Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Treating Covid-19: Everyone was wrong about ivermectin
Washington Examiner ^ | 11/18/2021 | Kaylee McGhee White,

Posted on 11/30/2021 6:19:20 PM PST by SeekAndFind

Health officials condemned ivermectin as a useless and even dangerous treatment for COVID-19. The media smeared the well-known and commonly used anti-parasitic drug as a “horse dewormer,” even though it has always been a human medicine as well. They mercilessly mocked people who thought the drug might help them.

But it turns out ivermectin can actually help certain people fight off COVID-19, according to science writer Scott Alexander.

In a lengthy blog post , Alexander took a deep dive into all available studies on ivermectin and whether it works against COVID-19. It’s worth reading in full, but I’ll highlight his main point: Ivermectin does work, albeit indirectly, especially in areas where parasitic and intestinal worms are common.

There’s a reason the most impressive ivermectin studies came from parts of the world where worms are prevalent, he says. Parasites suppress the immune system, making it more difficult for the human body to fight off viruses. Thus, getting rid of worm infections makes it easier for COVID-19 patients to bounce back from the virus.

If Alexander’s hypothesis is correct, he’s also right that everyone who hastily jumped to a conclusion about ivermectin was wrong. Ivermectin is not the COVID-19 cure that some made it out to be, but it’s also not useless in the fight against COVID-19 either. It does have some benefits — they’re just minimal and far less effective than other therapeutics, such as monoclonal antibody treatments.

“Experts” deserve much of the blame for ivermectin disinformation. Most of them refused to entertain the possibility that ivermectin might help COVID-19 patients. I’d be surprised if even one official in the Food and Drug Administration or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention took the time to evaluate the data like Alexander did before publicly declaring it didn’t work.

It is also worth considering why so many people convinced themselves that ivermectin was a COVID-19 super-drug. Alexander argues that ivermectin fanaticism is connected to anti-vax sentiment in the sense that both are wacky pseudoscience beliefs to which certain people are attracted.

But there’s a much simpler explanation: Many of the same people who were drawn to ivermectin are wary of the COVID-19 vaccines because they are skeptical of the public health consensus in general. They see health officials stressing and, in some cases, mandating vaccination and are repelled by this. They see health officials rejecting ivermectin and other COVID-19 treatments as nonsense and are drawn to them. Their beliefs aren’t so much an embrace of pseudoscience as they are a flat rejection of an authority that has failed them.

Alexander gets at this point here:

In a world where scientists seemed like hostile aliens, I would hesitate to take the vaccine. Again, ivermectin optimism isn’t exactly like vaccine denialism - it’s a less open-and-shut question, you can still make a plausible argument for it. But it’s some of the same people and follows the same dynamics. If we want to make people more willing to get vaccines, or less willing to take ivermectin, we have to make the scientific establishment feel less like an enclave of hostile aliens to half the population.

The problem with this is much of the scientific establishment seems to want to come across as, to borrow Alexander’s phrase, hostile aliens. They don’t care whether the public trust their guidance or not. If they did, it would not have taken a science blogger to get to the bottom of what was happening with ivermectin. The CDC and FDA, the people who literally get paid to research these kinds of things, should have done that months ago.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: anthonyfauci; covid19; covidstooges; ivermectin; ivm; obamacare; vaccinemandates; waronivermectin
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-50 last
To: Billyv

Correct. Too many people have short memories and attention spans. Instead, they crack jokes about horses.


41 posted on 12/01/2021 12:04:03 AM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: TLI; All
Skip to page 7. Ivermectin Doses on page 12

https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/FLCCC-Protocols-–-A-Guide-to-the-Management-of-COVID-19.pdf

42 posted on 12/01/2021 12:05:53 AM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

MSM and Pharma’s internal polling numbers are bad. Gotta account for < multiple anecdotal > reports of deathbed recoveries using Ivermectin.


43 posted on 12/01/2021 12:44:28 AM PST by Justa (If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Candor7

Thank you for your work informing people.

I was hospitalized from Covid in Jan 2020. Cured by 7x IV fed meds within 6 days but then the long haul began. Finally cured that at the end of October ‘21 when I started using 12mg Ivermectin pills.


44 posted on 12/01/2021 12:55:36 AM PST by Justa (If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: FreedomPoster

It was the demonization of HCQ that was the final straw for me. A drug with a know safety profile, where it basically took effort and ignoring any medical advice to poison someone with, was suddenly characterized as extremely dangerous. Did it actually work? I have not done any in depth research, but several of the studies that claimed it was ineffective were designed to give a negative outcome.

Ivermectin, again a drug with a known safety profile, little clinical evidence available to the casual reader about its effectiveness against COVID, is demonized. So why should I believe those that claim it is dangerous to take? Is removal of parasites not a good thing?

I have noticed that all of the proposed treatment protocols involve Vit. D and Zinc, which are associated with better outcomes for long list of diseases.


45 posted on 12/01/2021 2:46:21 AM PST by Fraxinus (My opinion, worth what you paid.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: Justa

Thank you for your kindness.

People need to know that the termination of this pandemic is sitting rightiin front of them . Ivermectin should be freely available over the counter mediation. The way to use it is very simple and straight forward.Anyone who can read can use the proper protcol. I am so glad you have recovered,

The upside....you have imunity.


46 posted on 12/01/2021 2:48:37 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 44 | View Replies]

To: TLI

Wash your hands, mouthwash, nasal rinse, avoid crowds of “unknown” people, take the recommended vitamin/mineral protocols, HCQ & ivermectin.


47 posted on 12/01/2021 4:19:01 AM PST by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: ransomnote

My best friends mother was just brought back from the brink of death with Ivermectin, steroids, antibiotics and inhaler. Thank God for that doctor. He said if she went to the ER she would die.


48 posted on 12/01/2021 7:01:29 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

BS. Fauci remarked in 2004 about how IVM (ivermectin) devastated SARS in 2004 in an in-vitro test, and was impressed by its anti-viral capabilities.

No ‘worms’ or ‘parasites’ were part of those experiments.


49 posted on 12/01/2021 10:12:41 AM PST by RideForever (One of the CoVID naturally immune control group)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: FreedomPoster

Tag


50 posted on 12/05/2021 5:21:44 AM PST by Ranxerox
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-50 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson