“We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls.” Robert J. McCracken
What will we have learned; how long will we remember, and how far back from neo-Marxist extremism will the political pendulum swing before we lose the current American generations so fortunately inherited? Conditions must sometimes get very bad before we wake up to...
Walmart stores all over the country are collecting biometrics of every customer, including facial scans, body movement videos, purchase data, credit card data, and more. All this data is shared immediately with U.S. Homeland Security. Journalist Pete Santelli breaks...
The leak of a draft of the opinion set off a firestorm, both figuratively and literally, around the nation. With the release of the final opinion, we see a tectonic move in American jurisprudence. We the People, should be ready for the easily anticipated reaction of...
Why Trump will not be charged with being a part of a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election: 1) The risk of charging him is too great. The modern Democrat Party has already radicalized itself too far for the vast majority of American voters, which is why it cannot...
We are all aware of the difficulties so many drug addicts have encountered attempting to overcome their addictions. Few methods have been highly successful, but perhaps accepting the Bible has been as good or better than many. One man, Turhan Tirana, left a Wall...
With FDA warnings for heart damage, blood clots, neurological damage, and severe allergic reactions, one can imagine if the scope of information were restricted to that provided by the US FDA alone, a reasonable woman and her husband would decline an experimental injection. Now consider the entire database with > 1000 peer-reviewed or…
No government agency has done a safety review of their mass vaccination program. After a series of analyses and statements from alarmed physicians and public health groups, the World Council for Health has stepped up and called for a global recall of all COVID-19 vaccines. With >3.5 million injuries and >40,000 deaths, which are believed to be a gross underestimate, the toll taken on…
America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Peter and Ginger Breggin – Banks, think-tanks, trusts, global corporations, authoritarian nations, the Deep State and governments worldwide, and most of the top politicians in the U.S. and the world — they are well along in the process of gathering data on every living person and developing tracking…
The disease is incurable as once one prion becomes infected, it will continue to propagate to other prions with no treatment capable of stopping its progress. Here is the big news. A peer-reviewed study in Turkey and the French preprint have identified sudden CJD cases appearing after getting the Pfizer, Moderna, and AstraZeneca vaccines, suggesting links between getting vaccinated and being infected…
America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Peter McCullough and Malcolm Out Loud – For a pregnant woman, what adjustments need to be made to your early treatment protocol? Can the Provolone Iodine solution for nasal wash, once mixed, be kept for a few days, or should it be mixed up daily? On the show today, we’ll discuss the latest with Novavax, regaining lost trust with the CDC, and vaccine uptake, and we’ll answer your questions…
In many cases, common to death in these illnesses is thrombosis or blood clotting. The Spike protein is strongly thrombogenic, even in the absence of platelets. As a result, the Spike protein tips the body towards coagulation on a long-term basis. That means if a stroke or heart attack is going to occur, it could be more explosive or deadly in someone who has been vaccinated…
The main point is that people really are dying because of COVID vaccine shots. It is often argued by pro-vaccine people that no causality has been proven between COVID vaccine shots and subsequent deaths. That is not true. Autopsies are critically important. Word is seeping out that hospitals are persuading families of their dead loved ones to cremate their bodies to avoid autopsies…
The virus must be killed in the nasal cavity at least twice a day after coming back home for prevention and up to every four hours during active treatment. This is very important with the Omicron variant, which multiplies 70 times faster than the prior strains of the virus. Early treatment using this approach is associated with a 71% improvement…
Prepare to deal with hospital threats, “You will die if you leave.” It is YOUR choice whether to risk death in hospital or risk death at home with family. Once you are on a ventilator, the risk of death may be as high as 90%. You have the absolute right to decide your course of action. Patients have the absolute right to reject medical treatment and seek a discharge, even if…
There are no studies demonstrating the clinical benefit of COVID-19 vaccination in COVID-19 survivors, and there are three studies demonstrating harm in such individuals. It is my opinion that SARS-CoV-2 causes an infection in humans that results in robust, complete, and durable immunity, and is superior to vaccine immunity which by comparison has demonstrated massive failure…
"The big story to come out of this era, won't be elections and pandemics, it will be...where was the mainstream media in America?
The great state of Florida is witnessing a resurgence of positive reinforcement and transformation throughout the governing seat of Ron DeSantis who serves as Florida's 46th governor since January 8, 2019. This warrior and chief stands his ground in protecting all...
It’s no stretch to compare Democrat House “select Committee” sham hearings which accuse former President Trump of inciting Jan.6 Capitol rogue mob “insurrection,” with their own party leaders’ tacit encouragement of assaults on our Supreme Court and the physical...
Democrats claim they are the party for women and children. They say they will protect women and children. Yet time after time, again, they have fallen short on all of this. They don’t value women or children. They don’t even know what a woman is, and as for children,...
Hope is an integral part of human life. It is especially important in the daily lives of Christians and Jews. For them, it is a biblical concept that sustains a longing for a return to original creation amid a fallen world. In scientific endeavors, hope is important...
One thing is as certain as elm blight in January; it’s impossible even to try to reason with the Left, let alone negotiate any issue with them. They are Marxists and will remain so until hell freezes over, and no argument based on the rule of law (US Constitution)...
It isn’t often I get to do a two-part show on America Out Loud Talk Radio, but today’s episode of The JD Rucker Political Report is such a case. It’s part one of a list of seven existential threats facing America today. Here are the first three that we covered today:...
It is important to understand that COVID-19 always starts out with mild symptoms, so don’t make the mistake of assuming a “mild” case and ignoring early treatment. Take the approach that COVID-19 will be a short mild upper respiratory infection with prompt early therapy.
There is a list of over-the-counter nutraceuticals and aspirin that all households should have in stock to be ready. For the prescription drugs, a doctor will need to call these orders into a pharmacy, and this can be done by your doctor if they are willing and capable, and if not, by national or regional telemedicine services.
The links below give the key websites for you to access to get treatment guides and access telemedicine services. Do this early since outbreaks tend to jam up these services. Many have learned that early at-home treatment gives more effective medications than the hospital offers. The goal is to get as many days of multidrug home treatment before throwing in the towel for the hospital. If things worsen usually driven by extreme difficulty in breathing, a trip to the emergency room should be considered.
Patients are encouraged to take their home medications into the hospital and continue them since in-hospital care is commonly minimal and has a major focus on giving oxygen and mechanical ventilation. The National Institutes of Health Guidelines, which are strictly followed by most hospitals, do not advise treatment until a patient requires oxygen, this means that some patients go days in the hospital with no therapy.
That is the reason why it is so important to pack up home medications and take them to the hospital in the rare case treatment at home fails. Once in the emergency room, seniors should demand a monoclonal antibody infusion before release to home or admission. These lifesaving treatments are available to outpatients only, and sadly, once admitted to the hospital they are not offered in the current nihilistic approach to COVID-19 hospitalized care.
The most important drugs in the hospital are blood thinners and patients should demand full dose blood thinners (enoxaparin injections or heparin infusions) and adult aspirin. These are not offered to many patients and when COVID-19 deaths occur in the hospital the most common finding is blood clots in the lungs and elsewhere in the body due to inadequate anticoagulation. Hopefully with these tips, for those who have COVID-19 or will get it soon, whether vaccinated or not, will be useful in keeping the syndrome to a mild 4-day cold and a deliverance to natural immunity which reigns superior over the failed attempts at vaccine protection.
The monologue of this McCullough Report kicks off with a segment from an interview with Sebastian Gorka, Ph.D., who himself received successful early treatment and then moves into a detailed step by step approach of what should be done for children with serious background medical problems or presenting with severe symptoms and all adults over age 50 particularly the elderly and those with background medical problems.
This week’s show features Dr. Chris Montoya, Ph.D., who is a research professor of psychology and “brain science” at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops British Columbia, Canada. I’ve asked him to help us understand the mass psychosis that is occurring where doctors are in a trance, brainwashed into not treating COVID-19, losing empathy, and then without concern over safety or efficacy, are blindly promoting the failed mass vaccination program. His insights are terrific.
So, let’s get real, let’s get loud, on America Out Loud Talk Radio, this is The McCullough Report!
The McCullough Report: Sat/Sun 2 PM ET Encore 7 PM – Internationally recognized Dr. Peter A. McCullough, known for his iconic views on the state of medical truth in America and around the globe, pierces through the thin veil of mainstream media stories that skirt the major issues and provide no tractable basis for durable insight. Listen on iHeart Radio, our world-class media player, or our free apps on Apple, Android, or Alexa.
Dr. McCullough is an internist, cardiologist, and epidemiologist managing the cardiovascular complications of both the viral infection and the injuries developing after the COVID-19 vaccine in Dallas, TX, USA.
Since the outset of the pandemic, Dr. McCullough has been a leader in the medical response to the COVID-19 disaster and has published “Pathophysiological Basis and Rationale for Early Outpatient Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Infection,” the first synthesis of sequenced multidrug treatment of ambulatory patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 in the American Journal of Medicine and subsequently updated in Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine. He has 56 peer-reviewed publications on the infection and has extensively commented on the medical response to the COVID-19 crisis in TheHill, America Out Loud, and FOX NEWS Channel.
On November 19, 2020, Dr. McCullough testified in the US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, in 2021-2022, the Texas Senate Committee on Health and Human Services, Colorado General Assembly, New Hampshire Senate, Pennsylvania Senate, and South Carolina Senate concerning many aspects of the pandemic response. On January 24, 2022, Dr. McCullough co-moderated and testified in the US Senate Panel “COVID-19: A Second Opinion” chaired by Senator Ron Johnson. Dr. McCullough has reviewed thousands of reports, participated in scientific congresses, group discussions, and press releases, and has been considered among the world's top experts on COVID-19.
