OPEN LETTER TO THE TGA REGARDING IVERMECTIN
Here is my reply to the Australian TGA regarding their continued effective ban on ivermectin prescribing for COVID-19 off-label
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OPEN LETTER
RE: REPLY TO NOTICE OF DECISION NOT TO AMEND THE CURRENT POISONS STANDARD FOR IVERMECTIN (APPENDIX D) – ISSUED 3 FEB. 2023
On Feb. 3 2023 the TGA announced its decision (legally referred to as an “Interim Decision” prior to gazetting) to maintain the restrictive prescribing of ivermectin which effectively bans the use of ivermectin for the prevention and management of COVID-19. This was a most surprising decision as ivermectin is supported by more published safety and efficacy data than any other drug used to treat COVID-19.
My detailed and extensively referenced submission, together with many other submissions, presented a compelling case for the removal of the restrictive use of ivermectin including that for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 (see my 14 February 2023 post at phillipaltman.substack.com).
In fact, the published available data (https://c19ivm.org/meta.html) comprises more than 90 clinical trials and more than 100,000 patients worldwide. Ivermectin has been shown to prevent COVID-19 and to be effective in treating mild to severe symptoms of the infection and preventing hospitalisation and death. In national treatment programmes countries such as India, Mexico and Peru have demonstrated, without any doubt, that ivermectin can be used safely and effectively thus saving many lives.
The only problem with ivermectin was that it was inexpensive and widely available. In order to overcome vaccine hesitancy of people properly suspicious of experimental gene-based so-called COVID-19 “vaccines”, it was necessary for the heavy hand of government to deny the availability of ivermectin. The Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) have publicly admitted this was a primary reason for banning ivermectin prescribing for COVID-19. Such irresponsible action was unprecedented in drug regulatory history and this has cost thousands of lives.
Remarkably, government policy was not to provide early treatment of COVID-19. At no time in history was this ever suggested for a serious infectious disease. The government chose to rely on poor quality experimental gene-based COVID-19 so-called “vaccines” which have now been reported to produce the highest incidence of death and serious adverse events of any drug in the history of the pharmaceutical industry.
It is clear the TGA is covering up the death and vaccine injury toll. Only since the introduction of the so-called COVID “vaccines” the number of non-COVID related deaths have skyrocketed in Australia to over 10,000 per year. The government has failed to provide a satisfactory explanation for the alarming increase in these deaths.
It is now widely recognised that these experimental products have done more harm than good and they should be withdrawn immediately. However, despite the human tragedy caused by these so-called “vaccines”, the government is pushing ahead to establish pharmaceutical manufacturing plants to produce more and more of these experimental gene-based “vaccines” based on this failed technology which have never been fully approved anywhere. The TGA will undoubtedly wave through these dangerous products to an unsuspecting public on the basis of extremely limited quality, safety and efficacy data, to the delight of Big Pharma, under the recently introduced Provisional Approval system. This is the plan.
The Australian TGA has clearly failed. It has turned into a parody of a drug regulator which has abandoned the precautionary principle previously and necessarily at the very heart of proper drug regulation. The TGA now performs a theatrical role in that it outwardly pretends to be diligent and conscientious but inwardly has scripted agendas written by the largest industry of all – the pharmaceutical industry.
In refusing to permit off-label prescribing of ivermectin, the TGA has shown itself to be an incompetent, unprincipled and disgraceful bureaucracy devoid of integrity and humanity. The TGA has now been totally captured by commercial interests in “public-private-partnerships” which are not in the best interest of the Australian people.
As a person who has more than 40 years of experience in working with the TGA, it is very sad to see the decent of our once proud TGA. All those responsible for the reckless behaviour of the TGA and those directing the TGA must be held to account.
Until this is done…..nobody is safe.
Phillip Altman BPharm(Hons, MSc, PhD
Clinical Trial & Drug Regulatory Affairs Consultant
Note: I consent to my name and Open Letter being made publicly available
2 corrections:
1. "decent" should read "descent" (substack of 25 Feb. 2023)
2. I am advised the NSW Royal Society is not part of the charter of the Royal Society in the UK (previous Substack)
Thank you Phillip for your efforts to unmask these criminals and hold them accountable. They cannot ever say they weren't aware of what they were doing. In 2023 there is absolutely no excuse for this ivermectin ban. May all those who lost loved ones as a result of not being treated early rise up and join the doctors and scientists like yourself who have fought for the right to practice individualised medicine!