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Worldwide Famine is coming. An irreversible collapse of crops and production

A convergence of horrifying events have set into a motion an irreversible collapse of food production and crop harvests that will lead to global famine all the way through 2024. These events cannot be stopped for the simple reason that plants take time to grow. You can’t create crops instantly, and if they don’t get planted (or they get destroyed), there’s no instant replacement.

The reasons for the coming global famine include:

Floods and droughts causing sharp drops in crop production in China, Russia and the USA, among other nations.
Economic sanctions against Russia causing a halting of exports for food and fertilizer.
War in Ukraine, leading to a halting of the 2022 planting season for wheat, corn, soy and other crops.
War in the Black Sea, blocking ship movements in the ports (such as Odessa) which normally export crops.
The Biden admin’s shutting down of fossil duel production in the USA, adding significant costs to fertilizers and agricultural operations.
Global fiat currency money printing, making food inflation reach atrocious levels.

Importantly, all this coalesces into two primary problems that will now accelerate across the world:

Food SCARCITY
Food INFLATION

Scarcity, of course, means there’s no remaining supply no matter what the cost. Inflation means the food that is available will be significantly higher in price. Both of them cause people to panic, ultimately leading to widespread civil unrest (see below).

Understanding farm and crop inputs

Farmers are right now reporting a roughly 300% increase in their cost to produce crops such as wheat. This is due to three primary inputs:

The cost of fertilizer and seed.
The cost of fuel to power agricultural equipment.
The availability of tractors and other equipment (and their parts) in order to carry out mechanized agricultural operations.

Importantly, all three of these inputs are heavily strained due to the conditions mentioned above.

In addition to these factors, fuel costs significantly elevate transportation expenses to transport grains to grain storage and milling providers. Thus, rising fuel costs hit farmers twice: First for the cost of running their equipment, and secondly in the transportation costs.

Sadly, it looks like diesel fuel is headed toward $6 / gallon, and this is going to put severe upward pressure on food prices across the board. As I say in the podcast, elections have consequences… and rigged elections have dire consequences. (Joe Biden is punishing America with economic sanctions against our entire energy sector while having no such sanctions on Russia’s energy exports.)

Fertilizer costs have tripled, and fertilizer supply is growing scarce

Fertilizer prices have tripled and will likely go higher, especially as Russia has halted fertilizer exports and shut down natural gas pipelines to Western Europe. As a result, the fertilizer supply is growing scarce. About 5 billion people on the planet depend on fossil fuel-created fertilizer for their primary source of food. Thus, without fertilizer — if it were to go to zero — about 5 billion people starve to death.

I am not predicting the starvation of 5 billion people, since fertilizer production isn’t zero. But it is easily down by 25% – 30% right now, perhaps more, and that means somewhere approaching 2 billion people (or more) are going to face real famine / starvation in the crop seasons ahead. Very few people understand that food comes from fertilizer which is made using hydrocarbons. This is why left-wing activists are so eager to shut down pipelines, having no clue this will shut down their own food production as a result.

Extreme food scarcity to become apparent at the retail level this summer

There is a delay time between crop yield collapse and food scarcity at retail (grocery stores). Right now in March, we are eating the winter harvest of wheat. By late summer, we will be depending on wheat from the spring wheat crops around the world, and those crops just aren’t getting planted at the level necessary to feed the world.

The StrangeSounds.org website recently published a good overview of what they call the “wheat apocalypse.” From that article:

The wheat outlook looks grim… All over the world…

A limited supply of soft white wheat, the primary type of wheat grown in the Inland Northwest, has helped lead to a six-year low for wheat exports from the United States. That’s according to the USDA wheat report for February. The report also states that 71 percent of U.S. winter wheat is being hit by drought in 2022.

Egypt’s food security crisis now poses an existential threat to its economy. The fragile state of Egypt’s food security stems from the agricultural sector’s inability to produce enough cereal grains, especially wheat, and oilseeds to meet even half of the country’s domestic demand.

[China’s] Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Tang Renjian said that rare heavy rainfall last year delayed the planting of about one-third of the normal wheat acreage.

Drought has shriveled Canada’s wheat crop to its smallest in 14 years, and its canola harvest to a nine-year low, a government report showed on Monday.

Parched soils and record-hot temperatures in Canada’s western crop belt sharply reduced farm yields of one of the world’s biggest wheat-exporting countries and largest canola-growing nation. The drought has forced millers and bakers to pay more for spring wheat, and drove canola prices to record highs.

