Let's get the rundown on the people you listed as reference material.
Paul E. Alexander
Paul Elias Alexander is a Canadian health researcher and a former Trump administration official at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services during the COVID-19 pandemic. Alexander was recruited from his part-time, unpaid position at McMaster University to serve as an aide to HHS assistant secretary for public affairs Michael Caputo in March 2020. In that role, Alexander pressured federal scientists and public health agencies to suppress and edit their COVID-19 analyses to make them consistent with Trump's rhetoric.
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Dr. Byram Bridle
BRIDLE'S CLAIMS
"… we never knew the spike protein itself was a toxin and was a pathogenic protein. So by vaccinating people we are inadvertently inoculating them with a toxin …"
"… it's the first time ever scientists have been privy to seeing where these messenger RNA go after vaccination …"
"… this has implications for blood donation ... this has implications for infants that are suckling ... this has serious implications for ... all of our children …"
Debunked
- There is no spike protein in the mRNA vaccines:
- absolutely nothing has changed with respect to our understanding of the incredible safety and efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines – they are our best tools to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
- there are no peer-reviewed publications (or data, or pre-prints) which support Bridle's claims.
- all of the data Bridle claims to have "revealed" have been publicly available for months.
- There is no evidence to suggest the vaccines pose a risk to suckling or breastfeeding infants:
- There is no evidence to suggest the vaccines affect fertility:
- Bentov et al. (2021) show ovarian function is not affected by SARS-COV-2 or vaccination.
- Safrai et al. (2021) show the vaccine has no impact on women's fertility.
- Shanes et al. (2021) show the vaccine has no impact on maternal immunologic tolerance of the fetus.
- Morris (2021) shows the vaccine does not prevent embryo implantation or impair early pregnancy development.
- Several partcipants got pregnant during the Pfizer trial, and the only adverse outcome was in the placebo group.
- Gonzalez et al. (2021) show the vaccine results in no significant decrease in any sperm parameter.
- Safrai et al. (2021) show the vaccine does not affect sperm whereas SARS-CoV-2 infection does impair sperm.
- Shimabukuro et al. (2021) review V-safe and VAERS, and find no signals that demonstrate a risk to pregnancy from vaccination.
- Bridle is combining several different anti-vaccine claims that have already been addressed by experts:
Geert Vanden Bossche
Written By
Edward Nirenberg
The short version: Geert Vanden Bossche has recently published a letter in which he argues that the vaccination campaign against COVID-19 is going to precipitate a public health disaster because the vaccines will select for viral variants that can escape their protection and drive them towards higher virulence. His claims are speculative, he offers no evidence to support his arguments, and makes several comments which are blatantly incorrect. The core of his argument relies on the assumption that COVID-19 vaccines do not have a significant effect on transmission. This has been repeatedly confirmed to be false in multiple studies. Furthermore, even if his assumptions about the effects of the vaccine on transmission are true, his conclusions are incorrect based on established precedent from Marek’s disease, a viral illness of birds with a vaccine that does not strongly affect transmission- but it still shows meaningful public health benefits in the populations of chickens where it is used. The vaccines will absolutely be critical to ending the pandemic, and fortunately the modular nature of the technology allows for rapid reformulation and adjustment as necessary (and thus far, though precautions are being taken with novel variants to produce vaccines specific to their set of problematic mutations, there isn’t significant enough evidence to suggest that total reformulation of the vaccines is needed), but no issues raised in this letter warrant a re-evaluation of our current COVID-19 vaccination policy.
Prof. Dolores Cahill
The Strange Case of Dr. Cahill and Ms. Hyde
Professor Dolores Cahill’s scientific résumé can legitimize her false claims about COVID-19. Her crusade of misinformation raises the question of how far academic freedom goes.
Cahill, who
until recently was teaching a class for first-year medical students called “Science, Medicine and Society,” has been making a number of staggeringly erroneous claims about COVID-19 and its associated vaccines since the beginning of the pandemic, never correcting her mistakes and always doubling down. She has said, falsely, that COVID-19 can be prevented by taking
vitamin C, vitamin D and zinc, and that the most efficient treatment is in the form of
hydroxychloroquine, a cheap medication against malaria and autoimmune diseases that turned into an object of worship for some individuals, even as
the evidence clearly showed it did not work against COVID-19. She has boldly stated that children wearing a mask—the kind that doctors, nurses and dentists have been wearing for decades—would be starved of oxygen and
see their IQ lowered. As for the RNA-based vaccines, she falsely claimed they did
more harm than good. “If you paid me ten million,” she
warned, “I wouldn’t take it. I would go to prison first. If someone vaccinated me [with an RNA vaccine], I would charge them with attempted murder.”
Bolstered by Cahill’s academic and scientific credentials, her misinformed and hazardous claims have grown to the point where students at her university wrote
a 33-page scientific rebuttal of these claims, a document that was
signed by 133 students from the university’s own School of Medicine and sent to its administrators. One of the claims these students had to debunk: that once you get COVID-19, you are immune for life. This brazen assertion’s confidence is in contradiction with actual knowledge in the field, which is that we do not clearly know how long immunity does last. But this is the upside-down world at University College Dublin right now, where students are teaching their own professor basic facts about a topic she should be familiar with.
Full article.
“If you’re under, like, 70 or 65 and you’ve no underlying conditions, this is all a hoax.” You’d be forgiven for thinking that this wild assertion about a pandemic that has killed over 4.3 million people worldwide and caused sequelae for an untold number of survivors came from someone who knows...
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Sucharit Bhakdi
Sucharit Bhakdi (สุจริต ภักดี [sut̚˨˩.t͡ɕa˨˩.rit̚˨˩ pʰak̚˦˥.diː˧]; born Sucharit Punyaratabandhu, สุจริต บุณยรัตพันธุ์, 1 November 1946, in Washington, D.C.) is a retired Thai-German
microbiologist. In 2020 and 2021 Bhakdi became a prominent source of
misinformation about the
COVID-19 pandemic, claiming that the pandemic was "fake" and that
COVID-19 vaccines were going to decimate the world's population.
[3][2]
He was a professor at the
University of Mainz, where from 1991 to 2012 he was head of the Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene.
[4] The university has disassociated itself from Bhakdi's views on the Coronavirus pandemic.
[5] In 2021 Bhakdi's publisher broke off relations following the appearance of an online video in which Bhakdi made antisemitic comments.
[6]
The claim: Coronavirus vaccines are killing people and will decimate the world’s population
Several widely shared videos and blog posts on Facebook say the COVID-19 vaccines are a matter of life and death – but not because of the risk of the disease.
In an article published April 22 and later taken down, a website called Red Pill University (a reference to the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory) wrote that COVID-19 vaccines “will decimate world’s population.” As evidence, it cites a video featuring Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi.
Bhakdi is a microbiologist
who has promoted ideas that run counter to the scientific consensus about the coronavirus pandemic,
including the claim that face masks don’t protect against infection. In the video, which originally was published by the New American, a conservative magazine, Bhakdi says COVID-19 vaccines are deadly.
“They are forcing vaccination on people, and I believe they are killing people with this vaccination,” he says during the video,
which has more than 268,000 views on Rumble, a video-sharing platform.
“Guys, don’t get a third or fourth or fifth (shot), because if you do that, you are going to contribute to the decimation of the world’s population,” he says later.
Over the course of the 40-minute clip, Bhakdi calls the pandemic “a fake,” says wearing masks and quarantining is “absolutely ridiculous nonsense,” and coronavirus tests don’t work. In this fact-check, we’re focusing on the claim that COVID-19 vaccines are killing people.
That claim sounds scary coming from a scientist, but it's not accurate.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved three coronavirus vaccines for emergency use in the United States. Clinical trials involving tens of thousands of participants found the vaccines were safe and effective at preventing coronavirus infection, and millions of Americans have safely received them.
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There’s no evidence the vaccines cause death, or that they will depopulate the planet – and clear evidence to the contrary.
Fact check:Biden didn't say July 4 celebrations may be canceled if people don't get COVID vaccinations
USA TODAY reached out to Red Pill University and the New American for comment.
Coronavirus vaccines are safe, effective
The three COVID-19 vaccines approved for emergency use in the U.S. are one from Pfizer-BioNTech, one from Moderna and one from Janssen, a pharmaceutical company owned by Johnson & Johnson. Public health officials say all are safe and effective at preventing COVID-19.
Over the course of several months in 2020, more than 100,000 people participated in clinical trials for the coronavirus vaccines as a group.
