By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH
Practicing physicians have lost trust in the associations and public health agencies that comprise the orthodoxy. The American College of Physicians represents internists and medical specialists. Their journal, Annals of Internal Medicine was trusted for years. The pandemic changed all of that forever.
The ACP and The Annals have not published or reprinted a single community of care COVID-19 protocol or paper on how to treat SARS-CoV-2 infection or manage mRNA vaccine injury syndromes. Their most recent contribution to the literature was a travesty.
Sommer et al published an a review that omitted thousands of studies and randomized trials of nasal sprays, gargles, oral generic medications, and multi-drug protocols. Incredulously, out of the mass of literature on early treatment for COVID-19, they selected 8 papers and quickly settled only two oral therapies that could be used—both products of government investment through Operation Warp Speed with Pfizer and Merck and with that bias arrived at this tepid conclusion: “Nirmatrelvir–ritonavir and molnupiravir probably improve outcomes for outpatients with mild to moderate COVID-19.”
The Annals piled on more therapeutic nihilism with “Rapid Practice Points” from Qaseem et al which encourage use of nirmatrelvir–ritonavir and molnupiravir and discourage use of ivermectin and sotrovimab (no off the market). What about the dozens of other drugs used today in standard-of-care? How about the McCullough Protocol as the most widely used approach in the world? Not a word or mention in The Annals. None of these authors claimed to have treated patients nor have they published protocols or clinical outcomes from own original research.
I have concluded the American College of Physicians among many medical organizations is captured by the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex who is hell-bent on a vaccine-only strategy for this and future pandemics. They have no care or concern for sick patients or early therapeutics.
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Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH
President, McCullough Foundation
They should re-brand as "American College of Pharmaceutical Profiteering".
This is indeed a travesty. Low 25-hydroxyvitamin D is easily corrected and is the most important cause of poor innate and adaptive immune responses and of the dysregulated inflammatory responses which kill most COVID-19 patients, and cause sepsis, Kawasaki disease, MIS-C etc.
The immune system can only work properly with 50 ng/mL 125 nmol/L (1 part in 20,000,000 by mass) or more circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D. This is 2 to 10 times what most people have, unless they have been properly supplementing vitamin D3 or have, in the last month or two, had a lot of UV-B exposure on ideally white skin.
This means that most people, in most countries - especially far from the equator and especially those there with dark or black skin and/or sun-avoidant lifestyles - have crippled immune systems all year round.
Please see the research articles cited and discussed at: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/ , https://nutritionmatters.substack.com/p/vitamin-d-and-the-immune-system-article and https://nutritionmatters.substack.com.
If everyone had 50 ng/mL circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D, there would be a great reduction in infectious disease transmission and severity, reduction in auto-immune disorders and a general improvement in physical and mental health.
SARS-CoV-2 would never have spread in pandemic fashion, so there would have been no COVID-19 pandemic. Disease severity for those infected would have been greatly reduced and so would the average number of viruses shed. So transmission would be far less - below that required for R0 of 1.0 or more which causes a pandemic. The escaped virus might still have lingered somewhere, but the few people it infected would rarely suffer severe symptoms of death.
If you think this is too simple to be true, please read the research for yourself.