On top of all that, Hungary has halted all grain exports in order to protect its domestic supply. In this article on Natural News, author JD Heyes lists the countries most likely to experience serious disruptions due to food scarcity. They include Egypt, Thailand and the Philippines.

By this summer, food shelves are going to look frighteningly empty across America, Canada and Western Europe

The upshot of all this is that food shelves are going to look downright frightening in 2022, and for the shelves that actually have food, it’s going to cost perhaps twice as much. Some items might see prices triple.

Even Reuters is now openly reporting that a United Nations agency says food inflation has hit 20%. And those are slightly old numbers. By the time they factor in the summer and fall of 2022, it’s going to be much closer to 50%.

Shockingly, food basics are going to require a larger and larger percentage of workers’ paychecks, taking away their ability to pay for fuel (which is also skyrocketing) or to purchase clothing, housing, etc.

The only factor that may actually reduce the demand for global food is the global vaccine die-off caused by mRNA / spike protein injections that are killing people are record numbers. The covid bioweapon, after all, is a depopulation weapon.

The net result is going to be global uprisings and social unrest on a scale we’ve never seen before

As covered in today’s podcast (below), the net effect of all this is going to be global uprisings, chaos and social unrest on an unprecedented scale.

Ever heard the saying about “nine meals from anarchy?” That’s what we’re about to witness later this year, in 2022.

It doesn’t mean that every city will collapse into instant chaos, but food scarcity, food inflation and energy inflation will create conditions of extreme poverty and desperation among the population. As a result, you’re going to witness more of the following:

Flash mob looting of grocery stores, followed by increased security at grocery retailers.
Gunpoint robberies of people exiting grocery stores, carrying groceries.
Highway robberies of transport trucks that are delivering goods to grocery retailers (ripped right out of Venezuela).
Increased carjackings, home invasions and crime derived from desperation and starvation. (While Democrats continue to “defund the police.”)

Iceland Lifts All Restrictions, Says it Wants “As Many People as Possible” to Catch Covid

After almost two years of restrictions aimed at curbing the transmission of COVID-19, the Icelandic Government finally announcedon Wednesday that all restrictions, including all testing and restrictions at the borders, will be lifted at midnight on Friday, February 25th.

The Minister for Healthcare, Willum Thor Thorsson, said that with the current level of infections, continued restrictions are useless. “Restrictions do not have any effect at this point in time,” he said. The Health Ministry also said the way to end the pandemic is herd immunity through infections, and it wants “as many people as possible” to be infected to achieve “widespread societal resistance”. Vaccines will not provide the necessary immunity.

OWID

Over the past weeks and months, mask mandates and strict limitations on gatherings have been in place, while infections have surged and the restrictions seem to have had no effect on transmission.

Iceland

As much as 81% of the population above the age of four has been vaccinated at least twice. Official figures now show a higher infection rate among double-vaccinated adults and children than among the unvaccinated, and the boosters clearly do little to curb infections, as the infection rate for the triple vaccinated is now around 70% of that for the unvaccinated, and approaching it slowly but surely.

Almost a third of the population has tested positive and based on a recent local seroprevalence study it may be estimated that the actual proportion of the population that has been infected is close to two thirds.

The use of PCR tests for the general population has been discontinued and the crowd waiting outside the main testing centre in Reykjavik dispersed just after the Government made its announcement on Wednesday.

Most of the people in the street interviewed by the media seemed happy to get rid of the restrictions. The director of the Icelandic national hospital was worried though, and said this was too early.

Despite the decision made this week, the Icelandic Prime Minister said the possibility of new restrictions later on could not be ruled out, for example in the case of a new variant emerging. After the Healthcare Minister‘s announcement regarding the lack of effectiveness of the restrictions, it might be expected that a decision to reimpose them would have to rest on a stronger foundation than before.

Thorsteinn Siglaugsson is an economist who lives in Iceland. Find him on his blog.

Stop Press: Poland is also lifting all restrictions from March 1st, except the mask mandate, oddly.

How Many People Died from the Covid-19 Inoculations?

