Posted on 04/13/2021 6:34:54 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Dr Surya Kant said it was only after Australia started including Ivermectin in its protocol for COVID-19 treatment significantly, the WHO started thinking about the drug.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently recommended that antiparasitic drug Ivermectin must be used to treat COVID-19 patients within the clinical trials only. The WHO sighted lack of conclusive data behind this recommendation, which is applicable to “patients with COVID-19 of any disease severity.” Despite this, some states – including Uttar Pradesh (UP) and Maharashtra – are using the drug off-label for not only the treatment of coronavirus patients but also as prophylaxis against COVID-19. Ivermectin, also referred to as a ‘wonder drug’ by many, is usually used to treat parasitic infections like onchocerciasis (river blindness), trichuriasis, scabies, strongyloidiasis, and other diseases caused by soil-transmitted helminthiasis. But, Uttar Pradesh (UP) has prescribed it as part of a protocol to treat mild and moderate cases of COVID-19.
Moreover, rapid response teams in the state have been ordered to distribute Ivermectin to people under home isolation. The teams of doctors who assess asymptomatic patients are even asking primary and secondary contacts of confirmed cases to take this drug in order to prevent any possible infection. When asked about the decision to continue the usage of the drug for the treatment of COVID-19, Dr Surya Kant Tripathi – Head, Respiratory Medicine Department, King George Medical University, Lucknow – told Financial Express Online that Ivermectin is being used both for the treatment of coronavirus patients and as prophylaxis for COVID-19 for more than nine months without any major side effects being reported.
“The drug is being majorly used for the treatment of COVID-19 when patients are under home isolation and also in all mild cases of the disease. It is true that we have not used the drug in severe cases. But this is also a fact that even healthcare workers shifted from the prophylaxis of hydroxychloroquine to Ivermectin. This is because we observed that 17 per cent of healthcare workers using hydroxychloroquine developed one or another kind of side effects,” Dr Surya Kant – who is also national vice chairman of IMA-AMS – said.
It must be noted that Dr Surya Kant, along with some other health experts of India, wrote a white paper on Ivermectin last year and it was displayed on the website of the World Health Organization. Dr Surya Kant also emphasized that this drug reduces the replication rate of the infection by several thousand times. It was only after this white paper when Uttar Pradesh (UP) government started using the drug. UP was the first state to use Ivermectin for treatment of COVID-19 and it has been extensively used since then, the doctor of KGMU said.
“Not only Uttar Pradesh, governments of West Bengal, Maharashtra, and Assam too included Ivermectin in their protocol for the treatment of COVID-19,” he added.
When asked about the lack of clinical trial data on Ivermectin, Dr Surya Kant said that over 40 such trials are underway, and not one has reported any major side effects yet. “More than 40 clinical trials are underway, including eight in India. This includes the most prestigious institute in India i.e. AIIMS Delhi. The trial underway at AIIMS is also on five different types of doses of Ivermectin, which is a very important issue. So, all kinds of trials are underway. My whitepaper was published in the month of July 2020. In the whitepaper, 19 Indian experts have contributed. They collected and compiled all data available on Ivermectin since 1981, when the drug was introduced to the world. Both researchers (William C. Campbell of US and Satoshi Ōmura from Japan) who discovered this drug won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering this drug. It has got more than four properties – anti-viral, anti-parasitic, anti-cancer, and even anti-HIV. This is a wonderful drug, low cost, widely available and used for last 40 years throughout the world.”
He went on to say that anti-viral drug remdesivir has failed drastically. “All trials are saying that this drug is not effective in the treatment of COVID-19, rather it is complicating and resulting in mortality of patients. At so many centers, remdesivir trails were stopped. Also, remdesivir is costing minimum of Rs 5,000 per vial.
Dr Surya Kant said it was only after Australia started including Ivermectin in its protocol for COVID-19 treatment significantly, the WHO started thinking about the drug.
