Dr. Drew on COVID Vaccine Injuries, Mainstream Media Misinformation, Ivermectin Truth, and More

So the person who's more certain than any of us is not a doctor. Correct. She is a reporter for the New York Times and amazingly she still has her job despite so many embarrassing reports that they've had to take down. Hold on. Let's call it what it is. Misinformation. Yeah, I mean. It's misinformation. With a capital M. If that's what we're going to call being wrong, we call them being right misinformation by the way. So what are we going to call being wrong? She just runs with it. I mean she doesn't even pause anymore notwithstanding her many misinformation incidents. Her name is Apoorva Mandavilli and this is the person who grossly overstated the number of children who were hospitalized by a factor of like 900 times thanks to COVID. I mean over and over again she makes mistakes to be charitable and they're always in the direction of COVID hysteria. Of course. So she's still on the beat. Just a couple days ago in the New York Times she prints feeling terrible about your COVID shot, then it's probably working and she goes on about how it just means you have a vigorous immune response and you have more antibodies and somebody who we both really love and respect Vinay Prasad, one of the good doctors on COVID. He's not a lunatic one way or the other. He's been so measured. He is an oncologist. He's an academic oncologist who I found years before COVID. He had a podcast called Plenary Sessions where he would evaluate medical literature. He is clairvoyant and I don't mean literally, but his ability to penetrate medical literature, it caught me right away when I found that podcast five years ago and then he became a rational skeptic in regards to COVID and now he's been on the warpath a little bit lately. He's great. Well now he sees. I mean now we have the evidence of how wrong everybody was and he was on it. So he tweets out, Dear New York Times, this is an appeal to the real journalists and editors who work there. Please take a look at the several articles I have written about errors by Apoorva Mandavilli. These are basic journalistic errors that mislead the public. Come on. You must want to be balanced. Oh, oh Vinay. Journalism is not just advocacy for the misguided. And then he goes on to say, please look at her articles more closely. Sincerely, a concerned doctor and researcher. They don't want to be balanced. They don't care about misleading the public. Notwithstanding, Dr. Drew, I do listen to their podcast the daily, usually most mornings because I like to get my news from the left and the right. And I heard this. This was not part of the actual podcast. This is like a promotional ad that was run in between content. Listen to what they said just just today. I'm Brian Rosenthal. I'm an investigative reporter at the New York Times. The New York Times does not publish until we can prove that something is true. They do not publish until they can prove something is true. Has that been your experience with Apoorva Mandavilli and COVID and anybody at the New York Times? It is. It's why I stopped reading the New York Times. I started realizing I was being misled a lot of the time. And that is an astonishing statement that they could say that. And by the way, prove that something is true, that already is that irrational certainty. We can ascend to the truth. We cannot prove the truth. And by the way, I could just got to talk about that all day, but that is disgusting, frankly. And when I got first thoroughly disgusted with the New York Times is when their editorial board demanded lockdown, demanded. And I thought, why do you have a seat at the table? You suddenly you've learned about this non-pharmacological intervention and you have an opinion about it. You should not. Same thing happened with the medications that became words that you were unable to speak. Literally, if you spoke the word of certain medication names, you'd be deplatformed. Yeah, that's right. And now they're being recommended. Yeah, yeah. And these are inert medicines. And I remind people that, can I say the I word? Am I allowed to say? Yeah, yeah, you can go for it. Say it loud and proud. If you're an asylum seeker for other countries, the CDC requires you to take five days of ivermectin. You're immediately given the ivermectin for five days because it's nothing. And hydroxychloroquine, that's a medicine that we're, as physicians are told to keep our lupus patients on during pregnancy. That is the only medication I'm aware of that is recommended to continue during pregnancy. I mean, just blanket. I don't think pregnant women should do anything to their biology. Personally, that's just me. It makes me nervous. But here's a medication that people who just learned to speak, pronounce the word, had massive certain opinions about it. We should be very unhappy with that. And this is more of the same with what she's doing. Here's, and it's not just, of course, the New York Times. You know, we talked on the show recently about Travis