Bolsonaro's deadly Covid early treatment studies
Former Brazilian president's allied doctors ran deadly drug trials on unknowing patients
We have previously discussed proxalutamide for Covid promoted by former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. The trial, performed with some study participants not knowing they were being experimented on, led to the deaths of roughly 200 people and was accused of crimes against humanity.
This unknowing experimentation is not an isolated incident in Covid pharma studies performed in Brazil under Bolsonaro. Physicians at Prevent Senior, a hospital system/HMO targeting the elderly, claim they were pressured into prescribing “covid kits” containing hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin between March and April 2020. These elderly patients were not informed they were receiving these experimental treatments in studies that were not registered with the National Research Ethics Commission. Neither hydroxychloroquine nor ivermectin have been shown to be effective against Covid-19.
At least nine people in these experiments died of Covid-19 but their charts were “altered to hide the cause of death” per attorney Bruna Morato who represented a group of whistleblower doctors. The group submitted a 10,000 page dossier to Brazilian authorities outlining the ethical violations and accuse Prevent Senior of treating their patients as “human guinea pigs”.
In September 2021, Morato spoke before the investigation and provided incredibly damning testimony on both Prevent Senior and “government ideologues” who prioritized avoiding a disturbance to the economy over the safety of its citizens. The hospital system allegedly told physicians to reduce oxygen supply to Covid patients who had been in the ICU “more than 10 or 14 days” as “deaths free up beds”.
Per CNN, Prevent Senior “denied all accusations and said it was the target of defamation”. Per Morato, physicians from the Prevent Senior were serving advisory roles in government “with the intention of shielding the trials from scrutiny.”
Prevent Senior was ordered to pay 2 million BLR ($370,500 USD) to the family of Carlos Alberto Reis who got a “Covid kit” instead of getting admitted the ICU despite exhibiting severe symptoms.
Bolsonaro has been under investigation back home for his role in the Brazilian failed January 6th-style coup with storming of federal buildings earlier this year. Like the US Insurrection, Bolsonaro’s was aided by former Trump ally Steve Bannon. The HSSCC’s report “A Knife Fight With the FDA” discusses Bannon’s role in pushing HCQ in the US long after it had proven ineffective. Of note, Bannon’s former War Room colleague was revealed to have been responsible for setting up Peter Navarro’s office with a Brazilian virologist to continue studying the drug in July 2020 in the hunt for a “good HCQ paper.”
As we have pointed out, the US Covid anti-vax movement has many ties to the US Capitol Attack, the most notable being pro-Trump, pro-hydroxychloroquine America’s Frontline Doctors insurrectionist leader Dr. Simone Gold (who has appeared on War Room, amongst other far-Right programing).
Like Gold, Bolsonaro has reportedly sought refuge from accountability in Florida. Gold relocated to the state - and received a new medical license - where her AFLDS colleague Dr. Joseph Ladapo serves as the state’s surgeon general. Per National Review, Bolsonaro “parked himself in the final days of his tenure at the home of a Brazilian mixed martial arts icon” in DeSantis’s state. He has now applied for a US visa.
To fully understand the global Covid “early treatment” fraud, you have to look at Trump and Bolsonaro as a unit, their shared motive of prioritizing the economy over public health, and their shared use of American extremists like Bannon. In looking for a "wonder drug" for the economy, Brazil under Bolsonaro was much more brazen with study ethics violations than the right could get away with in the US. However, as American disinformation doctors have worked with the Brazilian doctor at the center of the proxalutamide “crimes against humanity” studies, Brazil’s ethical violations cannot be looked at independent of the US. As the Lancet stated, the Covid-19 response was “a massive global failure” plagued by political disinformation and a lack of leadership. To move forward there must be accountability globally for the “leaders” in politics and medicine who failed their nations and the global community.
And not DeSantis Florida accountability - real accountability.