His openness and creativity paid off when, to Steve's surprise and delight, one such treatment worked. Steve might be right about some things. 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. His idea to shine a light on cheap drugs with well-documented safety profiles is a good one, but his poisoning of the vaccine well to do so is deranged. But we still need a backup plan, we need treatments to take 2nd and 3rd place. The reason for that is simple: it would make it crystal clear that the vaccines are unsafe. Share on Facebook. https://ad.style/ Guest Post by Margaret Anna Alice. A fund created by Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur and philanthropist Steve Kirsch is supporting research on COVID-19 treatments that can be administered immediately after infection. One of these applications was for fluvoxamine in the early treatment of COVID-19, submitted by Eric Lenze, MD, a psychiatrist at Washington University in St. Louis, who is now principal investigator on a fluvoxamine trial called STOP COVID, with preliminary results published last fall in JAMA. Steve admitted he was wrong, and promised to look into it more and fix his statements. Because if we can move the needle on those, thats huge. Executive summary Consider the following 3 figures from Wilson Sy's summary paper, The cure is the disease: Australia's iatrogenic pandemic: During the worst weeks of the pandemic, 40% more people were dying than in a regular week back in 2019: These excess deaths happened while the country was having covid deaths but not while we were vaccinating people. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Steve Kirsch created the COVID-19 Early Treatment Fund (CETF) to finance trials of off-patent drugs in an attempt to find a potent treatment that had been staring us in the face. Days to death from Dec 15, 2020 in Medicare in Connecticut. Crawford pretends hes found some hidden signal of vaccine deaths. They dont tend to line up with vaccination rates anywhere. Mouse Systems is not a household word, he told the journalist. Critical Thinking Vaccines. The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2020 . Their justification is certainly worth debating. Many people in the first world are getting breakthrough infections. Kirsch's COVID-19 Early Treatment Fund seemed tailor-made for the research Lenze and Reiersen were conducting, and when Lenze heard about it, he quickly fired off a grant proposal. "The blog and FAQ are leapfrogging the evidence. This is a very wide range; it accommodates people who have cardiac injury. A systematic review of published cases of shingles following (though not necessarily caused by) COVID vaccination identified 54 cases. Does COVID-19 Mess with the Immune System? Thats strong evidence that vaccines dont cause many deaths. Kirsch says that the scientific advisory board has reviewed 110 grant applications so far, and has funded 14 of them. Teenage suicide normally goes up during the school year and down during summer vacation. Steve KirschPhoto: The COVID-19 Early Treatment Fund. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. This virus causes chickenpox when were young. 150,000 Vaccine Deaths In The USKirsch Group. The vaccine creates far more injury to the heart than COVID (which creates NO added risk per this large-scale Israeli study of 196,992 unvaccinated adults after Covid infection). The post read: "I will be featured on 60 Minutes this Sunday talking about fluvoxamine as an effective treatment for COVID-19 to prevent hospitalization and death. As vaccines came out, Steve increasingly portrayed them as deadly and dangerous. Theyre caused by or related to covid. Theres a clearer signal but its still pretty noisy: To double check, I pulled up the same same graph on OurWorldInData, they use a slightly different time lag between cases and deaths (10 days instead of 18), but its about the same shape as mine. Not sure if anybody has continued to track how long is the "maximum" amount of time . 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. One of the drugs, Fluvoxamine, showed a 3060% reduction in hospitalizations in a large trial. All rights reserved. Every virus, without exception, should be treated early. Steve says the difference of 171,000 deaths hides the vaccine deaths. And when I started seeing my friends die and be injured and I. A lot of pilots and a lot of damage. Are people dying from vaccines? But there is an ethical problem here, according to Steven Joffe, MD, MPH, chief of medical ethics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. Based on the data so far, Kirsch says that he's convinced fluvoxamine will save lives. We had 150,000 excess deaths in 2020 that werent diagnosed as covid. He says many people find him through the FLCCC website, not through CETF. Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, an epidemiologist and science communicator, is a bit more charitable in his assessment: there is no evidence it impacts COVID-19 mortality, but it could still provide modest benefit or modest harm. Path to Innovation: Athens v Sparta, Fox v Hedgehog, da Vinci v Michael Phelps By Andrew Talbot ( ) Recently, another old drug called fluvoxamine has come onto the scene. He tackled what for others might have been a devastating blow with his characteristic gusto working with world-renowned scientists to develop an experimental treatment. And every single one of them, except for one, shows that ivermectin always had a positive effect. We should study which vaccines are safest, whether teenage boys should get one shot or two, things like that. It matters what a country does to control transmission inside the country, just as much as it matters