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To: gas_dr
How do stand on IVERMECTIN (which a majority of doctors refused and still refuse to prescribe)?


98 posted on 12/17/2022 5:21:40 AM PST by stars & stripes forever ( Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. ~ Psalm 33:12)
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To: stars & stripes forever

It is at best weakly useful. Certainly does nothing for advanced disease when we had delta. For every study cherry picked in that graph there are studies that show it does nothing.

When COVID was dangerous (a genetic shift) ivermectin did not save lives. The only and proven treatment was monoclonal prior to 10 days.

As for today corona virus is back to a cold. There is no reason to treat it at all. Most positive tests are incidental or people who really really really want to know

We need to stop broad treating and call it a day. If you have risk and you want updated vaccination get it. If you don’t have risk skip it. As I have always said this is a choice

As for ivermectin there is no reason to treat COVID omicron with anything. It runs its course and is over. But ivermectin did not work to stop delta progression to death.


109 posted on 12/17/2022 6:09:52 AM PST by gas_dr (Conditions of Socratic debate: Intelligence, Candor, and Good Will)
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To: stars & stripes forever; gas_dr
Re: 98 - That web-site has credibility issues on how they represent study results.

An example, I picked one study at "random" (haha):

Mirahmadizadeh et al. Efficacy of single‐dose and double‐dose ivermectin early treatment in preventing progression to hospitalization in mild COVID ‐19: A multi‐arm, parallel‐group randomized, double‐blind, placebo‐controlled trial

Mirahmadizadeh et al., Respirology, doi:10.1111/resp.14318

and at c19ivm.org at https://c19ivm.org/mirahmadizadeh.html

Here what the study authors wrote:

"RCT with 131 24mg ivermectin, 130 12mg ivermectin, and 130 placebo patients, showing no significant differences in outcomes. Lower ventilation and hospitalization was seen with treatment, in a dose-dependent manner, but not reaching statistical significance with the small number of events."

Yet the intellectual titans at c19ivm.org list this study as one with a POSITIVE outcome! How? Who the hell knows. But the study has lots of green in the charts that c19ivm.org uses. And that green is misleading.

The study authors write one thing and c19ivm.org writes another.

Read what c19ivm.org claims studies show warily.

119 posted on 12/17/2022 6:34:00 AM PST by Fury
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