None of those trials found that the vaccines caused death. The FDA approved the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines in December and the Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine in February.
Fact check:No, interacting with a vaccinated person won't cause miscarriage or menstrual changes
Since then, more than 144 million Americans have received at least one vaccine dose,
according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
If the vaccines were as deadly as Bhakdi says, we would surely see widespread and mounting deaths in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS),
a federally managed database of self-reported vaccine side effects.
There are reports of vaccine-related deaths in the VAERS database, but because anyone – from doctors and nurses to patients and parents – can submit cases, the CDC says those reports are unverified and may be inaccurate.
Ryan Cole
‘A health menace’: Doctors urge medical board to take action against Dr. Ryan Cole’s COVID-19 misinformation
Records obtained from the Washington Medical Commission detail complaints about the Garden City pathologist.
Detailed complaints about Dr. Ryan Cole released by Washington Medical Commission
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Author: Katie Terhune, Jeremy Stiles, Dani Allsop, Morgan Romero
Published: 6:20 PM MST December 17, 2021
Updated: 11:11 AM MST December 18, 2021
BOISE, Idaho — In five formal complaints against Idaho physician and Central District Health board member Ryan Cole in the state of Washington
, doctors and others say falsehoods he has spread about COVID-19 and the vaccine to prevent it have added to a dangerous storm of misinformation and even contributed to patient deaths.
The complaints about Cole, who runs a diagnostic laboratory in Garden City, were submitted to the Washington Medical Commission between Aug. 28 and Sept. 30 and obtained by KTVB in their entirety on Thursday. Those records also include material submitted as information to support the complaints, and total nearly 300 pages.
Cole, a controversial figure who has referred to the COVID-19 vaccine as a "clot shot" and "needle rape" and falsely claimed it could cause cancer, is licensed as a physician in Idaho, Washington and several other states.
The Idaho Medical Association confirmed it filed a complaint with the Idaho Board of Medicine about Cole, but the Idaho board declined to say whether a formal investigation is underway. The board tells KTVB that formal actions are public record, but medical records, staff reports and investigative materials are confidential and unavailable to any source for review during the investigation.
In an email Friday, the Idaho Board of Medicine spokesperson said currently the board does not have any outstanding formal complaints; formal hearings only happen once formal complaints have been filed by the Board of Medicine.
After receiving records of the complaints filed in Washington, KTVB asked Cole for comment for this story. He did not respond.
The people and organizations who filed the complaints against Cole in Idaho and Washington are asking that his license be revoked.
If the Washington Medical Commission finds Cole has committed unprofessional conduct, possible sanctions may include revocation or suspension of his license.. But
Washington state law also provides for a range of other possible sanctions, including restriction or limitation of his practice, requiring that he complete a specific program of remedial education or treatment, monitoring of his practice, censure or reprimand, probation, a fine of up to $5,000 for each violation, or refunding fees that his practice has billed to and collected from patients.
In letters to Cole informing him of the investigations in Washington, the investigator wrote: "When my investigation is complete, a panel of commission members will review it and determine whether to move forward with disciplinary action or close the case without taking further action. A majority of our investigations are closed without further action after this review. If the panel finds evidence of unprofessional conduct, they may take further action.
The complaints
A doctor at the Boise VA wrote in his complaint that Cole is "a major purveyor of misinformation" and called it "amazing" that the physician was continuing to publicly tout debunked information about COVID-19 more than a year into the pandemic.
"Cole is a health menace, abusing his status as a physician to mislead the public," the doctor wrote.
In an October memorandum from the Washington Medical Commission, investigators noted that Cole’s diagnostic lab denies that he sees patients directly.
"Regarding direct patient care, the respondent has publicly stated he is providing ivermectin to patients but when he, the complainant, called Cole Diagnostics, the respondent's practice, their recorded message indicated the respondent does not see patients."
Nonetheless, according to a doctor at Saint Alphonsus, a patient infected with COVID-19 had been prescribed ivermectin by Cole.
Ivermectin is an anti-parasite drug that has not been found to have any effectiveness in treating, curing or preventing COVID-19, despite a number of viral online claims to the contrary.
That patient later died, according to the complaint.
At least three other doctors also signed affidavits accompanying a complaint about Cole prescribing ivermectin to patients.
