This is the same active ingredient used to treat heartworm in dogs and kill other types of parasites.
Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19 Infection
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#62List of Ivermectin studies:
FLCCC Alliance Response to All National and International Health Agency Recommendations Against Ivermectin in COVID-19:
https://covid19criticalcare.com/videos-and-press/flccc-relea... international-health-agency-recommendations-against-ivermectin-in-covid-19/
Response to W.H.O s rejection of the studies:
https://covid19criticalcare.com/videos-and-press/flccc-relea...
https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/F...
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a conspiracy theory. Why is it that everyone who pushes Ivermectin as a miracle cure for COVID is also a conspiracy aficionado?
All I said was there was a disincentive and claimed it's being wrongly characterized as 'unsafe' by the company that brought it to market. Are either of those statements incorrect?
Yes. I believe it is factually incorrect that a treatment with the claimed efficacy numbers would have prevented an EUA, given the vaccines we got were both safe and more effective.
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#64The FDA has a page on Invermectin for Covid treatment, which provides a reminder that veterinary drugs are not designed for human consumption. https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/why-you-shoul... "For one thing, animal drugs are often highly concentrated because they are used for large animals like horses and cows, which can weigh a lot more than we do—a ton or more. Such high doses can be highly toxic in…
The warning is there because some people decided to self-medicate and bought veterinary doses and ODed.
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#65Re: Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19 Infection
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
From what I understand, it's the anti-inflammatory piece of Ivermectin that can help with covid because, apparently, the respiratory issue with covid is not caused by covid directly but rather an overexcited autoimmune response. I'm not a doctor but that's what some doctors on YouTube have said ;)
Antiinflammatories are generally useful against all kinds of things. Inflammation is a common side effect of infection. I find that answer unsatisfactory. If "it's an anti-inflammatory!" is The Answer, there are lots of antiinflammatories out there.
Here, try this video
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#67Remember 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?
You mean it's implausible that Big Pharma might do reprehensible things for profit?
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Simple. You have defined the latter as some variation on the former.
No, "there is a worldwide conspiracy to suppress Ivermectin so that Big Pharma can make vaccines" is clearly a conspiracy theory, it's not a tautology. Seriously, why all the tinfoil?
People called the lab leak theory a conspiracy theory (because it was associated with Trump and “racism”).
Now we have blue-chip liberal celebrities like Jon Stewart coming out in favor of the lab leak hypothesis.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
While randomized trials are certainly the gold-standard for determining if you should give a new drug to treat an arbitrary disease, that process is far too conservative during a pandemic where a huge majority of the world cannot access proper medical care. Ivermectin is already massively produced, used throughout the world, and cheap to manufacture (compared to new anti-Covid drugs). Even months ago before the benef…
> The sudden drop in Covid cases in India as the clearest indicator to me. What's the alleged connection here? Are you claiming that some non-trivial number of patients in India were treated with this? How many, and at what point after being infected? And just how did the treatment affect the case numbers? Generally you'd expect the vast majority of secondary infections to happen before the diagnosis, not after, so a…
>Are you claiming that some non-trivial number of patients in India were treated with this
Yes, example from two states.
https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/lucknow/uttar-prade...
https://www.news18.com/news/india/mortality-rate-much-lower-...
The testimony video in this page cites examples in many other countries https://covid19criticalcare.com/
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#70I heard about Ivermectin for the first time this week and was shocked how much it seemed that I had stepped into conspiracy theory land. There seemed to be an overwhelming amount of evidence over the last year that this repurposed drug is effective at treating Covid during a variety of stages (preventative, first positive test, ICU admittance, and even long haul). But since there hadn't been a randomized trial the dr…
You can't get EUA for the vaccines if there's a working treatment. The doctor who promoted Hydroxychloroquine and zinc treatment, Dr. Zelenko, is still banned from Twitter for spreading COVID disinformation. There's both actual conspiracies in this world, and well poisoning to damage the conversations. When you look at the amount of money these companies stand to make from producing billions of vaccinations, you shou…
Source for the EUA stuff? Source that HCQ and zinc are viable treatments? The problem isn't that some of these things might be viable, the problem is we don't know which of the literally hundreds of treatments are actually going to be viable when going through the proper testing and approval process. You can't just scream conspiracy when there much better explanations