John Leake (On the left) is a nonfiction author with a lifelong interest in medical history and forensic medicine. Since 2021, he has worked with Dr. Peter McCullough and was the primary author of their bestselling book The Courage to Face COVID-19. He writes a daily investigative report for the Focal Points (Substack) newsletter and is secretary of the McCullough Foundation
Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH, (On the right) is an internist, cardiologist, and epidemiologist who has been a leader in the medical response to COVID-19. In 2020, Dr McCullough published the most widely used early multidrug protocol for home treatment of COVID-19 in the American Journal of Medicine and Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine. He was also the first to propose a detoxification approach for those with long-pandemic syndromes due to infection and vaccination in the Journal of the American Physician and Surgeon (2023) and Springer Nature Cureus Journal of Biomedical Sciences (2024). He has published dozens of peer-reviewed papers on the pandemic, commenting on the medical response in countless media outlets. He has also testified repeatedly in the US Congress and several state legislatures. He is president of the McCullough Foundation.