How Many People Died from the Covid-19 Inoculation? An Estimate Based on a Survey of the United States Population(Working Paper)

This paper examines potential fatalities and injuries from the Covid-19 inoculation using an online “Covid-19 Health Experiences Survey” administered to a representative sample of the US population. The sample is composed of 3,000 respondents balanced on age, gender, and income to the extent possible. The survey was administered in December 2021, collecting information regarding respondents’ experiences with the Covid-19 illness and the Covid-19 inoculations as well as Covid-19 health experiences within respondents’ social circles. The survey also collected respondent economic and demographic information. Using these data, I find the following:

Covid-19 inoculation-related fatalities:

Assuming that all the respondents who know somebody who they believe died from the inoculation actually died from the inoculation, estimated fatalities are about 308,000.
Subtracting out those who may have died regardless of inoculation yields an estimated 260,000 inoculation-induced fatalities. This is an initial first pass estimate—more evaluation is needed.

Factors associated with being inoculated:

The likelihood of being inoculated is significantly less for those who identify themselves as African American, Hispanic, and Asian, and Republican or Independent. Democrats, Caucasians, and more the highly educated are more likely to be inoculated.
Those who indicated that they obtain information about Covid-19 from alterative news sources were less likely to be inoculated. Those who obtain information from mainstream news and official government source are more likely to be inoculated.
Knowing someone who experienced a significant health problem from the Covid-19 illness increased the likelihood of being inoculated.
Knowing someone who had been injured by the Covid-19 inoculation substantially reduced the likelihood of being inoculated.

The official position of the US government is that the Covid-19 inoculations have resulted in nine fatalities (CDC, 2022). The experiences shared by hundreds of respondents in this survey suggests that many people died or were injured following inoculation. Which data are more believable—nine fatalities or as many as 200,000 to 300,000 fatalities? Surveys have limitations in assessing the impacts of health interventions. However, this type of evaluation offers an important point of triangulation. The experiences of people captured in surveys generally should be consistent with official government data. In the case of Covid-19 inoculations, there is a tremendous divergence which should be cause for further inquiry. My hope is that this research will motivate a full and transparent examination by independent health and medical scholars to ascertain the degree of harm being caused by the Covid-19 inoculations.

The full paper can be accessed at: How Many People Died from the Covid-19 Inoculations? An Estimate Based on a Survey of the United States Population

In the UK it’s estimated only 1% of adverse effects are reported. With 1.4 million in severe adverse effects and 1,900 deaths on my last check 3 weeks ago this could be enormous. I know personally 6 that have died from the vaccine and one of those was my daughter’s 23-year-old best friend. A beautiful and fun-loving working young woman taken with a brain haemorrhage.

I know endless with many severe adverse effects, 2 on chemo, two with thrombosis, 2 with thyroid and 3 with heart problems and one who was in such a mess he thought it was the end. All these people are between 23 and 50. All fit and healthy.

I would rather be locked up for life than take their poison.

Scary, Shocking Covid Stuff

Here are three things I read today that made me feel quite ill.

The governments in England, Wales and Scotland have all approved child murder and are now offering toxic, experimental jabs to children aged 5-11 years old. Having murdered thousands of elderly folk they’re now moving onto the little children. The drug they have approved for small children has been shown to be unnecessary and deadly when given to older children and adults. Any doctor giving one of these jabs to a small child, more vulnerable and developing, should be struck off, defrocked and hung, drawn and quartered before being arrested and thrown into prison for life. The same goes for any parent allowing their small child to be jabbed with this experimental poison. (Factcheckers might like to know that a poison is defined as a substance that, when introduced into a living body, causes illness or death. The covid jabs are known to cause illness or death and are, therefore, poisons.)
A court in New Zealand sent out a demand from the Ministry of Health for the sum of $330 for non-compliance with (utterly pointless) covid-19 testing. The recipient of the court order was warned that if they didn’t pay the court could issue a warrant for their arrest, suspend their driving licence, seize their property or take money from their income or bank account, report the overdue fine as part of a credit reference check (so that they couldn’t get a credit card or a loan), restrict their ability to sell a property and stop them travelling overseas. Anyone who thinks social credit is something dreamt up by conspiracy theorists clearly needs their head examined.
Devi Sridhar, who is apparently a chair at the University of Edinburgh, says she thought the British people would accept more intrusive surveillance. ‘I think I underplayed the societal differences between South Korea and the UK,’ she apparently said, ‘including the willingness of publics to be under different levels of surveillance and scrutiny.’ I firmly believe that the chair on which the Old Man sits has more brains than Ms Sridhar. (My video describing her views on covid jabs and children is still available to view on this website. The video is entitled ‘How many children will die because of this woman?’)

