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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: Uncle Miltie
pubmed articles about treatment of covid with ivermectin
61 posted on 07/29/2021 11:29:41 AM PDT by mjp (pro-freedom & pro-wealth $)
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To: Presbyterian Reporter; silverleaf; Cinnamontea; ktw

no script needed here:

https://www.silverlinemedicare.com/

freepmail me if you’d like more information ...

[i SERIOUSLY DO NOT RECOMMEND consuming horse paste: NONE of the manufacturers list any other ingredients in the paste except for the percentage of ivermectin ...]


62 posted on 07/29/2021 1:35:58 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Cinnamontea
If they work, the government can't roll out an experimental vaccine. They have to go through the normal, years-long testing period. Under the law, AS CURRENTLY WRITTEN. In the face of a world wide medical emergency, they couldn’t write an exception into law to allow both use of promising drugs, whose safety was already better proven than any vaccine’s, which were already available and cheap, AND allow shortcuts for emergency development of vaccines. How long did it take to declare war after Pearl Harbor? How long did second Trump impeachment take?
63 posted on 07/29/2021 2:07:13 PM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (Biden/Harris press events are called dodo ops.)
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To: Presbyterian Reporter
"So how does a person get a prescription for Ivermectin????"

See this thread: Ivermectin research and sources

64 posted on 07/29/2021 4:29:34 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: ktw
"I got my 12 mg tablets from India. About 200 of them, they are cheap, but the shipping is not!"

They are cheap now, but they could become hard to get, and they are worth more than gold to someone who needs them. Everyone should buy far more than they need.

65 posted on 07/29/2021 4:32:36 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: RummyChick

horse paste?

aren’t there are binders and other chems in animal ivermectin paste that are toxic to the human liver? I read that somewhere, an Indian doctor defending ivermectin I believe


66 posted on 07/29/2021 5:53:48 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: Uncle Miltie

I”m starting to warm up to ivermectin. But only a little. It seems it might be a good alternative for youth, and better than nothing for vaccine deserts, but we run the risk that the virus can overcome it much easier than a vaccine, so there’s that.

From what i’m reading from the below (miles of technical stuff), ivermectin competes with the virus for Ace-2’s for docking. It seems to work somewhat against Wuhan-1 - in Indians - in early treatment. But, the dosing and timing isn’t consistent across the studies and the effectiveness is all over the map - 40-75% in interrupting mild disease (which most people would recover from naturally given 2% mortality avg and even with a 18% mortality)

And another But - will invermectin, (or has it already) caused the virus to mutate its ‘stickiness’ to outcompete ivermectin for docking sites? And is this why India drowned in their third wave? (did ivermectin spawn Delta/DeltaPlus?) Should we keep it out of the lineup, as a ‘last defense’ backup? Has it been challenged against potent mutations since the below studies from last last/early this year?

“28 cases among almost 4 billion doses with serious neurological adverse events, such as ataxia, altered consciousness, seizure, or tremor.”

studies and more studies and summations of studies:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8088823/

https://ivmmeta.com/#:~:text=%20%20%20%20%20%20Studies%20,%20%208%2C191%20%203%20more%20rows%20


67 posted on 07/29/2021 6:15:53 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: blueplum

People who use Ivermectin successfully use it with other things.


68 posted on 07/29/2021 6:22:31 PM PDT by TTFX ( )
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To: catnipman

Have you ordered from them?


69 posted on 08/06/2021 6:22:37 AM PDT by PigRigger
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

Tractor supply co or Amazon- for those of you with horses


70 posted on 08/06/2021 6:29:09 AM PDT by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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