Even though we cant do a before/after study in the US, they did such a study in Thailand on 301 kids. Thats a lot of people who will be very upset when they realize the vaccine they took to reduce their chance of dying from COVID actually worked in reverse making it: Be hospitalized from COVID and other diseases. There might be risks beyond that, it might have taken out some 80-year-olds in nursing homes. That is why there are no before/after studies in the US. Its hard to stop believing in a covid conspiracy theory because you have to admit that you have harmed people: Heres the sad part: we still need cheap, generic drugs to treat covid. There was a study done on pilots. I tried to compute the CFR the same way Crawford does. Fortunately it was at that point that I-- read in the New York Times, of all places, about the COVID Early Treatment Fund. In the US, elderly people got vaccinated while the country was having a big spike of covid cases. European countries had a CFR spike because every country in Europe had a covid spike during the winter. There is no evidence that the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine has caused death. Theres some experimental evidence that it should help with both covid and the flu. We should study which vaccines are safest, whether teenage boys should get one shot or two, things like that. This argument was repeatedly discredited by myself, by Avi Bitterman, by @PiercedGeek. Days to death from Dec 15, 2020 in Medicare in Connecticut. It is tricky work, but you know what is easier? 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Rather than be concerned that some myocardial damage was done by the vaccine, which is openly acknowledged in the study, it is dismissed as being of no importance since half of the elevated troponins resolved 24 hours later. But lets work out some exact numbers, to make this as clear as possible. Instead of retracting the claim, Steve moved on to say there are 150,000 vaccine deaths. McCullough said that Steve Kirsch will give 2 million dollars to anyone who tries to make the case that vaccines are safe and effective. Its not a perfect argument covid doesnt swim from country to country, it comes in on airplanes. Numbers like that could stay hidden in the data.