covid-19 treatments

COVID-19 drug Paxlovid will soon hit the commercial market, and it won’t be cheap. We’ll talk about what the change means for patients and the drug’s accessibility. Plus, drone drug delivery is coming to certain rural communities. Also, in one woman’s case, a new pet is just what the doctor ordered.

Here’s everything we talked about today:

• • “Introducing “How We Survive: The Worth of Water”‘ from Marketplace

• • “Pfizer Prices Covid Drug Paxlovid at $1,400 for a Five-Day Course” from The Wall Street Journal

• • “Price of lifesaving Covid-19 antiviral Paxlovid expected to rise next year, raising concerns about access” from CNN

• • “Rite Aid’s bankruptcy reflects how much drugstores have changed” from Marketplace

• • “Biden administration announces ‘largest ever’ investment in US electric grid” from The Verge

• • “Amazon begins delivering medications by drone in Texas” from CNBC

• • “Robin Sipes was feeling sad. Her doctor prescribed her a cat.” from The Washington Post

• • “Here are the Top 10 most popular Halloween candies, according to Instacart” from CBS News

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Professor Ian Brighthope has had a lifelong interest in nature and medicine. He graduated in Agricultural Science in 1965 and then from Medical School in 1974. As early as the 1970’s Ian became disillusioned with Western Medicine and medical training. He specialised in nutritional medicine, environmental medicine, intravenous therapies including chelation therapy and herbal medicine. As chairman of the Australian College of Herbal Medicine, he developed an early interest in cannabis and other controversial herbs. In August, 2022, frustrated with the damage being done by the mainstream medical authorities and politicians of all colours, he formed The WOW, The World Of Wellness International Limited. Professor Brighthope has continued to campaign for the best of health care. In this conversation we talk about his career and the challenges he faced as questioned medical orthodoxy. We also talk about what it means to be an integrative medical doctor, discuss the COVID measures and how they impacted on medical ethics and freedom. Links - Website
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Dr. Harvey Risch of Yale University discusses science versus plausibility with RFK Jr in this episode. 

Science starts with theories, hypotheses, that have examinable empiric ramifications. Nevertheless, those theories are not science; they motivate science. Science occurs when individuals do experiments or make observations that bear upon the implications or ramifications of the theories. Those findings tend to support or refute the theories, which are then modified or updated to adjust to the new observations or discarded if compelling evidence shows that they fail to describe nature. The cycle is then repeated. Science is the performance of empirical or observational work to obtain evidence confirming or refuting theories.

To read Dr. Risch's Brownstone Institute article, click here: https://brownstone.org/articles/plausibility-but-not-science-has-dominated-public-discussions-of-the-covid-pandemic/

In this episode, Patrick Bet-David is joined by Adam Sosnick and Dr. Peter McCullough. Peter Andrew McCullough is an American cardiologist. He was vice chief of internal medicine at Baylor University Medical Center and a professor at Texas A&M University. During the COVID-19 pandemic, McCullough has been skeptical about COVID-19, the COVID-19 vaccine, and COVID-19 treatments.

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Patrick Bet-David is the founder and CEO of Valuetainment Media. He is the author of the #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller Your Next Five Moves (Simon & Schuster) and a father of 2 boys and 2 girls. He currently resides in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

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Ivermectin is a drug that emerged in the 1970s, used mainly for deworming horses and other livestock.

But during the pandemic, it has been falsely lauded in some corners as a kind of miracle cure for the coronavirus.

What is fueling the demand for a drug that the medical establishment has begged people not to take?

Guest: Emma Goldberg, a writer for The New York Times. 

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Background reading: 

• Public health warnings against using the anti-parasitic ivermectin as a treatment for Covid-19 appear to have made little progress in stemming its popularity in parts of the United States.
• Veterinarians, ranchers and farmers say they are struggling with the effects of the surging demand for the drug.

For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday. 

Dr. Robert Malone is the inventor of mRNA Vaccine technology. 
Mr. Steve Kirsch is a serial entrepreneur who has been researching adverse reactions to COVID vaccines. 
Dr. Bret Weinstein is an evolutionary biologist. 
Bret talks to Robert and Steve about the pandemic, treatment and the COVID vaccines. 

Steve's paper on COVID vaccine reactions: https://trialsitenews.com/should-you-get-vaccinated/ 

Steve's Twitter: @stkirsch 
COVID-19 Early Treatment Fund: https://www.treatearly.org/team/steve-kirsch 
Dr. Malone's website: https://www.rwmalonemd.com/mrna-vaccine-inventor 
Robert's LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rwmalonemd 
Robert's Twitter: @RWMaloneMD 

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On this very special live broadcast of the DarkHorse podcast, Dr. Bret Weinstein (Ph.D) and Dr. Pierre Kory (M.D.) will discuss the ongoing pandemic, the care of COVID-19 patients, and the incredible story of Ivermectin. 

* We will be posting references and links to papers and graphs mentioned herein asap.* - Heather, 12:30pm Pacific, June 1, 2021 

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The Recovery Trial, a nation-wide clinical study in the UK, helped identify treatments for Covid 19 in the early months of the pandemic. Tim Harford speaks to Professor Martin Landray of Oxford University whose team established the randomised trial.