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Fauci accused of covertly going to CIA headquarters to ‘influence’ COVID-19 origins probe

Anthony Fauci was escorted to CIA headquarters “without a record of entry” to “influence” the agency’s COVID-19 origins investigation, according to
allegations brought to light Tuesday by Congress’ Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.

In addition to letting China off the hook for the deaths of millions of Americans, the zoonotic origins theory preferred by Fauci and entertained by those he influenced would indicate that the funding provided to the Wuhan coronavirus lab by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases under Fauci’s watch was not ultimately an investment in global devastation.

The accusation raised Tuesday by the subcommittee’s chairman, Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio), comes just weeks after a CIA whistleblower
accused the agency of bribing six analysts on its COVID Discovery Team to reject the theory that the virus came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

What’s the background?

Federal documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit
revealed earlier this year that the NIAID, under former director Fauci, funded dangerous experiments on coronaviruses at the WIV in China’s Hubei province.

Millions among the dollars funneled from Fauci’s agency to the WIV were mediated by Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance, whose subcontractor Ben Hu — the lead on gain-of-function research on SARS-like coronaviruses — was among the
patients zero at the lab and ostensibly among the very first infected in the world.

Despite the nature of the gain-of-function research on coronaviruses conducted at the WIV, past concerns about lab security, the geography of the virus’ early spread, and multiple other clues, Fauci stressed that the virus killing off vulnerable populations at home was likely not man-made but the result of a trans-species jump.

The former NIAID director apparently went to great lengths to convince others of this narrative.

Congressional investigators
indicated in March that Fauci commissioned, edited, and gave final approval to the impactful March 2020 study published in the journal Nature, “The Proximal Origins of SARS-CoV-2” — an oft-cited study whose authors expressed concerns in private about the “sh** show that would happen if anyone serious accused the Chinese of even accidental release,” making clear that their cause was “political.”

Fauci repeatedly referenced this paper on the national stage, including once from the White House podium, to bolster the zoonotic origins theory.

With the weight of this study in an esteemed journal behind him and his hand in its fabrication hidden, Fauci
told CBS’ “Face the Nation” in March 2020 that COVID-19 was an animal virus that jumped to a human.

Fauci later
told National Geographic in May 2020 that notwithstanding the concerns privately expressed by other virologists, there was “no scientific evidence” to suggest the virus had come from the Wuhan lab.

It appears Fauci may have secretly advanced his preferred narrative in Langley, Virginia, as well.

Questionable intelligence at the CIA

Wenstrup stated Tuesday, “According to information gathered by the Select Subcommittee, Dr. Anthony Fauci, then-director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, played a role in the Central Intelligence Agency’s review of the origins of COVID-19.”

“The information provided suggests that Dr. Fauci was escorted into Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Headquarters — without a record of entry — and participated in the analysis to ‘influence’ the Agency’s review,” continued the chairman.

In an effort to “ensure the scientific investigative process regarding the origins of COVID-19 was fair, impartial, and free of alternative influence,” Wenstrup is now demanding all documents and communications pertaining to Fauci’s access to CIA facilities and CIA employees, including correspondences between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, NIAID, and the U.S. Marshals Service, which had been assigned to protect Fauci.

Additionally, the congressional investigators want HHS Special Agent Brett Rowland made available for a “voluntary transcribed interview at a date to be determined.”

In a Sept. 26
letter to HHS Inspector General Christi Grimm, Wenstrup stated, “The American people deserve the truth — to know the origins of the virus and whether there was a concerted effort by public health authorities to suppress the lab leak theory for political or national security purposes.”

It is presently unclear whether Fauci’s supposed secret visit to Langley is directly connected to the CIA’s
alleged efforts to monetarily incentivize CIA analyst to change their position on the virus’ origin.

A senior high-level CIA officer
told congressional investigators earlier this month that following a review, six members of a seven-member COVID Discovery Team determined there was sufficient evidence to make a low-confidence assessment that COVID-19 originated from the Wuhan lab. Only one member allegedly figured zoonosis to be responsible.

The six analysts were bribed to change their position, according to the whistleblower.

Wenstrup and Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) wrote a letter to CIA Director William Burns requesting documents and communications pertaining to the research team and its interactions with other branches of the government, along with pay and bonus histories of the team’s members.

The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic asked on X, “What difference does it make to @CIA whether the pandemic originated at a Chinese lab or in nature?”

Early in the pandemic, the U.S. intelligence community
concluded that the virus “was not manmade or genetically modified.”

