We begin today with a troubling reality. The government pulled out all the stops promoting Covid vaccines but dropped the ball on a key aspect: tracking adverse events from the vaccines and developing treatments. Today, the U.S. still lacks a national mandate requiring doctors to report every potential adverse event. And there’s been no robust push to encourage patients to document and submit all potential reactions, including those emerging months or even years later. Today, we spotlight an extraordinary effort of a former public health insider who’s traded his desk for the open road to sound the alarm.
The following is a transcript of a report from “Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson.”Watch the video by clicking the link at the end of the page.
At age 68, Ron Owens is waging a one-man crusade from the seat of a Can-Am Spyder motorcycle.
Ron Owens: So I am urging the Board of Supervisors to stop promoting, stop administering, and stop distributing the Covid-19 vaccine.
On this day, we’re at the site of his former employer: the California Department of Public Health or CDPH.
Sharyl: Did you work in this building?
Owens was hired on as an information officer here back in 2009. But, when Covid hit, it changed everything. Owens first clashed with his CDPH bosses, he says, after reading scientific data on ivermectin’s effectiveness for treating Covid—and sharing the information in an internal email.
Owens: The tonality of my email was, “This is great news. We can take the lead not only here in California but in the United States indeed the world, with tackling Covid.”
Owens: With properly dosed ivermectin. But their response was “CDPH does not approve treatment. That’s something that the FDA does.” And I’m thinking, “Why are we punting to a government agency— what, two, 3000 miles away? We have a problem here in California, let’s think out of the box.”
Owens says conducting research and thinking outside-the-box were his duty. But he was admonished for including senior leadership on his email.
Source: Sharyl Attkisson
