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Mandeep Mehra
Mandeep R. Mehra, MD, MSc (Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School). The film's auto-transcript spells his name “Mira” at 00:23:38; that is wrong.
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Who he was in the COVID era
- Executive Director of the Center for Advanced Heart Disease at Brigham and Women's Hospital; Harvard professor. Documented
- Lead author of the Surgisphere papers:
- The Lancet (May 22, 2020): HCQ/chloroquine linked to higher in-hospital mortality, using a claimed 96,032-patient registry from 671 hospitals.
- NEJM (May 1, 2020): cardiovascular disease and drug therapy.
- Both were retracted (Lancet Jun 4, 2020; NEJM Jun 4, 2020) after Surgisphere wouldn't give the co-authors' independent auditors access to the data. Documented
- Notorious moment (TV, May 2020; film 00:18:56): "The off-label use of these medications in hospitalized patients with COVID should immediately stop." Documented (film clip; speaker identified from the on-screen caption)
- The Lancet paper triggered WHO's pause of the Solidarity HCQ arm and other trial suspensions (film 00:21:26). Documented (see the Tedros page)
- His apology (Jun 4, 2020): "I did not do enough to ensure that the data source was appropriate for this use. For that, and for all the disruptions—both directly and indirectly—I am truly sorry." Documented Sources: Brigham statement; Reuters
In the film: clips and timecodes
- 00:18:56–00:19:02 — "The off-label use of these medications in hospitalized patients with COVID should immediately stop." (Mehra)
- 00:23:38 — Narration: "Mandeep Mehra and Frank Ruschitzka continue to speak publicly and write studies." (Narration)
- Full timecodes are in the annotated transcript.
How COVID-era money shows up in the record
- The Lancet paper said it was funded by the William Harvey Distinguished Chair in Advanced Cardiovascular Medicine at Brigham. Documented (paper's funding statement)
- Industry ties: his journal disclosures list consulting and advisory payments from device and pharma companies. The film's source list points to the NEJM disclosure form. Documented (that the forms exist)
Consequences
- Two retractions. No discipline found. Brigham kept him on, and there's no public finding of misconduct against him; the data failures were attributed to Surgisphere. Documented (absence as of Nov 2, 2026 ET)
- Open question Did Brigham/Harvard run an internal review, and was it ever published?
Where is he now
- Still at Brigham and Women's / Harvard, and still publishing. The film says (00:23:38) he and co-author Frank Ruschitzka "continue to speak publicly and write studies." Documented
- In Feb 2026 he led the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation's consensus document on clinical cardiac xenotransplantation. Documented Source: ISHLT, Feb 20, 2026
Top sources
Last reviewed November 2026 (research pass Nov. 2–3, 2026). This profile is updated as new records surface. Corrections: Press@EpidemicOfFraud.com