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.
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The Economist is potentially killing a lot of people with this propaganda.
I cannot get Ivermectin, my dr. won’t prescribe it.
But, maybe now if I eat some worms he will...
We aren’t horses or cows, but they want us to be their Guinea pigs.
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This analysis linked from the Washington Examiner is very detailed and explains why so many have been fooled by ivermectin.
Ivermectin doesn’t reduce mortality in COVID a significant amount (let’s say d > 0.3) in the absence of comorbid parasites: 85-90% confidence
Parasitic worms are a significant confounder in some ivermectin studies, such that they made them get a positive result even when honest and methodologically sound: 50% confidence
Fraud and data processing errors are of similar magnitude to p-hacking and methodological problems in explaining bad studies (95% confidence interval for fraud: between >1% and 5% as important as methodological problems; 95% confidence interval for data processing errors: between 5% and 100% as important)
Probably “Trust Science” is not the right way to reach proponents of pseudoscientific medicine: ???% confidence
“Ivermectin doesn’t treat covid,” Dr Bitterman wrote. “It treats parasites (shocker) that kill people when they get steroids that treat covid.”
Well guess what? Viruses are small obligate intracellular parasites, which by definition contain either a RNA or DNA genome surrounded by a protective, virus-coded protein coat.
Do a google search, the good Doctor didn’t...
The censorship of Ivermectin, quinine, and NAC in google search is on par with Nazi propaganda ministry and 1984.
“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?”
And a damn effective one at that...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufy2AweXRkc
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.
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Concise explanation for the anti-ivermectin crusade.
I know it works from personal experience.
The disinformation campaign from the Big Pharma companies like Merck that want to sell high priced patented drugs just continues. For full information on the medical studies that confirmed ivermectin as an effective therapeutic in avoiding hospitalization and death from COVID see the FLCCC Alliance web site information. Don’t let people die from ignorance and greed.
https://covid19criticalcare.com/ivermectin-in-covid-19/
Many of Fauci’s projects pre-Covid were infecting animals with parasites. Perhaps all of us have been infected by Fauci/ChiCom mislabeled pork?
Interesting that this article, as far as I can tell, is unsigned by the author. Considering the wealth of info that goes against his writing, if I were him I’d prolly remain unsigned too.
There are plenty of examples of Ivr performing miracles against the China virus in people who do not have worms.
You’ve already got worms. We all do. It’s the level of infestation that matters
I have a pet tape worm.
Me too
Ivr comes in three application of methods as far as I know. IV, tablet (in various dosages; 6MG and 12mg are the most common) and as a 'horse paste.'
I took the horse paste once a week for 12 weeks without harm. Lately I've been alternating HCQ and Ivr every other day. Again, without harm. Haven't had an opportunity to try the IV.
Maybe, just maybe, the COVID is a parasite. Would explain Ivermectin, an anti-parasiic drug, being so effective?
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