COVID-19 on the Joe Rogan Experience

“the calculations that were done suggested when they extrapolated up that there may well be up to 1 million serious adverse effects from the COVID vaccines in t…”

Malhotra claims a BMC Infectious Diseases survey-based extrapolation found up to 1 million serious COVID vaccine adverse effects and 278,000 deaths in the US in 2021.

“It's less than 1%, much less than half of 1% for most healthy people.”

Rogan states the COVID-19 fatality rate for healthy people is very low, less than half of 1 percent.

“It's like 85% of the people who have low, less than 30, have it. And as you move up the scale to the higher level, greater than 60, you see 90% of the people h…”

The speaker claims a study found 85% of people with vitamin D below 30 ng/mL got COVID-19 or its illness, versus 90% of people above 60 ng/mL having no symptoms.

“It's insane. And the fact that it won the Nobel Prize for for efficacy in humans yeah in humans yeah it was wild it was just wild they had to do it”

Kennedy invokes ivermectin's Nobel Prize as if it bolsters ivermectin's case as a COVID-19 treatment, when the prize recognized its efficacy against parasitic worm infections, not any antiviral or COVID-19 effect.

“in a randomized trial by Chowdhury and colleagues from Bangladesh, 303 patients randomized to this virucidal therapy, which is all topical, no prescription dru…”

McCullough claims Bangladesh, with 160 million people, got 'almost down to zero COVID' by adopting an oral-nasal povidone-iodine decontamination protocol he cites from a randomized trial.

“Of the 800,000 deaths that we have right now, I can tell you they've received either no or inadequate early treatment. All of them.”

McCullough asserts that essentially all (implying nearly 100%) of roughly 800,000 US COVID deaths at the time resulted from no or inadequate early outpatient treatment.

“Anthony Fauci writes about it. Morens and Fauci wrote a paper basically admitting everything. I think it was in 2023 or 2024 about these shots. And he said the…”

Humphries claims a 2023 or 2024 paper by Morens and Fauci admitted that COVID shots are the same as flu shots and would not have been licensed under prior standards.

“I've seen estimates anywhere from 5.5 million to 10 million years of life lost by the fact that they won't have the achievement that they might have had otherw…”

Dr. Phil claims school closures during COVID will cost students 5.5 to 10 million years of life expectancy, and that around 30% of fifth and eighth graders and 19% of high school graduates cannot read at a basic level.

“What happens so the spike of COVID, which is the evil part of COVID, has all these horrible lab engineered proteins encoded into them and two of them are snake…”

Humphries claims the COVID spike protein contains two lab-engineered snake toxin proteins that bind nicotinic receptors, and that nicotine can block those receptors.

“are four to six times more likely to be diagnosed with vaccine-related myocarditis than ending up in the hospital with COVID.”

Rogan cites a study/headline claiming boys 12-15 are 4-6 times more likely to get vaccine-related myocarditis than to be hospitalized with COVID.

“My own doctor, my own doctor said hydroxychloroquine is fantastic if you catch it early. He goes, it really stops the propagation of the disease if you catch i…”

The speaker claims his personal doctor said hydroxychloroquine is highly effective and stops COVID-19 propagation if taken early.

“there was several studies that show that in the people that were in the ICU with COVID, more than 80% of them were insufficient when their vitamin D levels and…”

Rogan, relaying a claim he attributes to Dr. Rhonda Patrick, says studies show more than 80% of COVID ICU patients had insufficient vitamin D levels and only 4% had sufficient levels.

“I read they did like a survey of a couple thousand people and somewhere in the range of like 4% of people admitted to gargling and or washing stuff with bleach.”

Rogan states a survey of a couple thousand people found roughly 4% of respondents admitted to gargling with or applying bleach to fight COVID-19.

“the people had like an 8% or were eightfold, eight times less likely to have a severe form of COVID-19. And if they had, and they were 20 times less likely to …”

Patrick cites a Philippines study finding people with higher vitamin D levels were 8x less likely to have severe COVID-19 and 20x less likely to have critical COVID-19.

