By LINDA BOYLE
Four years ago, at the beginning of the Covid pandemic, the National Institutes of Health gathered a group of experts to provide Covid-19 recommendations to health care providers and issued the first version of the “Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Treatment Guidelines on April 21, 2020.”
You can read those guidelines at this link.
Forty experts gathered to review data and make recommendations that would be followed worldwide. The NIH was extremely influential in controlling the narrative and ensuring a lockstep approach to Covid treatment. That included multiple jabs, face masks, social distancing, closing businesses, isolating the sick, etc. Any alternative therapies were frowned upon, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, who served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1984 to 2022, and the chief medical advisor to the president from 2021 to 2022, led the charge.
The government stayed diligent in updating these guidelines as new therapies approved by the government became available. Even though the federal Covid-19 Public Health Emergency was ended by President Joe Biden in May 2023, this panel of experts at NIH continued to review the guidelines and update them as needed. They released 72 versions of the guidelines during the Covid years.
Now more than a year after the health emergency was officially over, the NIH will stop updating the information and take down the website that has the recommendations on it, citing that other professional organizations will continue to provide those guidelines (as they did these last four years).
Meanwhile, the mainstream media are firing warning shots with articles about the uptick in Covid rates caused by the latest highly contagious new variants. Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, a professor of medicine and infectious disease specialist at the University of California, is sounding the alarm. Dr. Chin-Hong stated “you have a very, very transmissible variant, probably one of the most transmissible we’ve had. We have a lot of population immunity, but it doesn’t mean that there isn’t a lot of chaos.”
The “you should be worried bell” is being rung again to foment fear. But fear not: The government is ready with a new Covid jab that is coming out this fall for those of you who feel a desire to get the jab. And rather than call it a “booster,” it will simply become the annual shot you need to take, much like the push to take the flu shot. The government has promised it will be updated to be “effective” against whatever the current strain is.
It’s unclear how the government will do that as the little bugger has mutated faster than pharmaceutical companies can make an effective update.
So, why now with Covid on the uptick would the NIH choose to take down its web page concerning Covid treatments?
It seems the NIH suddenly realized other professional organizations were also posting guidelines. Or perhaps it was that the NIH realized new treatment modalities for Covid have slowed to a drip. And NIH stated they are getting fewer and fewer calls asking for advice.
Dr. Cliff Lane, director of the clinical research division at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a co-chair of the panel, stated there are “specialty doctors’ groups — such as the American College of Physicians and the Infectious Diseases Society of America — who will be the keepers of Covid-19 treatment guidance from now on. They’re the usual stewards of best-practice guidelines anyway.”
I didn’t see where they would archive the data so you could access it in the future. NIH announced “the COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines website will remain available until August 16, 2024, and will provide a downloadable PDF of the final version of the Guidelines.”
I recommend you download a copy so you can review which recommendations worked or didn’t work. This would also be useful information if you were harmed by some of the “recommendations” and need a copy of them for a future lawsuit.
As we “close” this episode of American history, Dr. Marty Makary, professor and surgeon at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, summed up those Covid years well. He said:
- “The greatest perpetrator of misinformation during the pandemic has been the U.S. government. Misinformation that Covid was spread through surface transmission, that vaccinated immunity was far greater than natural immunity, that masks were effective … That myocarditis was more common after the infection than the vaccine. We’ve seen something which is unforgivable, and that is the weaponization of medical research itself … Public health officials were intellectually dishonest. They lied to the American people.”
Many people were fearful and believed the government four years ago. I don’t think many people will ride that train again, but then again, who knows? Fear is a powerful tool, especially when it is used by any government.
Linda Boyle, RN, MSN, DM, was formerly the chief nurse for the 3rd Medical Group, JBER, and was the interim director of the Alaska VA. Most recently, she served as Director for Central Alabama VA Healthcare System. She is the director of the Alaska Covid Alliance.
Fauci should be in Gitmo. He contributed to the deaths of more Americans than radical Islam ever could.
The Covid fiasco served its purpose and is old news. What was done by those at the NIH and their collaborators was treason.