controlling what comes in. 219 episodes. This argument was repeatedly discredited by myself, by Avi Bitterman, by @PiercedGeek. The CETF website boldly claims that ivermectin and fluvoxamine have been known since October 2020 to be two of the most effective drugs that can be used against COVID, but that the NIH and WHO ignore this evidence. I would gladly go on Joe Rogan to talk to Steve, in exchange for 2 million dollars. No, deaths and cases were both low at the time. New York had a big wave of covid deaths in spring 2020, but California was spared. There should be a 1520% spike in excess deaths in every state and every country that used it, during the first few months while elderly people get vaccinated. The censorship isnt what held the drug back. Uh oh. Like all members of its class, fluvoxamine has a long list of potential drug-drug interactions, and carries a black box warning for suicidal ideation in children, adolescents, and young adults. There has been at least one case report of acute fluvoxamine toxicity and death. David Satterfield, executive vice president at the company, told MedPage Today via email that a small, observational study at a California racetrack provided "a good narrative" for PR efforts. You have to go to primary sources to get data and crunch a lot of numbers. But I remember from my grad school days a neighbouring academic lab that was studying metformin, a common drug for diabetes approved in Canada in 1972, to see if it had other applications. Due to proximity of vaccination we felt we should report the death, even though it is not believed to be related. CFR can go up and down for a few reasons. On the third day after the booster, troponin levels above the upper limits of normal were seen in 2.8% of those subjects. In an interview to HT, the funds founder Steve Kirsch says India must focus on ensuring people begin treatment for Covid-19 early. This article about misleading claims from anti-vaccine activist Steve Kirsch was written by Dorit Rubinstein Reiss, Professor of Law at the University of California Hastings College of the Law (San Francisco, CA), who is a frequent contributor to this and many other blogs, providing in-depth, and intellectually stimulating, articles about vaccines, medical issues, social policy, and the law. Instead of retracting the claim, Steve moved on to say there are 150,000 vaccine deaths. There is no need to wait for the clinical trial," he writes in his blog post "How I Would Treat COVID.". And now, his ego is wrapped up in the generic drugs project. According to its founder, serial tech entrepreneur Steve Kirsch, CETF was started in April 2020 in order to fund drug repurposing research to find the fastest and most cost-effective early outpatient treatments for COVID-19. To former President Obama, its $1 million to join him in a debate, for which Kirsch pre-emptively accuses Obama and his friends of being misinformation spreaders. Steve Kirsch is a serial entrepreneur who, at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, had a good idea. But it turns out thats not true, either. Refresh the page,. He wants to be the guy that solved covid. Good research is time-consuming. So this number always depends on the numerator (covid deaths) and the denominator (covid cases). I tried summing up the excess deaths in the 3 months before vaccination started and the 3 months after it started. Of the current list of top paid political newsletters on Substack, former Times writer Alex Berenson and tech entrepreneur Steve Kirsch come in at sixth and nineteenth respectively, both known. Why? tried to take Steve up on his million dollar debate offer, nominated 2 judges that already agreed with him, 350,000 of these deaths were logged as covid deaths, went down when we pulled kids out of school for covid, Crawford divides up countries of the world, its easier to make discoveries in a false belief system than in reality, die younger than gold medalists or bronze medalists, video were Yuri Deigin talked to Steve and all his friends, she would debate if Steve donated one million dollars to a charity of her choice. Over the course of his career, hehas founded more than seven companies, including Propel Software, Mouse Systems Corporation, Frame Technology Corporation, and Infoseek all dedicated to improving computer software and tech. I tried looking at other control group countries, to see if the numbers came out the same. In a 2008 blog post, Kirsch reminisced about urging people not to vote for Bush in 2000: He would be a disaster as President, Kirsch wrote, since he had a track record of ignoring facts, ignoring science, and twisting the facts to support his misguided beliefs., Take-home message: I could not agree more! And you arent allowed to do that. There is also a risk for QTc prolongation and rare but potentially deadly serotonin syndrome. The best is yet to come. Steve Kirschs angle on this is harder to parse. Covid is a clotting disease, so mild cases are causing some people to die of heart attacks or strokes. Fact check: False claim that Truth Social will charge users $4.99 per week. I have to get one every six months. And this happened before in sepsis, where a doctor, Paul Merrick, discovered that if you get vitamin C within four hours, every single person can be saved. I use quotes because it wouldnt be a 1 on 1 discussion with him, it would be a zoom call with me talking to Steve and 15 of his friends at the same time. When trials came back with poor results for hydroxychloroquine, Kirsch blamed the researchers for doing the trial wrong. Facebook has a "Combating COVID-19 Misinformation" policy, which includes removing posts that make false claims about cures and treatments for COVID-19. It is tricky work, but you know what is easier? This narrative is going to start falling apart at an accelerated rate. The Substack letter published on Dec. 28 by Steve Kirsch, an individual previously fact-checked by Reuters ( here and here ), calls for an immediate halt to vaccine rollouts, saying the. The fluvoxamine story is a bit more optimistic. We all know its not 100% safe. The only major source of excess deaths thats unrelated is fentanyl overdoses. Infoseek lost out to Yahoo; it had a chance to grow bigger, but it didnt. sustained some amount of heart damage from the shot. Unintentional injuries went up by 19,000. The cardiac harm of course is not limited to pilots. The fact that the FAA *quietly* changed the EKG parameters for pilots suggests that the vaccine is causing a huge number of pilots to fail their screening. So the deaths would happen soon after any country starts rolling out the vaccines. Bezos flew to space in his own rocket. Low covid states like Vermont and Hawaii must also be hiding the deaths. ", Veronica Hackethal reports for MedPage Today's Enterprise and Investigative journalism team. He started transitioning into telemedicine about a year ago with Teladoc, one of the nation's largest providers of telemedicine. Im not sure, I havent looked that carefully or checked this since August. Kirsch accurately cites federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data on deaths involving COVID-19 among children (age 0 to 18). Fact checkers arent going to touch this story. Promising treatment research.. Brand Storytelling At Sundance: Championing Excellence And Filmmakers With Purpose, Profitable ECommerce Growth For CPGs Is In Reach. Claire Berlinski and Yuri Deigin. This can cause deafness, blindness, inability I just had an FAA class 1 medical exam yesterday. He has a bachelor and master of science in engineering from MIT. I told him it was because there are too many pilots that would otherwise have failed the exam, and that I believe this is because of the jabs. Before becoming a full-time telemedicine doctor, Haider worked as a hospitalist for about 10 years. Rarer categories of deaths arent listed in that table. Another is to identify an asteroid that is going to hit the planet.. They can make changes every month. It could have still helped to get the word out maybe if Steve had written an honest post he could have done some good. If we cherry-pick these reports to scare people, we should also share post-vaccination reports claiming nose bleeds, anal leakages, and the unbelievable swelling of the male reproductive apparatus. Medpage Today is among the federally registered trademarks of MedPage Today, LLC and may not be used by third parties without explicit permission. CFR gets to over 20%: Thats not the result of vaccines, which didnt get sent to Peru until February 9th. We Already Have Them. If youd like to see how these go, heres a video were Yuri Deigin talked to Steve and all his friends. Did the troponin levels still elevated at day four post-injection resolve completely? For Crawford to find vaccine deaths hidden in the case fatality rates, hes going to have to first find a way to factor out the seasonal spike that started months before vaccinations begin. It is absurd. But the approach I had was to find the best scientists and fund them. Im skeptical that you could see vaccine deaths hidden in the numerator, because the case numbers in the denominator are too inaccurate. In New Zealand, excess deaths went down by 3.6%. I have written before about the ivermectin delusion. The topic here is Steve Kirsch's bogus claim that COVID vaccines shorten the life expectancy of people who are enrolled in Medicare. Im not going to make the same mistake again.. . The problem with Steves claim is that you need some place to hide all those bodies. When we look at Kirschs central claims, we do not find a smoking gun. Angela replied, saying that she would debate if Steve donated one million dollars to a charity of her choice. Mainly because friends and family had suffered. How did he know this? April 8, 2021. news Trial supports use of fluvoxamine in patients with mild COVID-19. 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. 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.". On Jan 6, my first class medical was deferred, due to 2nd AV block, Mobitz type 2 (see picture of EKG with diagnosis). Here are alzheimers disease deaths in CA (left) and NY (right): Here are diabetes deaths in CA (left) and NY (right): I have 2 theories for whats going on. Thats how Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos spend their free time: Theyre not all exactly the same. On The DarkHorse Podcast, we will explore questions that matter, with tools that work. I dont know how much Crawford is making, but its at least enough to hire a paid research assistant. Steve Kirsch went on those websites and I think he emailed everyone who was open to alternative treatments.". But it sounds like Steve couldnt play well with others. View link in a new tab . Steve is welcome to prove me wrong and write a check. Cardiologist Thomas Levy is appalled at this change: We discuss his article Myocarditis: Once Rare, Now Common. I did the research when I got Waldenstrms and, even with treatment, the mortality rate was about five years, he said. Hed end up the target for the conspiracy theories, not the source. We found a preexisting drug that worked to keep my cancer at bay. At first, you had to prove that there were less than 500 vaccine deaths. on 301 kids. Steve says the vaccine mostly kills old people, and that is supported by the data. And he smooths out both cases and deaths, to reduce the noise. Generic fluvoxamine continues to be available in the U.S. On the third day after the booster, troponin levels above the upper limits of normal were seen in 2.8% of those subjects. This study raises more questions than it answers. There are several clues that are consistent with it was the vaccine and not COVID: They were quiet about it. According to its founder, serial tech entrepreneur Steve Kirsch, CETF was started in April 2020 in order to fund. 