- Steven J. Hatfill, a former White House COVID-19 advisor under Trump and advocate for hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) as an early COVID-19 treatment, has been appointed as a special adviser to the HHS’ Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR).
- Hatfill defended HCQ’s safety and efficacy, citing thousands of studies and Trump’s use of the drug, despite federal agencies revoking its emergency authorization in 2020 over safety concerns and disputed evidence.
- In his new role, Hatfill aims to improve readiness for future pandemics by analyzing global disease threats including influenza, bird flu and emerging pathogens.
- While some medical professionals (e.g., Dr. Joseph Varon) support his appointment as a step toward rebuilding trust, critics (e.g., Public Citizen’s Robert Steinbrook) argue HCQ’s ineffectiveness is settled science and warn against ideology influencing policy.
- Hatfill’s past includes involvement in Trump’s crusade to expose election fraud and a wrongful link to the 2001 anthrax attacks, raising questions about how his tenure may impact public health credibility.
(Natural News)—A scientist who endorsed hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) as a treatment for the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) during the early days of the pandemic has been appointed to a key position at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Steven J. Hatfill, who previously served as a White House COVID-19 advisor during President Donald Trump’s first term, was recruited again for the real estate mogul’s second term – albeit in a new role this time. According to the Washington Post (WaPo), Hatfill began his second week as a special adviser in the director’s office of the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR) on Monday, May 5.
The ASPR is an agency tasked with pandemic readiness and biodefense, two fields Hatfill is no stranger to. Nevertheless, his appointment underscores lingering divisions over COVID-19 treatments that go against conventional medical advice.
Hatfill, a former Army biodefense researcher, gained attention in 2020 for championing HCQ as an early intervention for COVID-19 despite pushback from federal health agencies and mainstream medical experts. He defended his stance in an interview with WaPo Saturday, May 3.
“They gave the drug to the president. It is a safe drug,” said Hatfill, referencing Trump’s use of HCQ when he contracted COVID-19. The virologist also cited “5,000 controlled, randomized [and] peer-reviewed studies” that attested to HCQ’s safety and efficacy when administered promptly.
Hatfill also reiterated his commitment to “get us ready for the next pandemic.” He expressed plans to work with other scientists at the ASPR to build “complete awareness of the scientific literature, not just for influenza, bird flu or COVID-19 – but other global diseases that could represent a threat to the United States.”
Medical experts attest to HCQ’s effectiveness
The Food and Drug Administration initially granted HCQ emergency use authorization in March 2020. But the agency revoked it three months later, citing cardiac risks and a lack of proven benefit. Critics, including Hatfill, argue that flawed studies – such as those administering the drug too late or at toxic doses – skewed the evidence.
Other medical experts also attested to HCQ’s effectiveness. Texas physician Dr. Mary Talley Bowden, who treated thousands of COVID-19 patients, said HCQ caused no serious side effects in her practice. Biological warfare expert Dr. Meryl Nass meanwhile noted the paradox of HCQ being deemed safe for lupus and malaria, but suddenly “dangerous” for COVID-19. (Related: Doctor who developed HCQ protocol has now successfully treated thousands of COVID-19 patients.)
Dr. Joseph Varon, president and chief medical officer of the Independent Medical Alliance (IMA), praised HHS for “recognizing the value of voices like Hatfill.” According to Varon, Hatfill’s appointment is a step toward “rebuilding public trust” in healthcare. Formerly known as the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance, the IMA was among the proponents of HCQ t0 address SARS-CoV-2 infection.
But not everyone welcomed the virologist’s appointment, including Robert Steinbrook, health research group director for the progressive nonprofit Public Citizen. He argued that HCQ’s purported ineffectiveness against COVID-19 is settled science, noting that officials like Hatfill “should evaluate medicines based on evidence, not personal views.”
Hatfill’s name is also embroiled in controversies outside HCQ. Emails released by a Democrat-led House subcommittee revealed Hatfill’s involvement in Trump’s crusade to expose election fraud after the 2020 elections. His past also includes a wrongful link to the 2001 anthrax attacks, which cost him his job before a $4.6 million settlement with the Department of Justice.
As Hatfill assumes his new role, his tenure may test the balance between scientific rigor and ideological persistence in public health. With ASPR’s future uncertain – with the agency potentially being folded into the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – his focus on global disease threats could either bridge divides or deepen them.
Visit Pandemic.news for more similar stories. Watch this February 2023 episode of “The Zelenko Report” on Brighteon.TV, where Dr. Steven Hatfill talks about HCQ with Ann Vandersteel.
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- Dr. Robert Malone: FDA, BARDA blocked the use of HCQ as a Covid treatment.
- Nurse Erin Olszewski: HCQ and zinc better treatments for Covid – Brighteon.TV.
- Dr. Steven Hatfill tells Ann Vandersteel: There’s no valid medical reason for mass vaccination of kids and young adults – Brighteon.TV.
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
Families looking for a straightforward place to start can visit Heaven’s Harvest and use promo code Patriot for 15 percent off long-term storable food. The forecasts may yet soften, the strait may yet reopen, and we should pray they do. But hope is a fine thing to hold and a foolish thing to eat.
