Medical Science: COVID-19 – Is the Anti-Vax Stance Worth the Risk

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Category: Medical Science
Published on Tuesday, 21 September 2021 08:34
Written by Dr. Jane M. Orient, M.D.,

For many Anti-Vaxxers, COVID couldn't happen to them. The sad truth is that COVID is more dangerous than expected. Horror stories of Anti-vaxxers arriving in the ER hoping to be spared the ravages of the disease only to die.

I hope you don't get COVID—if you do, you will probably have trouble finding a doctor who will prescribe early treatment applying one of a number of published protocols.

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Doctors do not want to be called "foolish" by their colleagues or summoned to defend their license before the medical board. Ivermectin is the medication in greatest popular demand at present, and U.S. physicians are writing 88,000 prescriptions a week. Are they all foolish? Consider this graph from Peru.

Excess Deaths in Peru Related to Ivermectin Use or Restriction

Between Aug 1 and Nov 17, 2020, there was a 14-fold decrease in excess all-cause deaths over 3 months, most rapid in states with maximum distribution of ivermectin. After Nov 17, there was a sharp turnaround, with a 13-fold increase in deaths over 1 month. On Nov 17, the newly elected president restricted distribution of ivermectin.

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Any foolishness there?

American doctors are warned: "Ivermectin misuse in Arizona is leading to hospitalizations," according to an article in in Arizona's largest newspaper. "We hope that people are smart enough not to be going and getting these medicines and we hope that physicians aren't being foolish and prescribing this to their patients," said Dr. Daniel Brooks, medical director for Banner Health's Poison and Drug Information Center. Banner is Arizona's largest health system. According to the article, Banner refers doctors inquiring about ivermectin to the poison control center.

Although billions of doses of ivermectin have been taken by humans over about four decades, it can have adverse effects, like all drugs. Banner states that at least seven cases resulted in hospitalization in August. It is not clear whether patients had overdosed on over-the-counter veterinary products.

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Hospitalized patients or their advocates do not have the right to their treatment of choice, although a few patients were able to get ivermectin, which is credited with saving their lives, because of a court order. An effort to get treatment involving hydroxychloroquine to a critically ill couple in Georgia is being denied, and legal intervention is sought.

"We don't practice quack medicine at this hospital," one physician reportedly said when asked about the protocol requested by an outside consultant.

The Australian government's Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) now forbids doctors to prescribe ivermectin for COVID; they may use it only for scabies or certain parasitic diseases. The decision was made after prescriptions for the drug increased between three and four times and attempts to import ivermectin from abroad went up tenfold in August. The TGA said its decision was also based on concern that people would rely on the option of using the drug to treat COVID-19 as an alternative to getting vaccinated. Are Australian doctors foolish quacks?

Patients also do not have the right to decline certain COVID interventions. One patient was told she could not have her spine surgery if she insisted on refusing consent to FDA-approved remdesivir, which can cause multiple organ failure, or a COVID vaccine.

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Ivermectin for human use is available in the U.S., but some pharmacies refuse to fill prescriptions if the patient plans to use it for COVID. It is available over the counter in Mexico but carrying it across the border may be illicit. Patients are resorting to veterinary formulations because they can't get prescriptions. Some contain other anti-parasitic or excipients that might be harmful to humans.

        Additional information:

  • For a compendium of suggested treatment protocols and possible sources of care, see .
  • Download and share the updated AAPS Guide to Home-Based COVID Treatment.

 

Jane M. Orient, M.D. obtained her undergraduate degrees in chemistry and mathematics from the University of Arizona in Tucson, and her M.D. from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1974. She completed an internal medicine residency at Parkland Memorial Hospital and University of Arizona Affiliated Hospitals and then became an Instructor at the University of Arizona College of Medicine and a staff physician at the Tucson Veterans Administration Hospital. She has been in solo private practice since 1981 and has served as Executive Director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) since 1989.

She is currently president of Doctors for Disaster Preparedness. She is the author of YOUR Doctor Is Not In: Healthy Skepticism about National Healthcare, and the second through fifth editions of Sapira's Art and Science of Bedside Diagnosis published by Wolters Kluwer. She authored books for school children, Professor Klugimkopf's Old-Fashioned English Grammar and Professor Klugimkopf's Spelling Method, published by Robinson Books, and coauthored two novels published as Kindle books, Neomorts and Moonshine. 

More than 100 of her papers have been published in the scientific and popular literature on a variety of subjects including risk assessment, natural and technological hazards and non-hazards, and medical economics and ethics. She is the editor of AAPS News, the Doctors for Disaster Preparedness Newsletter, and Civil Defense Perspectives, and is the managing editor of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons.

If you would like to discuss these issues, contact me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or (520) 323-3110. Jane M. Orient, M.D., Executive Director, Association of American Physicians and Surgeons

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