Pandemic Could Be Solved Quickly If Politics Thrown Out: Dr. Ben Carson

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โ€œWeโ€™ve been having tunnel visionโ€ dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Ben Carson told EpochTVโ€™s โ€œAmerican Thought Leadersโ€ program.

โ€œLetโ€™s throw the politics out. We could solve this problem pretty quickly,โ€ he stated in an interview that will premiere on Dec. 18 at 7 p.m. New York time.

โ€œLetโ€™s open this thing up to all the different mechanisms,โ€ said Carson, a renowned neurosurgeon who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedomโ€”the highest civilian award in the nationโ€”in 2008 for his work. He retired in 2013 and ran for the presidency in 2016, before serving as the secretary of Housing and Urban Development during the Trump administration.

โ€œLetโ€™s look around the world at things that work. Letโ€™s look at the fact that on the western coast of Africa, thereโ€™s almost no COVID. And letโ€™s ask ourselves, why is that? And then you see, itโ€™s because they take antimalarials, particularly hydroxychloroquine. Letโ€™s study that. Letโ€™s see whatโ€™s going on there.

โ€œLetโ€™s listen to these physician groups whoโ€™ve had incredible success with ivermectin. Letโ€™s look at the results with monoclonal antibodies. Letโ€™s look at all of these things. Letโ€™s put them all in our armamentarium so that we donโ€™t have a one-size-fits-all system.โ€

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) at one time had authorized hydroxychloroquine for treating certain COVID-19 patients but quickly revoked the emergency use authorization (EUA) in June 2020, claiming no data showed its effectiveness.

The FDA hasnโ€™t approved or issued an EUA for ivermectin to treat COVID-19, citing the same reasons.

Using hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin to treat COVID-19 patients has been highly controversial. Some studies show, and some doctors claim, that hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin can effectively treat COVID-19 patients. A vaccine confidence insight report (pdf) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) labeled such claims as misinformation or disinformation.

โ€œCOVID is a virus. Viruses mutate. Thatโ€™s what they do. And they will continue to mutate,โ€ Carson said.

Carson pointed out that fortunately, most of the time, viruses become a little weaker with each mutation.

โ€œWe can admit that and deal with it, or we can take every little mutation and every little change and try to make it into a crisis so we can frighten people and control their lives more,โ€ Carson said.

The latest variant has been named Omicron. During a White House COVID-19 Task Force briefing on Dec. 15, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said that she expected Omicron cases to increase in the coming weeks, urging people to take preventive measures such as being vaccinated and getting booster doses.

Carson said he has some concerns with how COVID-19 is being utilized to โ€œmanipulate and frighten people.โ€

โ€œWe should be using every tool available to us to fight the pandemic. Thereโ€™s no question about that,โ€ Carson said. โ€œBut that means, you know, therapeutics, which had been poo-pooed. And I understand why. Because in order to get an EUAโ€”an emergency use authorizationโ€”to pursue the vaccines, you canโ€™t have anything thatโ€™s effective as an alternative. So, thatโ€™s a defect in our system, we need to get rid of that.

โ€œI think a lot of people died unnecessarily because we had that attitude,โ€ Carson added. He shared that when he contracted the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus and was severely ill, monoclonal antibodies saved his life. He said monoclonal antibodies werenโ€™t really utilized the way they should have been early on.

The FDA issued its first EUA for monoclonal antibodies to treat COVID-19 patients in November 2020.

By Harry Lee and Jan Jekielek

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