Argentinian
Doctor Shares His Ivermectin Experience
Analysis by Dr. Joseph MercolaFact Checked
October 10, 2021
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
· Argentina has extensive
medical experience with ivermectin. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, it was used
to treat dengue fever, which is endemic in Argentina
· Early in the pandemic, Dr.
Hector Carvallo, a retired medical professor in Argentina, devised two ivermectin
trials to assess the drug’s usefulness against SARS-CoV-2. His treatment
protocols are used in five Argentinian provinces. In one province, the death
rate was reduced to one-third in less than a month, in the middle of the
outbreak
· When used preventatively,
ivermectin is administered in conjunction with carrageenan, which also has
antiviral properties
· When treating mild cases,
ivermectin is administered with aspirin; in moderate cases with aspirin and
corticosteroids, and in severe cases, ivermectin is given with enoxaparin, an
anticoagulant drug
· These drug combinations
were selected based on what was known about other viruses that cause similar
health effects as SARS-CoV-2, such as the rhabdovirus’ effect on neurology, the
paramyxovirus, which causes hyperinflammation in the lungs, and the dengue
virus, which overamplifies the immune system
In this
interview, we continue the COVID-19 discussion with a medical expert from
Argentina, Dr. Hector Carvallo, whose focus since early 2020 has been the
prevention and treatment of COVID-19.
Carvallo
graduated from medical school in 1981 — the same year AIDS emerged as a global
pandemic. In the first two years, AIDS killed 2 million people. Since 1981, it
has claimed the lives of 35 million. While officially retired for a couple of
years, the 2020 COVID pandemic brought him out of retirement.
“My first fire baptism was with AIDS,” he says. “I have
dedicated my professional time to teaching and assisting. I graduated as a
professor in 1996, and worked as a professor for the School of Medicine in
Buenos Aires, which is public. Later, I was an associate professor of internal
medicine for two private schools of medicine until I retired a couple of years
ago.”
Ivermectin Is a Potent
Antiviral
Interestingly,
Carvallo had experience with ivermectin as an antiviral before the COVID
outbreak. Argentinian doctors were using it against dengue fever, which is
endemic in Argentina. So, when SARS-CoV-2 emerged, they decided to take another
look at the drug to see if it might be useful.
“We came across some studies that were being
conducted in Australia at the Monash University by people like Dr. Kylie
Wagstaff,” Carvallo
says. “We supposed that it would be very useful because
the virology in effect already proved that, and we decided — even before they
published their first findings — to replicate what they were doing, but in
vivo. That is, not in the laboratory but in human beings.”
In early April
2020, Carvallo and his team developed two trials submitted to the National
Library of Medicine in the United States. One was for preexposure1 (prevention) and the
other for treatment. In both cases, ivermectin was used as an adjunct to other
compounds, as they didn’t believe it was a silver bullet by itself.
For preventive
purposes, they used ivermectin together with carrageenan, a food emulsifier and
thickener that has a long history of use in both food and medicine. According
to Carvallo, carrageenan has antiviral effects too, so the ivermectin was used
in combination with topical carrageenan, administered through the nose and
mucus membranes of the mouth.
In the
treatment trial, ivermectin was combined with aspirin for mild cases, aspirin
and corticosteroids for moderately severe cases, and enoxaparin (an
anticoagulant drug) for severe cases.
These drug
combinations were selected based on what was known about other viruses that
cause similar health effects as SARS-CoV-2, such as the rhabdovirus’ effect on
neurology, the paramyxovirus, which causes hyperinflammation in the lungs, and
the dengue virus, which overamplifies the immune system.
Early Treatment Is Crucial
Like so many
other doctors, Carvallo knew right from the start that early treatment would be
crucial and that telling patients to just wait it out at home until they
couldn’t breathe would be a death sentence.
“We knew from the very first day we entered the
school of medicine that the sooner you treat any illness, the more chances you
will have to be successful in the treatment,” he says. “You have to
treat quickly, and strongly. This is natural thinking. Nobody has to be a
genius to know that. In this case, inexplicably, many doctors have been told to
do nothing.
To keep the patients in their homes on their own
with just a few pills of Tylenol — which we know it's good for nothing — until
they cannot breathe properly. Then they have to be referred to the hospital.
That is patient abandonment under any law in any country …
If you walk around a corner and you see your
neighbor’s house on fire, you may call 911. You may play hero and enter the
house and try to save them. You may cry out for help. The only thing you must
not do is nothing.
I believe in any attempt to keep a mild patient,
mild. What I cannot accept as a medical doctor — because it is against our oath
— is to remain with arms folded until that person gets worse. That's criminal …
There's only one reason for all this. The reason is summarized in one word,
greed.”