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has since changed its tune, noting in a
June 2023 report that the intelligence community found “biosafety concerns” at the WIV and determined “genetic engineering” of coronaviruses was in fact taking place at the Chinese military-linked facility.

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Did the CIA BRIBE experts to dismiss COVID lab-leak theory? COVID subcommittee member SPILLS the details.

It’s been almost four years since the COVID-19 pandemic swept the globe, but we still don’t know exactly where the virus came from. Was it really a pathogen spawned in a bat cage? Or did it come from a lab with sinister intentions?

Army Reserve officer, war veteran, doctor, and COVID subcommittee member Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) joins Glenn Beck to discuss this most serious issue.

Wenstrup tells Glenn that when the pandemic began, he began looking into how to effectively treat patients, and during this research, he “discovered that we were actually engaging with China in the lab in Wuhan to create gain-of-function viruses.”

Fast forward three years, and now “we have somebody coming forward as a whistleblower … to both the Intelligence Committee and to the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, which I chair, and he’s made many allegations,” says Wenstrup.

“The CIA, in trying to figure out whether this came from a lab or from nature, put together a COVID discovery team,” he tells Glenn.

Here were their results:

“Six of the people — they came to the conclusion with some level of confidence that this came from a lab,” Wenstrup explains, “and the senior person, according to these charges, said it came from nature.”

So it was a 6 to 1 vote.

But was that shared with the public? Of course not.

But they didn’t just conceal the findings; they outright lied.

“What they ended up doing at the end of the day [was] releasing to the public and to the Intelligence Community … [that] the CIA was unable to determine” the origins of the virus, explains Wenstrup.

“Well, it sounds like they had a really high number of people who were able to determine,” he says.

Granted Wenstrup’s committee has a responsibility to “follow up on everything to do with the with the pandemic,” it’s now “seeking documents, communications,” and to speak with “Andrew Makridis, who the whistleblower says was the chief operating officer and had a lot to do with constructing this.”

Wenstrup admits that it’s deeply concerning to find out “our own intelligence department is changing things from what people actually did and said to fit a narrative that they want.”

To hear the full conversation, watch the clip below.

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Whistleblower claims CIA paid off analysts to reject COVID-19 lab-leak theory: ‘Biggest COVID coverup yet’

The Central Intelligence Agency bribed analysts who concluded the COVID-19 pandemic originated from a lab leak in Wuhan, a new whistleblower has alleged.

The explosive allegation was disclosed in a letter that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner (R) and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R) sent CIA Director William Burns on Tuesday.

The lawmakers explained that a CIA analyst, described as a “multi-decade, senior-level” official, testified that CIA leaders paid off six agency analysts who had concluded the pandemic originated through a lab leak — animal-to-human transmission.

“According to the whistleblower, the Agency assigned seven officers to a COVID Discovery Team (Team). The Team consisted of multi-disciplinary and experienced officers with significant scientific expertise,” the lawmakers wrote. “According to the whistleblower, at the end of its review, six of the seven members of the Team believed the intelligence and science were sufficient to make a low confidence assessment that COVID-19 originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China.

“The seventh member of the Team, who also happened to be the most senior, was the lone officer to believe COVID-19 originated through zoonosis,” they explained.

“The whistleblower further contends that to come to the eventual public determination of uncertainty, the other six members were given a significant monetary incentive to change their position,” the lawmakers said.

The claims are significant because the allegations both contradict and explain a declassified report the director of national intelligence released in June. That report said of the CIA’s investigation:

The Central Intelligence Agency and another agency remain unable to
determine the precise origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, as both hypotheses rely on
significant assumptions or face challenges with conflicting reporting.

That report explained the National Intelligence Council and four other intelligence agencies believe COVID originated from animal-to-human transmission, while the Energy Department and FBI believe “a laboratory-associated incident was the most likely cause.”

Turner and Wenstrup, therefore, demanded Burns turn over all documents related to the CIA’s investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic by Sept. 26.

Meanwhile, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who has relentlessly pursued the truth of the pandemic and the U.S. government’s role in it, called the new whistleblower allegations the “biggest COVID coverup yet.”

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Commentary: The people vs. Anthony Fauci and ‘white coat supremacy’

Dr. Anthony Fauci is concerned that “people will not abide” by the Centers for Disease Control’s recent masking recommendations. For their part, the people have good reason to disregard the recommendations — and Fauci along with them.