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. You have to refute 2 blog posts to win Steves million dollar prize. And its the same thing with every category. The US CFR does settle down to a reasonable range. So, why did Crawford exclude islands? And, as with all of the current papers downplaying the significance of any vaccine side effect, however significant, The vaccine creates far more injury to the heart than COVID (, per this large-scale Israeli study of 196,992, I know from a study of 177 people in Puerto Rico (97% of whom were vaccinated) ages 8 to 84, that, There was a study done on pilots. See the difference? Bret talks to Robert and Steve about the pandemic, treatment and the COVID vaccines. We just didnt have much testing capacity at the time that people started dying in New York City. The changes were made on October 24, 2022 to the, For more information about the change, see, Think Im kidding about how they game the trials? They go up on schooldays and down on the weekend. He adds that SendGrid, the marketing tool used to email large lists of people, has disabled his account. COVID-19 vaccines - An Australian Review was published in the peer-reviewed scientific literature on Sept 21, 2022.. Here's the two sentences from the paper that everyone should read: A worldwide Bayesian causal Impact analysis suggests that COVID-19 gene therapy (mRNA vaccine) causes more COVID-19 cases per million and more non-Covid deaths per million than are associated with COVID-19 [43]. And, I guess, confirmation bias does the rest? "FDA experts reveal the Covid-19 Vaccines are killing at least 2 people for every 1 life they save as they vote 16-2 against the approval of booster shots," an Instagram post claimed. Yuri brought slides to discuss and Steve refused to look at them. You also have an excellent chance of getting a lifetime of heart damage for no extra charge. As I learn more, I will refine the estimate. In his three-minute presentation, Kirsch based his claim that heart attacks occur 71 times more often following COVID-19 . Then Steve quietly changed the terms of his million dollar challenge without notice. He founded the anti-vaccine group Vaccine Safety Research Foundation, whose advisors include Byram Bridle, Peter McCullough, Robert Malone, and Stephanie Seneff. But kids are indestructible so a 30% injury rate in kids translates into a higher rate for adults. All they need do is zero in on a bit of fragmentary data and blow it out of proportion. Basically, the vaccines are causing heart injury in at least 2.8% of people who get the shot. Its true on every island that avoided covid. CFR goes up because testing numbers stay constant, but the true numbers of cases go up. Even though we cant do a before/after study in the US, they did such a study in Thailand on 301 kids. Articles highlighting fluvoxamine for the early outpatient treatment of COVID-19 have also appeared in Science News and Kaiser Health News. In France, for instance, the CFR starts going up in September and then peaks on December 14th. Over the last 18 months, the fund has granted at least $4.5 million to researchers testing the covid-fighting powers of drugs that are already FDA-approved for other diseases. Apparently this was about Gates hoping that Epstein could pull some strings and help win him a Nobel prize. Apple Podcasts Preview. Scientists and clinicians are studying a host of drugs and therapeutics to create a new line of defence against the virus but clinical trials are yet to lead to conclusive evidence on any of these. Please consider making a donation on their website. Other episodes will feature Bret hosting long . Steve said he wouldnt debate unless he could pick the judges, and he nominated 2 judges that already agreed with him. Both concluded that, while it was possible the vaccine had somehow awakened the varicella-zoster virus in these people, this cause-and-effect link could not be established. Some people call this the Ikea Effect of misinformation: people are more attached to things they put together themselves, so if you get them to follow along on an anti-vax data site and feed them breadcrumbs, theyll be more convinced that the vaccines are deadly. But kids are indestructible so a 30% injury rate in kids translates into a higher rate for adults. The post also includes advice on how to get fluvoxamine from your doctor, and links to telemedicine doctors who are willing to prescribe it. In the US, possible vaccine deaths are filed in VAERS reports. Among the 65 who took fluvoxamine, none were hospitalized, compared with six of 48 (12.5%) who declined the drug (P=0.005). Opens in a new tab or window, Visit us on LinkedIn. I think thats referring to drug overdoses. More recently, someone tried to take Steve up on a million dollar bet debating covid vaccines. Building space rockets sounds kind of fun being an astronaut is a dream for a lot of kids. QAnon wasnt just crazy because it theorized that Trump was fighting a global cabal of wealthy elites that terrorize children and drink their blood. Youre sitting at home, pretending youre fighting a vaccine conspiracy. How important is it? It also goes to your child's brain, heart, and other critical organs. Looking for COVID-19 'Miracle Drugs'?