Moron Ron Johnson holds COVID-19 hearing accusing health officials of ignoring alternative therapies

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At a Senate hearing Tuesday chaired by Wisconsin Republican Ron Johnson and lambasted by Democrats and some medical experts, a group of doctors touted alternative treatments for COVID-19 and accused “organized medicine” and government health agencies of suppressing their use.

One witness from Wisconsin, Pierre Kory, a pulmonary specialist at Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center, touted as a “wonder drug” Ivermectin, used to treat parasitic infections and a medication that the National Institutes of Health has recommended against using for COVID-19 outside of clinical trials.

“We are telling the world this is the solution to COVID-19,” said Kory, a claim few others have made for any medication.

Others cited hydroxychloroquine, a malaria drug touted by President Donald Trump. The Food and Drug Administration this past summer revoked its emergency use authorization for the drug as a COVID treatment, saying it was ineffective and the risks could outweigh the benefits.

Johnson and the witnesses he called Tuesday accused the medical establishment and health agencies of failing to explore and promote the use of relatively inexpensive repurposed drugs — those previously approved for other uses — as early interventions against COVID.

“They’re safe and they’re cheap and they just might be incredibly effective,” said Johnson, who asserted that “tens of thousands of people have lost their lives” because government agencies have focused on expensive “silver bullet” solutions instead of medications already in use for other diseases.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2020/12/08/ron-johnson-holds-covid-19-hearing-touting-alternative-therapies/6491202002/

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. What happened to drinking bleach and UV lights up your butt?

[33taw]

2. Did Trump use any of these therapies? No.

[The Genealogist]

3. Maybe we should all just go down to the barbershop for some bloodletting too

[lkinwi]

4. It's so embarrassing to have this idiot as a senator. 🤮

[soothsayer]

5. V Putin is proud of his lackey

[Grokenstein]

6. "Mr. Johnson, are you volunteering to be a test subject?"

"What?? No, of course not! I have a list of brown-skinned--"
"THEN SIT THE FUCK DOWN AND SHUT THE FUCK UP"

[JDC]

7. Leaches, more leaches!

[Claire Oh Nette]

8. um...

Cheap andmight just be incredibly effective, and might not be. let trials run. or shut it.

[3catwoman3]

9. Ivermectin is the active ingredient...

...in a chewable pill I used to give my CATS several years ago until something else was developed. It was for parasites. WTF?

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11. Its an anti-parasitic treatment for heartworm

Heartworm is a parasitic roundworm. The coronavirus is a virus. Its hard to imagine that it would be effective against a virus.

[SmartVoter22]

10. Gen Flynn on FoxBiz a big fan of Ron Johnson

I'm watching Maria Bark-a-lot-a-momo on Fox Bis channel and she's got Mike Flynn on the phone, who said he's a big fan of Ron Johnson and Devin Nunes.

I get my daily chuckle watching her, about this time in the morning. I last about 10 mins before it becomes too hard to follow the nonsense.
The Traitor General is also claiming election fraud and the courts shouldn't decide elections.
He's comparing Bush v Gore to this election!

and, she's now promoting Flynn's claims that there is an "anti-American dent' in the FBI, DOJ and just about every other national institution.
I have no doubt the Trumpies will be using this convicted traitor's opinion as some legally defined absolute fact. They are soooo funny!

He'll be on her Sunday Show at 10am, too.

Some fun before football.