By Dr Vernon Coleman

The EFFICACY OF THE VACCINES PLUS BOOSTER WEEK BY WEEK FROM UK GOVERNMENT DATA

This is staggering. I am closely watching everything that happens that is not released to the public, however, I do have many friends who look for this information too because there’s just too much out there. The bit that gets me is that the government doesn’t exactly hide it from you, they put it where anyone can find it, but no one looks.

That’s where we come in, and we spread this information to you, but often it’s called misinformation. But this is NOT misinformation, it’s government data on their website and you can check it yourself. But many just ignore it and don’t check and continue to ignore what is really happening.

We have a compiled video on the data for you that is graphed and simple to follow. And like I said you can check this yourself.

This information was given to me by “Richard Peters” a really good and trusted friend. I have checked the data and it’s correct.

The amount of information we get is overwhelming, and I could not possibly write up about everything, so I have to pick what I think is most important.

Since the booster, the government have declared previously unknown conditions, for example, 100,000 people in the UK will die within 5 years from a rare heart condition that no one knows they have. Think about that for a moment. How could they possibly know that 100,000 people have a condition that the people don’t know they have? HIV, a major HIV outbreak for heterosexuals, but now even if you don’t have sex??? Can anyone explain that? And that 90% of covid patients are fully vaccinated. Over 400 professional athletes have died on the field so far. 300% rise in myocarditis in young adults and 1000% increase in thrombosis.

There are over 1.2 million serious adverse reactions to the vaccines and over 1,900 deaths directly as a result of the vaccines. But only 1% are reported to the yellow card. Ever heard of the yellow card? Google it, it’s an official body that every medical doctor must report vaccine injury or death to.

The thing is that we all want to fit in with everyone else. But if you all used the same energy standing up for your lives and the lives of your children and grandchildren as you use trying to debunk so-called conspiracy theories, we would have stopped these globalists two years ago.

I want you to watch this video on the efficacy of the vaccines below. It will completely shock you because you probably have not heard these true figures.

Look at my other posts for more information you need to know.

The compilation is in two parts, 5 minutes each.

Efficacy part 1

Efficacy part 2

MYOCARDITIS IN YOUNG ADOLESCENTS

Context.– Myocarditis in adolescents has been diagnosed clinically following the administration of the second dose of an mRNA vaccine for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Objective.– To examine the autopsy microscopic cardiac findings in adolescent deaths that occurred shortly following administration of the second Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 dose to determine if the “myocarditis” described in these instances has the typical histopathology of myocarditis.

Design.– Clinical and autopsy investigation of two teenage boys who died shortly following administration of the second Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 dose.

Results.– The microscopic examination revealed features resembling a catecholamine-induced injury, not typical myocarditis pathology.

Conclusions.– The myocardial injury seen in these post-vaccine hearts is different from typical myocarditis and has an appearance most closely resembling a catecholamine-mediated stress (toxic) cardiomyopathy. Understanding that these instances are different from typical myocarditis and that cytokine storm has a known feedback loop with catecholamines may help guide screening and therapy.

This is in PDF form so I have supplied the PDF for you. It’s the full report on the examinations of the two young boys.

The mRNA vaccines are causing myocarditis in young people. but this will be kept from mainstream media and only a few will know the truth. This will be classed as misinformation, but these are actual scientific examinations.

Look at the PDF below

https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:7098e36b-3bd0-3842-9c16-5194a9bee01b

Oxford, the authors of the British clinical trial Recovery attempt to hide deaths by overdose

ANALYSIS: The authors of the recovery clinical trial (Peter Horby and Martin Landray) attempt to cover up a despicable fault in the hydroxychloroquine arm. Several elements are concerning : results that are hiding reality, unforgivable errors in the documents, the author of the appendix of the documents of the Recovery study (British clinical trial) is Dr Hayden known to be historically close to Gilead having taken on several occasions the defence of Remdesivir (drug that has recently been approved by the European Medicines Agency without evidence of therapeutic benefit and very harmful side effects). Hence the Recovery study cannot be considered serious.

Retrospective foreword

We note that there is mounting evidence that hydroxychloroquine is active and tolerable against Covid-19.

