We just didnt have much testing capacity at the time that people started dying in New York City. But it was on The Dark Horse Podcast, a show that has devolved into soft-spoken conspiracy mongering, that Kirsch, in conversation with Dr. Robert Malone, put his finger on why he thought the COVID-19 vaccines were so harmful. Steve Kirsch. Kirsch's COVID-19 Early Treatment Fund seemed tailor-made for the research Lenze and Reiersen were conducting, and when Lenze heard about it, he quickly fired off a grant proposal. The study included 113 workers at a California racetrack who tested positive for COVID-19 and were offered fluvoxamine. In the middle of this article, I present an argument that should win one of Steves prizes. It should kill you in Hawaii. Funny how that correlates with massive infrastructure poured on top of all of us in warp speed time. Steve Kirsch is looking for an explanation for 171,000 excess deaths. Kirsch sounds generally disappointed with his successes in life: Kirsch is also motivated by an unsatisfied competitive streak. He used case numbers from 18 days prior, assuming thats roughly how long it takes to die from covid. He thinks the CFR spikes represent hidden vaccine deaths. The denominator also depends on the testing rate, and whether cases are increasing faster than the testing rate. Thats the simple argument if the vaccine is deadly, it has to be deadly everywhere. I just had an FAA class 1 medical exam yesterday. There are several clues that are consistent with it was the vaccine and not COVID: They were quiet about it. Scientists and clinicians are studying a host of drugs and therapeutics to create a new line of defence against the virus but clinical trials are yet to lead to conclusive evidence on any of these. To win the money, you dont even have to win the debate, you just have to try. It is tricky work, but you know what is easier? Lets crop it to starting in September. He created the search engine Infoseek and a bunch of other companies (Mouse Systems, FrameMaker, OneID, Propel Software, and M10). The results were published in a peer-reviewed medical journal in 2022 and there have been no notices of concern associated with the paper like they do to papers that they dont like (such as Mark Skidmores paper showing 278,000 American deaths from the vaccines in 2021 alone). Massachusetts health officials on Sunday reported zero coronavirus deaths and 33 new virus cases, which is the Bay State's lowest ever single-day case count since last March at the start of t So, Steve has a huge brain. "It is a thousand times more. They initially denied that covid is serious, changed opinions on masks, suppressed lab leak discussion, oversold the vaccines. It was first FDA approved in 1994, and was sold in the U.S. under the brand name Luvox until 2002. Many people in the 3rd world dont have access to vaccines. The Covid-19 Early Treatment Fund (CETF) takes a different approach to this by funding outpatient clinical trials for effective early treatments. Some countries were hit hard by covid, others made it through the pandemic with no excess deaths: We can look for a sign of vaccine deaths in places without covid deaths. There was a study done on pilots. Gold medalists spend their lives thrilled that they won. Instead of retracting the claim, Steve moved on to say there are 150,000 vaccine deaths. Its hard to stop believing in a covid conspiracy theory because you have to admit that you have harmed people: Heres the sad part: we still need cheap, generic drugs to treat covid. Weekly episodes of "The Evolutionary Lens" are co-hosted with Heather Heying, in which we use an evolutionary toolkit to reveal patterns in nature--including human nature. That test is the gold-standard for cardiac injury. Steve could have gotten the drug approved by just spending more of his money to fund a larger trial. He left the board of his own company and resigned as CEO. But, for some reason, those countries cant all just come together and hide 100% of the evidence. Numbers like that could stay hidden in the data. And, unless the government steps up, Steve could still be that guy. Both concluded that, while it was possible the vaccine had somehow awakened the varicella-zoster virus in these people, this cause-and-effect link could not be established. On the third day after the booster, troponin levels above the upper limits of normal were seen in 2.8% of those subjects. And Steves project didnt even fund the large trials that proved fluvoxamine successful, that was done by two other charities (the Rainwater Foundation and Fast Grants). Steve originally claimed that there were 25,000 vaccine deaths, and they were hidden in the CDCs unclassified deaths category (R00-R99 deaths). As it turns out, a lot of bad things can happen after receiving a vaccine for no other reason than bad things happen regularly. View link in a new tab . Like all members of its class, fluvoxamine has a long list of potential drug-drug interactions, and carries a black box warning for suicidal ideation in children, adolescents, and young adults. Some of these, like hydroxychloroquine, turned out to be flops, while others are still debated. A purpose-driven entrepreneur and podcaster, I'm an expert in reputation management who writes about how companies and leaders communicate in good times and bad. She had no previous history of heart problems. Steve KirschPhoto: The COVID-19 Early Treatment Fund. Saving the world has been a theme of Kirschs life for years. The right thing would be for the FAA to come clean and admit to the American public that the COVID vaccine has injured 20% or more of the pilots (based on their limited EKG screening), but I doubt that they will ever do that. Less people killed themselves, less shot themselves. Think Im kidding about how they game the trials? Can you guess what it is? It is now: .12 to .3 and potentially even higher. I told him it was because there are too many pilots that would otherwise have failed the exam, and that I believe this is because of the jabs. Heres an example of a VAERS report an 89 year old woman who died 5 days after vaccination: Write-up: Resident in our long term care facility who received first dose of Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine on 12/22/2020, only documented side effect was mild fatigue after receiving. A guy like Mathew Crawford probably cant hack it in terms of discovering new covid drugs or treatments, but he can compete at being one of the best guys to lie about covid vaccines. The organization was founded to test preventative drugs in people suspected to be infected with COVID-19 via outpatient clinical trials, which test existing antiviral drugs on patients as soon as they are infected. Every virus, without exception, should be treated early. There are several to choose from. CFR goes up because testing numbers stay constant, but the true numbers of cases go up. Steve is famous for offering million dollar prizes to anyone who can disprove him. The fund is managed by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, which will disburse grants that are recommended in coordination with research being undertaken by CETFs Scientific Advisory Board. 219 episodes. Doug Richman, an HIV drug researcher and former member of Kirschs scientific advisory board, put it thusly to MIT Technology Review: He considers himself an expert in something that he doesnt have training or experience in, and hes not following scientific methods to assess data. If you believe cheap drugs to be a panacea and vaccines to be deadly, how else to explain public health agencies disagreement with you but as severe incompetence or conspiratorial secrecy? He said he also has 130 other questions in reserve, if I do answer the first 70. What hes actually discovered is winter. His openness and creativity paid off when, to Steves surprise and delight, one such treatment worked. The peak death rate will be in January and decline over time since it is based on when the oldest people were vaccinated. Fortunately it was at that point that I-- read in the New York Times, of all places, about the COVID Early Treatment Fund. He started transitioning into telemedicine about a year ago with Teladoc, one of the nation's largest providers of telemedicine. He does not accept private insurance, Medicare, or Medicaid. There are 23 studies that have been done from hundreds of researchers all over the world. Some people call this the Ikea Effect of misinformation: people are more attached to things they put together themselves, so if you get them to follow along on an anti-vax data site and feed them breadcrumbs, theyll be more convinced that the vaccines are deadly. tried to take Steve up on his million dollar debate offer, nominated 2 judges that already agreed with him, 350,000 of these deaths were logged as covid deaths, went down when we pulled kids out of school for covid, Crawford divides up countries of the world, its easier to make discoveries in a false belief system than in reality, die younger than gold medalists or bronze medalists, video were Yuri Deigin talked to Steve and all his friends, she would debate if Steve donated one million dollars to a charity of her choice. And to spend more on drug trials to prove which drugs work. The point of this graph is to show that the COVID outbreak exacerbated the slope since you are seeing effects of seasonality PLUS the waning part of a COVID outbreak. There has not been a good randomized trial for early treatment with Camostat. They fixed the law so none of them arent liable (the doctors, the drug companies, the government). On the third day after the booster, troponin levels above the upper limits of normal were seen in 2.8% of those subjects. Kirsch, like so many COVID misinformers, would grab hold of the free speech torch and try to convince his followers that the only way to settle the issue would be to debate it publicly. We had 150,000 excess deaths in 2020 that werent diagnosed as covid. The post provides a type of treatment algorithm that lists 19 different drugs. To get involved, visit the link below, where supporters can give funds via credit card or wire transfer, or via donor-advised fund (DAF). The timing. As vaccines came out, Steve increasingly portrayed them as deadly and dangerous. Theyve left just enough bread crumbs that only this one scrappy substack blogger can figure it out. Available data indicate just the . But there is an ethical problem here, according to Steven Joffe, MD, MPH, chief of medical ethics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. - Steve Kirsch is an entrepreneur who created a company to fund research into off-patent drugs to see if they were effective against COVID-19. Its going to explain why I was unable to find even a single nursing home where the all-cause mortality dropped after the vaccines rolled out. Horrific high levels in hospitals, airplanes, radio and tv studios, highways and other major roads are reading much higher now than a year ago. Infoseek lost out to Yahoo; it had a chance to grow bigger, but it didnt. Steve said he wouldnt debate unless he could pick the judges, and he nominated 2 judges that already agreed with him. So the deaths would happen soon after any country starts rolling out the vaccines. They found that 29.24% of the participants developed cardiac injuries within days after they got the second shot: 70% of those people, when screened for cardiac injury using an FDA-approved testing device (from Heart Care Corp), exhibited objective signs of cardiac injury, Thailand study showed nearly 30% of kids had abnormal cardiac biomarkers after the shot, change log where you can see the change listed. Example video title will go here for this video. The organization is also raising funds to support COVID-related trials of remdesivir, a broad-spectrum antiviral developed by Gilead Sciences, and Toyama Chemical's favipiravir, an antiviral medication currently used to treat influenza in Japan. The truth is, youre just a mark for these 2 grifters. The United Kingdom's Office for National Statistics (ONS) has confirmed that the fully vaccinated population accounted for 92 percent of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) deaths in 2022.. ONS recently published the dataset on deaths by vaccination status in the country from April 1, 2021 up to the end of December 2022. Please, I was tipped off about this story by Josh Yoder at, Steve, I am a 66 yr old commercialaviator. The Substack letter published on Dec. 28 by Steve Kirsch, an individual previously fact-checked by Reuters ( here and here ), calls for an immediate halt to vaccine rollouts, saying the. October 2022 is late for COVID. Mr. Steve Kirsch is a serial entrepreneur who has been researching adverse reactions to COVID vaccines. And every single one of them, except for one, shows that ivermectin always had a positive effect. I have written before about the ivermectin delusion. Even dissecting the latest ivermectin study to find a positive signal, there is no good evidence that the anti-parasitic drug can help with COVID-19. See the difference? Steves work with the CETF advisory board aims to vet grant proposals by scientists working to produce preventative COVID-19 treatments, saving hundreds of thousands - if not millions - of lives. It matters what a country does to control transmission inside the country, just as much as it matters controlling what comes in. A few countries that work are Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Denmark, and South Korea. Steve Kirsch is the founder of the group Lenze read about. Mouse Systems is not a household word, he told the journalist. We all know its not 100% safe. @hjametx made some graphs to show this clearly: Hjametx graphed this for 100 countries. This tech millionaire went from covid trial funder to misinformation superspreader After boosting unproven covid drugs and campaigning against vaccines, Steve Kirsch was abandoned by his. If the vaccine kills people, it doesnt matter if you take it on an island or a continent. If instead of treating people in four days after symptoms, they treat people five days after symptoms..its set up for failure. Another is to identify an asteroid that is going to hit the planet.. The latest data, published Dec. 15, three days after. David Satterfield, executive vice president at the company, told MedPage Today via email that a small, observational study at a California racetrack provided "a good narrative" for PR efforts. In April 2020, Kirsch founded the COVID-19 Early Treatment Fund (CETF) to fund research into off-label treatments for COVID-19 among drugs already having FDA approval for other diseases, donating $1 million himself and also fundraising from others. Whats your assessment of drugs and therapeutics that are on the horizon? The quality of medical care declines, and people are more likely to die or heart disease or diabetes. One of those telemedicine doctors is Syed Haider, MBBS, who uses a Texas telephone number but says he is currently located in North Carolina. The government message is not as interesting to many people. Get yourself a copy of Turtles All the Way Down and just read the first chapter. There never will be. On his blog, Kirsch went farther and has described fluvoxamine as "a small pill that transforms this destructive virus into a mild-mannered common cold." Other than that, Im happy to go back and forth with written responses about the data. A systematic review of published cases of shingles following (though not necessarily caused by) COVID vaccination identified 54 cases. Steve says the vaccine mostly kills old people, and that is supported by the data. "The blog and FAQ are leapfrogging the evidence. CFR gets to over 20%: Thats not the result of vaccines, which didnt get sent to Peru until February 9th. Suicides actually went down in 2020. It should kill you in Hawaii as easily as in California. Steve got banned by Medium. After all, you took the vaccine of your own free will. This article about misleading claims from anti-vaccine activist Steve Kirsch was written by Dorit Rubinstein Reiss, Professor of Law at the University of California Hastings College of the Law (San Francisco, CA), who is a frequent contributor to this and many other blogs, providing in-depth, and intellectually stimulating, articles about vaccines, medical issues, social policy, and the law. In the October 2022 version of the FAA Guide for Aviation Medical Examiners, the FAA quietly widened the EKG parameters beyond the normal range (from a PR max of .2 to unlimited). Lets start with the over-all picture of excess deaths. by They're Called Vaccines. Instead, he got angry and became a conspiracy theorist. But lets work out some exact numbers, to make this as clear as possible. The changes were made on October 24, 2022 to the, For more information about the change, see, Think Im kidding about how they game the trials? Share on Facebook. These days, he sees about 30 patients per day, 7 days per week. Bezos flew to space in his own rocket. I believe it is because they knew if they kept the original range, too many pilots would have to be grounded. Steve would ignore any data I brought, change the subject a lot, and no one would learn anything from watching. There are multiple studies showing the mRNA NLPs are still in various places in the body for up to 4 months after vaccination. During this time, VAERS received 10,483 reports of death ( 0.0022%) among people who received a COVID-19 vaccine. Hes equally known for his philanthropic work across a wide variety of environmental, medical, local and planet-safety causes so prolific that Hillary Clinton presented him with a National Caring Award in 2003. It should kill you whether you take it in the United States or Australia or New Zealand or Iceland or Japan. Red and dark gray nations are excluded. Steve Kirsch background. When COVID-19 struck earlier this year, Steve recognized both his disadvantages as an. Its a real shame. Steve Kirsch: COVID Vaccines Kill More People Than They Save by Veronika Kyrylenko December 6, 2021 According to his bio, Mr. Kirsch is a serial entrepreneur and has founded several companies. And he smooths out both cases and deaths, to reduce the noise. Steves friends didnt even agree with each other about covid, they just made 3 hours of noise. So were talking about using repurposed drugs for Covid-19. He wants to be recognized for it. On October 24, 2022, the FAA quietly, without any announcement at all, widened the EKG requirements necessary for pilots to be able to fly. I am asymptomatic. Or 1,000 people. All rights reserved. I would gladly go on Joe Rogan to talk to Steve, in exchange for 2 million dollars. That is why there are no before/after studies in the US. Each bar is a 5 day period. Overall, fluvoxamine appears to be well tolerated, although it has the potential to precipitate manic episodes in susceptible people. Rather, we see a shadow that requires an awful lot of squinting to look like a gun. Our bodies do not make the coronavirus; they simply make the spike protein, and that protein becomes stuck inside the membrane of the cell that makes it. Only 350,000 of these deaths were logged as covid deaths: Besides the covid deaths, we have 32,000 extra deaths from heart disease, 9,000 extra strokes, 12,000 deaths from Alzheimers, 14,000 from diabetes. And when I started seeing my friends die and be injured and I. Articles highlighting fluvoxamine for the early outpatient treatment of COVID-19 have also appeared in Science News and Kaiser Health News. He is friends with Joe Mercola, one of the richest and most influential figures in the modern anti-vaccination movement (I wrote about him here). It just shows that claims like 150,000 vaccine deaths in the US are absurd. Good research is time-consuming. Apple Podcasts Preview. That covers almost 150,000 of them, which happened before vaccinations began. Silver medalists spend the rest of their lives consumed by guilt that they didnt win. STEVE KIRSCH (GUEST): They told -- the agencies, the FDA, the CDC, the NIH said that these vaccines were safe and effective. Opens in a new tab or window, Visit us on TikTok. The other theory is that hospitals get overwhelmed when covid cases get high. What would the troponin levels have been at one day post-injection? I could not agree more! Unintentional injuries went up by 19,000. He just made a list of 70 other questions and said I need to answer those before hell take me seriously. Why is that? Data does not show Covid-19 vaccines are linked to more heart attacks. An entrepreneur decided to invest money into researching off-patent drugs against COVID-19. In a Twitter post, he has offered $1 million to anyone who can identify a confounder that better explains these results (the money will be