Official government data suggests triple vaccinated for COVID now have vaccine-induced AIDS and are five times more likely to die Tuesday, March 22, 2022 by: Ethan Huff

(Natural News) The latest figures out of Canada suggest that on average across the country, those who got “fully vaccinated” for the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) have lost about three-quarters of their immune system capacity.

Compared to the natural immune systems of unvaccinated people, the double and triple vaccinated are down about 74 percent and 73 percent, respectively, in terms of their damaged immune systems’ ability to fight off diseases of any kind.

Much like AIDS patients, the fully jabbed, whom we now know have full-blown vaccine-induced AIDS (VAIDS), are susceptible to every disease that comes along. Many of them will likely die in the coming months and years because of it.

“The official figures show that they are on average 3.7 times more likely to be infected with COVID-19 and 5.1 times more likely to die from the disease than the unvaccinated population,” reports the Daily Exposé about the triple vaccinated.

“These figures therefore suggest that both the double and triple vaccinated population in Canada have now had so much damage caused to their immune systems by the COVID-19 injections that they have now developed Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.”

There are more unvaccinated people in Canada than fully vaccinated people

The data used to make these claims comes straight from the Canadian government, but it had to be parsed from the way it was officially presented in order to reveal the truth.

Amazingly, Canadian officials manipulated the data to try to claim that this is now a “pandemic of the unvaccinated” when the reality is that the fully vaccinated are the ones who now have AIDS.

Using the WayBackMachine, the Exposé figured out that the majority of cases, hospitalizations and deaths are occurring in people who took the jabs, and not in those who protected their natural immunity by just saying no to them.

The “not-vaccinated population,” as the Exposé calls them, have accounted for the least number of cases every single week since the beginning of 2022. Meanwhile, double and triple injected cases, hospitalizations and deaths have been astronomical.

Oh, but this is to be expected since the unvaccinated population is much smaller than the vaccinated population, right? Wrong. Canada’s unvaccinated population is actually the largest demographic right now.

With a total population of 38.01 million, according to 2020 data, Canada’s unvaccinated population is currently 13.11 million people while the triple vaccinated population is only about 12.9 million people.

The real-world effectiveness of the jabs, it turns out, is actually negative, which further illustrates the immune-wasting properties of the injections.

As of the week ending February 6, the jabs were -221.16 percent effective in the double jabbed. By the week ending February, that figure dropped to -276.16 percent.

For the triple vaccinated, the overall rate of immune decline is even worse. During the same time period, real-world jab effectiveness dropped from -197.79 percent to -269.87 percent.

“This means that on average, the double vaccinated population are 3.8 times more likely to contract COVID-19 than the unvaccinated, and the triple vaccinated population are 3.7 times more likely to contract COVID-19 than the unvaccinated,” the Exposé explained.

“Unfortunately, official Government of Canada data indicates that a large proportion of the double vaccinated and triple vaccinated population have now developed Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), or a novel condition with similar attributes that can only be described as COVID-19 Vaccine Induced Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (VAIDS).”

Post-injection, the immune system does not ever return to its original and natural state as claimed. We were told that the spike proteins in the jab would eventually wane and leave the immune system better off than it was initially, but it is now clear that the exact opposite happens.

To keep up with the latest news about how the fully vaccinated will eventually have fully destroyed immune systems, visit Genocide.news.

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Zelensky ‘Consolidates’ All Channels Into Government Propaganda, Bans 11 Political Parties MAR 22, 2022 3:00 PM BY DANIEL GREENFIELD

In an address to his nation delivered Sunday, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky announced an order “combining all national TV channels, the program content of which consists mainly of information and/or information-analytical programs, [into] a single information platform of strategic communication” to be called “United News.”

The move means the end, at least temporarily, of privately owned Ukrainian media outlets in that country. Zelensky claimed the measure is needed to combat alleged Russian misinformation and “tell the truth about the war.”

