@John Parks – Where do I begin?
First and foremost, you have repeatedly posted about Peter McCullough. A number of posters here, including myself, have responded, saying that McCullough is wrong, and that what he says and publishes can easily be taken by motivated right-wing anti-vaxxers as misinformation. You have deliberately repeated his misinformation here more than once or twice. Quit posting misinformation! It's not about politics or freedom of speech, it's a matter of life or death.
You mentioned McCullough's extensive list of publications as qualifications on the subject of viral infectious diseases – without providing such a list. You did provide a link to one publication, so I read it.
https://www.amjmed.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0002-9343(20)30673-2
This paper was accepted for publication in August 2020, and appeared in print January 2021. Vaccines had just become available in late December 2020. A few people, MDs, Nurses, and other hospital staff, had just begun to receive their first doses. (I wonder if McCullough is vaccinated. I can't imagine that he could practice medicine of any kind without it.)
Not surprisingly, this paper has nothing at all to say about vaccination. Instead, it touts the so-called anti-viral medications of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) combined with the antibiotic azithromycin. The use of HCQ with or without azithromycin was already debunked by that time. The original French paper describing it's use cited results from a small handful of patients. It didn't stand up to scientific scrutiny, and more importantly, when tested in a properly designed clinical trial, the trial was stopped early because those drugs were inactive as a Covid-19 treatment. That entire paper is little more than an editorial disguised as a recommended treatment protocol – without any patient data. It says a lot about the poor quality of papers published by The American Journal of Medicine.
Reading that made me wonder what McCullough has published on the subject of coronavirus, or on anything. So, I Googled his Curriculum Vitae (CV, also known as resume).
https://lcaction.org/Site Images/Resources/DrPeterMcCullough-cv.pdf
From his CV, McCullough clearly knows what a properly designed clinical trial is. He's been involved in a number of them. But despite knowing better, he spouts off about anti-virus treatments that do not work.
The CV is very long, so I searched for any mention of the word 'virus'. I found 6 hits among 5 publications. (See pp 115, 118, 119, 120.) He may be an accomplished expert on treating cardiology and kidney diseases, but none of those titles made me think this guy is an expert on treating viral infectious diseases. But he is pounding his own drums among the anti-vax death-cult crowd.
So, John Parks, cut it out. Why are you deliberately repeating this death-cult misinformation?
