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Clover Carroll is CEO of New Story Media, a company he co-founded to produce content for major television networks. But after his mother’s death — which Carroll blamed on COVID-19 hospital protocols — Carroll found a new calling: telling the stories of other protocol victims.
Carroll has produced the first of what he hopes will be a series of documentaries, titled “Do No Harm: The Clifton Dawley Story,” featuring the story of Clifton Dawley, whose son believes his father also died because of COVID-19 hospital protocols.
Carroll has teamed with prominent medical figures such as Dr. Peter McCullough, who attempted to assist in the treatment of Carroll’s mother and who also appears in “Do No Harm.” Carroll also has worked with the FormerFedsGroup Freedom Foundation, an activist group for protocol victims.
In an exclusive interview with The Defender, Carroll chronicled how his mother’s story led him down the path toward producing “Do No Harm” and becoming an activist.
He also discussed his next steps, including upcoming productions in the “Do No Harm” series.
Hospital ‘parroted’ FDA guidance, called ivermectin ‘horse paste’
“We always had a healthy American distrust of government,” Carroll said, “but always trusted the doctors, because they’d been to medical school.” So when his mother experienced trouble breathing in July 2021, Carroll and his family didn’t hesitate to take her to the hospital for treatment.
“We didn’t do every single thing that a doctor would tell us to do, but certainly we didn’t scrutinize it, because we trusted the doctors, especially in a hospital,” Carroll said.
However, it was his mistrust of government pronouncements that led him to request his mother be treated with ivermectin.
“We knew the amount of propaganda that was being pushed out by our government,” Carroll said. “It was something that we didn’t trust. So, we were already looking into alternative treatments.”
Carroll’s mother received one dose of ivermectin, but the next day “she was turned away” and told to come back “when and if it gets worse,” Carroll said. When she “couldn’t breathe” the next day, Carroll’s mother returned to the hospital, which admitted her.
Carroll said an “immediate breakdown of communication” between the hospital and his family quickly followed. The hospital quarantined Carroll’s father, who had power of attorney for his wife.
“We were working with a doctor we didn’t really know at the time, Dr. Peter McCullough, to give what is now the McCullough protocol: high doses of vitamin D, high doses of vitamin C, colchicine, budesonide,” Carroll said. “These are some of the drugs that we were asking for at certain times in her sickness.”
When the hospital, Baylor Scott & White Health in College Station, Texas, refused to administer the protocol, Carroll and his family took legal action.
“We won a temporary injunction to give [the protocol],” Carroll said. However, “The next week there was another hearing and we lost.”
Carroll said his family’s legal challenge was unsuccessful even though they “argued the right to try,” referring to the Right to Try Act.
“They said, ‘We can’t give ivermectin,’” Carroll said. “They really zeroed in on ivermectin, even though it was just one of the drugs in the therapy. They called it a ‘horse paste,’ parroting what the FDA [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] had said.”
Carroll was referring to a pair of August 2021 tweets by the FDA advising the public not to take ivermectin to treat COVID-19 because it is a horse medication. Last month, the 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled the FDA exceeded its authority when it offered such advice to the public.
You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it. https://t.co/TWb75xYEY4
— U.S. FDA (@US_FDA) August 21, 2021
After arguing “the right to try,” Carroll said the hospital said it couldn’t administer ivermectin because it might harm his mother. When the presiding judge asked about his mother’s prognosis, lawyers for the hospital said, “It doesn’t look like she’s doing well.” When asked why ivermectin couldn’t be offered, their response was “Do no harm.”
“All the while, I believe they were doing harm,” Carroll said. “They could have allowed us the right to try. They said the right to try needs to be ‘fleshed out’ in the courts, that we don’t know what the right to try really is yet because it hasn’t gone through the courts. Well, here we are in the courts.”
The hospital argued the “right to try” is “for a doctor to decide,” Carroll said, “almost to the point of excluding the family.”
“We asked for an ethics consult that we never got,” Carroll said. “They manufactured something that said that there was an ethics consult. We lost that following week. It was a really horrendous experience.”
This was not a victimless exercise on the part of the hospital, according to Carroll. After the hospital’s court victory, his mother “was ventilated at that time and she died, and it changed everything.”
Carroll and his family are now suing the hospital, alleging the wrongful death of his mother.
‘It changed everything’
McCullough told The Defender that stories such as Carroll’s — and experiences such as that of Carroll’s mother — were commonplace during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“During the pandemic, sick patients who were hospitalized were stripped of usual and basic rights granted to patients for decades,” McCullough said, including “medication reconciliation,” where “patients can take their home medications into the hospital and continue them, including hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, budesonide, vitamins, etc.”
The right of patients, family members and doctors to share in decision-making, including the treatment plan and who can visit the patient during the hospitalization, was also habitually denied during this period, McCullough said.
“To this day, inpatient doctors, chief medical officers and hospital administrators have not explained why patients were stripped of their rights and restricted to a nihilistic government treatment protocol,” McCullough said.
“Prior to COVID-19, doctors and hospitals were never limited by protocols and were always expected to do everything possible with medications in the hospital to save lives. Sadly, Americans died with these indefensible pandemic practices,” he added.
Carroll told The Defender his mother’s experience changed him.
“You speak of the hero’s journey in storytelling,” Carroll said. “You take someone who is not transformed yet, they’re the Luke Skywalker and you put them in a tough situation, and they have to ask, do I have what it takes? And they come out on the other side, and they’re transformed, or they’ve realized something about themselves,” he said.
“I wouldn’t say that I’m a Jedi knight now, but I am certainly in the process of being transformed. I no longer trust doctors or hospitals.”
