{"id":1195634,"date":"2022-01-07T00:04:45","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T05:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1195634"},"modified":"2022-01-07T00:05:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T05:05:01","slug":"dr-marty-makary-nih-funded-257-grants-on-social-disparities-with-covid-only-4-on-how-it-spreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dr-marty-makary-nih-funded-257-grants-on-social-disparities-with-covid-only-4-on-how-it-spreads\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Marty Makary: NIH Funded 257 Grants on Social Disparities with COVID, Only 4 on How It Spreads"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdr-marty-makary-nih-funded-257-grants-on-social-disparities-with-covid-only-4-on-how-it-spreads%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1195634&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1215680441-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Dr. Marty Makary, a medical doctor and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hopkinsmedicine.org\/profiles\/details\/martin-makary\">researcher<\/a> at Johns Hopkins, said the NIH funded \u201c257 grants on social disparities\u201d related to COVID-19 \u201cbut only four\u201d on the coronavirus\u2019s spread.<\/p>\n<p>Makary joined Drs. Peter Attia and Zubin Damania on the former\u2019s podcast, <em>The Drive,<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/peterattiamd.com\/covid-19-current-state-omicron\/\">published<\/a> on Monday, in which he said:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We just did this study of NIH research funding last year. Less than five percent went to COVID research. Three months into the pandemic, 0.05 percent of the NIH\u2019s budget went to COVID research. The average time for them to give a grant was five months to fund a research team to then start the research.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He added, \u201cTwo-fifty-seven grants on social disparities with COVID \u2014 an important topic \u2014 but only four on how it spreads, and one on masks which hasn\u2019t even read out yet.&nbsp;So the most basic questions doctors needed evidence for, that was not being conducted.\u201d<br \/>[embedded content]\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Biden administration regularly frame \u201cequity\u201d between demographic groups along ethnic and racial lines as a political priority.<\/p>\n<p>Makary said the NIH failed to promptly investigate basic questions about COVID-19. He said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We were all getting the questions \u2014 How does it spread? Do masks work?&nbsp;How long are you contagious for? Can you spread it pre-symptomatic? \u2013 All the basic questions of COVID, we did not have answers, because our gigantic $4.2 trillion dollar healthcare system could not do the basic bedside clinical research. I remember Peter [Attia] was even doing a quick video about, \u2018Somebody please do this study.\u2019 We were all saying the same thing. Labs were mostly closed because there was no PPE.<\/p>\n<p>The NIH was unable to pivot their $42 billion dollars to answer these questions quickly.&nbsp;\u2026 We had a vacuum of scientific research, and all the doctors were on the front lines without any data to really answer these questions, and that\u2019s when the groupthink began, and guess what ended up filling that vacuum? Political opinions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The NIH is not investigating natural immunity to COVID-19 as part of its broader strategy, Makary held:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Why has the NIH not done a study on natural immunity? It keeps saying, \u2018We don\u2019t know.\u2019 They\u2019re ignoring the 141 studies that have been documented by the Brownstone Institute. It\u2019s not that hard. Go to New York, where people had the infection, interview them, test their blood.&nbsp;Why is my research team doing this without NIH funding? Because the NIH is not only not funding it, they\u2019re not doing it, and they\u2019re relying on two really flawed studies that the CDC put out. This is the distortion of science itself, shutting down scientific discussion and that should be our greatest lesson.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical adviser to the president, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.grabien.com\/story-dr-fauci-if-those-natural-immunity-should-get-vaccine-i-dont\">said<\/a> in September of 2020 that he had no \u201cfirm answer\u201d when asked by CNN\u2019s Dr. Sanjay Gupta about advocacy for vaccination among those who recovered from COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Makary stated, \u201cThe data on natural immunity being 27 times more protective [than vaccination is] not mentioned once \u2013ever \u2014 by public health officials.\u201d He urged:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Martin Kuldorff \u2014 who has the Harvard professor, now he\u2019s at Brownstone Institute \u2014 has summarized the 141 studies on natural immunity, and so, when Fauci gets on the TV and says, \u2018We just don\u2019t know about natural immunity,\u2019 well, do the study. How hard is it? This is not the riddle of the sphinx. You can figure out how many people have been reinfected from the original days of New York and had severe illness.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The \u201cgreatest lesson\u201d of the COVID-19 spread, he concluded, is how a&nbsp; \u201ccorruption of science\u201d and \u201cdistortion of science\u201d leads to \u201cs<span>hutting down scientific discussion.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Marty Makary, a medical doctor and researcher at Johns Hopkins, said the NIH funded \u201c257 grants on social disparities\u201d related to COVID-19 \u201cbut only four\u201d on the coronavirus\u2019s spread. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1195634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1195634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}