Before exposing the intellectual fallacy and the real deadly implications of the results of Recovery which conclude that hydroxychloroquine is ineffective, we seek to expose the reader to the comprehensive analytical work carried out by FranceSoir in search for truth. In particular, we have revealed problems of medical ethics (1)and notorious incompetence (2), and even potentially criminal activities (3, 4), related to the Recovery trial, on which we have published a complete document demonstrating the existence of obvious conflicts of interest (5).

France Soir, with the help of scientists and clinical trial experts, has carried out a rigorous and meticulous analysis of the majority of studies published or submitted for pre-publication on the MedRxiv site of Cornell University. FranceSoir is the only print media to have scientifically dismantled, point by point, the highly questionable prepublications, whose conclusions were biased against hydroxychloroquine or in flagrant contradiction with the data exposed, as for the AP-HP study (6) or Epiphare (7). On the other hand, it is clear from other studies and clinical trials that hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), in combination with azithromycin which gives it considerable synergy, appears to be the only tolerable and active treatment against Covid-19 (8,9,10,11) and also suitable for prophylaxis (9).

We also bring to bear that the current pandemic has allowed members of the public, concerned about the health of their loved ones and themselves, to perceive the extent to which misinformation could circulate in the mainstream media. This led is evidence by the fact that only 7% of the French have confidence in what the messages broadcasted by television media about the pandemic (9).

“With a self-awarded white knight role, the media are no longer content to give a voice to one side or the other by commenting, in a quest for impartiality, but are setting themselves up as true referees of what is or is not scientific and medical truth.

In this respect, hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) has been systematically denigrated as a target. Why has it been systematically denigrated? It was put in their heads that the randomized controlled clinical trial was the universal panacea of the reasoned medical scientific approach. This is particularly false in this case and in opposition to the medical ethics of the Hippocratic Oath (1),” says a medical research specialist.

However, this certainty, instilled by intense brainwashing by public health authorities and Big Pharma-funded television presenters, is crumbling and vacillating in the face of accumulated evidence (8,9,10,11) in favour of hydroxychloroquine and raises questions about how a molecule such as remesivir could have slipped through the cracks of the European Medicines Agency without toxicity testing.

What else can we say about the statement made by the French President on July 14th, in response to a question from a television journalist who asked him, if he would take hydroxychloroquine in the event of Covid-19 contamination?

“From what I understand about science, there is no such thing as a stabilized treatment. France is the country of “Lumière” and I believe in rationality … If there is no treatment, I’m not going to take it,” he said.

He added: “It is not for the President of the Republic or a politician to decide a scientific debate.”

But that is exactly what he just did live on the air!

And then speaking about Professor Raoult:

“Nor is it for a man of science, even if he becomes a public figure, to act on scientific beliefs.”

Is the President suggesting that Pr Raoult doesn’t act as a man of science, but on the basis of scientific belief? Would we have come to the apotheosis of denigrating a man whose entire career speaks for him? Is our President so unsecure, that he cannot help but say, that perhaps in a few months’ time we will learn that hydroxychloroquine is a really active treatment? When we have obviously known this for quite some time. These statements reveal how little our President cares about the possibility that this treatment could have saved lives.

The conditions surrounding Recovery (boundary conditions) give us an indepth

We believe the principal investigators of the Recovery trial are attempting to conceal the results of the very dangerous, even fatal, overdose of the hydroxychloroquine arm. The authors of the trial came very close to pre-publishing significant results demonstrating the harmful nature of HCQ!

First of all, it should be remembered that this is not a real publication, but a text filed on the MedRxiv site of Cornell University and that it was therefore not submitted to the proofreading and critical questions of other researchers in the clinical field. But never mind. The article still subtly suggests an adverse effect by presenting a survival curve showing a 2% increase in mortality at 28 days (from 25 to 26.8%) in the HCQ arm compared to standard care. This curve is presented with a Y-axis not going to 100% which exaggerates the 2% increase. This difference is not significant according to the value of the calculated statistical power p = 0.18.

We are here in very subtle communication effects which consist in hiding the reality one does not want to talk about. We demonstrated this phenomenon in the phase III study of remdesivir (Veklury®) published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) where the results of the secondary endpoint of 28-day mortality were deliberately masked.