Kelsey, the football player out there. He says, I want to be known as Mr. Pfizer. Great. I want to be known as Mr. Pfizer. He's pimping out the Pfizer vaccine. I had criticism for him because who watches Travis Kelsey? It's young men. That's who looks at him as a hero. Those are the least likely to need it and the most likely to be hurt by all these, you know, the seventh booster. And this is something Vinay Prasad's been doing a very good job of calling attention to the risk of myocarditis in young men. And this is, and I got some blowback for, I mean, nothing, you've been there. But the point is like the people who were mad that I was criticizing this were like, the vaccines have saved far more people than they've hurt. And many more people get myocarditis from the vaccine than get it, or they get it from COVID than get it from the vaccine. And my point has been, okay, at this point in 2023, almost 2024, everyone's had COVID. Correct. These vaccines don't prevent the spread. So if you have natural immunity, why, and most people have had shots. So at this point, if you are a 19 year old man, who's looking up to Travis Kelsey, you may have had a vaccine and you almost definitely had COVID. Why the hell would you get another booster increasing your risk of heart scarring? Why would you do that? Well, there's a lot packed into that. And let me just conclude my little diatribe about hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin. I'm not fans of those medicines. I don't think they do much. We have a different medicine that works like crazy. I use it in my elderly patients all the time. It is called Paxlovid. And if you're so worried about having a severe episode of COVID and you're a 40 year old male, let's say, you need not worry about that now because we have Paxlovid. Now it's only been studied over 60 and 65, but people are using it, middle-aged people all the time and it works. So why the push for the vaccine? Why the mandates for the vaccine? And that is the part that is extraordinary. So I want to fill in some of the details of what you were just saying. We don't know. Well, let's say it's true that you're more likely to get myocarditis from COVID than the vaccine, which is not clear. That's not clear. Making a healthy person sick because of something, an intervention we do as physicians, do no harm is completely violated by that principle. It's by the COVID vaccine. The principle is violated. So we are making a healthy person sick. Okay. That is a problem. Number two, it's more common than we thought. And if you remember when this was starting to percolate up, people were like, well, it's mild. It's mild. It's no big deal. It's self-limited, blah, blah. Look, in my world, throughout my entire career, 40-year career, myocarditis is a medical emergency. It's a dire problem. And a publication just came out five days ago in Circulation, a major cardiology journal. It's called Circulation. An excellent study. And it showed, it took my breath away. I didn't know why it wasn't headline news. I suppose it has to be reproduced, which I totally endorse. But the study itself took my breath away. It was a large study. And it showed that about approximately half of the young males that got myocarditis had permanent heart damage. Permanent. That means that we don't know what percentage are going to be disabled by this as they get older, are going to develop heart failure, are going to need cardiac transplants, some of them. It's breathtaking, this study, and why it wasn't a big headline. I've sort of centered around a little bit because I don't understand why people aren't reacting to it. And one study does not truth make, right? Do you want to be skeptical? You should be. It needs to be reproduced. But this was a terrible, terrible thing. So my question is, and by the way, just for the full record, my elderly patients are all fully vaccinated. And those that want the boosters, they get the boosters. I've seen almost no adverse event in the elderly patients. Though some of them are starting to say that maybe something is going on, but we're watching that. And they benefited because elderly people have a lot to gain. You're 85 years old and you get COVID. It's a serious thing. So the risk of the vaccine is worth it. In a 27-year-old male, the illness is a nothing. So the vaccine is all risk. Why the push? Why are we pushing? And I think, put your legal head on for a second, that universities are going to be in big trouble for having mandated young people to get that vaccine. Because people are going to get sick and they're going to have long-term consequences and they should sue those schools for having forced them to take a medical intervention. I agree with that, 100%. They should sue. And if anybody tries to force you from this point forward, get a fake card. It's not that hard. Go ahead, Google it. Get a fake card. Don't comply. We have a good treatment. We have Paxlivid. Why? You have to say you've gotten the shot to get in. Get a fake one. Just Google it on the internet. It's