{"content":[{"text":"Testimony of Pierre Kory, MD \n Homeland Security Committee Meeting: Focus on Early Treatment of COVID-19 \n December 8, 2020","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.091195,"width":0.642941,"height":0.05162799999999998}},{"text":"I want to begin by thanking Senator Johnson and the Committee for this critically needed \n effort to bring attention to the importance and need for effective early treatment approaches to \n COVID-19. I am speaking today not only as an individual physician, but also on behalf of my \n non-profit organization, the Front-Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance, made up of some of \n the most highly published and well-known critical care experts in the world with almost 2,000 \n peer -reviewed publications in the medical literature as well as over 100 years of bedside clinical \n experience in ICU’s around the country.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.160892,"width":0.759565,"height":0.12132499999999999}},{"text":"Although we, like many, are extremely encouraged by the apparent successes in developing \n effective vaccines, we also are dismayed at the near complete absence of guidance and research \n on effective early, at-home, or preventative treatment options apart from vaccines, a reality we \n find unconscionable. Our hospitals are overflowing with over 100,000 COVID-19 patients \n admitted, and new record deaths are reported each passing day. It will take months for the \n vaccine to be distributed to the general public and further time to have sufficient impact in this \n crisis, so we are here to stress the need for effective early treatment. My organization of critical \n care specialists have spent the almost nine months tirelessly reviewing the scientific literature to \n gain insight into this virus and the disease process and to develop effective treatment protocols. \n All the while, we were working long hours in Intensive Care Units full of COVID patients. I \n was proud to testify in front of the committee about our MATH+ Hospital Treatment Protocol in \n May which I would like to mention has had nearly every single component of its combination \n therapies validated in clinical studies and our paper detailing and reporting on the impacts of the \n treatment protocol will be published within days in the Journal of Critical Care Medicine.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.300286,"width":0.7625500000000001,"height":0.24329399999999995}},{"text":"And so, it is with great pride as well as significant optimism, that I am here to report that \n our group, led by Professor Paul E. Marik, has developed a highly effective protocol for \n preventing and early treatment of COVID-19. In the last 3-4 months, emerging publications \n provide conclusive data on the profound efficacy of the anti-parasite, anti-viral drug, anti- \n inflammatory agent called ivermectin in all stages of the disease. Our protocol was created only \n recently, after we identified these data. Nearly all studies are demonstrating the therapeutic \n potency and safety of ivermectin in preventing transmission and progression of illness in nearly \n all who take the drug.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.561649,"width":0.7544649999999999,"height":0.138749}},{"text":"Before proceeding, I want to bring attention to two critical deficits in our national \n treatment response that has made this hearing necessary in the first place. Besides the early \n interest and research into hydroxychloroquine, we can find no other significant efforts to \n research the use of any other already existing, safe, low-cost therapeutic agents. Seemingly the \n only research and treatment focus that we have observed on a national scale is with novel or \n high-cost pharmaceutically engineered products such as remdesivir, monoclonal antibodies, \n tocilizumab, with all such therapies costing thousands of dollars. This is consistent with \n conclusions drawn by a physician consulting to Congress about Covid-19 when she concluded, \n “There is a pervasive problem on the Hill with how we prove the value of a low cost treatment.” \n Another barrier has been the censorship of all of our attempts at disseminating critical scientific","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.718467,"width":0.755366,"height":0.17359800000000003}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}