We state that if HCQ had been used at an acceptable dose level on the first day and on subsequent days a beneficial effect could have been measured. This effect is masked by the premature death or the premature transfer to ICU of hospitalized patients overdosed with HCQ within 48 hours of initiation of treatment. We remind the reader that patients received a cumulative dose of 3.2 g of HCQ in 48 hours, including 2.4 g on the first day, which represents a potentially fatal overdose on patients in this category (4). It should also be remembered that HCQ overdose is characterized by acute respiratory failure (4) which a priori cannot be distinguished from the respiratory symptoms due to Covid-19. On the other hand, only heart failure can be demonstrated (prolongation of the QT interval and twisting of the electrocardiogram peaks).

We also asked in a previous article if, in the Recovery trial, hydroxychloroquine had not killed as many patients as it had saved?

Is it possible that the beneficial effect of a treatment may be masked by a harmful effect such as overdose, comedication or an increased risk factor for certain categories of patients?

We have already recently highlighted such a problem of masking the beneficial effect of HCQ by contradictory effects in our careful reverse engineering analysis of the EPIPHARE study (7). EPIPHARE sought to determine whether HCQ conferred protection from Covid-19-related hospitalization and mortality in patients receiving long-term treatment for chronic inflammatory conditions (lupus and rheumatoid arthritis). The authors concluded that HCQ does not confer protection on these autoimmune patients, who are a priori more likely to develop viral infections than the rest of the population. We showed that the authors of this study were withholding data that they had available and that could have led to the opposite conclusion of a protective effect of HCQ. A Chinese study published in the Lancet on July 3 confirms this. In the Chinese study, patients with rheumatoid arthritis taking hydroxychloroquine had a 91% reduced risk of infection with the COVID-19 virus (with a statistically significant power p = 0.044) compared to those with the same chronic inflammatory diseases, but not on long-term HCQ treatment.

To continue with the results here are some of what the author states

Results: 1561 patients randomly assigned to receive hydroxychloroquine were compared to 3155 patients simultaneously assigned to usual care. Overall, 418 (26.8%) patients assigned to hydroxychloroquine and 788 (25.0%) patients assigned to usual care died within 28 days (ratio 1.09 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.96 to 1.23 P=0.18). Consistent results were seen in all pre-specified patient subgroups.

Patients assigned to hydroxychloroquine were less likely to be discharged alive from hospital within 28 days (60.3% vs. 62.8% rate ratio 0.92 95% CI 0.85-0.99 p missing) and those not on invasive mechanical ventilation at baseline were more likely to achieve the composite endpoint of invasive mechanical ventilation or death (29.8% vs. 26.5% risk ratio 1.12; 95% CI 1.01-1.25 p missing). There was no excess of new major cardiac arrhythmias.

How with 5000 patients we get such a high p for mortality when we are told; the advantage and necessity of the randomized trial is to have a very small “p”. The advantage and necessity of the randomized trial is to have a very small “p”. 500 patients per group would suffice. It is mathematical.

Why is the “p”not given for the 2 other tests when on these 2 measures the authors conclude a significant difference?

Our clinical trial expert tells us:

“In fact, the general question is, what went wrong with the data that made such a large trial yield no significant result?”

One gets the impression that the “results are deliberately insignificant” in order to hide a disturbing reality.

To finish off, the icing on the cake: the author of the appendix to Recovery is none other than Frederic Hayden, a doctor historically close to Gilead.

The author of the document is not one of the members of Recovery, but Frederic Hayden of the University of Virginia. One could almost believe that the Recovery team no longer wants to write the results of the study and is subcontracting it to another university. We had already mentioned this professor in a previous paper that was used primarily to get a valid clinical trial number in the United States. This same professor is a strong advocate of Gilead’s recovery being quoted as saying of this drug that “this is the first convincing evidence that an antiviral drug can really benefit Covid-19 patients, especially patients hospitalized with Covid-19”.

He participated in the Chinese remdesivir study and is quoted in Fortune.com as having defended the remdesivir study. He is also known to have been close to Gilead since the HIV.

Finally he was one of the key investigators on Gilead’s Tamiflu.

As in a bad movie, Gilead will have pushed its remdesivir, authorized by Europe without the slightest toxicity study, but it will have gone a long way to disqualify its effective, inexpensive, innocuous competitor, hydroxychloroquine. This battle with unequal weapons does not serve the interest of public health but benefits the mastodons of the pharmaceutical industry, prepared to anything. The story of recovery is not over and we would not be surprised to see a mixture of dexamethasone and remdesivir point its nose shortly as a potential combination of drugs. The marketing techniques already used by Gilead are repeating themselves.