"Some of my patients inform me that they are taking ivermectin for the prevention or treatment of COVID-19. A substantial percentage of them tell me it was prescribed or recommended by Dr. Cole, who they have trusted for medical advice due to his warnings about taking the COVID vaccine or his recorded lectures touting the dangers of the vaccine and the effectiveness of ivermectin," one of the doctors states in their affidavit, referring to patients the doctor sees when they come to a hospital emergency department for treatment of COVID-19.
Richard Fleming
AGENCY:
Food and Drug Administration, HHS.
ACTION:
Notice.
SUMMARY:
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) is denying a request for a hearing submitted by Richard M. Fleming (Fleming) and is issuing an order under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act) debarring Fleming for 10 years from providing services in any capacity to a person that has an approved or pending drug product application. FDA bases this order on a finding that Fleming was convicted of two felonies under Federal law that involved fraud. Additionally, Fleming has demonstrated a pattern of conduct sufficient to find that there is reason to believe that he may violate requirements under the FD&C Act relating to drug products. In determining the appropriateness and period of Fleming's debarment, FDA considered the relevant factors listed in the FD&C Act. Fleming failed to file with the Agency information and analyses sufficient to create a basis for a hearing concerning this action.
DATES:
The order is applicable September 28, 2018.
ADDRESSES:
Any application for termination of debarment by Fleming under section 306(d) of the FD&C Act (application) may be submitted as follows:
Electronic Submissions
- Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the instructions for submitting comments. An application submitted electronically, including attachments, to https://www.regulations.gov will be posted to the docket unchanged. Because your application will be made public, you are solely responsible for ensuring that your application does not include any confidential information that you or a third party may not wish to be posted, such as medical information, your or anyone else's Social Security number, or confidential business information, such as a manufacturing process. Please note that if you include your name, contact information, or other information that identifies you in the body of your application, that information will be posted on https://www.regulations.gov.
If you want to submit an application with confidential information that you do not wish to be made available to the public, submit the application as a written/paper submission and in the manner detailed (see “Written/Paper Submissions” and ”Instructions”).
Robert W. Malone
COVID-19
In early 2020, during the
COVID-19 pandemic, Malone was involved in research into the heartburn medicine
famotidine (Pepcid) as a
potential COVID-19 treatment following anecdotal evidence suggesting that it may have been associated with higher COVID-19 survival. Malone, then with Alchem Laboratories, suspected famotidine may target an enzyme that the virus (
SARS-CoV-2) uses to reproduce, and recruited a computational chemist to help design a 3D-model of the enzyme based on the viral sequence and comparisons to the
2003 SARS virus.
[21][22] After encouraging preliminary results, Alchem Laboratories, in conjunction with New York's
Northwell Health, initiated a clinical trial on famotidine and
hydroxychloroquine.
[21] Malone resigned from Alchem shortly after the trial began and Northwell paused the trial due to a shortage of hospitalized patients.
[20][23]
Malone received criticism for propagating
COVID-19 misinformation, including making unsupported claims about the alleged toxicity of
spike proteins generated by some
COVID-19 vaccines;
[2][12][4][24] using interviews on mass media to popularize self-medication with
ivermectin;
[25] and
tweeting a study by others questioning vaccine safety that was later retracted.
[2] He said
LinkedIn suspended his account over what he claimed were posts he had made questioning the efficacy of some COVID-19 vaccines.
[26] Malone has also claimed that the
Pfizer–BioNTech and
Moderna COVID-19 vaccines could worsen COVID-19 infections.
[1] Malone's
Twitter account was suspended in December 2021.
[27]
With another researcher, Malone successfully proposed to the publishers of
Frontiers in Pharmacology a special issue featuring early observational studies on existing medication used in the treatment of COVID-19, for which they recruited other guest editors, contributors, and reviewers. The journal rejected two of the papers selected: one on
famotidine co-authored by Malone and another submitted by physician
Pierre Kory on the use of
ivermectin.
[23] The publisher rejected the ivermectin paper due to what it stated were "a series of strong, unsupported claims" which they determined did "not offer an objective nor balanced scientific contribution."
[23] Malone and most other guest editors resigned in protest in April 2021, and the special issue has been pulled from the journal's website.
[23]
Malone has also been criticized for falsely claiming that the
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had not granted full approval to the Pfizer vaccine in August 2021.