After more than 50 years in government and 38 years heading the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Fauci announced his retirement at the end of 2022. With the 82-year-old still dishing it out, Americans might dial it back a few years.

At various times, Fauci recommended that people wear no masks, then one mask, and then two masks. As the Cochrane study showed in January, masks are more or less useless against COVID-19. In an appearance last week on CNN, Fauci said other studies showed otherwise but failed to name a single one.

Fauci was also a hawk on the vaccines that failed to prevent infection and transmission of COVID. Indeed, Fauci and Joe Biden, both vaccinated and boosted, have tested positive for COVID. The NIAID boss wanted children, the least vulnerable group, to get multiple vaccinations nevertheless.

Fauci funded the Wuhan Institute of Virology to conduct gain-of-function research that makes viruses more lethal and transmissible. The WIV, in turn, received shipments of deadly pathogens courtesy of Dr. Xiangguo Qiu, a Chinese national who headed the special pathogens unit at Canada’s National Microbiology Lab. In 2017 and 2018 alone, Dr. Qiu made at least five trips to the WIV.

Fauci maintained that the virus arose naturally in the wild, which is a matter of speculation, not science. The mysterious virus was able to produce new variants that Fauci said were already here and highly transmissible. And of course, that demanded more vaccinations, masking, distancing, and so forth. Like the alleged natural origin of the virus, none of this was authenticated or replicated by scientists with no ties to the NIAID, the NIH, the CDC, or Big Pharma.

Fauci is on record that he represents science. That is a strange claim for a medical doctor whose biography shows no advanced degrees in biochemistry or molecular biology. Nobel laureate Kary Mullis, inventor of the polymerase chain reaction, has said Fauci “doesn’t understand electronic microscopy and he doesn’t understand medicine. He should not be in a position like he’s in.” But he was, heading the NIAID from 1984 through 2022.

During that time, Fauci oversaw drug trials on African-American foster children in New York, forcing them to take AZT and other dangerous drugs. For the full story, read “The Real Anthony Fauci” by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. And as Rebecca Culshaw contends in “The Real AIDS Epidemic: How the Tragic HIV Mistake Threatens Us All,” fast-track approval for mRNA vaccines was “essentially a massive clinical trial [that] was conducted in real time on the entire population.” The results are still coming in.

Anthony Fauci earned a medical degree in 1966, but if he ever practiced medicine, it was only for a short time. In 1968, he took a cushy “yellow beret” job with the National Institutes of Health. The number of COVID patients Fauci has treated is unknown, but a fair estimate would be zero. He’s a bureaucrat, first and foremost, wielding executive-level power but never having to face the voters.

This Lysenko-esque figure is still running his mouth, but the people have little if any reason to heed anything he says. On the other hand, since he’s never been held accountable, Congress has good reason to investigate him. The same goes for the Centers for Disease Control, which has failed at its primary task.

The CDC’s intrepid Epidemic Intelligence Service failed to prevent the “novel coronavirus” from arriving stateside. In early 2020, EIS veteran Nancy Messonnier delivered a series of briefings that faithfully echoed China’s talking points. The EIS, supposedly the nation’s medical CIA, also seems unable to detect the new variants and stop their spread within the country.

People yearning to breathe free and live free should reject the CDC’s mask recommendations. For its part, Congress has good reason to downsize the CDC and NIAID or eliminate them altogether. White coat supremacy is incompatible with a constitutional republic. The struggle against white coat supremacy is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

Lloyd Billingsley is the author of “Hollywood Party,” “Barack ’Em Up: A Literary Investigation,” and “Yes I Con: United Fakes of America.” He has written for the Wall Street Journal, FrontPage magazine, and many other publications.

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‘A lot of red flags’: Florida surgeon general advises people to stay away from new COVID-19 vaccine

Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo said during a press conference on Thursday that people should not receive the updated COVID-19 booster vaccine.

The booster in question has not yet been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, but it is apparently designed to defend against the BA.2.86 Omicron subvariant of the illness, per Fox News.

Ladapo said that “there’s a new vaccine that’s coming around the corner, a new mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, and there’s essentially no evidence for it.”

“There’s been no clinical trial done in human beings showing that it benefits people,” he continued.

“There’s been no clinical trial showing that it is a safe product for people — and not only that, but then there are a lot of red flags.”

While addressing specific concerns about the booster, he suggested that the updated vaccine “actually cause cardiac injury in many people.”

