ICWA Weekly News 5-30-23
Radio links, Doc wins emergency injunction, SMF v Inslee, Port Angeles woman given Remdesivir without consent
by Gerald Braude
In this newsletter:
Radio Show links
Washington Doctor under Investigation for Criticizing COVID-19 Policies Wins Emergency Injunction
Reply Brief in Silent Majority Foundation versus Governor Inslee
Remdesivir Given without Patient Consent
May 26 Episode of An Informed Life Radio - show links
Guest: Karl Kanthak
Measles outbreak, vaccinations: Distrust in Big Pharma plays a role (usatoday.com)
Black Box Drugs + College Vaccine Mandates | Childrens Health Defense
Seattle school shifts to virtual after student contracts measles - MyNorthwest.com
https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2023.307285
https://aflds.org/about-us/issue-briefs/contamination-risk-to-the-unvaccinated
https://sites.google.com/georgetown.edu/pharmedout/resources/conferences/2023-conference?authuser=0
https://www.madinamerica.com/2023/05/fda-approval-antipsychotic-rexulti/
Washington Doctor under Investigation for Criticizing COVID-19 Policies Wins Emergency Injunction
The May 26, 2023, issue of The Defender reports that a Washington appeals court on Tuesday, May 23 granted an emergency injunction to Dr. Richard Eggleston, who faces disciplinary action from the Washington Medical Commission (WMC) arising from articles he published in the Lewiston Morning Tribune in 2021, questioning COVID-19 public health policies.
Tuesday’s ruling means a delay to a disciplinary hearing with the WMC that had been scheduled for last Wednesday through Friday in the Washington Court of Appeals and gives the WMC a brief opportunity to withdraw its charges against Eggleston. Otherwise, the legal process will continue.
Dr. Richard Eggleston, a retired ophthalmologist in Clarkston, Washington, wrote the articles as part of an ongoing column in the Lewiston Morning Tribune. He challenged the WMC’s disciplinary proceedings against him on First Amendment free speech grounds.
The ruling reads as follows:
“The Commission seeks to sanction Dr. Eggleston based on allegations that he, a currently retired physician and surgeon whose license is currently retired active-in-state volunteering, committed unprofessional conduct.”
This “unprofessional conduct” pertained to alleged “false statements” Eggleston made “regarding medical issues and promulgated misinformation regarding the SARS-CoV-2 virus and treatments for the virus.”
Rick Jaffe, an attorney also representing Eggleston, told The Defender,
“The Washington Medical Commission is under the constitutionally mistaken belief that medical boards can discipline physicians for what they say in public. That was something that was floated by the Federation of State Medical Boards [FSMB] in a July 2021 press release, but since then every single state that has considered doing this has backed off, except in Washington.
The July 2021 FSMB press release stated the following:
“Physicians who generate and spread COVID-19 vaccine misinformation or disinformation are risking disciplinary action by state medical boards, including the suspension or revocation of their medical license. Due to their specialized knowledge and training, licensed physicians possess a high degree of public trust and therefore have a powerful platform in society, whether they recognize it or not. They also have an ethical and professional responsibility to practice medicine in the best interests of their patients and must share information that is factual, scientifically grounded and consensus-driven for the betterment of public health. Spreading inaccurate COVID-19 vaccine information contradicts that responsibility, threatens to further erode public trust in the medical profession and puts all patients at risk.”
FSMB | FSMB: Spreading COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation May Put Medical License at Risk
Jaffe said, “I am told that there are sixty Washington physicians who are being investigated or prosecuted in part because of their questioning the mainstream COVID narrative.” .
The specific charges levied against Eggleston include unprofessional conduct, misrepresentation, or fraud in any aspect of the conduct of the business or profession, and interference with an investigation or disciplinary proceeding by “willful misrepresentation of facts.”
The WMC relied on a series of articles Eggleston published in 2021, for his ongoing column in the Lewiston Morning Tribune, including the following four articles.
Eggleston’s Sept. 5, 2021, article stated that “ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine are very effective and safe, and should be used along with vitamins C and D, melatonin, zinc, and quercetin,” and referenced “those who wish to control our individual lives and make us part of a Marxist/fascist collective.”
“Ivermectin is becoming the standard of care”
His July 11, 2021, article referenced censorship of non-establishment COVID-19 views in the media, naming the Trusted News Initiative as one of the actors responsible for this, along with Bill Gates and the World Economic Forum. “‘Fear porn’ is always the tool of tyrants,” Eggleston wrote.