donated to the winner's medical research cause of choice, he said). I think a lot of covid deniers are in a similar psychological situation. Steve also challenged me to a debate. Kirsch told MedPage Today that his efforts are purely humanitarian -- almost no one was supporting this kind of research, so he stepped up to the plate. And they dont have to play by the rules. Kirsch's presentation said: "Pfizer vaccine kills more people than it saves.". I use quotes because it wouldnt be a 1 on 1 discussion with him, it would be a zoom call with me talking to Steve and 15 of his friends at the same time. In a normal year, there are about 3 million US deaths from all causes. So 7M Americans now have hearts damaged by the COVID vaccine. Basically, the vaccines are causing heart injury in at least 2.8% of people who get the shot. This effect can be seen in Europe, last winter. Debating pseudoscience-peddling, bad-faith actors is a recipe for disaster. Medpage Today is among the federally registered trademarks of MedPage Today, LLC and may not be used by third parties without explicit permission. Yes, these were successes, but the successes could have been bigger if we had really paid attention to marketing. Given that older adults were prioritized for vaccination, that they represent the population most likely to develop shingles in the first place, and that a staggering one in three people in the US will develop shingles in their lifetime, this smattering of cases is hardly a major danger signal. Steve Kirsch, however, believes these vaccines are incredibly harmful and has been saying as much publicly, which led to all 12 members of the scientific advisory board of his COVID-19 company to resign. All the sudden deaths started post-vaccine. So far, thats perfectly reasonable. Guest Post by Steve Kirsch Australia didn't have a lot of COVID deaths until after they rolled out the COVID vaccines. Most of the reported deaths are among the elderly, about half are over the age of 75: Because these are mostly old and unhealthy people, we dont actually know if the VAERS deaths are vaccine deaths. The Pfizer vaccine is about $20 per dose and Moderna $10 to $50. He publicly distorted and exaggerated tiny signals in the scientific literature and conjured up an epic story of good versus evil: Pfizers COVID vaccine was killing more people than it saved, he said, while the usefulness of safe and cheap drugs was being denied by an apparatus that favoured newer, more profitable treatments. "The L.A. Times did a piece, 60 Minutes followed, and now there's some attention," he told MedPage Today via email. It would be hard to disentangle deaths from covid and from the vaccine. Then if you meet the parameters you are allowed to pass the exam and get your medical certificate. ", Veronica Hackethal reports for MedPage Today's Enterprise and Investigative journalism team. - He regularly exaggerates scientific findings and twists them to support his narrative that the COVID-19 vaccines are deadly and that off-patent drugs like ivermectin and fluvoxamine are highly effective against COVID-19. at the time of this writing, troponin levels were measured on 777 hospital employees who received a booster injection after having received two shots previously. It can lay low for decades and then wake up to cause painful inflammation. Both the Skoll Foundation and the Flu Lab were contacted by MedPage Today for comment, and did not respond. More likely, hes a grifter, pandering to a gullible audience. I mean, that is like lightning striking twice in the same place. He spoke to Dr. Byram Bridle, a Canadian viral immunologist known for making unsupported claims during the pandemic, who convinced him that the spike protein encoded by the vaccine did not stay at the site of injection; it was found all over the body and was toxic to us. He founded the anti-vaccine group Vaccine Safety Research Foundation, whose advisors include Byram Bridle, Peter McCullough, Robert Malone, and Stephanie Seneff. And, I guess, confirmation bias does the rest? Fluvoxamine and the COVID Early Treatment Fund. Theres a lot of money to be made telling conspiracy theorists what they want to hear. Kirsch said no racetrack workers who took fluvoxamine had lingering symptoms at 14 days of follow-up, compared with 60% of workers who did not take the drug. Over the course of his career, hehas founded more than seven companies, including Propel Software, Mouse Systems Corporation, Frame Technology Corporation, and Infoseek all dedicated to improving computer software and tech. But you cant hide these things for long. In New Zealand, excess deaths went down by 3.6%. news Trial supports use of fluvoxamine in patients with mild COVID-19. Dr. Bret Weinstein is an evolutionary biologist. Another found 91. Media coverage of Kirschs descent into anti-vaccine rhetoric portrays an iconoclastic man who shouts at reporters and sends them emails in all caps. Another anti-vaxxer (Igor Chudov) wrote to tell me that he likes getting followers and he likes making contributions. Please watch and tell your friends!". Thats not possible. I am an ex endurance athlete (road bike racer) and do not and have not taken any routine medication).