However, Lapado urged Floridians to make their own decisions based on their own convictions. He suggested people make decisions based on their “resonance of truth,” instead of relying on “very educated people telling you what you should think.”

“When they try to convince you to be comfortable and agree with things that don’t feel comfortable, [that] don’t feel like things you should agree with, that is a sign, right? That’s a gift,” Lapado said.

Ladapo went on to suggest people take on healthy nutrition habits instead of leaning on updated vaccines.

Last month, the surgeon general condemned the use of COVID masks and a new round of potential lockdowns, writing on X: “What do you call re-imposing mask policies that have been proven ineffective or restarting lockdowns that are known to cause harm? You don’t call it sanity. These terrible policies only work with your cooperation. How about refusing to participate…”

Ladapo’s comments about mask mandates come as the mandates appear to be making a comeback in some parts of the country. The New York City health department suggested that masking up over Labor Day weekend was a “good idea.”

Lionsgate has apparently instituted a mask mandate for certain floors of a California office, and Morris Brown College in Georgia also implemented a mask mandate at the start of the school year.

Florida law has banned businesses, schools, and government entities from implementing such mandates.

Dan Bongino recently posted: “Only morons wear surgical masks as protection against a microscopic airborne virus. Legitimate imbeciles. We’re all laughing at you for falling for this stupidity yet again.”

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Anthony Fauci was just CONFRONTED by the most UNUSUAL suspect

It’s an odd day when CNN makes sense.

This past Saturday, CNN host Michael Smerconish confronted Anthony Fauci with a study that showed masking made little to no difference in the course of COVID-19.

“The most rigorous and comprehensive analysis of scientific studies conducted on the efficacy of masks for reducing the spread of respiratory illness, including COVID-19, was published last month,” Smerconish told Fauci, explaining that the conclusion was “there is just no evidence that they — masks — make any difference.”

Even the N95 masks were found to “make no difference.”

Fauci retorted with what seemed to be more garbled nonsense, saying that on an individual level they work, but “when you’re talking about the effect on the epidemic or the pandemic as a whole, the data are less strong.”

“This dumba** really wants you to believe that somehow it didn’t work on a pandemic level, but on an individual level, they worked,” Sara Gonzales of “The News & Why It Matters” comments. “Well, no, idiot. Because if they worked on an individual level, they would work on a pandemic larger scale.”

Jaco Booyens, while noting how ridiculous Fauci’s reasoning is, isn’t surprised.

“It’s so on par with their whole message,” he says. “The collective.”

“The individual doesn’t really matter, you know. So the collective is made of a bunch of individuals, and the virus attacks the individual, right. And if the mask doesn’t work for the individual, it won’t work for the collective,” he continues.

Gonzales notes that despite the plethora of information now available, like the study the CNN host brought up, people are still beginning to wear masks again.

“I have seen people start wearing masks again in public. I automatically judge you. I am judging you,” she says, adding,

“Like you’re really, you are really going to do this again.”

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CNN host shocks viewers when he confronts Dr. Fauci with study, expert analysis on mask efficacy

CNN host Michael Smerconish confronted Dr. Anthony Fauci on Saturday over a recent study that questioned the efficacy of face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic.

What about the study?

In January, the Cochrane institute released a new systematic review studying the impacts of “physical interventions” to slow the spread of respiratory viruses. The study concluded that wearing masks “probably makes little or no difference to the outcome” on flu-like or COVID-like illness or laboratory-confirmed flu or COVID-19 compared to not wearing masks.

Oxford epidemiologist Tom Jefferson, the study’s first author, said after the study was published, “There is just no evidence that [masks] make any difference.”

“Makes no difference — none of it,” he explained, speaking of N-95 masks. He said policymakers who enacted mask mandates were “convinced by nonrandomized studies, flawed observational studies.”

What happened on CNN?

Smerconish confronted Fauci about that study and Jefferson’s analysis, introducing it by quoting New York Times columnist Bret Stephens, who described the review as the “most rigorous and comprehensive analysis of scientific studies conducted on the efficacy of masks for reducing the spread of respiratory illnesses.”

Fauci, however, refused to budge.

“Yes, but there are other studies, Michael, that show at an individual level, for individual, when you’re talking about the effect on the epidemic or the pandemic as a whole, the data are less strong,” he responded.

“But when you talk about as an individual basis of someone protecting themselves or protecting themselves from spreading it to others, there’s no doubt that there are many studies that show that there is an advantage,” he continued. “When you [look at] the broad population level like the Cochrane study, the data are less firm with regard to the effect on the overall pandemic. But we’re not talking about that, we’re talking about an individual’s effect on their own safety. That’s a bit different than the broad population level.”


Dr. Fauci responds to study that says masks didn’t work

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There are several problems with Fauci’s response.

First, he cited “other studies,” but declined to name a single one. Second, he claimed those “studies” show mask efficacy at the “individual level.” But to study the efficacy of masks, participants are placed in two groups — one with masks and another without masks — and the rate of infection between the groups is compared. There is no way to study these outcomes on an “individual level.”

And don’t forget: while Fauci now claims masks are effective on an “individual level,” mask mandates were justified with the reverse logic. Politicians advised people to wear them, even those who did not want or need to wear them, in order to protect others.

Finally, Fauci spoke as though everyone’s risk to COVID-19 is the same. Sure, everyone can contract it. But the pandemic proved that not everyone is equally likely to die from it. The people most likely to die from COVID-19 are elderly people and those who are metabolically unhealthy and have multiple comorbidities.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in fact, said that just “over 5%” of COVID-19 deaths include people in which COVID-19 “was the only cause mentioned on the death certificate.” But for people whose death certificate listed COVID-19 and other conditions, “on average, there were 4.0 additional conditions or causes per death,” according to the CDC.

Still, viewers were simply amazed that a CNN host dared to challenge Fauci directly on the efficacy of masks.

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Media sounds alarm over new Eris COVID variant, pushes for Americans to mask up

The media is sounding the alarm over the newest COVID variant – Eris or EG.5. The mainstream media is already making a push for Americans to mask up as the new variant begins to spread.

The latest COVID variant is called Eris – named after the Greek goddess of strife and discord. The new strain is a descendant of the Omicron variant.

The World Health Organization noted, “EG.5 is a descendent lineage of XBB.1.9.2, which has the same spike amino acid profile as XBB.1.5.”

The WHO stated that EG.5 is a “variant of interest.”

NBC News reported that EG.5 symptoms are “unlikely to differ much from those caused by other omicron subvariants,” which would “include fever, cough, fatigue, muscle aches, and headache.”

Scott Roberts, MD, a Yale Medicine infectious diseases specialist, said Eris is not much different from other recent strains, but “there is some extra degree of immune evasiveness because of a slight difference in genotype.”

Yale Medicine stated, “However, EG.5 does have one new mutation in its spike protein (the part that facilitates virus entry into the host cell) that can potentially evade some of the immunity acquired after an infection or vaccination.”

Roberts admitted, “I am not aware of data that suggests EG.5 leads to worse cases of COVID-19 compared to prior variants.”

NBC News noted, “Experts agree that many people probably have underlying protection from severe disease already.”

The first case of EG.5 was reported on Feb. 17, 2023.

The CDC reported that EG.5 was the dominant SARS-CoV-2 strain in the third week of August in the U.S., responsible for 20.6% of cases of COVID-19 in the United States. The second most contracted variant that week at 13.3% of cases, was FL 1.5.1, known as Fornax.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that COVID cases have increased by 14% in the past week and COVID deaths are up 8%.

According to Worldometer, the seven-day average of COVID cases was nearly 27,000 as of Aug. 18, compared to exactly a year ago when it was over 768,000. The pandemic high was 3.4 million COVID-19 cases on Jan. 26, 2022.

The legacy media is pushing for Americans to start wearing masks with the new Eris variant swirling around the country.

The New York Times advised, “As for how to behave in response to this trend, that’s a tricky question. Many experts still recommend wearing a mask in crowded indoor settings, but they know that not everyone will want to do so. If you’re at high risk for serious illness, you might want to mask up at the grocery store and avoid eating indoors at restaurants. Other people might just want to wear a mask at the airport, to avoid getting sick during that big summer vacation.”

The Washington Post advocated, “Vaccines and boosters still should be encouraged, as should safe social practices such as wearing face masks and keeping rooms well ventilated, health experts say.”

The TODAY show recommended “wearing a mask in crowded, indoor spaces.”

National Geographic published an article titled: “The EG.5 COVID variant is spiking in the U.S. Is it time to mask up?”

“We should take all of these subvariants very seriously. Using testing kits, when symptoms suggest it could be COVID-19, and masking up and staying home if COVID positive, can slow the spread of the new variant. We need to minimize the spread of the virus as much as we can,” Angela Rasmussen – a virologist at Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization in Saskatoon, Canada – told the outlet.