I am horrified to be living in a country/world where it is difficult to get the medicine I choose to use. Even more shocked that information is being suppressed and belittled. Now the government is asking children in schools aged up to 11 years to wear masks again, I ask myself why not ask children of all ages to wear masks and am told that only children under 12 need to wear masks because the vaccine is not approved for those ages. Seriously? If that is the only criteria there can be no question we are being manipulated toward vaccination, and when it comes to using our children we should be appalled. Sorry to rant but this really has gotten out of hand. My nature is to be middle of the road and do unto others…and during my 64 years I have chosen to believe people are good. During those years there have been many challenges to my trust in leadership but nothing like this.
Dr. Mccullough,
I watched your May25th video and was blown away. I shared it with all my family members and friends and I believe I have probably listened to every interview you’ve ever done on Covid. Where would we be without you?!
Unfortunately….I don’t feel I can share these podcasts…largely because of the commentaries by Cathi Chamberlain. And some of the comments to her posts are just plain scary. If I tried sharing these podcasts-your information would be immediately met with skepticism. And it’s a shame because they are so informatave
I hope you might consider a different venue in the future that isn’t so charged and partisan(in either direction!). I feel this venue may be keeping you from reaching a larger audience.
My two cents for what it’s worth.
Thank you for all your amazing work!!
Kristen Roland
10 months ago
I want to convert this chart to paragraph form to put on my Medical POA.
Linden Combs
10 months ago
What about immunity after SARS1??? Would those antibodies prevent SARS2?
Marilyn Braswell
10 months ago
Thank you for speaking out
Amy
10 months ago
What are these “mild symptoms” of covid19?
Robin Rice
10 months ago
Thank you. Amazing information here
M Harri
10 months ago
Dr. McCullough, thank you so much for having Dr. Montoya PhD on! Talking about the mass manipulation of the medical field is so enlightening. I’d love to hear him talk more about the manipulation of the rest of us re: COVID, climate change, etc. Your podcast has been so incredibly helpful and gives me hope.
Amie
10 months ago
Are all these suggested treatments and interventions pregnancy friendly?
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“We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls.” Robert J. McCracken
What will we have learned; how long will we remember, and how far back from neo-Marxist extremism will the political pendulum swing before we lose the current American generations so fortunately inherited? Conditions must sometimes get very bad before we wake up to...
Walmart stores all over the country are collecting biometrics of every customer, including facial scans, body movement videos, purchase data, credit card data, and more. All this data is shared immediately with U.S. Homeland Security. Journalist Pete Santelli breaks...
The leak of a draft of the opinion set off a firestorm, both figuratively and literally, around the nation. With the release of the final opinion, we see a tectonic move in American jurisprudence. We the People, should be ready for the easily anticipated reaction of...
Why Trump will not be charged with being a part of a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election: 1) The risk of charging him is too great. The modern Democrat Party has already radicalized itself too far for the vast majority of American voters, which is why it cannot...
We are all aware of the difficulties so many drug addicts have encountered attempting to overcome their addictions. Few methods have been highly successful, but perhaps accepting the Bible has been as good or better than many. One man, Turhan Tirana, left a Wall...
