Posted on 12/24/2020 7:38:19 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The anti-parasite drug ivermectin has recently garnered attention as a drug that could prevent the transmission of COVID-19 and perhaps even treat the symptoms.
The "data show that ivermectin is effectively a 'miracle drug' against COVID-19," Dr. Pierre Kory said in testimony last week in front of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Kory, a pulmonary and critical care specialist at Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center in Milwaukee, is a member of a group of doctors calling themselves the Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance. The FLCCC Alliance has published a review of the research that it claims shows that not only can ivermectin prevent COVID-19, it can also improve outcomes for COVID-19 patients.
Yet critics are highly skeptical. Georgi Momekov, a faculty member in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Sofia in Bulgaria, said the review contains "several flaws [that] significantly limit the possibility to use it as a guide for evidence-based conclusions and practice recommendations."
Indeed, the evolution of perceptions of ivermectin as a COVID-19 remedy has in some ways copied that of hydroxychloroquine. That drug was highly touted as a possible treatment for COVID-19 after President Trump said in March he was taking it. The Food and Drug Administration even gave hydroxychloroquine a compassionate use authorization as a treatment for COVID-19. It later rescinded it after more research showed the drug was not effective at treating the virus.
But Kory claims that the case of ivermectin is different.
"That is a conclusion based on interpretation of a number of trials," Kory told the Washington Examiner. "And the magnitude of the difference between the controls and the intervention with ivermectin is dramatic and large."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
No, apple flavored oral tube for horses.
Any theories as to why an anti-parasitic would be bad news for a virus? I find this puzzling. If all you've got is guesswork, it's still better than mine!
Our NH new cases have dropped 50% in a week, but inpatient census has never been higher (10-14 day lag to get sick enough). Rounds today were tough.
Merry Christmas.
Ivermectin is actually a macrolide like a Zithromax Macrolides have antiviral and anti-inflammatory activity. Why ivermectin over any other? I wish I had an answer. But it does work.
Thanks doe the update. We are in the same boat here but cases down. It seems we are about 5 days ahead of you.
God bless and stay safe.
I believe there is a Federal law that requires all pharmas made for animals be made to the same standards as pharmas for humans. But they have to give you the warning.
We have tubes of that stuff, in our barn. We also have gallons of the pour on, for the cows.
Thank you for the advice.
It turns out my niece works at an HCA hospital in Florida, so the few times anyone in my family has needed hospital care there, they’ve gone to that hospital.
Any idea how I would convince someone in my family to switch hospitals?
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