The U.K.’s Independent published an article with the headline: “New COVID wave has begun and masks should be worn again, scientists warn.”

A New York hospital has already reinstated its mask mandate because of the new variant.

Syracuse’s Upstate Hospital announced this week: “Effective immediately, mandatory masking is required by all staff, visitors and patients in clinical areas of Upstate University Hospital, Upstate Community Hospital, and ambulatory clinical spaces.”

The updated COVID vaccines are expected to be released this fall by Pfizer and Moderna, and are said to combat the Eris variant.

“hese new results, which show that our updated COVID-19 vaccine generates a robust immune response against the rapidly spreading EG.5 and FL.1.5.1 strains, reflects our updated vaccine’s ability to address emerging COVID-19 threats,” Moderna President Stephen Hoge, MD, said in a press release.

A Pfizer spokesperson told CNBC that the company’s upcoming shot “effectively neutralized” several omicron variants, including Eris and XBB.1.5, in a recent study on mice.

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FDA notes that it has not said ivermectin is safe or effective for COVID-19 prevention or treatment

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently noted on social media that the agency has not declared that ivermectin is safe or effective for treatment or prevention of COVID-19.

“We’ve seen lots of chatter about ivermectin in the last week. Some of what you’re seeing in videos and social media posts isn’t true,” the FDA wrote. “Although FDA has approved ivermectin for certain uses in humans and animals, it has not authorized or approved ivermectin for use in preventing or treating COVID-19, nor has the agency stated that it is safe or effective for that use,” the FDA continued.

“Health care professionals generally may choose to prescribe an approved human drug for an unapproved use when they judge that the unapproved use is medically appropriate for an individual patient,” another post read. “As always, talk to your health care provider about available COVID-19 vaccines and treatment options. Based on your health history, your provider can help determine the best option for you,” another post stated.

There has been debate over whether ivermectin should be used to tackle COVID-19.

The COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel recommends against using the drug to treat COVID-19, according to covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov. “Trials have failed to find a clinical benefit from the use of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19 in outpatients,” the site claims.

But the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance suggests using ivermectin to address COVID-19. “A growing evidence base of dozens of studies around the world demonstrates ivermectin’s unique and highly potent ability to inhibit SARS-CoV-2 replication and aid in recovery from COVID-19. Based on this evidence, and on first-hand clinical observations, the FLCCC recommends its use, as part of a combination therapy, in all stages of COVID-19,” the group states.

A note at the bottom of the FLCCC’s website notes that “our protocol is not medical advice – and in no way should anyone infer that we, even though we are physicians, or anyone appearing in any content on this website are practicing medicine, it is for educational purposes only.”

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‘Absolutely exculpatory’: Lawyer claims special counsel may not have reviewed key documents before indicting Trump

The lawyer representing former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik said special counsel Jack Smith’s office requested documents “absolutely exculpatory” to former President Donald Trump only after indicting him.

The documents were originally handed over to Smith’s office on July 23, CBS News reported, citing emails confirming their receipt.

A source close to Kerik’s legal team said at the time that they believed the records, which include sworn affidavits from people raising concerns about the integrity of the 2020 presidential contest, show there was a genuine effort to investigate claims of voter fraud in the last election.

But on Wednesday, Aug. 2, a prosecutor working in Smith’s office reached out to Kerik’s attorney, Tim Parlatore, and requested the same documents, which he described as “absolutely exculpatory,” that he had already sent.

“They bear directly on the essential element of whether Rudy Giuliani, and therefore Donald Trump, knew that their claims of election fraud were false,” Parlatore told CBS News. “Good-faith reliance upon claims of fraud, even if they later turn out to be false, is very different from pushing fraud claims that you know to be false at the time.”

Parlatore’s explanation of the documents touches on a key aspect of Smith’s case and the legal debate surrounding the indictment: Did Trump know his claims about the election were false, or did he truly believe there was widespread fraud that flipped the election outcome? And if he did truly believe that, are his assertions about the election protected by the First Amendment?

The Daily Beast first reported last month that Parlatore had turned over the cache of documents.

“I have shared all of these documents, appropriately 600MB, mostly pdfs, with the Special Counsel and look forward to sitting down with them in about two weeks to discuss,” Parlatore said in a statement on July 25.

That meeting has still not happened.

A representative for the special counsel declined to comment when asked by CBS News.

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