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Peter McCullough
During the
COVID-19 pandemic, McCullough advocated for early treatment including
hydroxychloroquine,
[23][24] criticized the response of the
National Institutes of Health and the
Food and Drug Administration,
[23] dissented from public health recommendations, and contributed to
COVID-19 misinformation.
[25][26][27]
Early outpatient treatment advocacy
In April 2020, McCullough led a study of the antimalarial medication
hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19 for the
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center. McCullough told
The Wall Street Journal that the urgency of the public health crisis justified compromises on best practices in medical research.
[28][29] In July, after major studies found
hydroxychloroquine was ineffective against COVID-19 and the
Food and Drug Administration revoked its
emergency use authorization (EUA), McCullough supported a second EUA.
[23]
McCullough, Harvey Risch of the
Yale School of Public Health, and co-authors published an
observational study proposing an early outpatient treatment regimen for COVID-19 in August 2020 in the
American Journal of Medicine. Based on previous evidence, the article made recommendations for treating ambulatory COVID-19 patients, but presented no new evidence. The article was shared on
social media, mainly by groups which had previously published
COVID-19 misinformation, in posts falsely interpreting the publication as an endorsement of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19.
[30][31][32] The
Ministry of Health of Brazil endorsed the article on its website, contributing to a severe COVID-19 misinformation problem in Brazil.
[30][33][34] The article was criticized in letters to the editors;
[35][36][37][38][39] the editors responded that the article included some "hopeful speculations...What seemed reasonable last summer based on laboratory experiments has subsequently been shown to be untrue."
[31][34]
McCullough and Risch were two of three witnesses called by committee chair Senator
Ron Johnson to testify before a
United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing on COVID-19 treatments held in November 2020. McCullough testified in support of social distancing, vaccination, and treatments, including hydroxychloroquine.
Ashish Jha, dean of the
Brown University School of Public Health, called to testify by the
ranking member, said the "clear consensus in the medical and scientific community, based on overwhelming evidence" is that hydroxychloroquine is ineffective as a treatment for COVID-19. McCullough said Jha was promoting misinformation and Jha's opposition to the drug was "reckless and dangerous for the nation."
[24][40][41][42] Jha responded on
The New York Times opinion page, "By elevating witnesses who sound smart but endorse unfounded therapies, we risk jeopardizing a century's work of medical progress."
[43]
COVID-19 misinformation
Some of McCullough's public statements contributed to the spread of
COVID-19 misinformation.
[5][4]
McCullough testified before a committee of the
Texas Senate in March 2021, posted to
YouTube by the
Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, in which he made false claims about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines, including that people under 50 years of age and survivors do not need the vaccine and that there is no evidence of
asymptomatic spread of COVID-19.
[25]
Posted on the Canadian online video sharing platform
Rumble, McCullough gave an interview in April 2021 to
The New American, the magazine of the right-wing
John Birch Society, in which he advanced
anti-vaccination messaging, including falsely claiming tens of thousands of fatalities attributed to the COVID-19 vaccines.
[44] In May 2021, McCullough gave an interview in which he made claims about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines which were "inaccurate, misleading and/or unsupported by evidence," including that survivors cannot be re-infected and so do not require vaccination and that the vaccines are dangerous.
[26]
In an interview on the
Fox News program
Tucker Carlson Tonight in May 2021, McCullough claimed that hydroxychloroquine is effective for treating COVID-19 despite there being no supporting evidence.
[26] McCullough later made appearances on
The Ingraham Angle. During television appearances, McCullough contradicted public health recommendations, including when asked about the aggressive spread of COVID-19 among children, by suggesting that healthy persons under 30 had no need for a vaccine,
[27][45] and when asked about the relative merits of vaccination-induced immunity versus "natural" (survivor) immunity, by disputing the necessity of vaccinations to achieve
herd immunity.
[22][46][47][4]
Mark Trozzi
Two Ontario doctors have been barred from issuing medical exemptions for COVID-19 vaccines, masking requirements and testing.
The province's medical regulator says the restrictions imposed on Dr. Mark Trozzi and Dr. Rochagne Kilian took effect just before midnight Friday.
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario says the doctors must also post signs regarding these restrictions in their offices and during virtual visits with patients.
