cpdiii wrote: “Do you work for Pfizer? I looked at your multiple posts and you have been touting the MRNA line.”
That’s one of the oldest internet strategies to cast doubt on someone’s credibility by accusing them of a having a financial interest. Not so. I’ve never worked for a biological or pharmaceutical corporation.
I’m not touting the mRNA line. I am posting facts that contradict the false and misleading information posted by the anti-vaxxer cult.
cpdiii wrote: “Speaking of Pfizer the former VP and head of research is anti the use of this MRNA shot, it is not a vaccine. He is not an antivaxer and is very much in favor of vaccines. MRNA tech does not create a vaccine. He knows a hell of a lot more about this MRNA shot than I or anyone posting on this board.”
This statement contains several misstatements.
Yeardon was not the former VP and head of research for Pfizer. Yeardon was a vice president and chief scientific officer for Pfizer’s United Kingdom-based allergy and respiratory unit until that unit shut down in 2011.
And just to be clear, the division had nothing to do with vaccines or infectious diseases. It was focused on developing drugs to treat asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Yeardon is a conspiracy kook. For example: he has claimed the vaccines are a conspiracy to depopulate the world.
The mRNA vaccines are vaccines. The anti-vaxxers promulgate the false statement that they are not in a blatant attempt to cast doubt on the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines by refusing to acknowledge they fit the definition of a vaccine. Vaccine, “a substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a synthetic substitute, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease.
cpdiii wrote: “It should be noted that Japan is now using and recommending the use of ivermectin. It should be noted that Japan is now using and recommending the use of ivermectin. You ranted against its use and you are wrong.”
It should also be noted that the countries that have recommended the use of ivermectin have withdrawn their recommendation because of a lack of credible evidence that ivermectin is effective in treating COVID.
For example:
There is very little to support the effectiveness of ivermectin (or HCQ) for that matter.
Here’s a couple of articles that directly address the shortcomings of this “Sad Lesson”:
No data available to suggest a link between India’s reduction of COVID-19 cases and the use of ivermectin
“Given the short span of time between the release of the guideline and the beginning of the decline in daily cases, specifically ten days, as well as the significant size of India’s territory and population, it seems highly unlikely that this guideline would have led to a nationwide uptake of ivermectin by a significant enough number of patients to already impact the evolution of the daily number of new cases.”
And, since the anti-vaxxers like Youtube videos:
Indian govt ditches most popular drugs in new COVID-19 treatment plan | Ivermectin | Doxycycline
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3efhzEeFVjg
Or in text format:
The Union Health Ministry and Family Welfare’s directorate general of health services (DGHS) has issued revised guidelines to stop the use of Ivermectin and Doxycycline in Covid-19 treatment. The new guidelines have dropped all medicines, except antipyretic and antitussive, for asymptomatic and mild cases.
It’s really amusing that the anti-vaxxers rant about the vaccines not be fully approved but are all in favor of drugs not approved to treat COVID.
Tokyo’s Medical Assoc. Chairman holds live press conference recommending #ivermectin to all doctors, for all Covid patients. Japan’s government is one of the most conservative and cautious in the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkWOpFk1GGk
Global adoption of ivermectin treatment for Covid https://ivmstatus.com/
Existing affordable drugs could rapidly reduce Covid-19 cases and deaths in India
May 11, 2021, 12:15 PM IST Vikas P. Sukhatme and Vidula V. Sukhatme in Voices, India, TOI
(Vikas P. Sukhatme MD, ScD, is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Medicine, Dean of Emory University School of Medicine, and Chief Academic Officer of Emory Healthcare)
The FDA-approved drug ivermectin inhibits the replication of SARS-CoV-2 in vitro
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166354220302011
Attenuation of clinical and immunological outcomes during SARS-CoV-2 infection by ivermectin
EMBO Mol Med (2021)13:e14122https://doi.org/10.15252/emmm.202114122
Elucidation of the inhibitory activity of ivermectin with host nuclear importin α and several SARS-CoV-2 targets
https://doi.org/10.1080/07391102.2021.1911857
Ivermectin for COVID-19: real-time meta analysis of 63 studies
https://ivmmeta.com
The broad spectrum host-directed agent ivermectin as an antiviral for SARS-CoV-2 ?
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2020.10.042
COVID Deaths Plunge After Mexico City Introduces Ivermectin
https://principia-scientific.com/covid-deaths-plunge-after-mexico-city-introduces-ivermectin/