Discovery, one that if true, could turn the whole pandemic around. This missouri woman, her name is patricia durgess, was licensed in missouri as an assistant physician. She had done med school at a school in the caribbean but she hadnt been accepted into a residency. She wasnt a full doctor. The rules say a person with midlevel professional accreditation like hers can only do so if they do it in collaboration with a fully accredited doctor. Theres nothing wrong with being a physician assistant, theres lots of room in our system for lots of different licensed professionals. But i think its safe to say that april 11, just about a month into the coronavirus pandemic, this is not the person you would expect to be announcing that in fact she had discovered a cure for covid19. But there she was, april 11, on facebook, quote, this amazing treatment stands to provide a potential cure for covid19 patients that is safe and natural. And wouldnt you know it, she would be happy to sell it you to.
that just made it all the more surprising when she, not a doctor, publicly claimed to make a medical discovery that could literally change the course of world history and save tens of millions of lives. it was april of last year, this woman in missouri, patricia durgess claimed that she had discovered the cure for covid-19. this was april last year. we hardly knew anything about covid-19. but she said she had the cure. and she made this announcement of this mmentous world-changing news on her facebook page, because, sure, that makes sense. she wrote on facebook, quote, this amazing treatment stands to provide a potential cure for covid-19 patients that is safe and natural. according to prosecutors, patricia durgess marketed her fake cure for covid not only on
really quite oddly reminiscent of the thing that nixon s vice president spiro agnew did, which got him indicted and thrown out of office as vice president of the united states. louis dejoy is still postmaster general today, but today we did learn he is under criminal investigation. we ll speak with a reporter who helped break that story in just a few minutes. before we get to that big news tonight, i want to take a second to circle back to update you on a story that we first covered a few months ago, a story out of the great state of missouri. and it was a story centered on this republican elected official. her name is patricia durgess. she went to medical school in the caribbean. when she came back to the united states in the united states after she graduated from that school, she was not accepted to a medical residency program, so the consequence of that is that she s not a licensed physician in the state of missouri. she can t be. she doesn t qualify because she didn t get into a re