World Ivermectin Day

 

Dear Larry, An initiative created by the World Council for Health, #WorldIvermectinDay is taking place on  July 23rd  around the world.  The first World Ivermectin Day was launched in 2021 and raised massive awareness  about the life-saving benefits of the medicine ivermectin, including for COVID-19 symptoms  and prevention. Did you know? Ivermectin was derived from a microorganism found in soil in Japan. Since it was approved for human use, over 4 billion doses have been administered. Satoshi Omura and William Campbell received a Nobel Prize in 2015 for their  discovery and development of ivermectin. Nearly 90 studies, involving over 130,000 patients in 27 countries, have shown   significant improvements using ivermectin for prevention and treatment of COVID-19. Now isn't that worth celebrating? Here are 5 simple ways you can get involved in World Ivermectin Day. Join an event - either online or better yet, in person! Help spread critical awareness by sharing information on your social media accounts.  This World Ivermectin Day toolkit is a great place to start. Or share this fun video  produced  by FLCCC. Educate yourself and others about the history of IVM and about ivermectin's role in  tackling  COVID-19. Watch World Council for Health's video content, including a 24-hour video reel featuring  voices from  around the world. Share your own experience with ivermectin - write to us at mystory@flccc.net or  visit the  Ivermectin Stories page at the World Ivermectin Day website.  BONUS ITEM! Buy some ivermectin swag and wear your love with pride. My Florida family (Children and grandchildren)   all got covid and all were successfully treated   with Ivermectin; I got my supply from a company   in India that advertised in Canada and also from a Mexican woman whose family bought it for me from a pharmacy in Mexico where it is an  inexpensive over-the-counter medicine.   The truth is I had to be an autodidact to discover   the effectiveness of the inexpensive RX because   the public propaganda of Big Pharma and the   media and even my own primary care physician   was that Ivermectin was solely for horses   and that one required the jab to be healthy even   though is was easy to  discover that this type of virus had never ever had a successful vaccine that        could successfully prevent/treat it.    Now, most open-minded people can see what a   massive medical crime that was but nothing will   be done to those criminals.   You are always on your own.   Who now thinks they can trust their doctor when   so many doctors  know the truth about the failed   vaccines but so few doctors will speak up about   the truth because they fear losing their jobs?   The medical community has allowed itself to be   controlled by giant pharmaceutical companies, all   of which are criminal cartels which have paid   multi- million dollar fines for their corruption   and killing of their innocent consumers.     Go ahead, Ttust doctors and Big Pharm that controls them.  They are worthy of your trust...

GSK, Pfizer and J&J among the most-fined 

drug companies, according to study

By Brian Buntz | November 18, 2020

GlaxoSmithKline (LON:GSK) paid nearly $10 billion in inflation-adjusted financial penalties between January 2003 and December 2016, the highest tally for any drug company, according to research published in JAMA. That sum was more than any other in a sampling of 26 companies paying fines inside the U.S.

Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) was next in line with almost $3 billion in fines.

Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) came in the third slot with $2.7 billion in penalties.

“The pharmaceutical industry is unique in that all large pharmaceutical firms explicitly state that they are focused on promoting patient welfare, yet the majority of large pharmaceutical firms engage in illegal activities that harm patient welfare,” said Denis G. Arnold, a coauthor of the study and a professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

“The industry also has the worst reputation of any industry according to Gallup polling. This is an intriguing problem for anyone interested in business ethics and public health,” Arnold stated.

Spokespeople for the three companies could not be immediately reached for comment.

In all, the 26 pharmaceutical companies paid some $33 billion in fines during the 13-year period. The top 11 alone accounted for $28.8 billion, or 88%, of the total.

Financial penalties as a share of revenue were highest (greater than 1%) for Schering-Plough, GlaxoSmithKline, Allergan and Wyeth.

An overwhelming majority, 85%, of the pharmaceutical companies sampled had received financial penalties between 2003 and 2016.

A variety of state and federal authorities meted out the fines.

Pricing violations were the most common reason for fines. In all, there were 78 total fines among the 26 companies related to overpricing drugs reimbursed by the government, fraudulent billing, underpaying rebate obligations and other pricing offenses.

The study did not consider the cost of class-action settlements or penalties from governments outside of the U.S.

“Big pharma has such a bad reputation that the surprise, for me, was that four firms had no settlements or evidence of illegal activity over the course of our study and another four had comparatively minimal incidences of misconduct, whereas the worst offenders had multiple instances of misconduct over many years,” Arnold said. “In other words, big pharma is not monolithic. Several firms have succeed in being profitable and ethical, presumably because of ethical leadership and good governance.”

When asked what the pharma industry can do to improve its reputation, Arnold pointed to the defense industry, which has “succeeded in instilling a strong ethics culture in each firm in the industry via cooperation and strong ethics and compliance programs,” he said. “The pharmaceutical industry can and should do the same. Indeed, given its terrible reputation, and its failure to adhere to PhRMA codes, it comes across as an incompetent industry when it comes to self-regulation and ethical leadership.”