Hero of Humanity Dr Roy Vagelus and MERCK

"We try to never forget that medicine is for the people. It is not for the profits. ​The profits follow, and if we remembered that, they have never failed to appear."  George W. Merck 
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Intro:
Merck has a history of high ethical standards and has blessed the world with Ivermectin. Please read the inspiring and heartwarming story of Dr Roy Vagelus (former CEO of Merck) who developed and donated 

Ivermectin for Humanity  !

Dr. Vagelos, former CEO of Merck, has developed and donated Ivermectin, a drug that kills the river blindness parasite with a single tablet. PS Merck has abandoned their covid vaccine candidates.
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Partial reprint from a Desertreview opinion piece 
Merck Sees the Light ​Provides Ivermectin for Humanity (part 2 covid19)
By Justus R. Hope, MD Jun 24, 2021  

Dr Roy Vagelus has served as the Chairman of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals since 1995, and he has nurtured the same moral compass there as he did at Merck. Regeneron's monoclonal antibody cocktail successfully treated President Donald Trump and received Emergency Use Authorization from the FDA in November of 2020. The cocktail has been praised and utilized by Dr. Peter McCullough and Dr. George Fareed, pioneers in repurposed drugs to treat COVID-19. In an interview at Columbia Business School on May 5, 2020, Dr. Valegos
offered wisdom about the ....

coronavirus pandemic. https://youtu.be/L2tRIXgK930
The current issue with COVID-19 is the variants. The emerging new variants of the virus have a competitive advantage over the previous versions. The original Wuhan strain that the vaccine was developed against is no longer around. It is extinct. Today the Indian Delta Variant accounts for 99% of the cases in the United Kingdom and will soon become the dominant strain in the United States. With each new version, the virus becomes more infectious and less vulnerable to the vaccines.

Dr. John Campbell reported that nearly 10% of new Delta Variant hospitalized cases in the UK occurred in vaccinated persons. See the 6:00 mark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef33SyzKJy0

We do not wish to wait another few months to encounter newer variants that will be even more resistant. If we could eradicate the virus quickly, no more variants could emerge. The evidence suggests that Ivermectin is effective against all the variants. Dr. Vagelos discussed the problem of virus resistance. His company solved this for AIDS when he used the combination approach – the idea of using three drugs in combination to prevent resistance from developing. This approach is remarkably similar to Dr. George Fareed’s and Dr. Peter McCullough’s multi-drug approach they have published and used so successfully to save almost all of their patients from COVID-19. https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(20)30673-2/fulltext

The combination of Ivermectin with Hydroxychloroquine, Doxycycline, and now Fluvoxamine has proven highly effective in observational trials. Dr. George Fareed and Dr. Brian Tyson treated and saved nearly 6,000 COVID-19 patients in California’s Imperial Valley using this approach.
https://www.thedesertreview.com/health/local-frontline-doctors-modify-covid-treatment-based-on-results/article_9cdded9e-962f-11eb-a59a-f3e1151e98c3.html

A narrowly tailored single vaccine allows RNA viruses to mutate and evolve resistance, while the multi-drug cocktail prevents this. By simply adding Ivermectin to the vaccines, the world could quickly overcome the problem of variants in a matter of weeks. See the 8:12 mark. https://youtu.be/L2tRIXgK930

“Ultimately, when you put a combination of three drugs together against a virus, the virus may become resistant to one, but it would be killed by one of the other two…If there are three drugs covering three important enzymes, the chances of that virus becoming resistant to all three is almost impossible…That’s what we’re looking at today, and the result that was achieved there is the result that I anticipate with the coronavirus.”

Ivermectin has proven itself to be safe throughout the Mectizan Donation Program. We know Ivermectin can effectively treat River Blindness. It has been almost completely eradicated worldwide, whereas it was once the second leading cause of blindness. See the 14:20 mark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of5_oiuqDp8

We know it is potent. One tiny pill is all that is required per year for effective treatment for River Blindness. In COVID-19, we read that Attorney Ralph Lorigo's court-ordered Ivermectin cases usually came off the ventilator after a single dose of the drug. 
https://www.amazon.com/Ivermectin-World-Justus-R-Hope-ebook/dp/B0943T564G

In India's recent deadly second pandemic surge, Ivermectin obliterated their crisis. Within weeks after the ICMR and AIIMS adopted Ivermectin, their cases are down 90% [414,188 to 42,640]. Those states with more aggressive Ivermectin use were down more dramatically; Daily cases in Goa, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, and Delhi were down 95%, 98%, 99%, 99%, respectively. 

Dr. Kory and the FLCCC published a narrative review in the American Journal of Therapeutics in May 2021, showing the massive effectiveness of Ivermectin against COVID-19 in reducing death and cases.  They concluded that it must be adopted globally immediately. 
https://journals.lww.com/americantherapeutics/fulltext/2021/06000/review_of_the_emerging_evidence_demonstrating_the.4.aspx

Dr. Tess Lawrie, a highly regarded WHO consultant and the British Ivermectin Development Panel, published a meta-analysis this month that came to a similar conclusion. 
https://journals.lww.com/americantherapeutics/abstract/9000/ivermectin_for_prevention_and_treatment_of.98040.aspx

Former Director of Intellectual Property at Gilead Pharmaceuticals, Harvard-educated attorney, Brian Remy, wrote this about the necessity of implementing Ivermectin, 
"It is simple - use what works and is most effective - period. Ivermectin used in combination with other therapeutics is a no-brainer and should be the standard of care for COVID-19. Not only would this be good for business and help avoid the criticism and bad PR, and potential civil/criminal liability for censorship, scientific misconduct, etc. for misrepresentation of Ivermectin and other generics, but most importantly it would save countless lives and end the pandemic for good."

Dr. Vagelos was asked if Merck benefitted from its 200 million dollar donation of Ivermectin for River Blindness.
He answered, "The benefit (to Merck) was that we could recruit anyone in any part of the company – for decades. People love to work for a corporation who was willing to contribute a sight-saving drug to millions and millions of patients." See the 52:10 mark.

His magnificent program was taught in business schools across the nation as an example of corporate philanthropy. What a fine example it would be if Merck today repeated, and offered Ivermectin to end the COVID-19 Pandemic. Ivermectin and Merck could save the world.  https://vimeo.com/565115504
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My comments: Unfortunately donations of this drug where not acceptable to the Australian government. They received and outlawed the drug early in 2020. Their position has slighlghty softened just recently (June 2021) , but lets say that's too little too late and hardly anybody knows anyways. Nothing is allowed to interfere with the success of the govts vax drive, not even brave pollies and generous humanitarian entrepreneurs. 

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