“if you believe the numbers saying that they're between four and ten times the number of Americans, forget about Americans, four to ten times the SARS-2 virus t…”

Hotez claims COVID-19 is four to ten times more lethal than the seasonal flu, projecting 50,000 to 500,000 US deaths.

“the Centers for Disease Control came out with this very chilling document a few weeks ago showing that about a third of the very sick people in the hospital ar…”

Hotez claims a CDC report found about a third of severely ill hospitalized COVID-19 patients were under age 40-44.

“Now we realize from studies coming out of China that was published in the journal called Pediatrics put out by the American Academy of Pediatrics, that about 1…”

Hotez claims a study found about 10% of infants infected with COVID-19 become very sick.

“It's about five to ten times more lethal than regular flu, seasonal flu.”

Hotez states COVID-19 is five to ten times more lethal than seasonal influenza.

“They have 230 million people in this country and they've essentially knocked COVID down to almost nothing.”

Rogan claims the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, with 230 million people, drove COVID down to nearly zero using mass ivermectin distribution.

“you can't say something's 99 like no clinical trial known to human history has ever shown something 99 effective”

Rhonda Patrick states no clinical trial in human history has ever shown a treatment to be 99% effective, in the context of dismissing an ivermectin claim.

“he did some kind of modeling and found you had to have six times more neutralizing antibodies to protect from actually getting infection than from like, you kn…”

Patrick cites a Miles Davenport-group modeling study (Nature Medicine) claiming six times more neutralizing antibodies are needed to prevent infection than to prevent hospitalization from COVID-19.

“people with the highest omega-3 index, again, it was in that 7% range. And this was not statistically significant. It was because there was a small sample size…”

A small pilot study (about 100 people) by Dr. Bill Harris found a 75% reduction in COVID-19 mortality among people with the highest omega-3 index, though the result was not statistically significant.

“You know, there was a study published in The Lancet like last year showing there was a sevenfold increase in stroke incidents in people under 50 in the United …”

A Lancet study allegedly found a sevenfold increase in strokes among people under 50 in the US compared to the pre-pandemic year, implied to be linked to COVID-19 infection or spike protein effects.

“these were frontline workers who were so thoroughly exposed to COVID that 57% of the people in the 400-person control group who didn't take ivermectin did get …”

Weinstein cites a study in which 57% of a 400-person unmedicated control group of frontline workers contracted COVID, used to argue ivermectin's prophylactic effect is close to 100% effective.

“WHO does not recommend in the hospitalized patient. In the US, every single hospitalized patient gets remdesivir.”

Kory claims that literally every hospitalized COVID patient in the US receives remdesivir despite the WHO not recommending it.

“this meta-analysis, which was just published, basically found that there was a 62, on average, a 62% reduction in death when you used ivermectin from all of th…”

Kory claims a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials found ivermectin reduces COVID death risk by 62% on average.

“You have a large country like Mexico who just put out results of a nationwide program centered around ivermectin where hospitalizations were reduced up to 75% …”

Kory claims a Mexican nationwide ivermectin distribution program (run by the IMSS social security agency) reduced COVID hospitalizations by up to 75%.

“In fact, we have now double-blind randomized control trials showing that the time to viral clearance is greatly shortened with ivermectin.”

Kory claims double-blind RCTs show ivermectin significantly shortens time to viral clearance and, in the same breath, that it 'eradicates the virus.'

“None of the people who took it prophylactically in that study got COVID. 58% of the people that didn't take it got COVID.”

It is claimed that in a prophylaxis study, 0% of the ivermectin group and 58% of the control group contracted COVID.

“there's also there's no common sense there's no evidence that it spreads outside there's no evidence it's the whole thing is bananas”

Rogan claims there is no evidence COVID-19 spreads outdoors, criticizing a California outdoor-dining shutdown as scientifically baseless.

“there's a peer-reviewed study on quercetin and zinc and apparently zinc when you take it is zinc has powerful antiviral properties to it but it's it's difficul…”

Rogan claims a peer-reviewed study shows quercetin acts as an ionophore that helps zinc's antiviral properties enter cells, implying this combination protected a friend from COVID-19.

“And then they spent $5.5 trillion counting stimulus checks, unemployment, extended unemployment benefits, $4.4 trillion of which went into savings and checking…”

Dr. Phil claims the government spent $5.5 trillion on COVID stimulus and unemployment benefits, and that $4.4 trillion of that ended up in Americans' savings and checking accounts, proving it wasn't needed.

“One survey in the US suggested that 50% of American adults thought that their risk of being hospitalized with COVID was 50%, one in two, when the real figure a…”

Malhotra claims a US survey found Americans overestimated their COVID hospitalization risk at 50% versus an actual risk of about 1 in 100.

“1976, swine flu vaccine was pulled because it was found to cause a debilitating neurological condition called Guillain-Barre syndrome in about one in 100,000 p…”

Malhotra claims COVID vaccines cause serious harm in at least 1 in 800 people, a far higher rate than historical vaccines pulled from the market (swine flu 1 in 100,000, rotavirus 1 in 10,000).

“Well, the pandemic, the problem with that is it's engineered. Like, people actually made that virus and Obama tried to stop that gain of function shit back in …”

The COVID-19 virus was engineered by people, and the Obama administration moved to halt gain-of-function research in 2014.

“They have denied 98% of people that have applied for assistance. On average, I think they've awarded 30 people, 30 of all the vaccine injured that”

Bowden claims the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program has denied 98 percent of applicants and awarded compensation to only about 30 people.

“So for ivermectin, it kind of depends on the rat, I mean, the type of animal and the gender, but it's basically 10 milligrams per kilogram up to 80 milligrams …”

Bowden states ivermectin's animal LD50 ranges from about 10 to 80 milligrams per kilogram while the COVID dose used is 0.4 milligrams per kilogram.

“So once I knew it was safe, then I started using it and then I found it worked. And then all in all, I treated well over 6,000 patients and everybody that got …”

Bowden claims she treated well over 6,000 patients and that everyone who got early treatment stayed out of the hospital.

“And Dr. Verone had much better success than most other doctors. His overall success rate was 4.4 percent of his patients died, whereas in other hospitals, aver…”

Bowden claims Dr. Joseph Varon's COVID patient death rate was 4.4 percent versus an average around 20 percent in other hospitals.

“At the same time, they launched COVID-19 Community Corps, and this was April 1st, 2021. This was an $11.5 billion slush fund to feed out propaganda and censor …”

Bowden claims the COVID-19 Community Corps launched April 1, 2021 as an $11.5 billion program, the same day Houston Methodist became the first US hospital to mandate COVID shots for employees.

“You have seven times better immunity than someone who gets vaccinated, which is proof.”

Rogan claims that natural COVID infection confers seven times better immunity than vaccination.

“Medical papers were retracted. I mean, there's this one guy named Pradhan, P-R-A-D-H-A-N, who he showed that there is a GP120 protein on the spike. And he said…”

Humphries claims a scientist named Pradhan showed the COVID spike has a GP120 protein with uncanny similarity to HIV GP120 that could not have arisen naturally.

“You'd have to look up the schedule, but I believe it starts at six months and they get three of them kind of boom, boom, boom.”

Humphries claims the COVID vaccine schedule for infants starts at six months old with three doses given in close succession.

“I got covid for 12 hours 12 hours 12 hours tested twice positive for covid it was a Wednesday um let's see it was Wednesday I think we were having Yumer no we …”

Dr. Gordon claims he cleared a twice-positive COVID infection within 24 hours using quercetin, zinc, and ivermectin.

“It's an ionophore, which is when we talked about COVID and zinc, it carries zinc into the cell to shut down the ability of the COVID SARS from replicating. Or …”

Dr. Gordon claims quercetin is a zinc ionophore that carries zinc into cells to block replication of SARS-CoV-2, influenza A and B, rhinovirus, and enterovirus.

