Hacked documents that were provided
to The Intercept indicate that
healthcare providers have actually
pocketed millions of dollars
selling things like
hydroxychloroquine and
ivermectin in an effort to,
first of all, just make money.
And while they do it, they spread
disinformation about something that
actually protects people from the
coronavirus, which is the vaccine.
So, there's always been something
fishy at play.
Why is it that there's this
aggressive push by right wingers,
by conspiracy theorists, by some
physicians even, to take things
like ivermectin when it hasn't been
proven to either treat COVID or
serve as a prophylactic or
preventative measure to COVID?
And why would anyone push for
that when we have a proven method
to prevent people
from getting hospitalized or
from dying due to coronavirus?
And of course, that's the vaccine.
What's really going on?
Well, the data indicate patients
spent at least $15 million, and
potentially much more,
on consultations and
medications combined.
So as I said,
The Intercept has obtained hundreds
of thousands of records from
two different organizations, okay?
So, one of them
is Cadencehealth.us,
the other is Ravkoo.
Now, Ravkoo actually fulfills or
fills the prescriptions for
things like hydroxychloroquine and
ivermectin.
And Cadencehealth.us is part of
the telemedicine industry.
So, those two parts of this puzzle
are really, really important.
And then there's the third
part, right?
And I would argue the most
important part, which is the group
of physicians that offer these
prescriptions in the first place.
So, the hacked data includes
information on 281,000 patients
created in the Cadence Health
database between July 16th and
September 12th of 2021,
90% of whom were referred from
America's Frontline doctors.
In just those two months,
patients paid an estimated $6.7
million on consultations alone.
Okay, now America's Frontline
doctors, kooks, funded
by the Tea Party, they started out
as a group that was just meant to
defend the way Donald Trump was
handling coronavirus.
The first effort that they were
involved in was to convince the
public that reopening the country
prematurely was a great idea.
Later, they really made a splash
in the press when they started
promoting hydroxychloroquine.
One of the physicians involved
in this was the woman who had this
insane rant about Devil's semen.
She also had this to say about
hydroxychloroquine, which again has
not been proven as a safe
effective treatment for COVID.
Let's watch.
>> This virus has a cure.
It is called hydroxychloroquine,
zinc, and Zithromax.
I know you people want to talk
about mask, hello.
You don't need mask.
There is a cure.
I know they don't want to
open schools.
No, you don't need people to be
locked down.
There is prevention, and
there is a cure.
Yeah, hydroxychloroquine was so
dangerous.
It had such an impact on the hearts
of patients who participate in
clinical trials, that in places
like Brazil, they literally had to
stop the clinical trial.
And it, certainly, did not serve as
a preventative measure to COVID.
We have close to 700,000 Americans
dead as a result of this pandemic.
And hydroxychloroquine was one of
the first drug that was promoted as
a treatment or
a preventative measure, and
obviously, that has not worked out.
Same with ivermectin, which we'll
get to in just a second.
Now, the hacker also provided
records of 340,000 prescriptions
that Ravkoo has filled between
November 3rd of 2020 and
September 11th of 2021,
amounting to an estimated
$8.5 million in drug costs.
Forty-six percent of
the prescriptions are for
hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin,
and another 30 percent are for
zinc and azithromycin,
two other ineffective medications
that the SpeakWithAnMD physicians,
who America's Frontline Doctors
claims it trains, prescribe in
their Covid-19 consultations.
So, think about what's
happening here.
Their strategy comes in two parts.
Part number one is so speculation
or suspicion about the coronavirus
vaccine get people to think
that the vaccine is unsafe.
It's not good for you.
It doesn't actually protect you
from coronavirus.
And then part number two is, but
we've got a better solution.
Now, there's no data indicating
that ivermectin is going to help
treat your coronavirus.
There's no data indicating that
hydroxychloroquine is a safe and
effective treatment for
coronavirus.
But doesn't matter because what
these people do is they prey on how
much Americans distrust our
institutions, and to be fair,
pharmaceutical companies.
