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The Hill: Ivermectin disinformation leads to new kinds of chaos
The Hill ^ | 09/29/21 06:00 AM EDT | BY JUSTINE COLEMAN

Posted on 09/29/2021 4:23:02 AM PDT by RandFan

An avalanche of misinformation about the antiparasitic drug ivermectin’s ability to treat COVID-19 has caused a series of national problems, from increased calls to poisoning centers to a shortage of the medicine itself.

Patients have become desperate for a treatment that’s most commonly used for livestock and have taken their disputes over ivermectin with hospitals to court.

Disinformation has flooded the internet, where dozens of Facebook groups centered around ivermectin remain active despite insufficient evidence that the medicine works in treating people for COVID-19.

It’s also gone well beyond the internet to popular podcast hosts like Joe Rogan, who has touted the medicine to his millions of listeners.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), other state health departments and even Merck, the drug’s main manufacturer, have all warned against using ivermectin for COVID-19.

Still, online influences supporting the controversial COVID-19 treatment endure.

It’s all raising questions about whether the government needs to do more to step in.

“The promise that there are miracle solutions to an illness is really persuasive,” Jennifer Reich, a professor of sociology at the University of Colorado Denver. “And the idea that individuals can manage their own health, if they read a lot, gather information and make their own decisions is really powerful.”

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ivermectin; ivermectinyumyum; justinecoleman; thehill; theshill; theswill
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The sHill spreading disinformation about disinformation?
1 posted on 09/29/2021 4:23:02 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

So Justin just outed himself as a big pharma shill.


2 posted on 09/29/2021 4:25:54 AM PDT by TheDon (Resist the usurpers)
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To: RandFan
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3 posted on 09/29/2021 4:27:50 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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The sHill spreading disinformation about disinformation?

That's why I'd never take the time to format and post an article from the Hill. But that's me.

4 posted on 09/29/2021 4:28:10 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: TheDon
Not to be a jerk, but it's Justine Coleman.
5 posted on 09/29/2021 4:29:37 AM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: RandFan; ransomnote; MtnClimber

Pfizer Launches Final Study For COVID Drug That’s Suspiciously Similar To ‘Horse Paste’
[As RT/d by Dr. Robert Malone, = legit]

Another piece US anti-Ivermectin puzzle may have emerged. On Monday, Pfizer announced that it’s launching an accelerated Phase 2/3 trial for a COVID prophylactic pill designed to ward off COVID in those may have come in contact with the disease.

Coincidentally (or not), Pfizer’s drug shares at least one mechanism of action as Ivermectin - an anti-parasitic used in humans for decades, which functions as a protease inhibitor against Covid-19, which researchers speculate “could be the biophysical basis behind its antiviral efficiency.”

Lo and behold, Pfizer’s new drug - which some have jokingly dubbed “Pfizermectin,” is described by the pharmaceutical giant as a “potent protease inhibitor.”

[more at link]
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/pfizer-launches-final-study-covid-drug-thats-suspiciously-similar-ivermectin


6 posted on 09/29/2021 4:32:14 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: TheDon

As soon as the rebranded “Pfizermectin” is rolled out, it will be hailed as a miracle drug at “only” $100 a pill.

See above.


7 posted on 09/29/2021 4:33:17 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: RandFan
Ivermectin: a multifaceted drug of Nobel prize-honoured distinction with indicated efficacy against a new global scourge, COVID-19

Gee, the studies at that link don't look like disinformation to me...

8 posted on 09/29/2021 4:35:06 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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"The promise that there are miracle solutions to an illness is really persuasive"

Yes, like making people think covid will be eradicated if we take the vaccine.

9 posted on 09/29/2021 4:43:19 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: Travis McGee

And the Babylon Bee is on it.
Rumble link:

https://rumble.com/vmk9m6-pfizer-releases-brand-new-drug-pfizermectin.html


10 posted on 09/29/2021 4:48:07 AM PDT by Covenantor (We are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and fools who can not govern. " Chesterton)
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To: fruser1

One is either a true believer, or he isn’t.


11 posted on 09/29/2021 4:49:52 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (If the votes are a lie, they must de cert i fy!)
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To: RandFan

12 posted on 09/29/2021 4:50:25 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: wastedyears

Apologies for misspelling their name.


13 posted on 09/29/2021 4:50:54 AM PDT by TheDon (Resist the usurpers)
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To: \/\/ayne

Great meme Wayne did you make it yourself?


14 posted on 09/29/2021 4:53:08 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

You are correct. All the MSM are lying about this. They don’t want an end to the Covid Chaos.


15 posted on 09/29/2021 4:54:57 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Covenantor

The Babylon Bee beat reality to the story.....again.


16 posted on 09/29/2021 4:58:01 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: RandFan

“You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it,”

Will go down in history as one of the most deceptive, arrogant, snarky, metrosexual adolescent government tweets.


17 posted on 09/29/2021 4:58:16 AM PDT by odawg
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...“And the idea that individuals can manage their own health, if they read a lot, gather information and make their own decisions is really powerful.”

Yes, we don’t want the sheep waking up to the crazy idea of being in charge of their own life. The government owns them, and they best not forget it!


18 posted on 09/29/2021 5:02:54 AM PDT by Flick Lives (We may or may not have reached herd immunity, but we've definitely achieved herd stupidity.)
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To: RandFan

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19 posted on 09/29/2021 5:06:11 AM PDT by unread (Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities - Voltaire)
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To: RandFan

I identify as a horse. Neigh! 🐴


20 posted on 09/29/2021 5:07:12 AM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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