“Australia has triple therapy protocol for COVID-19 which includes Ivermectin, Zinc, and Doxycycline. This is being widely used in Australia and it controlled the spread of COVID-19 very well. Bangladesh too has successfully implemented this protocol of Ivermectin. It was only after Australia successfully controlled the disease, WHO started talking about this ‘wonder drug’,” he said.
When asked whether he would approach the WHO over its recommendation, the national vice chairman of IMA – AMS said he has not read the complete recommendations of the WHO. “But I will go through it and will definitely write back to them,” Dr Surya Kant said.
Why not go through a US doc/pharm?>>>>>>>>>>>>>
You can if you can convince your doctor to write prescription for the three constituent medications.
But then we do not have a kit like Ziverdo , which is produced authentically and lawfully in India, along with Moderna and Astrazenaca vaccines.The West is way behind the rest of the world in producing effective drug therapies both as treatment and prophylaxis.
You can order Ziverdo from India, it takes about 3 weeks to a month to arrive here. Many of us here on FR have ordered and received it months ago after studying Dr, Pierre Kory’s work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VQcKdP7BQc
With the proliferation of variants which are not susceptible to our vaccines, we will likely need to make repurposed drugs available to everyone, and if not, many will die.Its just a fact.
Those with foresight have prepared. You also can order the 15 minute Abbot test on line now as well.People should also get them.
Never mind that India has >150,000 cases at this time..>
India is very densly populated,unlike our country.
Thats why they use Ivermectin. With variant proliferation, we will not be far behind them in some US locations.
India is giving it out @ $2.65 to their people. Rather a steep increase on that site.
India has a population of nearly 1.4 billion. Four time that of the USA.
Early on, during the pandemic, we had ordered some meds from India....but, ended up not taking them/throwing them out (after waiting weeks!:). Something about them did just not look right. But, I’m glad that you/others have found this source.
We’re fortunate that our family doc has precsribed both HCQ and Ivermectin, along with the necessary antibiotics, to go with.
We know friends (and FRiends) who’ve been able to order these meds from Speak with an MD (??) (teledoc) and then have the Rx’s filled either locally, or by mail.
LOL....math’s hard ;-)
BM
“Never mind that India has >150,000 cases at this time...”
And with a population of 1.366 billion, your point is???
Most all people in India, and China, get the BCG vaccine.
Only about 15% of the U.S. population gets the BCG vaccine, because unlike India or China the U.S. has a much lower rate of active TB cases.
But for some as yet undiagnosed reason, persons who have had the BCG vaccine have a lower rate of obtaining a Wuhan Virus infection than do persons who have not had the BCG vaccination.
I think the BCG vaccination, without being aimed at the Wuhan Virus, is inducing some generalized immune system response that interferes in the Wuhan Virus route to infection.
https://www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/study-tb-vaccine-linked-to-lower-risk-of-contracting-covid-19/
That study, and China and India’s rates of BCG vaccinations (90+% of population), may point to the lower rates of infection in India and China, compared to the U.S.
This kit contains Zinc Acetate. How does that compare with some of the other forms of zinc such as Gluconate or Zinc mono methionine chelate complex?
Fabtastic graphic. I posted it on Facebook along with the words of Doctor, Dina Goldin.
Cnada is in an awful fix in Ontario especially, which has run our of vaccine and the Feds have no more. Their ICU beds are full and the variants run rampant. Premier Ford was on TV last night begging for vaccine help from the USA. Trudeau is using the c=vaccine as a political weapon against Ford’s conservative government, by limiting vaccine distribution via federal favoritism of its preferred recipients, and restricting supply sources to Europe, excluding the USA as a source.The USA is sitting omn ,illions opf Astrazeneca vaccine it has not been approved for use in the USA, but Trudeau will not go after it by request to Biden .
Nor will Public Health Canada deploy Ivermectin as a therapy. Trudeau can’t walk and chew gum at the same time..
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