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U.S. Insurers Wasted Millions on Ivermectin for Covid-19, Study Finds
Gizmodo ^ | 1/14/22 | Ed Cara

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: anthonyfauci; covid; covidstooges; edcara; gizmodonewspuppet; insurance; ivermectin; obamacare; projectveritas; rona; study; thewaronivermectin; vaccinemandates; waronivermectin
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To: Libloather
despite little good evidence that ivermectin does anything to treat or prevent the viral illness

There is no one so blind as he who does will not see.

In the meantime, what about the growing evidence that the "vaccines" do not work?

61 posted on 01/15/2022 7:54:57 AM PST by Petrosius
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To: Libloather

Well billions wasted on a leaky “vaccination”. Fauci shut down anybody trying to prescribe losr cost, but effective Ivermectin treatment.


62 posted on 01/15/2022 7:57:37 AM PST by parmamenian (and so it goes!)
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To: Baldwin

“Now do Remdesiver.”


Yup. Correlated with life insurance claims...


63 posted on 01/15/2022 8:00:42 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: DugwayDuke

Deny all you want. Reality bites. And keeps on reasserting itself.

This is not discussion, it is suppression. The ONLY reason the highly experimental mRNA injections were even allowed to be used is for the “emergency use only” designation, which meant the TOTAL repression of ANY other potential effective treatment, including also monoclonal antibodies, which are somehow being kept in greatly restricted distribution right now, and the hydroxychloroquine-zinc-azithromycin protocol, also proved to be highly effective in STOPPING the progression of COVID-19 Wuhan virus into lung tissue, and wreaking its most damaging effects, resulting in a death very similar to pneumonia.

The mRNA injection has been WAY overused as a means of controlling the spread, that is like using a hammer to swat mosquitos. And if a hammer is the only tool you are allowed to use, then everything is subjected to hammering. Until you get a bigger hammer.

Natural immunity may wane over time, but that is measured in YEARS and not months or even weeks, as with the mRNA injections.


64 posted on 01/15/2022 8:03:50 AM PST by alloysteel (There are folks running the government who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches - Will Rogers)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

This.🤔


65 posted on 01/15/2022 8:14:35 AM PST by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: cableguymn

Yup they’re not vaccines🤔


66 posted on 01/15/2022 8:18:24 AM PST by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: Libloather

I LOVE these threads. I learn more from FR about Covid and treatments than from all the news I hear daily. It takes reading ONE thread, and following a link or two, and I’m more informed that the people telling us what to think.


67 posted on 01/15/2022 8:32:19 AM PST by Big Giant Head ( )
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To: DugwayDuke

“The vaccines are not ‘experimental’ and are fully approved so this argument fails.”

Only one “vaccine” has approval and it isn’t even on the market yet. Pfizer is still trying to get all of their stock used up of the EUA “vaccine” that is floating around out there in the market before they distribute their stocks of the full authorized version of their product. All the rest are still under EUA.


68 posted on 01/15/2022 8:33:42 AM PST by jurroppi1 (The Left doesn't have ideas, it has cliches. H/T Flick Lives)
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To: DugwayDuke

The lie is that claim that the vaccines are experimental and have not been fully approved.


no, the “approved” drug is not available. Go try and get a jab of it. You’ll get the EUA drug.


69 posted on 01/15/2022 8:41:30 AM PST by cableguymn
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To: jurroppi1

does the approved one open them up to liability claims?

if so I bet they never run out of the experimental one.


70 posted on 01/15/2022 8:44:45 AM PST by cableguymn
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To: Big Giant Head

I learn more from FR about Covid and treatments than from all the news I hear daily.
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Yes... and even though there is some BS mingled in there, the fact that ‘both sides’ do passionately make their cases, it does mean that it’s not a one-sided presentation, plus it all does help in solidifying one’s own views.

Having said that, I’ll be so happy when I never hear the word ‘covid’ again...


71 posted on 01/15/2022 8:52:29 AM PST by hecticskeptic
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To: Libloather

How many died????????


72 posted on 01/15/2022 8:53:22 AM PST by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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To: gleeaikin
2-F1-E5897-3-BA8-42-DA-80-BC-13-D391100347

check out the Remdesivir studies compared to Ivermectin

73 posted on 01/15/2022 9:20:27 AM PST by LilFarmer
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To: cableguymn

cableguymn wrote: “no, the “approved” drug is not available. Go try and get a jab of it. You’ll get the EUA drug.”

jurroppi1 wrote: “Only one “vaccine” has approval and it isn’t even on the market yet. Pfizer is still trying to get all of their stock used up of the EUA “vaccine” that is floating around out there in the market before they distribute their stocks of the full authorized version of their product. All the rest are still under EUA”

That is just a meaningless excuse. Comirnaty is just another name for Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. The two are identical and interchangeable.


74 posted on 01/15/2022 10:03:37 AM PST by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: Libloather

Dr. Fauci: Follow the science, go to Gizmodo.


75 posted on 01/15/2022 10:08:04 AM PST by Biblebelter
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To: Libloather

To believe this story, you must believe 50 million Indians in the Uttar Pradesh are all lying.

No matter, most of the corporate media is in bed with government to spread fear porn to the masses.

F’em.

5.56mm


76 posted on 01/15/2022 10:13:36 AM PST by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: Libloather

Follow the links to the JAMA published story. Authors were: Kao-Ping Chua, MD, PhD1; Rena M. Conti, PhD2; Nora V. Becker, MD, PhD3

These are the “scientists” to which Gizmodo is referring.


77 posted on 01/15/2022 10:19:11 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: DugwayDuke

No, only one has the approval. but I see you fell for that B.S. they tried to offer when they approved the vapor drug.

jab yourself all you want.

I’ll pass.


78 posted on 01/15/2022 10:30:27 AM PST by cableguymn
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To: cableguymn

cableguymn wrote: “No, only one has the approval. but I see you fell for that B.S. they tried to offer when they approved the vapor drug.”

No, you’re the one falling for the anti-vaxxer B.S. Here are the facts:

Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine (also known as COMIRNATY) Overview and Safety
Pfizer-BioNTech (COMIRNATY) Name Change
Pfizer-BioNTech (COMIRNATY) received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval on August 23, 2021, for individuals ages 16 years and older. Once vaccines are approved by the FDA, companies can market the vaccines under brand names. COMIRNATY is the brand name for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. After FDA approval, the FDA-authorized Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for individuals ages 16 years and older was marketed as COMIRNATY. No change was made to the vaccine’s formula with the name change.

The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine label remains for individuals ages 5–15 years since the vaccine is authorized but not yet approved for this age group.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different-vaccines/Pfizer-BioNTech.html


79 posted on 01/15/2022 10:43:13 AM PST by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: Sirius Lee

If Insurers paid for all that Ivermectin (being cheap, billions will buy a lot of it), then where is it?
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See Post #2...


80 posted on 01/15/2022 10:52:10 AM PST by Freedom56v2 (It's not the job of the unvaxxed to protect the vaxxed. That's the job of the "vaccine.")
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