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On the latest episode of the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, Dr. Peter McCullough and Joe Rogan discussed the pandemic, COVID vaccines, alternative COVID treatments and what McCullough termed the “mass-psychosis” that’s come over the medical profession amid the COVID crisis.

McCullough, a practicing internist, cardiologist and epidemiologist, and chief medical advisor of Truth for Health Foundation, told Rogan that from the outset of the pandemic, there were a number of sinister ways doctors worldwide were restricted from prescribing hydroxychloroquine — even though the science shows it’s an effective early treatment for COVID patients, and it’s already approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat other illnesses.

McCullough referred to hydroxychloroquine as “the leading drug worldwide to treat COVID-19.”

He explained that early on in the pandemic the U.S. “had the right idea,” and stockpiled hydroxychloroquine — only later to refuse to release any of the millions of doses from the stockpile.

At the same time, he explained, France redesignated hydroxychloroquine from an over-the-counter drug to prescription-only, making it much more difficult for people to use.

In Australia, doctors who used their best judgment and prescribed hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID patients were threatened with jail time, McCullough said.

During this time, one of the world’s largest hydroxychloroquine manufacturing facilities  “mysteriously burnt down” outside Taipei, Taiwan, McCullough said.

“It seems to me, early on, there was an intentional, very comprehensive, suppression of early treatment in order to promote fear, suffering, isolation, hospitalization and death,” he said. “And it seemed to be completely organized and intentional in order to create acceptance for, and then promote mass vaccination.”

McCullough told Rogan the reason so few medical professionals are willing to speak up against the new, anti-scientific COVID regime is they’re under a “mass formation psychosis,” meaning the COVID fear-mongering and propaganda has placed almost the entire professional field in a state of irrational complacency.

“In the U.S. only about 500 doctors really understand what’s going on … and there’s about a million,” he said.

When asked by Rogan why so many people are fine after getting a COVID vaccine, McCullough said “the human body is a miraculous thing,” but shared his worries about the health ramifications of an ongoing booster campaign.

“The spike protein stays in the body for at least 15 months … if we start vaccinating every six months, I think the spike protein will never get out of the body,” he said. “[The spike protein] accumulates and progressive accumulation is very worrisome.”

Listen to the interview here: