Posted on 01/15/2022 4:59:57 AM PST by Libloather
Researchers analyzing insurance claims data estimate that U.S. insurers have paid tens of millions of dollars for ivermectin as a covid-19 treatment, despite little good evidence that ivermectin does anything to treat or prevent the viral illness. During a single week in August 2021, private and Medicare insurance plans forked over about $2.5 million for covid-related prescriptions of ivermectin, according to the new study, published Thursday in JAMA.
Ivermectin is a cheap and effective antiparasitic that’s been in wide use for around 40 years. At the start of the pandemic, it was one of many existing drugs to receive a second look as a possible antiviral treatment for covid-19, based on early lab results. During the past two years, however, the field of covid-related research on ivermectin has been riddled with poor quality data and allegations of widespread fraud. There are still important ongoing studies of ivermectin for covid-19, but the largest and likely most rigorous trials to date have found no clear benefit for the drug in either treating or preventing covid-19.
This lack of solid evidence hasn’t stopped ivermectin from being adopted as the covid treatment of choice by some people and doctors. These devotees tend to be politically right-wing and espouse unsupported claims about the dangers of vaccines. They’re also, strangely enough, often dismissive about the pandemic, downplaying its harms even as they stock up on drugs like ivermectin to seemingly stay safe.
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Wonderful.
If insurance thinks it is a ‘waste’, then why were hundreds of congressmen being prescribed it?
https://www.worldtribune.com/report-ivermectin-used-by-100-members-of-congress-and-their-staff/
If Insurers paid for all that Ivermectin (being cheap, billions will buy a lot of it), then where is it?
sorry (m)illions
Meanwhile docs released by Project Veritas show that the military knew HCQ and Ivermectin were effective against COVID. Gizmodo is a little behind in the news.
Author is full of horse apples.
Hmmmm . . . I wonder how many billions of dollars were wasted on the “vaccine”, which also apparently doesn’t work?
A pitiful piece. Don’t you idiots know covid was designed to kill you? There ain’t no cure.
You forgot the barf alert on this left wing drivel.
” the largest and likely most rigorous trials to date have found no clear benefit for the drug in either treating or preventing covid-19.” what? can’t link to the studies?
Now do Remdesiver.
This type of agenda-driven reporting is pretty pathetic. I hope no one takes this author seriously.
They could sell it cheap on ebay. Might last ten minutes. Sad it is not being used.
Glad it worked for you!
the insurers WASTED millions because they want
the patients to die. after all, they already paid
for their insurance.
THIS IS A SCAM to withhold treatment to murder.
Unbiased “news” story.
Wonder how much he’s been paid by Pfizer?
I see your h paste millions and raise you billions on tests and vaccines that didn’t work.
Taxpayers spent that much on Fauci, Wolenski, and Becerra--talk about wasted spending.
Still keeping up the propaganda. Ivermectin is not MERELY an antiparasitic, it has other traits and characteristics as well. Researchers have not even yet found all the therapeutic uses for common aspirin, originally only for headaches, but has since become known for a treatment for arthritis and blood clots, and it may even be also effective to some degree against several of the symptoms of COVID-19.
Ivermectin has NOT been fully researched, and in fact, there is HUGE resistance to permitting even the studies to be made. If ivermectin does, in fact, prove to be a safe and highly effective treatment, then that destroys the reason for the emergency use authorization now designated for the various highly experimental mRNA injection protocols in common practice.
The mRNA injection is a useful tool, but it is very badly misused. It cures nothing, it does not prevent subsequent contracting of the disease, it is doubtful if it even shortens in any or reduces the severity of the illness, and it seems to fail after only a few months. Add to that the sometimes severe side effects of nerve damage and problems with inflammation of muscles throughout the body, especially the heart, and you have a strong case for removing this witch’s brew from the market altogether.
Couple that with the fact that natural immunity from having once had the disease appears to be far more effective than the injections ever were, and that even the mild form of the omicron variant seems to confer this same immunity to those patients who have it, it appears that herd immunity has been achieved. This is good news for the most of us, and bad news for the power brokers unwilling to surrender their temporary and quite questionable authority. The fact that perhaps only about 10% of all the COVID-19 Wuhan virus-related deaths were actually to be attributed to the virus itself, and not some other comorbidity, makes the
“plandemic” all the more implausible.
The “plandemic” may in fact, be a sinister plot by those questionable power brokers, to fundamentally change what is known as the “capitalistic” economic system, by introducing artificial shortages by interfering with the supply chain or applying “emergency” restrictions and limitations on international and domestic trade policies. Lockdowns and a compulsory mandate that all persons keep “social distancing” and wear face masks, none of which has proven to have the least degree of protection against the spread of the virus, virtually closed down places of business, schools, and social gatherings of all kinds. Talk about blowing up the social order, the process could not have gone on more effectively than it has up to now.
And now tyranny all over the world has to be countered, and where possible, overthrown.
It is a lie.
There is no way insurers paid tens of millions of dollars for Ivermectin when so many doctors refused to prescribe it, and so many pharmacies refused to fill prescriptions. This has to be a bald faced lie.
Meanwhile, we have spent a trillion dollars on worthless “vaccines”.
All they can do is lie and spew propaganda. It is what fascists do.
The question for Ivermectin effectiveness in tests depends on whether or not zinc and other important items were also used. The study linked below was quite successful using HCQ as an IONOPHORE (Googele this). Ivermectin is also an ionophore. An important finding of this study is very high numbers of their hospitalized subjects were deficient or severely deficient in Vitamin D. None were optimum. The one death was extremely difficient with comorbidities. Getting your D levels into the optimum range could be the biggest life saver of all. Note: in the US, D levels are measured in ng/ml which are 40% of the measure used in this study. In other words, a measure of 100 in this study is 40 ng/ml in USg/ml. US optimum is around 50 to 80 ng/ml.
The successful massive public health effort in Uttar Pradesh, India used a similar formulation using Ivermectin rather than HCQ. A 75 year old friend in upper NY state went to the hospital recently with a harsh cough. He tested positive for both flu and Covid. They gave him BENZONATATE for the cough and he immediately stopped coughing and had a good sleep. Left the hospital in 3 days. Had also been using Vitamin D and C, and zinc with some regularity and was recovering from a badly broken leg. The Mayo Clinic link below has detailed information on this medicine. My brother was given 100 mg tablets to use 3 times a day. The cough cleared quickly so he still as a lot left for future coughs.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/benzonatate-oral-route/precautions/drg-20062223?p=1
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