Along with the media consolidation, he banned “any activity” by 11 political parties.

The emergency actions were taken under rules for martial law. Zelensky claimed he was trying to institute a “unified information policy.”

Those are all euphemisms for a totalitarian system.

Now, mind you, this kind of thing is standard in much of the world, including Russia, where there’s no meaningful political opposition on the air, and media outlets toe the party line. But the whole argument for Ukraine was that it was supposed to be better than Putin’s Russia.

It’s also hard to see what the point of such a move would be if Ukraine is truly unified. You only need to resort to totalitarian measures when the country isn’t.

Russia deploys unknown munition in Ukraine, baffling western military experts Monday, March 21, 2022 by: JD Heyes

(Natural News) The Russian military has fired never-before-seen missiles into Ukraine that have unique capabilities as Western intelligence agencies say that Moscow’s forces have been ground to a halt by stiff resistance and are no longer making progress.

U.S. intelligence officials who detected and analyzed a barrage of missiles fired into Ukraine from Russia contain decoys that fool air-defense radars as well as heat-seeking missiles fired to bring them down, The New York Times reported this week as the war enters its fourth week.

The paper said that each device is roughly 1 foot long and shaped like a dart. They are white with orange tails, a U.S. intelligence official said. The devices are released by the Iskander-M short-range ballistic missiles that the Russian military has been firing from mobile launchers from inside their own country, according to the official, after the missile senses that it is being targeted by ground air defense systems.

“Each is packed with electronics and produces radio signals to jam or spoof enemy radars attempting to locate the Iskander-M, and contains a heat source to attract incoming missiles,” the paper noted. “The official, who was not authorized to speak publicly about intelligence matters, described the devices on the condition of anonymity.”

The Times adds:

The use of the decoys may help explain why Ukrainian air-defense weapons have had difficulty intercepting Russia’s Iskander missiles.

Powered by a solid-fuel rocket motor, the Iskander can reach targets more than 200 miles away, according to U.S. government documents. Each mobile launcher can fire two Iskanders before it must be reloaded.

Photos of the dart-shaped decoys first made the rounds on social media about two weeks ago, stumping experts as well as open-source intelligence analysts, many of whom mistakenly took the devices for bomblets dispensed by cluster bomb weapons just because of their shape and size.

Richard Stevens, a 22-year British Army veteran who worked as an explosive ordinance disposal specialist before entering a career as a civilian bomb tech for 10 years in Iraq, Africa and other parts of the world, told the Times that he’d been around “plenty of Chinese and Russian munitions, but I had never seen this.”

He posted pictures of the munitions to a website for military and civilian bomb disposal professionals that he launched in 2011 to get some insight into what the devices might be, but he said no one else knew what they were, either.

“That Russia is using that size of weapon — the Iskander-M — and quite a few of them I believe, that’s why we’re seeing this now,” Stevens said. “It’s just that, post-conflict in the past 10 to 15 years, no one has had the opportunity to see this.”

According to the U.S. intelligence official, the devices are similar to decoys deployed by missiles during the Cold War called “penetration aids,” which have accompanied nuclear warheads since the 1970s and are designed to evade missile defense systems. Incorporating them into conventional warhead missiles like the Iskander-M has not been seen before in military arsenals.

“The minute people came up with missiles, people started trying to shoot them down, and the minute people started trying to shoot them down, people started thinking about penetration aids,” noted Jeffrey Lewis, a professor of nonproliferation at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, Calif. “But we never see them because they’re highly secret — if you know how they work, you can counteract them.”

Meanwhile, U.S. and Western intelligence officials say that Russian forces are continuing to pound Ukrainian cities, but overall, the military advance has stalled, though civilians are continuing to die.

“British military intelligence said in an update on Thursday that the invasion had ‘largely stalled on all fronts,’ and Russian forces were suffering heavy losses from a staunch and well-coordinated Ukrainian resistance,” Reuters reported Thursday.

Even if Russian forces ‘capture’ Ukraine, resistance fighters will continue to bleed them for as long as they stay on Ukrainian soil, so Putin, in the end, will ‘win’ nothing.

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Military doctor says she was ordered to cover up wave of covid “vaccine” injuries in servicemen Monday, March 21, 2022 by: Ethan Huff

(Natural News) Dr. Theresa Long, a medical officer with the United States military, has testified in court that she was ordered by a superior to suppress Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) “vaccine” injuries following the Biden regime’s mandate.

Long and two other medical professionals observed a spike in cancer cases, neurological disorders and miscarriages immediately after Biden’s jab mandate was enacted. They were told, however, to keep this damning information under wraps.

The other two who supported Long in arriving at these findings are Dr. Samuel Sigoloff and Lt. Col. Peter Chambers, who are being represented by Thomas Renz, a member of the America’s Frontline Doctors (AFLDS) legal team.

“I have so many soldiers being destroyed by this vaccine,” Long said in court.

“Not a single member of my senior command has discussed my concerns with me … I have nothing to gain and everything to lose by talking about it. I’m okay with that because I am watching people get absolutely destroyed.”

Liberty Counsel is currently representing 30 members of the military who are fighting back against the military’s jab mandate. They recently presented their case to Judge Steven Merryday, who granted a preliminary injunction to two military plaintiffs, allowing them to sidestep the injection mandate.

Judge in case says DoD’s position is “frail;” government agency “acting as though they are above the law”

During the hearing, which took place on March 10, the Department of Defense (DoD) requested for this injunction to be waived while the case is being appealed. Liberty Counsel Chairman Mat Staver also says the DoD is refusing to send witnesses to be cross-examined, which points to a possible cover-up.

“They send these declarations that some JAG attorney writes, and somebody in the military signs off on them,” Staver says.

He also explained that the DoD is presenting information in court that is flat-out “outdated, wrong, and would really be subject to dismantling under cross examination.”

Judge Merryday, Staver claims, has already chastised the DoD, saying the government agency has a “frail case” and is “acting as though they are above the law.”

Out of 3,212 applications in the Marines requesting a religious exemption, only two have been accepted, according to reports. When pressed for information as to why this number is so dismally low, Capt. Andrew Wood responded with:

“Due to privacy considerations, we are unable to discuss the specifics of any individual requests.”

Some 45 Marines, meanwhile, were discharged last week after refusing to submit to the experimental injections. In total, there have now been 334 discharges over refusal to get jabbed.

In a statement about this, Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger parroted Big Pharma talking points:

“You have to ask each individual Marines their reason why,” Berger said during an appearance at the Aspen Security Forum.

“But I think we’re challenged by disinformation … that still swirls around about where the genesis, how did this vaccine get approved, is it safe is it ethical – all that swirls around on the internet and they see all that they read all that.”

In other words, the Marines, and the rest of the Armed Forces, for that matter, have been turned into “appendages for the hellish Orwellian technocracy that is rising due to the COVID-19 pandemic,” to quote one source.

“In the past, this would have been enough to stop all vaccinations,” noted a commenter at Natural News about the torrent of jab injuries being reported.

“Instead, the ‘stupids’ insist on pushing forward with the shots. Those who have been permanently harmed by these vaccines will expect rightly so government help. This alone will destroy the United States economy. What kind of country will be left after these payouts will be anybody’s guess.”

More related news about Biden’s covid jab mandates can be found at Fascism.news.

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Ukraine’s top military medical commander brags about ordering mass CASTRATION of all wounded Russian soldiers in latest Nazi-like eugenics celebration Tuesday, March 22, 2022 by: Ethan Huff

(Natural News) The head of the Ukrainian military’s medical service has stated that “strict orders” were given to Ukrainian soldiers to “castrate all the wounded” Russians who are captured during the ongoing conflict in the Eastern European country.

According to Gennadiy Druzenko, who used to work for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) , Russians “are cockroaches, not humans,” and thus deserve to be treated as such. This is full-on Nazi eugenics in action, and it is being celebrated not only by Druzenko but also by some in the Western media, including CNN.

“Not all fascists wear Swastikas or Wolfsangels,” wrote filmmaker Dan Cohen of Mint Press News in a Twitter post about Druzenko’s statements during a recent Channel 24 interview.

The United States government continues to tell Americans to “support Ukraine,” but this is what they are supporting when they do so: anti-Russia hatred and racism coupled with violence and genocide. Is this what we should be reporting just because Vladimir Putin is supposedly the “bad” guy?

“Druzenko is closely tied to the U.S. government,” Cohen added. “He’s had stints at USAID/Chemonics and the Wilson Center.”

Ukrainian TV host says he embraces the “doctrine” of Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann

Not long after Druzenko made these heinously racist statements, which, if true, amount to war crimes, he claimed that they were “taken out of context” and were just “emotions.”

“I’m sorry,” he said, still denying that he did anything wrong. “We are saving lives. Period.”

Druzenko’s tune changed after he claimed he received a message containing his personal data, including phone numbers and address, along with a promise that the anonymous person would “come unannounced” to “cut off [his] balls.”

Apparently, Druzenko does not want to get castrated himself, so he decided to issue a statement denying what he said and hoping for the best. It remains to be seen if that will be enough to stave off the ire over his blatant admissions about anti-Russian eugenics.

Fahruddin Sharafmal,  a Ukrainian TV host, would seem to agree with Druzenko’s sentiments against the Russian people. He stated on air that he is adopting the “doctrine” of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, adding that he will “do everything in my power to ensure that you and your children never live on this earth.”

“The reasoning cited by Sharafmal, who is of Middle Eastern origin, was that by mass-murdering a nation’s children, one could eliminate the nation itself,” RT reported.

Like Druzenko, Sharafmal later backtracked and “apologized” for advocating genocide against the Russian people. He said he regrets saying what he did, not because it was wrong, but because it might damage the reputation of Ukrainian troops.

Interestingly, Sharafmal used the same language as Druzenko, blaming “emotions” for his pro-genocide statements. Sharafmal added that because he supposedly lost a friend due to the conflict, he feels much aggression and hatred towards the Russians, though he claimed he will “never be inhuman, unlike the Russians.”

Both Sharafmal and Druzenko are now under investigation in Russia for possible crimes against humanity.

“‘Those were the emotions. I’m sorry. We are saving lives. Period.’ – Dr. Mengele followed ‘the science’ and wanted to save lives, too, but only of the ‘worthy’ like Druzenko does,” wrote a commenter in response to the news.

“This doctor must be arrested and brought before justices,” wrote another. “He is a real danger. Russia is right about Ukraine: there are too many Nazis living there.”

More related news can be found at Chaos.news.

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The global UPRISING begins: Fiat currencies melt down while food and fuel inflation unleashes SUDDEN POVERTY for billions (who will soon face worldwide FAMINE) Tuesday, March 22, 2022 by: Mike Adams

(Natural News) It’s happening more quickly than I had predicted. Although I’ve been openly predicting a global uprising due to skyrocketing food and fuel inflation — which is really just a representation of the collapsing value of fiat currencies — I was surprised to see how rapidly the revolt is exploding.

Taxi and trucker blockades have begun in France as transportation workers are protesting rising fuel prices. Protests have also spread to Spain and Albania, as Strange Sounds reports:

Thousands of farmers and hunters marched through Madrid on Sunday in a mass demonstration dubbed “20M Rural,” protesting against the government’s inability to curb rising prices amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

The agricultural workers, waiving Spanish flags and whistling, marched through the streets accompanied by tractors blowing their horns. The demonstrators were protesting against rising prices on fuel, energy and food, and called on the government to help the sector, to stop speculation, and adopt new laws to regulate supply chains.

