Posted on 11/30/2021 6:50:48 PM PST by Fractal Trader
You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it.” As the message from the Food and Drug Administration (fda) implies, ivermectin—a drug used to treat parasites, including in horses and cows—has never become part of the standard of care for covid-19.
Many think it should be. At last count doctors in America prescribed more than 100,000 tablets of the drug a week, a 30-fold increase since 2019. Ivermectin’s advocates insist that there is solid science showing its efficacy. One website lists 67 papers on the subject. Could they all be wrong? Recent analysis suggests ivermectin probably does help one subset of covid patients: those also infected by the worms it was designed to fight.
Wading through the papers whose methodologies seemed sound (many were not), Avi Bitterman, a dermatologist, noticed that the studies that looked best for ivermectin clustered in regions with high rates of infections by strongyloides, parasitic worms. Common in Africa, Asia and Latin America, strongyloides can cause diarrhoea, fatigue and weight loss. They pose a graver threat only if their numbers grow out of control. Such “hyper-infection”, often fatal, becomes far more likely if a patient is receiving corticosteroids, which suppress the immune system and may make female worms more fertile. Dexamethasone, a corticosteroid, is now a standard treatment for severe covid-19.
Building on observations by David Boulware, a professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota, Dr Bitterman concluded that strongyloides may account for the conflicting results of studies about the effectiveness of ivermectin as a covid treatment. In trials conducted where the parasites are common, many people could have both covid and worm infections. Covid-19 might have weakened their defences against the worms; treating the coronavirus with corticosteroids would let the parasites run wild.
“Ivermectin doesn’t treat covid,” Dr Bitterman wrote. “It treats parasites (shocker) that kill people when they get steroids that treat covid.”
In July 2020 a group of doctors argued in the Journal of the American Medical Association that it was “reasonable to consider presumptive treatment with ivermectin for moderate- to high-risk patients not previously tested or treated for strongyloides”, and said that the risk of infection by the worms should be “based on factors such as country of origin and long-term residence”. The World Health Organisation also recommends ivermectin in this context.
But most people in rich Western countries like America do not fit this description. For treating covid-19 patients who have never been to places with widespread strongyloides, this evidence suggests that doctors, and the fda, should not recommend ivermectin.
A totally unfounded or meaningless hypothesis by someone probably paid for by Fauci.
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LOL Sure, that makes tons of sense.
I must have had worms then. Who knew?
I must have had worms then. Who knew?
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Tell that to the significant number of FReepers/friends and family of FReepers, who’ve been successfully treated for China virus, with Ivm.
They blinked.
“but only those with worms”
Because every drug and every thing has one and only one useful purpose. Everybody knows that.
Ivermectin: an award-winning drug with expected antiviral activity against COVID-19
Guess they missed this silly little thing called Empirical Evidence. It used to be part of science: https://ivmmeta.com/
I rarely take advice (medical or otherwise) from the MSM, but when they started calling it ‘horse paste’ I figured it was a useful remedy.
There are many people around the world who have treated Covid symptoms with Ivermectin who were quickly restored to health.
This has specifically been reported in India.
We have enough anecdotal stories here in the U.S. to be convincing.
You won't see any peer reviewed studies in the U.S. because there is well financed interest in suppressing any such scientific evidence.
Having cheap, safe, and effective therapeutics available to treat Covid would screw up a multi-billion dollar industry and undermine a critical tool being used for political control and the undermining of our Constitutional liberties.
Bookmark.
Does it come IV or just the knurls?
This nonsensical article is a perfect explanation for the lack of leadership the CDC, FDA, et al., has not been providing after all the evidence brought forward worldwide.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I03JFB3LoF4
Even a layman like me knows that Ivermectin is a SARS-CoV-2 3C protease inhibitor. How the heck does a Medical Doctor make such a mistake?
Sounds more like a FRoctor, than a real Medical Doctor.
Ivermectin, ‘Wonder drug’ from Japan: the human use perspective Feb. 10, 2011 - ncbi.nlm.nih.govDiscovered in the late-1970s, the pioneering drug ivermectin, a dihydro derivative of avermectin—originating solely from a single microorganism isolated at the Kitasato Intitute, Tokyo, Japan from Japanese soil—has had an immeasurably beneficial impact in improving the lives and welfare of billions of people throughout the world.
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There are few drugs that can seriously lay claim to the title of ‘Wonder drug’, penicillin and aspirin being two that have perhaps had greatest beneficial impact on the health and wellbeing of Mankind. But ivermectin can also be considered alongside those worthy contenders, based on its versatility, safety and the beneficial impact that it has had, and continues to have, worldwide—especially on hundreds of millions of the world’s poorest people.
Having cheap, safe, and effective therapeutics available to treat Covid would screw up ….
Every Emergency Use Authorization, so there could be no “vaccines “ available. Simple as that.
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