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Why Is the FDA Attacking a Safe, Effective Drug? Ivermectin is a promising Covid treatment ...
The Wall Street Journal - Oligopolist Headquarters ^ | David R. Henderson and Charles L. Hooper

Posted on 07/29/2021 6:48:56 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie

The Food and Drug Administration claims to follow the science. So why is it attacking ivermectin, a medication it certified in 1996?

Earlier this year the agency put out a special warning that “you should not use ivermectin to treat or prevent COVID-19.” The FDA’s statement included words and phrases such as “serious harm,” “hospitalized,” “dangerous,” “very dangerous,” “seizures,” “coma and even death” and “highly toxic.”

Ivermectin fights 21 viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, the cause of Covid-19. A single dose reduced the viral load of SARS-CoV-2 in cells by 99.8% in 24 hours and 99.98% in 48 hours, according to a June 2020 study published in the journal Antiviral Research.

In 115 patients with Covid-19 who received a single dose of ivermectin, none developed pneumonia or cardiovascular complications, while 11.4% of those in the control group did. Fewer ivermectin patients developed respiratory distress (2.6% vs. 15.8%); fewer required oxygen (9.6% vs. 45.9%); fewer required antibiotics (15.7% vs. 60.2%); and fewer entered intensive care (0.1% vs. 8.3%). Ivermectin-treated patients tested negative faster, in four days instead of 15, and stayed in the hospital nine days on average instead of 15. Ivermectin patients experienced 13.3% mortality compared with 24.5% in the control group.

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If the FDA were driven by science and evidence, it would give an emergency-use authorization for ivermectin for Covid-19. Instead, the FDA asserts without evidence that ivermectin is dangerous.

At the bottom of the FDA’s warning against ivermectin is this statement: “Meanwhile, effective ways to limit the spread of COVID-19 continue to be to wear your mask, stay at least 6 feet from others who don’t live with you, wash hands frequently, and avoid crowds.” Is this based on the kinds of double-blind studies that the FDA requires for drug approvals? No.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: chinavirus; chinavirustreatment; fda; ivermectin; wsj
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To: Cinnamontea

this was earlier in the year so I dont know what they do now. Pretty sure you can get it if you have no symptoms.

The script gets sent to your pharmacy . You use the Medici app. There was a hiccup so my script got sent multiple times even though it was showing to them that it had not been sent.


41 posted on 07/29/2021 7:41:57 AM PDT by RummyChick (To President Trump: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3923111/posts)
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To: RummyChick

The thing is how does one know if a “leak” is genuine or disinformation? I would not put it past the elites to do this so as to keep both sides in the debate solidified in their own camps as a means of continuing societal unrest.


42 posted on 07/29/2021 7:43:57 AM PDT by Madam Theophilus
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To: Uncle Miltie

Want to bet Congress Critters carry this with them 24/7


43 posted on 07/29/2021 7:45:13 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: SoConPubbie

Oh gawd, not gas bag.....


44 posted on 07/29/2021 7:45:54 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Critical Race Theory: black behavior is so bad it must be whitey's fault.)
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To: Madam Theophilus

true. I didnt really look into any of it. Even if the guy who posted is legit it could have been conveniently leaked to him.

I dont know the details on how he got it


45 posted on 07/29/2021 7:47:16 AM PDT by RummyChick (To President Trump: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3923111/posts)
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To: Madam Theophilus
Additionally, if reports are accurate, one of the contractual conditions the pharmaceutical companies making vaccines required of governments was that they would inhibit the use of preexisting or repurposed drugs to treat COVID19.

I've read something similar, that the FDA can't push an experimental vaccine if effective treatments are available. Hence, the backlash against hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin. If they work, the government can't roll out an experimental vaccine. They have to go through the normal, years-long testing period.


46 posted on 07/29/2021 7:48:15 AM PDT by Cinnamontea
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To: RummyChick
Great info, thanks!

47 posted on 07/29/2021 7:49:16 AM PDT by Cinnamontea
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To: Uncle Miltie

The FDA is attacking Ivermectin because they can’t make any money off the sales. Also Fraudchi said don’t take it. Also, President Trump said to take it. It’s all about money and control.