In Canada, 3,000 Pacific Canada rail workers have gone on strike, causing fertilizer shipments to grind to a halt, reports Zero Hedge:

The North American agricultural sector could be in for a major shock if Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd’s (CP Rail) work stoppage is not resolved in a timely manner because it could spark a shortage of fertilizer and other shipments critical for the spring growing season…

CP Rail is the leading carrier of potash, a potassium-rich salt mined from underground deposits formed from evaporated sea beds millions of years ago, used to support crop development. In prior investor documents, the rail company said it hauls 70% of the potash produced in North America, all from mines in Canada. The railroad also carries fertilizers, including phosphate, urea, ammonium sulfate, ammonium nitrate, and anhydrous ammonia.

Note that this fertilizer transportation collapse will also impact American farmers:

A disruption of fertilizer shipments could significantly impact US farmers on the cusp of planting season. The work stoppage may exacerbate existing supply chain bottlenecks in North America stemming from COVID. The agricultural sector can’t afford any more disruptions as Western economic sanctions on Russia and Belarus, two major fertilizer producers, have unleashed higher prices globally and shortage fears.

That’s going to strongly contribute to food scarcity in the second half of 2022, all throughout North America.

Communist China, seeing the global food collapse accelerating, has ordered peasants to clear-cut forests and start planting grains. As reported by The Epoch Times:

A video circulated on China’s social media showed that local authorities in Weifang, Shandong Province, ordered peasants to “remove trees” to make the land available for grain production. This comes as many in China fear food shortages will soon become a serious problem.

In the video, a peasant, who recorded it as a selfie, said, “We just received a notice that we are required to cut down these trees and grow grains instead, even if financially it ends up being a loss. Commodity prices are so high nowadays—fertilizers, pesticides, and prices are ridiculously high.”

This is happening because China sees the global food collapse accelerating. Even though China has already bought up and stored 18 months of wheat supplies to feed the Chinese people, they are still ordering people to plant grains in anticipation of global famine.

The FAMINE cycle: Print money, pay people to not work, and watch everybody starve to death

Remember when we were told that central banks could keep printing money and “kick the can down the road?” We have reached the end of that road.

What’s happening now is that 50+ years of endless money printing and debt creation are reaching a supercritical moment of spontaneous collapse. All fiat currencies are losing value by the day, everywhere around the world, following central banks running multi-trillion dollar money printing sprees during the covid plandemic. With all the bailout money flooding the world, the sharp devaluation of fiat currencies is causing the prices of goods and services to be expressed in larger and larger numbers. Everything is getting more expensive, and despite the best efforts of criminal cartel governments to lie to their own people, nobody can hide the fact that food and fuel are becoming insanely expensive.

On top of the mad money printing, we now have a devastating supply chain collapse of food commodities, natural gas and fertilizer due to the US and NATO pushing Russia into a new world war. The West fired the first weapon of mass destruction by disconnecting Russia’s banks from the SWIFT financial system while looting all of Russia’s currency reserves held by the central banks of other nations.

In other words, America is doing to Russia what the USA also did to Japan in World War II: Economic blockade, followed by an “allowed” attack (Pearl Harbor, which was allowed to take place), then followed by an aggressive media push for an emotional recruitment of the masses to push America into a world war. Biden is following in the footsteps of Roosevelt, in other words, except that Biden wasn’t legitimately elected into office in the first place.

To “solve” the problem with inflation, the governments of the world are going to print more money and hand it out to more people in a desperate effort to “buy” peace by paying off would-be rioters. This effort will only succeed for a short while because the money printing and handouts will only serve to accelerate inflation, of course, leading to even higher prices and more anger among the people.

Mathematically speaking, the money printing can never keep up with the inflation caused by money printing for the simple reason that you can’t create enough new debt to pay off the old debt when the existing debt is compounding by the day. By the time the new bailout money reaches families at a level of around $250 / month, those families will be paying $1,000 / month more in food and fuel. When governments try to increase the bailouts to something like $1,000 / month, they will be chasing the increased burden of families having to spend $4,000 / month extra in food and fuel costs, etc. (The actual numbers will be much smaller on developing countries, but the principle is the same.)

