Whether ivermectin helps with covid or not, it's certainly not an advertising company's role to censor the debate.
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Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19 Infection
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#102It's banned on YouTube because of multiple authoritative sources indicating it's not a safe and effective treatment for COVID-19. Here is the FDA's stance: https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/why-you-shoul... Here is the European equivalent of the AMA advising against it's use: https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/ema-advises-against-use-iv... Here is an RCT in JAMA finding it ineffective: https://jamanetwork…
> If Ivermectin worked on COVID-19, the manufacturer of Ivermectin that has made no money on vaccines for COVID-19 would probably be pushing it wouldn't they? No, because it's out of patent. There's little profit to be made. Merck is instead pushing a new drug that they will have a monopoly on. "Merck Announces Supply Agreement with U.S. Government for Molnupiravir, an Investigational Oral Antiviral Candidate for Tre…
You have to give credit where it's due. People were suspicious of big pharma cos prior to the miracle vaccine, but today they line up to defend them.
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
This is from the FDA website. "Under section 564 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act), when the Secretary of HHS declares that an emergency use authorization is appropriate, FDA may authorize unapproved medical products or unapproved uses of approved medical products to be used in an emergency to diagnose, treat, or prevent serious or life-threatening diseases or conditions caused by CBRN threat age…
Can you point to anything that says the FDA would consider HCQ or any of these other drugs as alternatives to vaccines? They are not the same, and though they could both treat COVID, my reading is not that this would limit vaccine emergency authorization if there was a non vaccine treatment. This is especially true considering there are multiple vaccines approved under emergency use which would be direct competitors. So, nope, I don't buy it from just this wording. I need something saying specifically that alternative treatments would stop a vaccine being approved.
Re: Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19 Infection
#104It's banned on YouTube because of multiple authoritative sources indicating it's not a safe and effective treatment for COVID-19. Here is the FDA's stance: https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/why-you-shoul... Here is the European equivalent of the AMA advising against it's use: https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/ema-advises-against-use-iv... Here is an RCT in JAMA finding it ineffective: https://jamanetwork…
If Ivermectin worked on COVID-19, the manufacturer of Ivermectin that has made no money on vaccines for COVID-19 would probably be pushing it wouldn't they?
Surprise, Merck is now working on anti-viral drug whose profits would be eaten into by an off-patent drug (ivermectin)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-03-25/merck-mrk...
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#105What is this thing with alt-right figures like Bret Weinstein (and others) promoting particular medicines / self-medication through theirs shows? It is weird and cult like - why not just stick to politics?
Why do you think that Bret Weinstein is alt-right?
This is contradictory to what I've seen on his Wikipedia page.
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#106Whether ivermectin helps with covid or not, it's certainly not an advertising company's role to censor the debate.
And it's certainly not right wing politicians' and talking heads' role to promote unproven medical treatments and be anti-vaxx to their huge audience, but here we are.
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#107What is this thing with alt-right figures like Bret Weinstein (and others) promoting particular medicines / self-medication through theirs shows? It is weird and cult like - why not just stick to politics?
Speaking of cult like, what is this thing with calling people who are on firmly on the left, like Bret Weinstein and Joe Rogan, alt-right?
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#108What is this thing with alt-right figures like Bret Weinstein (and others) promoting particular medicines / self-medication through theirs shows? It is weird and cult like - why not just stick to politics?
Why makes you think Bret Weinstein is alt right?
Re: Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19 Infection
#109What is this thing with alt-right figures like Bret Weinstein (and others) promoting particular medicines / self-medication through theirs shows? It is weird and cult like - why not just stick to politics?
Bret Weinstein is a lefty. Calling him alt-right is a slanderous talking point.
Re: Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19 Infection
#110What is this thing with alt-right figures like Bret Weinstein (and others) promoting particular medicines / self-medication through theirs shows? It is weird and cult like - why not just stick to politics?
Doesn't Weinstein have PhD in biology? Surely that gives him some credibility.