bullshit. They're going to create these bullshit rules. You can create your bullshit way around them. It's all just like a theater. So let's, okay, let's act. I'll act like I've gotten my 50th booster and you can act like you're satisfied. I'm telling you the truth. Okay, sorry. That's how I feel. We've got some guests at the studio. They're on my side. Just consult with the attorney here if you get in any trouble. Yeah, that's right. I got you. I do want to talk about, you know, deaths. Because every other week, you know, there's somebody in the news who had like a heart attack and went down on a football field or, you know, baseball field or just in the news or what have you. Men and women. And, you know, my friends and I are having this debate. Is it more than it's ever been? Or are we just seeing it more because of social media and because people are, you know, they're on edge thanks to all the COVID vaccinations and COVID itself. What's your take on that? Excess deaths are up. They're up in people under 40. Why is this not an international crisis? And why are we not trying to figure out what is in there in those excess deaths and why are they happening? A guy named Ed Dowd I've been working with on my podcast regularly and he's a numbers guy. He's a financial analyst, but he noticed these trends and he has all these actuarial friends and insurance companies friends and they were telling him, oh, yes, there's a problem. We're going to be, just follow the money. They're going to start charging more insurance to compensate for this. So there is something going on. People are quick to dismiss it as, oh, well, of course the lockdowns caused mental health problems and the substance use and the fentanyl but surely are in there. But when they have teased it out a bit, that's not all that's in there. There's a lot more stuff going on. And why are people not urgently? The level of, by the way, excess deaths, it's not like it was during the pandemic, but usually after pandemic, excess death goes down because vulnerable people die in the pandemic. And so those people that would have died in that following year don't die, but it's gone up and stayed up. It's shocking. And people correlate it with the, there's a correlation, not a causation. Be careful, everybody. You can track it to the beginning of the distribution of the vaccine. What do you know about blood clots and women? Because now we are getting reports of irregular menstrual cycles. Correct. Confirmed. Excessive bleeding by women after they take the vaccine. Even the officials are now acknowledging this. And that gets a lot of women thinking about, like, if it's changing the blood in my body, does that mean it's changing my clotting? And why do I have to worry about that? First of all, I want to talk about the women part of this, because I am dead guilty on this. I was talking to Naomi Wolf and she brought this up and I went, no, Naomi, women's periods, almost anything changes them. Come on, come on. Yes, they got a treatment and yeah, okay. Do you realize how sexist that is when a male does that? It's not sexist. I raised this with Brett Weinstein. I poo-pooed him raising this early in the pandemic and I'm pro-woman. Well, we're good. You're making me feel better. I felt very guilty for that because I was dismissive and I should have just listened and take. And she's made a lot of it. And it turns out it's true, number one. And a lot of women are having real concerns about it because it's persistent enough that it's affecting fertility. And the mechanisms are not yet fully worked out. They've found spike protein in the ovaries. It accumulates there. They think that might be part of it. Liquid nanoparticles, the shell of the vaccine is also found in the ovaries. As well, they're finding, as you're suggesting, microclots in the uterus that might be increasing to the sloughing. We don't know yet because no one's doing the right studies. And there is some, here's another issue, you probably don't know, but it has me, as a physician, almost more concerned than anything. And I've talked to RFK Jr. about this and he is clear that something is up. There is something up with the major medical journals where the editorial process has become adulterated. In my 40-year career, I read the medical, I pore over it, I read it carefully. And there's always has been, there has always been a back and forth on any topic in the medical literature. Things don't go automatically to the truth, as we were saying earlier. There's a back and forth in the literature. This is so, it is not so. This data is looking encouraging. This data looks not so encouraging. It has gone one way since the beginning of COVID. And ne'er the tween shall meet. You're not allowed to bring up anything else. Well, I know you've heard betting and apparel brands say, we're the most softest, we're the most comfortable. But do they actually promise it? Do they guarantee it? They put their money where their mouth is. At Cozy Earth, they do. 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