You can’t bail yourself out of an inflationary crisis by printing more money. You and I know that, but idiotic, delusional left-wing economists and bureaucrats don’t understand reality, and they believe they can live in a Magical Money Theory (MMT) bubble where they pretend debt doesn’t matter.

Their worlds are in the process of being shattered right now. The next 2-3 years will see worldwide food riots followed by food rationing, price controls and authoritarian governments seizing control over food, farms and grocery retailers. They will use this engineered crisis to expand their authoritarian control over everyone, even as the very root of this problem begins with governments being too large and powerful in the first place.

Now you understand why I’ve been aggressively urging everybody to learn how to grow food. If you don’t grow food or have a huge amount of physical gold and silver to barter for food, you may very well starve to death.

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We just had 8,000 pounds of organic pinto beans stolen in transit!

Underscoring the total collapse of the supply chain, we just experienced a theft of 8,000 pounds of organic pinto beans that “disappeared” during transit through a logistics distribution hub in Dallas. These were pinto beans scheduled to go into our Ranger Buckets at the Health Ranger Store.

Apparently, someone working at the distribution hub used a forklift to steal two pallets by loading them into their own truck (this was an inside job). Now they’re sitting on 8,000 pounds of pinto beans and we are left with having to replace them with something else.

This is a small sign of things to come. When warehouse workers start stealing dried beans by the ton, you know things are getting bad.

Soon, transport trucks will be truck-jacked on the highways. Grocery stores will be looted by flash mobs. Individual grocery shoppers will be robbed at gunpoint as they are exiting retailers. Food thefts will be off the charts, and you will see a sharp uptick in shootings (some in self-defense) related to food thefts.

Get ready for the total collapse of human civilization — a process that will cause the suffering and death of billions of people while it unfolds over the next decade or so. Remember: globalists want to eliminate 90% of the human population. Vaccines and bioweapons could easily kill 25% of the world population, while mass famine could kill another 50%. War, violence and disease could easily take out a few billion more, leading us to wonder who will be left alive when the satanic globalists are allowed to destroy our world?

The honest answer is that the only people who will survive this are those who prepare in advance and take urgent action to prepare for the end of the world. That is, unless something truly dramatic (divine?) takes place and the satanic forces are halted before they can carry out their plans.

Today’s podcast covers this subject, plus additional details on the chemical attack false flag scenario being pursued by NATO and the US in order to try to drag the West into a world war with Russia.

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Ugandan President Orders Funds for Ivermectin Prophylaxis Clinical Trial TrialSite Staff

The President of the Eastern African nation of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, recently directed that nation’s Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development to release approximately $841,000 to support the research of ivermectin as prophylaxis in the treatment against SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind COVID-19. Museveni last year directed the medical team of the national military known as Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UFDF) to investigate use of the generic, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved antiviral as prophylaxis against COVID-19. That study found that ivermectin delivered positive efficacy, particularly in vulnerable populations (e.g., at-risk such as the elderly). TrialSite reminds all that President Museveni has declared funds for other studies which were delayed due to bureaucratic entanglements.

In a recent letter from the President to the finance minister Matia Kasaija dated February 22, 2022, and reported on by local media including the Independent, the President pens:

The team needs to carry out a well-designed randomized controlled study to evaluate the dosing and scheduling of ivermectin. The findings will inform policy and guide on ivermectin prophylaxis’ effectiveness in the treatment of COVID-19.” He continued, “To be able to carry out the studies, the team requires shillings 3,024,150,500. I am, therefore, directing that you avail the funds to the team to complete the trials.”

The Drug

Before COVID-19 ivermectin was considered a “wonder drug,” but now has been relegated to something quite different given the controversy over the use of the drug as a treatment against COVID-19. 

