Grand Canyon Times

At last week's Novel Coronavirus Southwestern Intergovernmental Committee hearing, Dr. Peter McCullough said COVID-19 posed the greatest challenge to medicine because it is not a natural virus and did not follow any natural processes that physicians normally experience when they fight disease.

The practicing internist, cardiologist and epidemiologist cited evidence from the "Investigating the Origins of COVID-19" hearing that took place on April 18, in which the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic heard testimony about the origins of the virus and how it may have come from a virology lab in Wuhan, China. 

“As doctors, nurses and other healthcare personnel, we've seen things with this virus we've never seen before,” McCullough said. “One of them is the incredible contagiousness of it and that a virus could actually, in a sense, get the entire world sick.”

More than 140 million Americans were infected with COVID-19, according to media reports, and some 7 million died worldwide.

“The published peer-reviewed evidence has to guide us, and our interpretation of the information is critical,” McCullough told the audience. “Investigators were working in a bat coronavirus consortium with Harvard University, the Swiss Institute and EcoHealth Alliance. This collaboration was done under the gain of function research ban, and it was allowed to continue because it started before the ban.”

The Dallas, Texas physician was among the doctors who addressed the Committee during its May 25 and May 26 hearings in Phoenix, Arizona. The two-day event, co-chaired by state Rep. Steve Montenegro (R) and state Sen. Janae Shamp (R), was organized to investigate Arizona's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

McCullough created the McCullough Early Treatment Protocol, which recommends treating COVID-19 with alternative modalities, such as Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine. He was censored and sued because of his beliefs.

"Whether a death was directly due to COVID or had contributors if the person didn't have the illness to the point of requiring hospitalization and if they could have been treated at home, it's very possible that lives could have been spared," he told the committee of Republican politicians. "Two-thirds of lives lost and of the hospitalizations that occurred could have been avoided with early treatment."

Senate data found that in 2020, the state of Arizona recorded 75,700 total deaths; 25.2% of those deaths were from heart disease, 16.7% from cancer and 11.1% from COVID-19. In 2021, of 81,482 total deaths, 24% were from heart disease, 15.7% from cancer and 15.6% from COVID-19.

But during the pandemic, incorrect assumptions lead to lockdowns, social distancing and masking that were never needed, according to McCullough.

"One of them was that the virus spread asymptomatically, that anybody could get anybody infected at any time, but that never happened in any respiratory disease in the past and it was a false assumption," he said. "If someone happened to have a positive test, and they had no symptoms, they weren't communicable. This was a critical understanding and we understood this about six months into the pandemic."