Carroll said he now questions doctors before accepting treatment from them.
“One of the things that I’ll ask is, what did you do during the COVID pandemic?” Carroll said. “Did you try to foist a vaccine? Did you shame people for not taking a vaccine? Are you up to date on your boosters? Why did you stop? Did you lose faith in the vaccine? Are you aware of the 1,291 adverse reactions from the vaccine?”
“If they don’t have an answer, I’ll walk away. If they parrot Dr. [Anthony] Fauci, we walk away,” Carroll said. “It’s hard. We live in a time now where we won’t go to a hospital. We have to pursue alternative medicine.”
He added:
“I was one of those guys that said, ‘Get your vaccine, you’re going to get us all sick.’ After going to several of these medical conferences throughout the United States, I really had an ‘aha’ moment. What I realized is, if they lied to us about this and they really overplayed their hand, what else have they lied to us about?”
‘We want to wake people up’
Carroll’s experience led him to launch the “Do No Harm” project, with the phrase borrowed both from the testimony of the hospital’s lawyers in his legal case and from the Hippocratic Oath.
“The ‘Do No Harm’ project is a project that is telling these stories because we want to wake people up,” he said. “We want this to never happen again.”
“Do No Harm: The Clifton Dawley Story” is “a gripping, eye-opening documentary that takes viewers on an emotional journey of medical conspiracy during the COVID-19 pandemic,” Carroll said, that is “not just about one family’s tragedy, but a worldwide concerted effort to promote fear, suffering, isolation, hospitalization and death.”
Carroll said the documentary “demands our attention and is a call to action for accountability, transparency and change within the healthcare system,” with a mission “to continue to tell these stories until justice is served and the public awakens.”
“We want to ensure that tragedies like this, like Clifton Dawley and my mother, are acknowledged and never repeated,” Carroll added.
Carroll said Dawley’s story is “remarkably similar to that of my mother … Here’s a man of faith who, like us, trusted the system and got into the hospital and discovered that the system didn’t have his best interest in mind.”
Carroll said Dawley had “asked for compassionate care,” but “He was denied. There was no ethics consult. There was no compassionate care board convened.”
According to Carroll, in Texas, an “ethics consult … allows you to give off-label drugs” when other treatments have been unsuccessful.
“His son, Stephen, like us, had to wake up in such a short period of time,” Carroll added.
One difference between Clifton’s story and that of Carroll’s mother was that Clifton “was given remdesivir,” even though “he didn’t want to take remdesivir,” Carroll said. He said Clifton “could feel it in his body causing pain.”
“We now know that remdesivir is a failed Ebola drug,” Carroll said. “In an African study, 53% of the people in the study passed away and it had to be removed from the study. It’s a terrible drug, and yet, it was the monolithic protocol for COVID-19.”
In 2020, Fauci said remdesivir would become the “standard of care” for treating COVID-19.
“Why couldn’t we try high doses of vitamin D, vitamin C, ivermectin, and why was there a concerted effort to smear this drug?” Carroll questioned. “There was a smear campaign on it, unlike anything we’ve ever seen.
In “Do No Harm,” McCullough addresses this smear campaign. “Year two of the pandemic was the year of ivermectin,” which showed “about a 50% treatment benefit” and “made people properly get better quickly.”
Yet, “We saw a campaign against its use that was unprecedented,” McCullough says. “We saw public figure after public figure trying to smear the drug, saying it was horse paste or was only used in veterinary medicine.”
McCullough’s remarks in “Do No Harm” were accompanied by a montage of late-night television hosts such as Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel mocking ivermectin, which Carroll referred to as “propaganda” that “should get your blood boiling.”
“The narrative from all of the legacy media was, forced vaccination is a good thing,” Carroll said.
“I think we’ll be doing ourselves a disservice as citizens of the world if we allow these governments that were complicit, that participated in this to get away with this,” Carroll said. “The propaganda, the forced vaccines, the forced mask mandates that didn’t work. People need to be held accountable.”
‘You don’t have to be a public spokesperson to influence people’
Carroll said the “Do No Harm” project is “not just one documentary, it’s a series of documentaries.”
“There are hundreds of thousands now of hospital victim stories, hundreds of thousands of vaccine injury stories that need to be brought to light,” he said. The FormerFedsGroup has helped Carroll find victims, or family members of victims, who are willing to come forward and share their stories.
“They were a group that offered us solace to what was going on and what we were feeling at the time,” Carroll said. “That was really the genesis of the ‘Do No Harm’ project because we don’t want this to go away. They’re erasing these stories with entertainment. We want the brand ‘Do No Harm’ to be ever-present. That’s our goal.”
Carroll added the documentary is being made freely available instead of being sold.
“We’re the army of the ordinary,” Carroll said. “We are not selling these. … Our goal is to make captivating content that will be shared.”
Carroll said he filmed several interviews, including with Dr. Judy Mikovits, Holocaust survivor Vera Sharav, Carolyn Blakeman and Scott Schara, whose 19-year-old daughter Grace died in an Wisconsin hospital following the COVID-19 hospital protocols. More interviews are in progress, he said.
Carroll encouraged vaccine injury and hospital protocol victims, and their family members, to share their stories.
“If you have a story to tell, if you believe that you are a victim of the protocol or vaccine injury, we do want to talk with you,” Carroll said. His team is also available to help victims and their families launch online crowdfunding campaigns, he said.
“Everybody has their own sphere of influence,” Carroll said. “You don’t have to be a public spokesperson to influence people within your circle. That’s our call to action, to wake people up.”
Watch “Do No Harm: The Clifton Dawley Story”:
