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Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19 Infection

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Re: Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19 Infection

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Post by DoreenMichele »

The antiparasitic ivermectin, with antiviral and anti-inflammatory properties

That makes me wonder at the mechanism and biological pathways involved in how this works at all on anything and how that intersects with Covid-19.

I'm alive in part because for some years my best friend was a former registered nurse who had let her nursing license lapse while she raised her special-needs sons and pursued training in various alternative medicines to try to keep them alive. I remember asking her once in exasperation after several rounds of back and forth still hadn't really answered my question "Yes, but exactly what does this drug do in the body at the cellular level?" And she told me "You are asking questions for which they don't have answers. That's not how drug studies work."

Everything I have read and experienced suggests to me that covid-19 is so deadly largely because of what it does to your blood, not your respiratory system. One of the things that kills people with covid-19 is blood clots.

And parasitic infections sometimes infect your blood cells. This is how malaria works and it's why Sickle Cell trait is protective against it.

So I'm really wondering at that connection. If this is an antiparasitic, does it work by impacting your blood in a particular way? Could that be the connection here for why it seems effective against covid-19?

And I'm wondering if we even have that type of information about this drug nearly twenty years after my friend told me "They don't know that. Drug studies don't answer that."

Do we answer those questions these days?

Re: Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19 Infection

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Post by guscost »

mgamache wrote: post #13

Remember if Ivermectin was considered a safe treatment, there would have been no Emergency Use Authorization for vaccines. There was huge incentives to suppress the Ivermectin story until the vaccines were approved. Merck claimed it's own drug (off patent) did not have enough safety data. This is a drug taken by millions of people every month for decades.

Hey investigative journalists, pull on this thread! This one right over here!

Re: Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19 Infection

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Post by guscost »

Turing_Machine wrote: post #26
void_mint wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I truly hope in the coming years the censorship of this topic will be the catalyst for allowing free speech to prevail on social media. If someone died because of a "Take Ivermectin and you'll survive COVID" video on YouTube, who's to blame? Should YouTube not take steps to prevent the spread of misinformation that could kill people? edit Big downvotes, no response. Great system.

Here's a response: YouTube is chock-full of dubious health information. But only this one got banned. Why? For the record, since I've been muzzled from responding further, I don't believe that it was "money".

And here’s the correct response to you:

Money.

Re: Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19 Infection

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Post by krona »

kitcar wrote: post #22
whoooooo123 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ivermectin isn't a "veterinary drug", it's been used as a human medicine for decades.

The link I provided from the FDA says: "There seems to be a growing interest in a drug called ivermectin to treat humans with COVID-19. Ivermectin is often used in the U.S. to treat or prevent parasites in animals. The FDA has received multiple reports of patients who have required medical support and been hospitalized after self-medicating with ivermectin intended for horses."

The most common way to treat onchocerciasis (river blindness) is by using ivermectin.

Re: Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19 Infection

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Post by guscost »

jhayward wrote: post #29
mgamache wrote: post #13

Remember if Ivermectin was considered a safe treatment, there would have been no Emergency Use Authorization for vaccines. There was huge incentives to suppress the Ivermectin story until the vaccines were approved. Merck claimed it's own drug (off patent) did not have enough safety data. This is a drug taken by millions of people every month for decades.

This is a conspiracy theory. Why is it that everyone who pushes Ivermectin as a miracle cure for COVID is also a conspiracy aficionado?

Simple. You have defined the latter as some variation on the former.

Re: Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19 Infection

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Post by ds206 »

kitcar wrote: post #22
whoooooo123 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ivermectin isn't a "veterinary drug", it's been used as a human medicine for decades.

The link I provided from the FDA says: "There seems to be a growing interest in a drug called ivermectin to treat humans with COVID-19. Ivermectin is often used in the U.S. to treat or prevent parasites in animals. The FDA has received multiple reports of patients who have required medical support and been hospitalized after self-medicating with ivermectin intended for horses."

It's also been given to people around the world billions of times for 4 or 5 decades.

Yeah, don't take the horse dose lol, take the human dose.

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