“We're dying three times at a higher rate than the Japanese per capita. That's 16% of all COVID deaths are in the U.S. and we're like 4% of the population.”

Calley Means claims the US accounted for 16 percent of all COVID deaths while comprising about 4 percent of the world population, dying at three times the per capita rate of Japan.

“That was the big climate meeting in the UK just a few months ago. You know, the one where all the COVID rules were suspended so the important people”

Peterson claims that COVID rules were suspended at the COP26 climate summit in the UK so that attendees could meet.

“I think it's an agenda attached to it because they restricted any natural thing like ivermectin... What the ivermectin did, it causes the worms to have paralys…”

Howard claims ivermectin was suppressed as a covid treatment for agenda-driven reasons, describing its anti-parasitic mechanism as evidence it was an effective antiviral defense.

“Who's apologized for being incorrect about what did Rachel Maddow ever apologize for telling everybody that if you get the COVID vaccine you're never gonna get…”

Rogan claims Rachel Maddow told viewers the COVID vaccine meant they would never get COVID and that transmission would stop entirely, and that she never apologized despite this being false.

“Jeez. I think we both got remdesivir, which is not good. Not good. Not good. Causes kidney failure.”

Gibson claims remdesivir, the COVID antiviral he was given, causes kidney failure.

“I'm sure. When he was lying to Rand Paul about whether or not they did gain of function research. Like, how is that not perjury? How is he not in trouble?”

Rogan claims Anthony Fauci lied under oath to Senator Rand Paul about NIH funding gain-of-function research, and asserts this should constitute perjury.

“And that the people who are most vaccinated have 3.5 times the rate. And I could be wrong about this, but I think this was said 3.5 times the risk of illness t…”

Kennedy claims a Cleveland Clinic study found the most-vaccinated people had 3.5 times the risk of COVID illness compared to the unvaccinated after vaccine efficacy waned.

“that showed that yes they were doing what would we consider to be gain-of-function research there. Yes, the NIH funded this.”

Rogan claims it has been clearly shown that NIH funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

“the hospitals receive a bonus from the government. I think it's like $3,000 if someone is hospitalized and able to be declared COVID positive. They also receiv…”

Malone claims hospitals receive roughly $3,000 for a COVID-positive hospitalization and about $30,000 total incentive if a COVID patient is placed on a ventilator.

“He's put together a great little video clip in which he clearly documents the conspiracy between Janet Woodcock and Rick Bright to make it so that physicians c…”

Malone asserts that Zev Zelenko documented a conspiracy between FDA's Janet Woodcock and BARDA's Rick Bright to restrict hydroxychloroquine to hospital-only use.

“there's good modeling studies that probably half a million excess deaths have happened in the United States through the intentional blockade of early treatment…”

Malone claims modeling studies show roughly half a million excess U.S. deaths resulted from the government's intentional blockade of early COVID treatments (hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin).

“What they did with that was a very small study with intrinsic bias all over the place, much, much smaller than the Israeli study that you're citing, much less …”

Malone dismisses a CDC study on natural immunity (contradicting the Israeli natural-immunity study) as much smaller, biased, and less rigorous.

“Now there's, as I said, over time, there will be deaths associated. Remember we talked about the difference between causal and association? Yeah. Okay. And als…”

Malone claims 95% of people who died from COVID had an average of four comorbidities.

“there was a specific visit of Biden to Modi and a decision was made in the Indian government not to disclose the contents of those packages that were being dep…”

Malone implies a Biden-Modi meeting led to India concealing the contents of a COVID treatment package deployed in Uttar Pradesh, which allegedly included ivermectin.

“I testified in the U.S. Senate, November 19th, 2020. I told Americans under oath that 50% of the lives at that time could have been saved.”

McCullough claims he testified under oath to the US Senate that 50% of COVID deaths up to that point could have been prevented with early treatment, later raising the figure to 85% in Texas Senate testimony.

