Buffalo Ledger

A practicing internist, cardiologist and epidemiologist alleged that U.S. regulatory agencies loosely used the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) Act to enrich the COVID-19 vaccine campaign at last month’s Arizona Novel Coronavirus Southwestern Intergovernmental Committee hearing.

"My comment on the EUA mechanism is that it's been a disaster in broad public use," Dr. Peter McCullough said. 

Under Section 564 of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is permitted to use EUA to authorize the use of unapproved or approved medical products.

“The suppression of early treatment, in my view, was intentionally done to create fear, suffering, hospitalization and death long before we invoked the EUA mechanism,” McCullough said. “From the very beginning, it was used to create a vaccine-only strategy worldwide.”

McCullough was among the doctors who addressed the committee during its May 25-26 hearings in Phoenix. The two-day event, co-chaired by state Rep. Steve Montenegro (R-Litchfield Park) and state Sen. Janae Shamp (R-Surprise), was organized to investigate Arizona's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“The emergency use authorization created a much more loose regulatory review process for the vaccines,” McCullough said. “The emergency use authorization was originally invoked in a distorted way during the pandemic and the very first product that was designated emergency use authorization was hydroxychloroquine, but it didn't need it since it was already a fully approved FDA drug.”

More than 140 million Americans were infected with COVID-19, according to media reports, and about 7 million died worldwide.

McCullough created the McCullough Early Treatment Protocol, which recommends treating COVID-19 with ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine; however, he was censored and sued because of his theories.

“The original emergency use authorization relegated hydroxychloroquine use to the hospital, which, retrospectively, was not the best application,” he said. “It was best used as early as possible at home.”

But when McCullough tried to expand the use of hydroxychloroquine, his request was turned down by the FDA.

“In June of 2020, the FDA actually made it worse,” he added. “They said do not use hydroxychloroquine at all, even though the emergency use authorization for it still remained.”

Other doctors who weighed in on the alleged misuse of the EUA were Dr. Richard Urso and Dr. Pierre Kory. Kory is president of the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care (FLCCC) Alliance, a 501(c)3 that also recommends treating COVID-19 infection with ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. 

“It's clear that everything being done, and the way they apply the rules selectively and arbitrarily is in the service of their interests and their objectives one of which is the profits of the pharmaceutical industry,” Kory said.

Urso, a Houston-based ophthalmologist, is a member of America’s Frontline Doctors (AFLDS), another organization that promotes the use of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin in treating COVID-19 infection.

"These are bad products," Urso said about the vaccine. "They're killing people. White blood cells are destroyed by lipid nanoparticles. In fact, almost all the literature before COVID for a couple of decades shows that."