PHX Reporter

In a recent Restoration PAC First Right podcast episode, Dr. Peter McCullough expressed a belief that COVID-19 deaths and hospitalizations could have been avoided with certain treatments. 

The podcast, which aired Thursday, touched on McCullough’s journey working with COVID throughout the pandemic, highlighting work he did to devise treatment protocols to avoid hospitalizations and deaths in patients

“My current estimates are 95% of all the deaths could have been avoided with early appropriate treatment. And we could have avoided tens of millions of hospitalizations,” McCullough said on the podcast.

In two seminal publications in 2020, McCullough said he demonstrated the approach using a combination of drugs to reduce viral replication and treat inflammation and blood clotting. 

“I think there will be a justice and people will be held accountable for that unnecessary loss of life and the inconvenience and the misery, and really the anxiety of being hospitalized unnecessarily,” McCullough added.

Among options, the early treatments encouraged by McCullough include nasal washes, oral antivirals and monoclonal antibodies for high risk patients.

The First Right podcast, a weekly conservative news show, is hosted by Doug Truax, founder and president of Restoration PAC and former U.S. Senate candidate from Illinois. McCullough’s appearance on this week's show comes following a now-viral December 2021 interview between him and podcaster Joe Rogan.

According to the Restoration PAC website, the group is a nonpartisan political action committee that sponsors political activities advocating for policy changes and the election of candidates on the basis of “time-tested conservative principles.”

McCullough is a physician board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular diseases and clinical lipidology. He graduated from Baylor University and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and completed his residency at the University of Washington. McCullough also holds an additional master's degree in Public Health from the University of Michigan.