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Why You Should Not Use Ivermectin to Treat or Prevent Covid-19

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Re: Why You Should Not Use Ivermectin to Treat or Prevent Covid-19

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RobLach wrote: post #21

Why is anyone seriously talking about Ivermectin when the Moderna vaccine is 96%+ effective at preventing symptoms that require hospitalization, and 99%+ at preventing death? Covid-19 prevention and treatment is basically a solved problem. My limited understanding of other's reality suggests to me that people have connected deeply with a community (through identity poltics or... fun) that is no longer relevant in a p…

Vaccine effectiveness is down to about 90% with the Delta variant.

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2021/09/covid-19...

That's still good, but there will continue to be many hospitalizations and deaths. So more effective antiviral treatments are still needed. That's why the NIH is sponsoring a large clinical trial of ivermectin and other drugs.

https://www.nih.gov/research-training/medical-research-initi...

Re: Why You Should Not Use Ivermectin to Treat or Prevent Covid-19

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timmytokyo wrote: post #37
logicalmonster wrote: post #13

Sick people trying the human doses of Ivermectin should be the easiest risk-management decision in the history of humanity. You have a drug that is safe in human doses, cheap, and reported to have a positive effect. You lose nothing by trying it and gaining more data.

If people are taking Ivermectin instead of a vaccine, then we as a society have a lot to lose. There is no clinically significant evidence that Ivermectin prevents COVID-19 or reduces its severity. Whereas there is abundant evidence that the vaccines do.

I recommend that everyone get vaccinated if they can, but the vaccines aren't 100% effective so we still need other treatments. Some small controlled clinical trials have shown statistically significant benefits from ivermectin. But larger studies will be needed to reach any reliable conclusions.

https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/13/6/989

Re: Why You Should Not Use Ivermectin to Treat or Prevent Covid-19

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ErikVandeWater wrote: post #25
jjeaff wrote: post #8

There are some studies indicating that ivermectin may be helpful in treating covid. But those studies are small, not statistically strong, and not all necessarily trustworthy. There are a few larger, more mainstream studies that don't look too promising. But ivermectin is still a candidate and deserves further study (and there are larger studies underway). All that being said, this whole situation is basically an amp…

> But those studies are small, not statistically strong, and not all necessarily trustworthy. All of the Ivermectin studies are small?

Yes.
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