“COVID-19 is a deception for taking control”
Eggleston’s June 13, 2021, article was critical of the World Health Organization, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, suggesting that “Many entities want ivermectin to disappear.” He characterized medical journals such as JAMA, The Lancet, Nature and Chest as “ivermectin disinformation sources.”
“Powers that be suppress the truth about COVID-19”
In his March 17, 2021, article, Eggleston said he believes that “soon, ivermectin, the inhaled steroid budesonide and others will be the standard of care for prevention and treatment of SARSCov2 (COVID-19).”
“When it comes to COVID-19, dare to be a free thinker”
Reply Brief in Silent Majority Foundation versus Governor Inslee
On May 26, the Silent Majority Foundation (SMF) filed their reply brief in court in their challenge of the constitutionality of actions taken by Governor Jay Inslee with his use of emergency powers.
(4) Reply Brief in SMF v. Inslee (substack.com)
SMF brought the case on appeal, challenging two of Inslee’s proclamations when several counties had zero or very few COVID cases. SMF sought an injunction and declaratory relief. They sought to have the court declare the proclamations invalid for the governor’s failure to provide the grounds which serve as a basis to a declaration of an emergency proclamation, as follows: (1) the governor failed to find that a public disorder or disaster exists; and (2) the governor failed to identify the area affected by such disaster/disorder. Importantly, a state of emergency is only effective in the area described in such an emergency proclamation, and the challenged proclamations identified “all counties” of the State of Washington, notwithstanding certain counties that, intermittently, lacked such a disorder/disaster (i.e., several counties with no COVID-19 cases at the time the initial complaint was filed.
While the two challenged emergency orders have been terminated, several questions remain: (1) what are the limitations on the governor’s powers to declare an emergency; (2) what are the required factual findings that serve as a predicate to declare an emergency; and (3) what exactly does the mandatory language requiring that “the governor must terminate said state of emergency proclamation when order has been restored in the area affected” actually mean?
SMF is holding a golf fundraiser in Camas, Washington on Friday, July 7 with a banquet and silent auction to follow.
Remdesivir Given without Patient Consent
Shirley Barcellos along with her husband, Joseph, began feeling the symptoms of COVID-19 in such a way on the morning of December 14, 2021, that she felt as “sick as a dog.” Ten days later, she fell unconscious, and her husband called 911. At the Olympic Medical Center in Port Angeles, she was tested positive for COVID-19 by a PCR test.
The staff, however, would not allow Joseph to join his wife inside the intensive care unit. So, every few hours that he talked to the nurse over the phone, he instructed the nurse that Shirley was not to be put on a ventilator, that she was not to be given a COVID-19 shot, and she was not to be put on remdesivir.
A reading of The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shows why Shirley and so many others have been unwilling to take remdesivir.
In the book, Kennedy writes the following:
In 2018, Gilead entered remdesivir in a NIAID-funded clinical trial against Ebola in Africa.
This is how we know that Anthony Fauci was well aware of remdesivir’s toxicity when he orchestrated its approval for COVID patients. NIAID sponsored that project. Dr. Fauci had another NIAID-incubated drug, ZMapp, in the same clinical trial, testing efficacy against Ebola alongside two experimental monoclonal antibody drugs. Researchers planned to administer all four drugs to Ebola patients across Africa over a period of four to eight months.
However, six months into the Ebola study, the trial’s Safety Review Board suddenly pulled both remdesivir and ZMapp from the trial. Remdesivir, it turned out, was hideously dangerous. Within 28 days, subjects taking remdesivir had lethal side effects including multiple organ failure, acute kidney failure, septic shock, and hypotension, and 54 percent of the remdesivir group died—the highest mortality rate among the four experimental drugs.
Then while Dr. Fauci, according to the book, was playing around with the placebo and end points of the NIAID funded studies, The Lancet had just published a placebo-controlled Chinese study that showed remdesivir utterly ineffective at keeping hospitalized patients alive or reducing the duration of hospitalizations. Even more important, remdesivir did not reduce the presence of the virus in the blood. Worst of all, the Chinese study confirmed remdesivir’s deadly toxicity. The Chinese regulators and researchers shuttered that trial because of potentially lethal side effects. Remdesivir caused serious injuries in 12 percent of the patients, compared to 5 percent of patients in the placebo group.
The Chinese study looked as if it would spell certain doom for remdesivir. But Dr. Fauci appeared at one of his regular White House press conferences, this one in the Oval Office. Seated on the couch next to Deborah Birx and opposite President Trump, Dr. Fauci declared that the data from NIAID’s clinical trial for remdesivir showed “quite good news,” glossing over the drug’s failure to demonstrate any mortality advantage. He boasted that the median time for hospitalization was eleven days for patients taking remdesivir, compared to fifteen days in the placebo group. He said to the press, “The data shows that remdesivir has a clear-cut, significant, positive effect in diminishing the time to recovery.” He claimed that his study had therefore proved remdesivir so remarkably beneficial to COVID patients that he had decided that it would be unethical to deny Americans benefits of this wonder drug. He was, he declared, unblinding and ending the study and giving remdesivir to the placebo group. Remdesivir would be America’s new “standard of care” for COVID. The FDA then granted remdesivir Emergency Use Authorization.
Thus, according to Shirley, when the nurse had told Joseph over the phone that Shirley had been given remdesivir, the nurse had chuckled when stating, “That’s our protocol.” Shirley’s ‘My Chart’ hospital records for December 25, 2021, show that she was first given remdesivir at mid-afternoon. Her subsequent ‘My Chart’ records show that she was given 100 milligrams of remdesivir at “Q24H.”
All of this was done while Shirley, who has diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), basically remained unconscious. She was prescribed morphine. Her December 25 records show that she was lethargic, increasingly withdrawn, and refused to open her eyes for assessment. Her December 26 records show that she was restless, agitated, disoriented, and unable to follow a command. Her December 27 records show that she had slept overnight on morphine but that she was still unresponsive. Her December 28 records show that she was not obeying commands, and her speech was mostly incomprehensible. Shirley was saying some words, such as “I’m cold” and “Help me Jesus.” Her December 29 records show that she was interactive for the first time. The report says, “I let her (Shirley) know that she is on remdesivir, and she would like to stop this immediately despite my recommendation to continue.”
Later on, Shirley says a nurse said to her in an angry, accusatory tone about not taking the COVID-19 shot, “You are one of the lucky ones because everyone else around is dying of COVID.” Shirley adds, “I’ll never forget what she said.” Then one time during her remaining five days at the hospital, Shirley says that one of the major doctors, while wearing a hazmat suit, cracked open her door and said, “How are you doing today.” He then closed the door. “He was so afraid of me,” Shirley says.
On her fifth day at the Olympic Medical Center, she noticed that her hair was, “So tight in the back of my neck because nobody cleaned me.” She then says, “I learned after the fact that one nurse, who was a friend of a friend, had not taken the COVID-19 shot either, and she arranged for me to take a shower the next morning.”
During her last few days at the Olympic Medical Center, Shirley noticed that her legs had swollen up “like a balloon.” When the hospital released her, she could not go to the bathroom by herself and could hardly do anything. It was this way for her for another three weeks.
Nowadays, Shirley is still feeling the side effects of remdesivir, “Since my hospital stay,” she says, “I have had severe hip pains from nerve damage like a knife stabbing at my hips, and those muscle spasms then shoot down my legs.” She can’t go back to work at the clothing bank at her local church, for it requires standing, lifting, and leg work that she hasn’t been able to do. “I can’t stand for more than a half-hour. I can’t walk up the stairs, either. Someone has to pull me up. I never had this problem before. The full functioning of my brain has not come back.”
Shirley, like so many others, has been a victim of Big Pharma profiteering. In his book, Kennedy writes the following:
The potential profit upside was impressive. Remdesivir cost Gilead $10 per dose to manufacture. But by granting Gilead an EUA, regulators could force private insurers, Medicare, and Medicaid to fork over around $3,120.00 per treatment—hundreds of times the cost of the drug.
Gilead issued a press release in February of 2022, boasting Product Sales Performance for the Full Year 2022:
Veklury [remdesivir] sales increased 98% to $5.6 billion for the full year 2021 compared to 2020. Sales of Veklury are generally affected by COVID-19 related rates of infections, hospitalizations and vaccinations as well as the availability, uptake and effectiveness of alternative treatments for COVID-19.
And in a press release in February of 2023:
Veklury [remdesivir] sales decreased 30% to $3.9 billion for the full year 2022 compared to 2021, primarily driven by lower rates of COVID-19 related hospitalizations.