Aspirin was
chosen for its anticoagulant effects. Another option recommended by American
doctors is NAC, an over-the-counter supplement that both prevents blood clots
and breaks up existing ones. NAC also has other benefits that makes it useful
against COVID-19. Argentina does not allow the sale of supplements without
prescription, so no dietary supplements were used in these particular trials.
“That doesn't mean we say they are not good,” Carvallo says. “We simply
adjusted ourselves to what was there. We believe in the effectiveness of
hydroxychloroquine. We believe in the effectiveness of azithromycin. Vitamin D,
zinc, doxycycline. We believe in those compounds too. But we have not tried
them.”
Situational Update in
Argentina
So far, only
five of the 24 provinces in Argentina have authorized these ivermectin-based
protocols for prevention and early treatment, but at least that’s better than
the U.S., where ivermectin is rejected outright. In many U.S. hospitals,
doctors who dare prescribe it face being fired.
As you’d expect
with something that actually works, those five provinces are indeed faring
better in terms of infection rates, hospitalizations and deaths. In one
province, the death rate was reduced to one-third in less than a month, in the
middle of the outbreak, when no vaccines were available.
Argentina
didn’t start rolling out their COVID shots until March 2021, and the
vaccination campaign has been slow. Carvallo estimates no more than 40% of the
population has received two doses so far.
He believes the
slow vaccine uptake is partly due to logistical challenges, and partly due to
safety concerns. “Many people have preferred to use alternative methods instead
of vaccines,” he says. Argentina may still move to make the injections
mandatory, though.
“You know what? Making an experiment mandatory and
using the media to convince everybody to use it is not new,” Carvallo says. “It was done
during the second World War. Josef Mengele and Joseph Goebbels did that.
One made any experiment he wanted on people that
were hopeless and at the camps. The other one was a minister of propaganda who
convinced everybody that everything was OK … That's what we are seeing. Let's
forget about science — common sense has been disregarded.”
Carvallo
himself ended up taking the Chinese COVID shot, as proof of vaccination was
required for him to travel to Europe. In an effort to counter any potential
side effects, he continues to take aspirin to prevent blood clots, and
ivermectin. “I keep on using Ivermectin,” he says, “I've been using it for over
a year.”
Recommended Dosing Schedule
In the U.S.,
ivermectin has been mocked and misrepresented as a veterinary drug. In reality,
it’s been approved for human use for decades, and won the Nobel Prize for
medicine in 1995, at which time it was considered a miracle drug.
“Even people from the CDC have said, ‘You are not a
horse. You are not a cow. Why should you use Ivermectin?’” Carvallo says. “I would answer
them, if they consider ivermectin is only for veterinary use, they are neither
horses nor cows, they are asses. The fact is, we use ivermectin on a weekly
basis for preexposure, that's for prevention. The dose is 0.2 mg per kilo [of
bodyweight. To calculate pounds into kilos, divide your weight in pounds by
2.2].
We adjust the dose to the patient's weight. One of
the worst comorbidities for somebody contracting the virus is obesity. You
cannot give the same dose to a skinny person and to an obese or morbid obese
person. So, we adjust for that.
We use it once a week. Now that Delta is appearing
in South America, we are considering reducing it to three or four days between
doses. Do you know why we use it on a weekly basis? Because ivermectin will
work for 3.5 days. For the other three days, you will be exposed.
You may contract the virus, but even before the
virus can replicate enough to pass from the incubation period to the invasion
period, you will take ivermectin again. So, you won't know it exists. You won't
even realize you have contracted the disease. Your immune system will have [encountered]
the virus and will start creating immunity …
We keep on using that four months. We'll stop for a
couple of months because ivermectin will accumulate in the fat tissue. After
two months of not using it, we start again.”
Carvallo also
points out that natural immunity is far stronger than artificial immunity
created by the COVID shots. This is no surprise, because that’s how it’s always
been with all other viruses. The key is to prevent the infection from getting a
strong foothold. With early treatment, you’ll get through the infection just
fine, and have robust and likely lifelong immunity.
Addressing Toxicity
Concerns
As for the
safety of ivermectin, studies in Africa have used doses that were 10 times
higher than the 0.2 mg/kg recommended for COVID, without toxic effects.
Hydroxychloroquine, on the other hand, has a far narrower safety margin. This
is well-known, and was clearly used to discredit the drug. As explained by
Carvallo:
“What they did with hydroxychloroquine in order to
discredit it was easy. Hydroxychloroquine is also very useful against COVID.
But the safety margin is narrow. What they did was to use three times the dose
in order to cause toxicity. There were 200 studies in favor of
hydroxychloroquine.
There was one study talking about the toxicity, and
all the scientific community in the world latched on to that one. That's crazy.
In the case of ivermectin, it was so wide a gap between safety and toxicity
that they couldn't do that. So, they just disregarded it.”
Now, there are
veterinary formulations of ivermectin. Do not use these, as they typically
contain polyethylene glycol (PEG), which is toxic to humans. Ironically, the
COVID shots actually contain PEG. Many are allergic to this substance, which is
why anaphylaxis is such a common acute side effect of the jabs.
