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Bolsonaro seeks Israeli developed nasal spray against Covid-19, recommended by his “good friend” Netanyahu

Wednesday, February 17th 2021 - 08:42 UTC
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Bolsonaro and Netanyahu during a meeting in 2019 Bolsonaro and Netanyahu during a meeting in 2019

President Jair Bolsonaro said the Brazilian government would seek emergency use authorization for an Israeli-developed nasal spray against Covid-19 that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as a “miracle” treatment.

“EXO-CD24 is a nasal spray developed by the Ichilov Medical Center in Israel, with nearly 100-percent effectiveness - 29 out of 30 - against Covid in serious cases,” Bolsonaro tweeted, two days after speaking on the phone with Netanyahu, who calls the Brazilian far-right leader a “good friend.”

”A request to analyze this medication for emergency use will be sent shortly to (federal health regulator) Anvisa,“ Bolsonaro wrote.

The Ichilov Medical Center announced two weeks ago that one of its researchers had carried out Phase One testing - typically the first of three phases of clinical trials - on a nasal spray he developed against respiratory symptoms linked to COVID-19.

The researcher, Nadir Arber, reported he had administered the spray to 30 patients with moderate to severe cases of COVID-19, and that 29 of them had been released from hospital in three to five days.

But the medical centre did not say whether a placebo had been given to a control group, and has yet to publish its findings in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.

In order to be accepted as effective by scientists, new treatments must generally undergo randomized, controlled, blind clinical trials that are then shared in a research publication.

However, that did not stop Netanyahu from hailing EXO-CD24 as a ”miracle” drug last week. Bolsonaro, too, has been eager to embrace experimental treatments against COVID-19, even when health experts question them.

Bolsonaro has sought to cultivate close ties with Netanyahu. In one of his first moves after winning election in 2018, he vowed to follow the lead of his political role model, then US president Donald Trump, and move Brazil's embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem - despite Palestinian claims to parts of the city.

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  • Chicureo

    P U G O L ⚡️ T T W H and J A C K ⭐️ B A U E R

    What's really revealing she avoids denying her sexual transitioning.

    Notice how she defends herself from what she actually posted here on MercoPress in 2015. (You can remember her boasts about the healthy benefits of drinking her own piss!)

    Mixing it with cheap vodka seems to be a 2020 novelty for Teresa ⚧ (aka Skippy the virgin.)

    Remember in 2025 she also shared her perverted sexual relationship with Long Dong Silver.

    Perhaps she's just pissed because I plan to release her entire sordid YouTube saga one-by-one when she posts bullshit about Latin America — such as Brazil does not have modern toliet facilities.

    Her bizarre intense fetish of filthy-Brazilian-toliet-paper is unexplainable.

    As you know, TERESA ⚧ (aka SKIPPY the VIRGIN) — has a number of interesting YouTube videos: https://youtu.be/TE9PscWM_QE

    That fairly-well says it all!

    Feb 20th, 2021 - 10:04 pm +1
  • Chicureo

    J A C K ⭐️ B A U E R has PROVED she is a pathological LIAR!

    P U G O L ⚡️ T T W H called her bluff about LYING about her FAKE story!

    What TERESA ⚧ avoids is discussing the story about her sexual transitioning in the past 12 months as documented on YouTube.

    Also, the bitch can’t read Morse -.-- --- ..- -..-. / .- .-. . -..-. / .-.. -.-- .. -. --.

    T E R E S A ⚧ is a pathological L I E R !

    Besides being a cheap vodka closet alcoholic, all the filthy disgusting perversions she exposes — T E R E S A ⚧ is SKIPPY the VIRGIN

    https://youtu.be/TE9PscWM_QE

    And the transgender ⚧ has lost all credibility!

    ★☆★¡Saludos de Panquehue! ★☆★

    Feb 21st, 2021 - 01:43 am +1
  • Pugol-H

    Whackjob/F*ckwitt

    Let us review some of your comments here:

    Your now legendary obsession/fetish with used bumf in clear plastic bags in Brazil, is getting worse, your tirades about it are getting more frequent.

    https://en.mercopress.com/2020/10/17/brazilian-senator-close-ally-of-bolsonaro-forced-to-resign-over-hidden-cash/comments#comment512332

    But still no answer on the question “have you ever been to Brazil???”

    Your more than obvious envy and even insanely jealous rage at Chicureo and his admittedly somewhat envious lifestyle, is something you need help with its not normal behaviour, very worrying in fact.

    You said:

    “To be envious you would have to show some comment I have made”

    How about:

    “When you are bizarrely so outrageous, and indicate you are consuming alcohol”

    Consuming alcohol, what a shocker, then there was:

    “I am here to give those who engage in inappropriate behaviour, their justly deserved comeuppance”

    “My thoughts are based on irrefutable facts”

    “That's exactly what I've done liar, liar pants on fire”

    And of course:

    “Servile, subservient, fawning, obsequious, sycophantic, excessively deferential, toadying, ingratiating, unctuous, grovelling, cringing, toadyish, sycophantish, abject, craven, humble, Uriah Heepish, self-abasing; informal slimy, bootlicking, sucky, soapy, forelock-tugging, brown-nosing, apple-polishing, arse-licking, bum-sucking; kiss-ass, ass-kissing, suckholing, unoriginal, uninspired, unimaginative, uninventive, non-innovative, imitative, derivative, creeping Jesus.”

    How mature is that, eh???

    No, you are indeed a Blithering Idiot and quite deluded, not in the real world.

    A simple Fool.

    Feb 21st, 2021 - 03:19 pm +1
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