With FDA warnings for heart damage, blood clots, neurological damage, and severe allergic reactions, one can imagine if the scope of information were restricted to that provided by the US FDA alone, a reasonable woman and her husband would decline an experimental injection. Now consider the entire database with > 1000 peer-reviewed or…
No government agency has done a safety review of their mass vaccination program. After a series of analyses and statements from alarmed physicians and public health groups, the World Council for Health has stepped up and called for a global recall of all COVID-19 vaccines. With >3.5 million injuries and >40,000 deaths, which are believed to be a gross underestimate, the toll taken on…
America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Peter and Ginger Breggin – Banks, think-tanks, trusts, global corporations, authoritarian nations, the Deep State and governments worldwide, and most of the top politicians in the U.S. and the world — they are well along in the process of gathering data on every living person and developing tracking…
The disease is incurable as once one prion becomes infected, it will continue to propagate to other prions with no treatment capable of stopping its progress. Here is the big news. A peer-reviewed study in Turkey and the French preprint have identified sudden CJD cases appearing after getting the Pfizer, Moderna, and AstraZeneca vaccines, suggesting links between getting vaccinated and being infected…
America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Peter McCullough and Malcolm Out Loud – For a pregnant woman, what adjustments need to be made to your early treatment protocol? Can the Provolone Iodine solution for nasal wash, once mixed, be kept for a few days, or should it be mixed up daily? On the show today, we’ll discuss the latest with Novavax, regaining lost trust with the CDC, and vaccine uptake, and we’ll answer your questions…
In many cases, common to death in these illnesses is thrombosis or blood clotting. The Spike protein is strongly thrombogenic, even in the absence of platelets. As a result, the Spike protein tips the body towards coagulation on a long-term basis. That means if a stroke or heart attack is going to occur, it could be more explosive or deadly in someone who has been vaccinated…
The main point is that people really are dying because of COVID vaccine shots. It is often argued by pro-vaccine people that no causality has been proven between COVID vaccine shots and subsequent deaths. That is not true. Autopsies are critically important. Word is seeping out that hospitals are persuading families of their dead loved ones to cremate their bodies to avoid autopsies…
The virus must be killed in the nasal cavity at least twice a day after coming back home for prevention and up to every four hours during active treatment. This is very important with the Omicron variant, which multiplies 70 times faster than the prior strains of the virus. Early treatment using this approach is associated with a 71% improvement…
Prepare to deal with hospital threats, “You will die if you leave.” It is YOUR choice whether to risk death in hospital or risk death at home with family. Once you are on a ventilator, the risk of death may be as high as 90%. You have the absolute right to decide your course of action. Patients have the absolute right to reject medical treatment and seek a discharge, even if…
There are no studies demonstrating the clinical benefit of COVID-19 vaccination in COVID-19 survivors, and there are three studies demonstrating harm in such individuals. It is my opinion that SARS-CoV-2 causes an infection in humans that results in robust, complete, and durable immunity, and is superior to vaccine immunity which by comparison has demonstrated massive failure…
"The big story to come out of this era, won't be elections and pandemics, it will be...where was the mainstream media in America?
The great state of Florida is witnessing a resurgence of positive reinforcement and transformation throughout the governing seat of Ron DeSantis who serves as Florida's 46th governor since January 8, 2019. This warrior and chief stands his ground in protecting all...
It’s no stretch to compare Democrat House “select Committee” sham hearings which accuse former President Trump of inciting Jan.6 Capitol rogue mob “insurrection,” with their own party leaders’ tacit encouragement of assaults on our Supreme Court and the physical...
Democrats claim they are the party for women and children. They say they will protect women and children. Yet time after time, again, they have fallen short on all of this. They don’t value women or children. They don’t even know what a woman is, and as for children,...
Hope is an integral part of human life. It is especially important in the daily lives of Christians and Jews. For them, it is a biblical concept that sustains a longing for a return to original creation amid a fallen world. In scientific endeavors, hope is important...
One thing is as certain as elm blight in January; it’s impossible even to try to reason with the Left, let alone negotiate any issue with them. They are Marxists and will remain so until hell freezes over, and no argument based on the rule of law (US Constitution)...
It isn’t often I get to do a two-part show on America Out Loud Talk Radio, but today’s episode of The JD Rucker Political Report is such a case. It’s part one of a list of seven existential threats facing America today. Here are the first three that we covered today:...
I am horrified to be living in a country/world where it is difficult to get the medicine I choose to use. Even more shocked that information is being suppressed and belittled. Now the government is asking children in schools aged up to 11 years to wear masks again, I ask myself why not ask children of all ages to wear masks and am told that only children under 12 need to wear masks because the vaccine is not approved for those ages. Seriously? If that is the only criteria there can be no question we are being manipulated toward vaccination, and when it comes to using our children we should be appalled. Sorry to rant but this really has gotten out of hand. My nature is to be middle of the road and do unto others…and during my 64 years I have chosen to believe people are good. During those years there have been many challenges to my trust in leadership but nothing like this.
Well put David, thank you!!!
Dr. Mccullough,
I watched your May25th video and was blown away. I shared it with all my family members and friends and I believe I have probably listened to every interview you’ve ever done on Covid. Where would we be without you?!
Unfortunately….I don’t feel I can share these podcasts…largely because of the commentaries by Cathi Chamberlain. And some of the comments to her posts are just plain scary. If I tried sharing these podcasts-your information would be immediately met with skepticism. And it’s a shame because they are so informatave
I hope you might consider a different venue in the future that isn’t so charged and partisan(in either direction!). I feel this venue may be keeping you from reaching a larger audience.
My two cents for what it’s worth.
Thank you for all your amazing work!!
I want to convert this chart to paragraph form to put on my Medical POA.
What about immunity after SARS1??? Would those antibodies prevent SARS2?
Thank you for speaking out
What are these “mild symptoms” of covid19?
Thank you. Amazing information here
Dr. McCullough, thank you so much for having Dr. Montoya PhD on! Talking about the mass manipulation of the medical field is so enlightening. I’d love to hear him talk more about the manipulation of the rest of us re: COVID, climate change, etc. Your podcast has been so incredibly helpful and gives me hope.
Are all these suggested treatments and interventions pregnancy friendly?