Far-Right Health Care Companies Made Millions Prescribing Unproven Covid Remedies

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🗓️ 13 October 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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As the national push to vaccinate people against Covid-19 continues, hundreds of thousands of hacked documents show how a group of doctors is explicitly pushing unproven and potentially dangerous alternatives on people hesitant to follow public health authorities’ recommendations to get vaccinated, wear a mask, and socially distance. This week on Intercepted: Nausicaa Renner, The Intercept’s Washington editor, and Micah Lee, director of information security for The Intercept, discuss how a network of right-wing health care companies have been charging millions from people around the U.S. by promoting, prescribing, and selling unproven and ineffective medications for Covid-19. Lee, who received a trove of records from an anonymous hacker, was able to break down the complex network of organizations and companies involved in the operation. At the heart of it is America’s Frontline Doctors, a group of far-right doctors led anti-vaccine physician Simone Gold that promotes and prescribes unproven medications like hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin. The data Lee received not only shows how profitable the operation is, but also how wide the falsehoods pushed by this organization have spread. join.theintercept.com/donate/now

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0:00.0	This is intercepted.
0:30.0	I'm Nasek Irenter, Washington Editor with The Intercept.
0:40.0	In the past year, there's been something missing from coverage of the coronavirus pandemic,
0:47.0	a hole at the center of the story.
0:50.0	We've heard a lot about COVID deniers, people who think the pandemic is fake,
0:55.0	or that COVID isn't a big deal, or that the vaccines that are saving literally thousands of lives
1:01.0	are actually biological agents or something.
1:04.0	We don't need the CEOs of big companies forcing experimental biological agents on anyone.
1:10.0	A vaccine may be with us, but it comes with a flare-up in the age-old struggle with anti-vaxxers
1:16.0	whose damaging narratives appear to be growing in strength.
1:19.0	You're about to hear from a doctor and a nurse medical professionals who have had contact with patients.
1:26.0	They happen to be anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theorists.
1:30.0	Do you want to be called known for a communist dictators?
1:33.0	Is this the legacy you want to be known for?
1:35.0	This is a human rights issue that we cannot mandate human beings take experimental agents.
1:40.0	Always use the word experiment when you talk about this always.
1:44.0	The socialist win the language wars, right?
1:50.0	But it's been a mystery as to why some people on the right have been pushing such a damaging narrative.
1:56.0	Why push people not to get COVID vaccines and instead to take drugs that are ineffective against the disease?
2:03.0	What do they get out of it?
2:06.0	Maybe we should have guessed.
2:08.0	The answer is money.
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