The college says the interim orders were issued under provisions of the Regulated Health Professions Act, which allow the regulator to impose restrictions or conditions on a member's licence if it believes the conduct at issue "exposes or is likely to expose patients to harm or injury."
The organization says the physicians have not been referred to its tribunal in connection with the restrictions at this time.
The college's public records list Kilian as a family doctor in Owen Sound, Ont., but show no specialty or primary practice location for Trozzi.
This genius is against masks, vaccines and testing.
Michael Yeadon
Yeadon falsely claimed that the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom was "effectively over" in October 2020,[17][18] that there would be no "second wave" of infections,[6][19] and that healthy people could not spread the SARS-CoV-2 virus.[1][20] He has claimed without evidence that COVID-19 vaccines were unnecessary,[21][20][19] unsafe,[1][22] and could cause infertility in women.[1][6][23] In a letter to the European Medicines Agency, Yeadon and the German physician Wolfgang Wodarg called for all vaccine trials to be stopped, falsely suggesting[24][25][26] that mRNA vaccines could target the syncytin-1 protein needed for placenta formation.[27][a] In an interview with political strategist Steve Bannon, Yeadon falsely asserted that children were "50 times more likely to be killed by the COVID vaccines than the virus itself", citing a high number of events following COVID-19 vaccination reported on the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) database.[31][32][3] The US Centers for Disease Control, which operates the database, cautions that such reports are not verified and do not prove that vaccines caused any given adverse event.[31][32] Yeadon has also discouraged COVID-19 lockdowns and the use of face masks despite evidence for their effectiveness.[22] He has alleged that the vaccines cause recipients to become magnetic.[14] Several of Yeadon's claims have been amplified on social media
Wolfgang Wodarg
Wodarg gained notoriety during public discussion of the
COVID-19 pandemic when he argued that SARS-CoV-2 was only one of many similar viruses which usually go undetected as part of an ordinary seasonal period of respiratory infections, and that the worldwide activities to stop the pandemic were "hype" caused by the selective perception of researchers.
[6]
His comments on the COVID-19 pandemic drew criticism from German scientists and some German media outlets. According to the critics, Wodarg's claims largely contradicted the verifiable facts; some of his statements were neither verifiable nor falsifiable; and because the facts Wodarg presented had nothing to do with each other, his statements had proved to be misleading.
[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]
In a December 2020 petition to the
European Medicines Agency, Wodarg and former Pfizer scientist
Michael Yeadon called for all
mRNA vaccine trials to be halted.
[21] Their petition, which suggested without evidence that the vaccines could cause
infertility in women by targeting the
syncytin-1 protein necessary for
placenta formation, soon began circulating on social media.
[22] David Gorski wrote on
Science-Based Medicine that Wodarg and Yeadon were "stoking real fear that the new COVID-19 vaccines will make women infertile and [...] doing it based on speculative nonsense".
[23]
Transparency International Germany, on whose board of directors Wodarg serves, distanced itself from his statements on 17 March 2020: "Transparency International Germany rejects board member Dr Wolfgang Wodarg's sweeping criticism of the government measures to protect the population from the coronavirus. (...) Wolfgang Wodarg is speaking on this matter as a private individual and not in his capacity as a member of the Management Board."
[12][24] On 25 March 2020, the board decided to suspend his membership in the association "until further notice", which means that Wodarg can no longer exercise any functions on the board or as head of the health working group for the time being. The Board of Directors will commission an independent committee to look into Wodarg's statements about the coronavirus and to determine whether his behaviour has harmed the interests of Transparency International Germany. Transparency Chairman Hartmut Bäumer said that the reason for this was that Wodarg had expressed his views on "radical media" such as
KenFM,
Rubikon, Geolitico, and in an interview with
Eva Herman; all of "which regularly work with conspiracy theories, with anti-democratic and sometimes anti-Semitic prejudices" and "oppose the basic democratic principles of Transparency"; while "some of them are personally close to the
AfD".
[25][26][27]
Vladimir Zelenko
Vladimir Zelenko is a Ukrainian-American family physician known for promoting a three drug combination of hydroxychloroquine, zinc sulfate and azithromycin as part of an experimental outpatient treatment for COVID-19 that he has promoted as the Zelenko Protocol. Wikipedia
Damn homie you fell for the old okie-doke hook line and bait! Because those guys are the who's who of crackpot Trump loving quacks, not people to believe and trust!