RUTHFULLY YOURS

Few people are aware of the fact that the NIH and the CDC is each affiliated with a dedicated  federally-chartered charitable foundation which accepts donations from third parties  and funds some of the NIH and CDC activities. The donors to these foundations (or the “partners” with these foundations for targeted programs) are pharmaceutical companies, bio-science   companies, other foundations (e.g., Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation) and others.

There have been questions raised over the years about potential conflicts of interest between certain donors  to the foundations and the work of the NIH and the CDC. See attached article. While I would not question the integrity of either Dr Fauci or Dr Redfield, I find the absence of full public disclosure of these affiliations troubling.

This week during a White House session Dr Fauci was unusually upbeat about the preliminary results from trials involving the experimental  Gilead Science drug Remdesivir. I hope Dr Fauci s upbeat appraisal is justified but from my reading of the results of the study,  it appears that the benefits to the Remdesivir patients over the placebo patients was modest.

It should be noted that Gilead is a contributor to or partner with the charitable foundation which supports the NIH. Dr Fauci has not disclosed this fact at the White House session or at any other public White House press conference over the last few weeks.

I’m guessing, but I bet you dollars-to-donuts that neither  Dr Vladimir Zelenko nor Dr Anthony Cardillo , front line physicians who are actively using a Hydroxychloroquin regimen in the battle against Covid 19 Coronavirus, are donors to these foundations.