“and what Aaron Rodgers got, and what President Trump got, is basically how I drew it up for America and the world.”

McCullough claims credit that the COVID treatment regimens given to Aaron Rodgers and President Trump were based on the multidrug protocol he personally designed.

“A good example was Colin Powell. Colin Powell just died recently. He was in his 80s. He was fully vaccinated, and he died of multiple myeloma, but he was also …”

McCullough cites Colin Powell's COVID-19 death as an example of death misattributed to COVID-19 when it was really caused by his underlying multiple myeloma.

“we just walked in, we have asymptomatic testing, that if we get a positive, the chances that that positive is false positive is 97%. 97%. And that is if you're…”

McCullough claims that a positive COVID-19 test in an asymptomatic person has a 97% chance of being a false positive.

“Over 35, 135 studies support that now. Paul Alexander. Permanent immunity. Permanent. SARS-CoV-1, which is 90% similar to SARS-CoV-2, it's forever.”

McCullough claims 135 studies support that natural COVID-19 infection confers permanent, lifetime immunity, comparing it to supposedly permanent SARS-CoV-1 immunity.

“You know what the transmissibility of Omicron is? Four. So for the first time, we've actually gone down in transmissibility.”

McCullough claims Omicron has a transmissibility index of 4, lower than Delta's cited index of 10, predicting it would not supplant Delta as the dominant variant.

“He got bit by mosquitoes. He had, you know, malaria, which is interesting to note that he used to take hydroxychloroquine and they get a malaria attack. Crazy?…”

Gibson recounts his father using hydroxychloroquine for malaria and implies its price-gouged unavailability for his own COVID treatment reflects suppression of an effective COVID remedy.

“You look it up on your phone, you instantly know, oh, Ivermectin, the guy who created it, won the Nobel Prize.”

Rogan cites the Nobel Prize awarded for ivermectin's discovery as evidence undercutting its dismissal as a fringe or dangerous drug during COVID.

“it was all around the Wuhan lab, by the way, there are pictures with little lines, their body bags all around the Wuhan lab”

Trump claims there are pictures showing rows of body bags surrounding the Wuhan lab at the outset of COVID-19.

“Cancers have increased 300%, all cause mortality. Up 40% in some age groups. Pulmonary embolisms almost up like 500%.”

Howard claims cancer rates rose 300%, all-cause mortality rose 40% in some age groups, and pulmonary embolisms rose nearly 500%, implying this is caused by covid vaccination.

“that Spike protein went into the DNA and it tells the brca1 gene turn off and that's the gene that says hey there's a mutation here let's scrap that thing and …”

Howard claims the covid vaccine spike protein enters cell nuclei and turns off the BRCA1 tumor-suppressor gene, causing cancer.

“Now, that's false. Hydroxychloroquine was known to be effective against SARS-1.”

Malone asserts that hydroxychloroquine was already known to be effective against the original SARS-CoV (SARS-1) virus.

“that study in Israel, which is like, what, 2.5 million people, I think, they said that it's between six and 13 times more effective than the vaccine. That is s…”

Malone claims an Israeli study of ~2.5 million people found prior COVID infection (natural immunity) is 6-13x (and elsewhere 27x) more effective than vaccination at preventing hospitalized COVID.

“So regardless, the mortality of Omicron is remarkably low. I think we can all agree on that. It's essentially like a cold.”

Malone claims Omicron's mortality is remarkably low and that it is essentially equivalent to a common cold.

“currently we're up to 300 completed studies with hydroxychloroquine, 32 early treatment studies. And it does have an effect size or an efficacy early in treatm…”

McCullough claims 300 completed studies show hydroxychloroquine has about 64% efficacy in early COVID-19 treatment.

“There was 55,000 papers in the peer-reviewed literature on COVID-19 and about 4,000 that could have related to certain drugs, but not a single one put the conc…”

McCullough claims that despite tens of thousands of published COVID-19 papers, none had proposed a multidrug outpatient treatment protocol before his August 2020 paper.