48 posted on 07/29/2021 7:50:47 AM PDT by RobertoinAL
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To: Cinnamontea; RummyChick

I can’t afford the online doc appointment plus the cost of the pills which have ballooned since covid so my only option is the livestock version.

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https://drleemerritt.com/uploads/Calculating%20the%20Dose%20of%20Ivermectin.pdf

Dr Lee Merrit explains how she would go about calculating the dose of livestock version for human use.

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https://covid19criticalcare.com/covid-19-protocols/i-mass-protocol/

Recommended Ivermectin dosages for at home prevention and treatment of covid. There are no other items that require a prescription.

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https://covid19criticalcare.com/covid-19-protocols/i-mass-protocol/

Other protocols


49 posted on 07/29/2021 7:51:12 AM PDT by Pollard
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To: Pollard
I'll check these out. Thanks!

50 posted on 07/29/2021 7:52:27 AM PDT by Cinnamontea
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To: Uncle Miltie; All

Medical / drug manufactring experts told FN Maria Bartimoro, must be at least a month ago, that patents on ivermectin are expired. In other words, and this is my wording of what they said, instead of selling the feds arguably better, but less profitable ivermectin, Big Pharma is following the money by selling the feds CV19 experimental “vaccines” that are patented, and therefore more profitable.

Corrections, insights welcome.


51 posted on 07/29/2021 7:53:14 AM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Uncle Miltie

I’m thinking Ivermectin is for the important people/elites (
government, business execs, celebrities, etc) and vax injections are for us little people.

To wit, I am not aware of a single report of a single person in the above mentioned groups, or anybody in their families succumbing to COVID or having an adverse reaction to a vax injection which is very anomalous and statistically impossible Which makes me suspect none of them are actually receiving the vax, but probably saline injections for the cameras.


52 posted on 07/29/2021 7:58:00 AM PDT by Qui is (Biden spews and Harris wallows)
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To: Diogenesis

Perfect summation. That’s a keeper. Thanks. 👍


53 posted on 07/29/2021 8:00:25 AM PDT by Qui is (Biden spews and Harris wallows)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Colloidal silver the silver ion is the ultimate antibiotic and anti-viral the government knows this and they’ve been lying about it for years


54 posted on 07/29/2021 8:22:13 AM PDT by Truthoverpower (Arizona !!!! Now the TRUMP TRAIN is getting back on TRACK ! TRUTH! FREEDOM ! LIBERTY! )
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To: V_TWIN

Amen Brother.... Amen.


55 posted on 07/29/2021 8:41:18 AM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Why?

It is simple, Follow the money.

Pfizer just reported 3 billion profit.

If generic drugs will treat the Covid19, they cannot declare an emergency and force through unproven (mRNA) vaccines. The law only allows emergeny approval where there are no drugs to treat it.

That is why they won’t ever admit it works.

They have LIED from the beginning.


56 posted on 07/29/2021 9:06:41 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

So how does a person get a prescription for Ivermectin????

Where I live, all it takes is a doctor’s prescription and take it to the drug store. It is routinely done.

They game my 95 year old father a prescription for 3mg 4-times per day for 3 days. He no longer had any symptoms and quickly recovered. He did die in March of heart failure, but he did not have Covid.


57 posted on 07/29/2021 9:12:00 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Uncle Miltie

Cause it is cheep, and no one is raking in the money where as the new drugs are making a lot of money for the pharmasudicals.


58 posted on 07/29/2021 9:36:47 AM PDT by Joe Boucher
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To: Uncle Miltie

Big pharma can’t make money off of it.


59 posted on 07/29/2021 9:38:46 AM PDT by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. I will never be a peaceful slave in a somehow new Socialist America.)
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To: silverleaf

I got my 12 mg tablets from India. About 200 of them, they are cheap, but the shipping is not!


60 posted on 07/29/2021 10:16:25 AM PDT by ktw (72 ID, Finally Retired after 25 years!)
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