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.
Condolences for your father. You did right by him.
I wouldn’t consider a quad bypass a comorbidity. When I recovered from Covid/pneumonia/heart attack/influenza-A in Jan ‘20 my attending hospital doctor talked-me-into getting a quad bypass even tho I only had partial blockage in one artery. In hindsight I believe it was their strategy to assist in the repair of damaged heart, lungs and kidneys from the Covid. It worked. Smart doctors! I consider myself very lucky to have gotten Covid when I did -no treatment protocols.
Thanks.
Most of my life for the past 25 years has hinged around taking care of ill and or elderly family members.
You are right about the bypass surgery. I never thought about the morbidity definition.
I find it ironic that the “vaccine” (aka jab) has a high risk of badly damaging the heart. With very serious long term risk of early death, weighed against 99.8% survival rate.
And they talk about “safe and effective”?
Many people feel like you do.
But the ComDem maggots still beat that old drum. It is all about the agenda, and most of those useful idiots don’t even know it includes them.
So, we should all take a deworming dose of Ivermectin to clear our systems as a preventative for severe COVID.
OK.
Then, keep some Ivermectin around in case we get COVID.
OK.
Moo. Whinny...
More Green Apple...
FYI. You can get a script if you have scabies too.
Thank you. Correct on zinc. He is taking zinc vit a b complex c d3 quercetin selenium and a green tea supplement. I am taking all but the ivermectin also but i sitting in a deer stand and not feeling all that great so i I will start the ivermectin when i get back to the house
Pfizer’s new PILL is Ivermectin based......
For the record, I obtained HCQ/Zinc/D3 from the florida doctor group about 2 months ago.
The point about Ivermectin was commenting on the article vis-a-vis the issue of worms.
My son says he’s feeling better each day. May be premature thinking after only 2 doses, we will see. I started this morning no reason to not get ahead of it.
My daughter!
My daughter!
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We’re lucky fauci doesn’t own stock in leeches.
How does any organic substance, be it mold, fungus, bacteria, worms, or virus, get a foot hold in the tissues of a living person? It doesn’t, for very long, unless it has a means of fooling the person’s immune response. Worms and viruses both have ways of doing end-runs around our immune response, but worms are just better at it.
So, along comes Ivermectin, and it disables the worms’ method of disarming our immune response. It’s not hard to suppose that the same Ivermectin also disables the virus’ method of sneaking past our immune defenses. So, it seems that Ivermectin bolsters a person’s ability to reject foreign organisms no matter if they are worms or viruses. I may have to try it for nail fungus!
Ivermectin has been successful in warding off Covid-19 infections in dozens of studies, in dozens of countries, not just countries that have problems with worms in humans.
As someone else said earlier, the Big Pharma defenders, after dishing out months of smug ridicule, have blinked.
RE “How does any organic substance, be it mold, fungus, bacteria, worms, or virus, get a foot hold in the tissues of a living person? ....”
You may be right but currently the data is about as poor as the data supporting masks....and that is very poor.
Viruses are very different than parasites, bacteria, fungi and humans in our physiology. It was a leap to expect Ivermectin to work. I try to keep an open mind as I was fooled by HCQ for most of 2020 but now believe it does very little.
If you look at masks and lockdowns....if they worked why has C19 continued to run unabated? Same for Ivermectin. Wishful thinking will not stop this virus.
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