How we could end the COVID pandemic almost instantly

Guest Post by Steve Kirsch

Any government in the world could do this. It’s easy and obvious. But none of them will do it. Do you want to know why?

Executive summary

1. Use a competitive process to identify the most effective early treatment protocol and in-patient protocol based on actual patient outcomes. This is actually optional since there are several excellent protocols for both early treatment and in-patient use that have near perfect track records. The competitive process would draw attention to the “search” for the best practices which is important.
2. Deploy it. This is the impossible part. We have plenty of 99% or better solutions in #1, but the medical community isn’t rewarded for saving lives. They are rewarded if they follow the NIH recommended protocols. So that’s what they do. They aren’t ever going to reward hospitals who save lives. In fact, I know of a doctor who deviated from the NIH protocols, was massively successful in saving lives, and he was fired for not following the protocol. They will only reward hospitals who follow orders.

My common sense plan to end the COVID pandemic

If nobody dies from COVID anymore and any informed person has access to a treatment protocol that reliably turns COVID into a mild cold, the pandemic mandates, restrictions, and other mitigation policies should all come to an end.

So suppose Elon Musk (or some other high profile individual or institution like Harvard) offers an X-Prize for:

1. the best early treatment protocol ($1M reward)
2. the best in-patient (hospital) treatment protocol ($10M reward)

The protocol with the best stats in real-life treatment of COVID patients wins. There would be two winners: one for the early treatment protocol, the other for the in-patient protocol.

Then you find a country, state, or county willing to deploy these best practices in their area somewhere in the world.

So when someone comes down with COVID, they can get a free “early treatment kit” from their doctor’s office.

And if they don’t get the kit and end up in the hospital, they get a treatment protocol that will save at least 95% or more of them. This in-patient protocol would be very different from what we do today since we already know that protocol is a huge failure.

People then see it is working in that county, state, or country, and then it gets picked up by other areas.

Why it won’t work

I used to be a lot more optimistic about people adopting best practices to solve big problems. Now, I’m much more realistic.

The drug companies clearly don’t want an end to the pandemic and they control everything, so they will ensure that this idea fails.

This plan won’t work for several reasons:

1. Nobody will offer the prize to find out the best protocols because either 1) they don’t want to waste money finding a solution that they know nobody will dare to deploy or 2) they don’t want to be seen as questioning the narrative or the incompetence of the public health officials. Not even Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos will do it. No medical school will sponsor such a contest (even with funding) because they don’t want to lose their government grant money.
2. No hospital in the world will dare to deviate from the gold-standard ineffective CDC in-patient protocol so they won’t even test new options, not even under a clinical trial protocol. So there won’t be an in-patient protocol submitted, even if the prize were $1B. There will only be early treatment protocol entries. This just shows you how “centralized” the control is. Paul Marik would happily supply an in-patient protocol to any hospital willing to to deploy it and split the prize, but no hospital would want to risk it, even as a clinical trial. The clinical trial would never be approved since most IRBs will only allow you to test one thing at a time in these trials EVEN THOUGH every drug is safe and the combinations have been used before with great success. Since all of these drugs and supplements are approved, you don’t need a clinical trial, but hospitals don’t allow doctors to be doctors: they must follow the approved protocol or they will be fired.
3. Even if the two best life-saving protocols were identified, only a few governments in the world will dare to deploy it since it would challenge the incompetency of the CDC and WHO or disrupt payments to government officials from the drug companies. Ron DeSantis wouldn’t even do it in Florida. Individual countries rarely display any independent thought on medical interventions. Almost all simply follow whatever the NIH or WHO says. No critical thinking skills required. It is not about saving lives. It is about saving face and avoiding risk (and getting paid when they toe the line). No leader of any country has enough courage to go against the WHO (maybe there are a few exceptions like Cuba, North Korea and China). And hospitals do what they do because they get monetary incentives from their governments to toe the line.

I’d be absolutely delighted to be proven wrong on all these points.

The fact this plan won’t work anywhere in the world shows how truly messed up the medical system is today. That’s the real problem.