Why Are COVID Jabs Still
Recommended?
As of September
24, 2021, the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) had received
15,937 reports of deaths following the COVID shot, 71,036 hospitalizations and
more than 752,800 adverse events in total.2
Calculations by
Steve Kirsch, executive director of the COVID-19 Early Treatment Fund, based on
VAERS data suggests the actual death toll may be around 212,000.3 He estimates side
effects and deaths are under-reported by a factor of 41 or more, so the total
number of injuries is likely between 2 million and 5 million.
Even if we were
to accept the official VAERS numbers, the death toll is astronomical. Under
normal circumstances, a pandemic vaccine would be pulled after about 50 deaths.
No explanation has ever been given for why the COVID shots are still being
universally recommended after nearly 16,000 reported deaths.
What we’re
living is really a classic imitation of George Orwell's book “1984.” Almost
everything government and health officials say is the exact opposite of the
truth. Right is left. Up is down. Black is white. For those who know the facts,
it’s a surreal experience. Double standards have also become the norm. As noted
by Carvallo:
“The vaccine is almost sacred. It's like a Bible.
Whatever we say in favor of other treatments is a sin. Nobel Prize [winners] of
medicine, like Luc Montagnier and Satoshi Omura, have been censored on the
media. It's crazy.”
What’s more, we
already have evidence showing the shots don’t work as advertised. They lose
effectiveness very rapidly. The answer we’re given is booster shots. Israel is
already talking about a fourth dose, and the injections have not even been out
for a full year yet.
“If you give a medicine and don't get a positive
result in a few days, you reconsider either your diagnosis or your treatment,” Carvallo says. “You don't
insist on the same thing because it's insane to insist on the same thing trying
to get different results.”
The reason we
keep getting more variants is because the vaccine is “leaky.” It doesn’t
prevent you from getting infected, so the virus starts to mutate to evade the
vaccine-induced antibody. Carvallo agrees, adding that it’s equally insane that
the shots are designed to produce antibodies against just one portion of the
virus, the spike protein, rather than act against the pathogenesis of the
virus.
When you recover from a natural infection, you have both humoral and cellular immunity, and even though humoral immunity (antibodies) will decrease within a few months, you still have latent cellular immunity that will spring into action when needed.
The COVID shots
do not provide any cellular immunity, which is why they cannot achieve herd
immunity, even if 100% of a population is injected. Carvallo also points out
that the SARS-CoV-2 virus is now the weakest it’s ever been. The real enemy at
this point is the propaganda that keeps fear alive.
Now’s the Time to Take
Control of Your Health
Carvallo is one
of those rare individuals who has been able to perform research others cannot
at this time. He’s retired, so he has no funding or career to lose. He hopes
that, eventually, more doctors will go back to thinking for themselves and
return to their oath to do no harm, and to focus on what’s best for their
patients rather than the bureaucracy currently dictating what they can and
cannot do.
According to
projections, we could potentially see billions of people die or be permanently
disabled from these experimental injections. How are we going to take care of
them all? Who’s going to pay for their care? Already, U.S. entitlement programs
— Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid — are nearing bankruptcy.
According to
David Martin, Ph.D.,4 pension programs and entitlement programs
will all run out by 2028, and as they run out of money, the drug industry will
collapse as well, as they are the primary beneficiaries of these programs.
Medicare and Medicaid pay for the bulk of the drug dependency in America.
So, in just a
few years’ time, we’ll be facing a convergence of collapses on multiple fronts,
and at the same time, large portions of the population may be severely ill and
wholly dependent on these systems for their survival.
Society also
requires all sorts of infrastructure, and if large portions of society are
crippled or dead, society will collapse from lack of qualified workers alone.
So, the COVID shot mandates are clearly making an already precarious situation
far worse, as the financial system would be collapsing anyway.
The best thing
anyone can do right now to prepare for this convergence of collapses is to
focus on your health. Make sure you’re as healthy as you can be. Be sure to
optimize your vitamin D level, for example, and avoid toxins of all kinds.
Getting used to growing some of your own food would also be a good idea, as
would looking into ways to protect your retirement assets.
More Information
To learn more about
ivermectin, you can download a free ebook created by Carvallo and his team. It
contains not only their Argentinian studies but also other peer-reviewed
scientific articles detailing the benefits of ivermectin in the fight against
COVID-19. You can find the bilingual (English and Spanish) book, “Ivermectin in
COVID-19: Prophylaxis and Treatment,” on iniciatherapeutics.com.
- Sources
and References
·
1 Journal of
Biomedical Research and Clinical Investigation November 17, 2020; 2(1.1007)
(PDF)
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2 OpenVAERS Data as of September 24,
2021
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3 SKirsch.io/vaccine-resources
