Posted on 08/18/2022 8:49:39 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
A long-awaited study at the University of Minnesota has found that the controversial drug ivermectin is not effective at treating COVID-19.
The findings, published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, add to a growing body of scientific evidence pushing back against the use of the antiparasitic drug that has been promoted by some prominent voices on social media.
The U of M’s study focused on three common drugs: ivermectin, metformin, and fluvoxamine. Researchers determined that none of the drugs proved effective at preventing low oxygen levels, ER visits, hospitalization or death.
The study showed some promise for the diabetes drug metformin, but the data is not definitive.
“We’re just really grateful to be able to share our work broadly and to have been published in a medical journal,” said Dr. Carolyn Bramante, the lead researcher on the study.
The team’s study is now at least the third large-scale study on ivermectin released this year that found the drug is not effective in treating COVID-19.
5 INVESTIGATES started following the issue months ago, soon after fights to get the drug went from the hospital room to the courtroom.
Some patients filed lawsuits against hospitals and doctors that refused to prescribe the controversial drug.
“I’ve done a lot of research on it,” Kathy Huspek told 5 INVESTIGATES back in January for why she filed a lawsuit against St. John’s Hospital in Maplewood shortly after her husband Gerry was admitted to the ICU.
A judge refused to intervene, saying he cannot force a hospital to use a drug that is “not within the standard of care.”
Researchers at the U of M hope the new results help patients understand what actually works in treating COVID-19.
“The virus is changing. And so we need all the tools in the toolbox that we can get as we combat this virus,” Bramante said.
I have had IVM on hand for 20 months now, I have need to use it been taking the supplements since first week never missing a day!! My neighbor caught Covid about 8 months ago, she is 73, I started her immediately on ALL the supplants plus the IVM in 48 hours she was fine, no fever, no coughing and right back to herself again!! She fought me tooth and nail because of everything the media had been saying but on day 3 she felt so awful she called me and said she would take ANYTHING!! She was also vaxed AND boosted, she NOW does NOT BELIEVE a word the media OR Dr. Fauci says!! I have helped 2 neighbors so glad I decided to get the IVM from India early on!! I told BOTH neighbors to take the supplements EVERY DAY regardless of feeling better the vax may be causing the virus to spring up they need to strengthen their immune systems!! BOTH are doing great AND taking their supplements everyday!!!
check the FLCCC website
Actually, this study proved NOTHING. It is shameful they published it. The confidence level was 0.19 to 2.77. When a confidence level crosses 1, what does it mean?
“If the 95% confidence interval of the RR or OR includes the value 1, that means it is possible the true value is 1 and there is no difference between groups. If that is the case, we say the null hypothesis cannot be rejected or that there is no statistically significant difference shown.”
https://www.stomponstep1.com/confidence-interval-interpretation-95-confidence-interval-90-99/
Watch out for “courcetin.” It has nasty side effects.
You might try quercetin, instead.
Yeah....there’s that. I just don’t trust them any more. They have shown to be willing to do and say anything.
Sure was for me and about a billion Indians
John's got his number hanging from the rafters at Gonzaga, but he had to give up his season tickets last year, because he wouldn't wear a mask.
Most Zag alumni living in the Pacific NW are virulently anti-Trump, and believe everything what Fauci and the CDC are saying. I was suspended two weeks from the Hoops Board for dropping a Brandon reference on a post...lol.
Ivermectin should never be given to our politicians or govt bureaucrats
It doesn’t work.
Done.
More for the rest of us…
Vaccines function by preventing disease-causing infection.
The mRNA injections famously do not prevent disease-causing infection.
The mRNA injections are not vaccines.
Therapeutics (treatments) function by getting infections under control, reducing major symptoms over time, and helping the bidy ultimately defeat infections, returning the patients to health.
The mRNA injections are said to be effective in keeping those who are infected with COVID-19 out of the hospital and protecting them from dying.
The mRNA injections are (prophylactic) treatments.
“Studies” like this are frequently rigged. Ivermectin does work.
...In summary, the collective review of recent efforts suggests that IVM has a prophylactic effect and would be a strong candidate for clinical trials to treat SARS-CoV-2.
Thank God you went to an open minded physician who didn’t go by the useless protocol issued by the CDC and the AMA.
They should interview people who’ve recovered from COVID using ivermectin; I personally know of twenty people who’ve used the horse version and recovered.
He’s an American Frontline doctor. Our family, and many others, swear by him.
200 million people in India would disagree. Probably more.
Just remember this when in the early ‘emergency’ days of Covid 19 and prior to the Big Pharma vax’s the govt alphabet elites put the kabosh on both Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin. Dr Fraudci back in 2005 noted that Hydroxychloroquine was somewhat effective against coronaviruses yet discouraged it’s use in a time of ‘ national emergency’. Speaks volumes to their corruptions on high.
Additionally, doctors who have been successful with Ivermectin and HCQ have done so in combination with zinc and an antibiotic. These 'clinical studies' NEVER use the combinations.
I need to go read the study. This may be same study I saw recently - key question is did they also administer zinc? If not study was designed to show failure of ivermectin. They have known for quite some time that ivermectin, HCQ and Quercetin are zinc ionophores- they help by driving zinc into cells. Drug without the zinc is useless . And I don’t care what anyone says- it worked for us and people we know. I’ll take my chances with a drug that likely will not hurt me under the circumstances over any experiment government pushes
Here's the original study.
Randomized trial of Metaformin, Ivermectin and Fluvoxamine for Covid-19
The Paresemus Foundation was one of the funders of this study, which determined all three drugs they tested didn't work.
But the Parsemus Foundation has an August 2022 banner that features THE SAME STUDY and says it demonstrates that Metaformin is effective against Covid.
https://www.parsemus.org/2022/08/metformin-reduces-serious-outcomes-of-covid-19/
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