I get it, I get the lack
of trust in our institutions.
But, unfortunately, their lack of
trust in our institutions is also
being exploited by people who
are looking to make a quick buck.
And to be sure, they've made tens
of millions of dollars off of this,
and people have died as a result.
Each of the 340,000 prescriptions
filled by Ravkoo between November
3rd of 2020, and September 11th of
2021, lists a price.
Adding up the prices of each type
of medication shows that the online
pharmacy apparently charged
people a total of $4.7 million for
ivermectin, $2.4 million for
azithromycin, 1.2 million for
hydroxychloroquine, $175,000 for
zinc, and $52,000 for vitamin C.
It appears that the vast majority
of these medicines were paid,
get this, out-of-pocket rather than
through insurance.
Insurance unlikely to authorize
coverage of these prescription
drugs for coronavirus, because it
hasn't been proven that they're
effective in treating coronavirus.
But what's free at the point of
service?
The vaccine, and
it also prevents people from
getting hospitalized, prevents
people from dying from coronavirus,
which is why 99% of people who
are currently hospitalized with
coronavirus are not vaccinated.
And by the way,
some of the physicians,
not some of them, probably all of
them likely knew that what they
were prescribing was ineffective.
In fact, there was one physician,
who ensured that there was
a disclaimer for the patients he
was prescribing these drugs to.
So, the disclaimer said I, and
then included the physician's name,
a lot of this stuff was redacted,
which The Intercept of course
should have done and did do,
have a complete understanding of
the recent release from
the World Health Organization,
FDA, CDC, and NIH on March 5th,
2021 as it pertains to the use and
prescribing of hydroxychloroquine
and Ivermectin.
I understand that these two
medications have been deemed
'Highly Not Recommended' by
the for-mentioned medical
governing bodies but
are not illegal to prescribe.
I have explained that I will not be
held legally or medically
responsible for an adverse reaction
by this patient should they
choose to take them and have
explained they will not be able
to hold me medically neglectful,
pursue any form of malpractice, nor
any criminal and civil suits.
I mean, this physician, bro,
you're going to have a disclaimer.
Just check your spelling,
proofread a little bit.
And then later, of course,
a similar disclaimer started to
show up for all patients, because
they're worried about getting sued.
And they should be, because these
physicians are wrongly prescribing
drugs that they know happen to
be ineffective in treating COVID.
But they're making money, right?
This entire system that they've got
set up from the physicians to the
telemedicine platform to Ravkoo,
which fills the prescriptions.
They're all making a quick buck
off of this.
Who cares if hundreds of thousands
of people have died from COVID?
Who cares?
Profits over human lives,
we see it happen over and over and
over again.
And so, when Donald Trump loosened
telemedicine regulations in
the beginning of the pandemic,
it made a lot of sense.
Because people might want to see
a doctor from the comfort of their
own home, especially when we're in
the middle of a pandemic having to
do with a highly contagious virus.
But the second those regulations
were loosened, you've got the bad
actors just coming in and
taking full advantage.
And the way that these scammers
are able to get the press attention
that they need in order to market
these ineffective drugs is they
appeal to those who are kind
of primed already to fall for
conspiracy theories,
people like Joe Rogan.
In fact, Dr. Simone Gold, who's
the founder of America's Frontline
Doctors, absolute wack job,
thank Joe Rogan after he published
a video of himself,
saying that he's taking ivermectin.
Popular American comedian podcaster
and UFC commentator Joe Rogan
announces he has COVID-19 credits
ivermectin, monoclonal antibodies,
which by the way are the actual
effective treatment he was getting
at the time and says that and other
medicine for his quick recovery.
A wonderful heartfelt thank you to
modern medicine for
pulling me out of this so quickly.
Well, monoclonal antibodies
certainly have shown a lot of
promise.
That other stuff though,
which he took simultaneously,
just garbage.
But he did a great job promoting
something that's ineffective and
likely rob people off their money
and in some cases, likely their
lives as well, so good job.