With 81 studies completed, a majority of them show several positive data points. However, a few high-profile specific studies failed to turn up any positive efficacy, such as the TOGETHER study. Results of that study again have been broadcast all over the place as of late, even though that study occurred some time ago. Another sizeable study, Medina-Lopez, failed to show any efficacy, yet some writers affiliated with TrialSite, such as Dr. Michael Goodkin, raised concerns about that study.

Generally, the medical establishments for much of the developed world don’t trust the mostly small studies conducted during the pandemic in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs).

Ivermectin is used extensively in this part of the world. The drug is included in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) essential medicines list for the treatment of several parasitic pathogens, including river blindness (onchocerciasis), scabies, and other relevant conditions.

Ugandan Ivermectin Study

Apparently, the first formal ivermectin study backed by UPDF and targeting COVID-19 in this African nation occurred at Makerere University College of Health Sciences.

One ivermectin study targeting early treatment was organized based on the fact that ivermectin demonstrated potential in vitro activity against SARS-CoV-2. In the study registry submission, it was reported that “Ivermectin has demonstrated broad-spectrum anti-viral activity and inhibition of the causative virus (SARS-CoV-2) with ability to cause a 5,000-fold reduction in viral RNA within 48 hours.”

Of course, this latter data points to the in vitro lab cell culture-based findings at Monash Universityas reported by TrialSite on April 5, 2020.

In relation to the ivermectin early treatment study last year, investigators at Makerere University College of Health Sciences discussed, “Although aspirin and ivermectin do not exhibit any synergistic or potentiation at the cellular level, a clinical additive effect resulting from combination therapy with low dose aspirin and ivermectin is plausible. There is no documented drug-drug interactions or another biological basis that contra-indicate co-administration of low dose aspirin and ivermectin.”

According to recent news out of Uganda, this previous exploratory randomized study which ran from February 2021 through September 2021 did demonstrate some efficacy for COVID-19 patients.

This study was led by Makerere University, College of Health Sciences’ Jackson Cuonzo, Ph.D. TrialSite has sent emails to the principal investigator for a comment on this study—any responses will be incorporated into an updated entry here.

The Trial Site

Makerere University, College of Health Sciences was established in 1924. It was known as Makerere University Medical School till 2007 when it became Makerere University’s premier constituent College. It is the oldest medical training University unit in East Africa, having been in the business of training medical and health professionals for over 80 years. This history has earned it an enviable position in Uganda and the East and Central African region.

By 2008, the Makerere University initiated substantial intuitional changes that led to the creation of the current Makerere University, College of Health Sciences as the University’s first constituent college.

COVID-19 in Uganda

With about 46 million people, Uganda represents the eighth-most populated country in the continent. Like many sub-Saharan African nations, Uganda has been comparatively unscathed given the nation’s population. For example, approximately 163,635 SARS-CoV-2 cases have been reported along with 3,595 deaths. Of course, these figures could be well undercounted.

The country has experienced a handful of surges, the worst being the Delta wave during the summer of 2021, representing the deadliest period of the pandemic.

Vaccine Status

About 17.5% of the country’s 46 million people have been fully vaccinated (two jabs), while about 30% have received at least one jab. An intense push to vaccinate more of the population against SARS-CoV-2 continues.

For example, at the Gulu District Health Department, public health officials target 156,755 residents in their second phase of the mass vaccination program. They are targeting 93,765 people for their first dose and another 62,960 for their second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.

The health ministry controls the distribution of COVID-19 vaccine product, and in this most recent push, the majority of the vaccines are Johnson and Johnson (90,890), followed by Moderna’s mRNA-based Spikevax (6,518) and China’s Sinovac (1,573) doses.

Vaccine hesitancy in these parts is high as people do not seem that interested in inoculation. As reported in The Independent, Anifa Kawooya, State Minister for Health blames misinformation, spread throughout the community and in media, for the low vaccination rates in this country.