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Republican Lawmakers Question Attacks on Ivermectin as COVID-19 Treatment
The Epoch Times ^
| September 29, 2021
| Salena Zito
Posted on 09/29/2021 11:35:27 AM PDT by yoe
WASHINGTON–A group of Republican lawmakers threw their support behind doctors who advocate for the right to use ivermectin, an inexpensive antiparasitic drug, for treating COVID-19.
(Ivermectin) is the latest drug caught in controversy after demand surged dramatically in August. Physician and pharmacist groups, including the American Medical Association
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chinavirustreatment; ivermectin
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Reminds me of the weaponizing of Hydroxychloroquine, a cheap therapeutic but because President Trump mentioned it, it was banished and many who could have benefited by it, even saving lives...Trump was right about this also.....
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posted on
09/29/2021 11:35:27 AM PDT
by
yoe
To: yoe
If the medical profession would start uning Ivermectin the Pandemic would be over. In fact, it could have been over in March of 2020.
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posted on
09/29/2021 11:38:40 AM PDT
by
chopperk
To: yoe
Did they send a letter yet?
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posted on
09/29/2021 11:42:31 AM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“I believe the best social program is a job” ~ Ronald Reagan)
To: yoe
Congress is always ahead of the curve.
To: yoe
HCQ is purported to be useful in the early stage of infection while IVM is said to be useful at any stage.
HCQ is somewhat similar to the old British gin and tonic that was used in India to fend of bouts of malaria, a serious condition...
Quinine comes from tree bark, the cinchona tree... and is what is in tonic water.
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posted on
09/29/2021 11:44:45 AM PDT
by
Bobalu
(The plan must be to distract from Afghanistan by doing something even more stupid )
To: Bobalu
"HCQ is somewhat similar to the old British gin and tonic that was used in India to fend of bouts of malaria, a serious condition..."Also used by us Vietnam vets for malaria prevention. One tablet every day while in country. As for me, No malaria - No side effects.
To: yoe
Ain’t going to happen. Current law doesn’t allow experimental vaccines if an approved treatment exists. Vaccines bring is 100 times more money.
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posted on
09/29/2021 11:55:18 AM PDT
by
aimhigh
(THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
To: yoe
They attack any treatment that seems effective as a prophylactic against Covid. It's as if their #1 priority is not treating Covid effectively, but forcing every to take the vaccines and punishing those who don't.
If I were a cartoonist, I'd draw a picture of two men arm-wrestling, a huge, snarling guy with "Big Pharma" and "Big Government" tattooed on his muscular arm, versus a small guy wearing a t-shirt that says "No Vax Mandates." The big guy would be saying, "Take the jab, or else!"
To: yoe
I think the Trump/HCQ thing set the tone for everything that followed. In the minds of the media, any remedy or palliative other than the vaccines reminded them of Trump and HCQ, so they instinctively opposed them. And they even questioned the vaccines until Biden became president. Suddenly, the vaccines became like a sacrament, bestowing sanctity and virtue on all who took them.
To: yoe
To: yoe
OK. So I just dropped by the house of an old friend I had re-aquainted with last weekend at a memorial service. After the service we talked a lot about Covid and vaccinations and therapies. She has a pretty significant auto-immune condition and I think all the meds she is taking is making her half loonie... Anyway, during the conversation I started to get the impression she was a liberal so I thought I would push her buttons a little and brought up IVM and HCQ. Oh boy, that did it. She started talking about how studies show they don't work and blah blah blah blah blah... Then she proceeded to say that her doctor had prescribed her some HCQ and she tried it and it made her swell up so she quit taking them. Well, instead of challenging her on the effectiveness of HCQ and IVM ALONG with other easily obtained vitamins I chose to simply ask "hey, do you think I can take those off your hands then?". She said she would give them to me but if I didn't want them she would sell them to some backwoods redneck that thought they would work...ha ha ha.
So I went over to her house today and picked them up. Once I had them in my hot little hand, I proceeded to let her know the flaws in the studies she was citing telling her that the HCQ is not effective without the companion vitamin regimen and that was the flaw in the studies. They only used HCQ and IVM without the required vitamin regimen. She looked at me like I just jumped off a flying saucer because she had never heard about that in all her research which according to her is quite extensive.
I think what we have here is a bad case of 'confirmation bias'. At least I gave her something new to research and perhaps she will start to figure out she is being lied to.
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posted on
09/29/2021 12:17:44 PM PDT
by
copaliscrossing
(The truth is always your friend.)
To: chopperk
"If the medical profession would start uning Ivermectin the Pandemic would be over. In fact, it could have been over in March of 2020."Sad, but likely true. 😞
The most shocking part of the past year and a half of Covid, has been witnessing the scheming, lying, and callous disregard of many formerly respected, healthcare (Where is the "care"?) "professionals" for humanity.
It has been a real eye opener, to say the least.
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posted on
09/29/2021 12:21:45 PM PDT
by
Pajamajan
( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. I will never b.e a peaceful slave in a new socialist America.)
To: yoe
Please Lord, let them withstand the evil of big pharma money and totalitarian power hungry politicians who do NOT want to end this biowarfare attack …
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posted on
09/29/2021 12:53:25 PM PDT
by
silverleaf
(In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
To: chopperk
As it is happening in India. For example, in the state of Uttar Pradesh the number of new cases per day is 15 (state population 246 M). Whereas in the US (population 330M, comparable) the rate is ~20,000 daily new cases, roughly a thousand times higher. Vaccination rate is also approximately five times higher in the US…
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posted on
09/29/2021 1:08:33 PM PDT
by
exinnj
To: aimhigh
100 times? More like 10,000 times.
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posted on
09/29/2021 1:17:37 PM PDT
by
Eagles6
(Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
To: yoe
“According to Kory, FDA approval for ivermectin use to treat COVID-19 is not required for off-label prescriptions. Off-label use refers to using an approved drug to treat a different type of disease that the drug is not approved to treat. Nearly 20 percent of all prescriptions written in the United States are off-label.
There are now threats from medical boards to take away licenses from doctors who prescribe ivermectin, Kory said.”
Three reasons why this is happening:
1. Big Pharma making big money on their patented meds and vaccines.
2. Medical-related entities (MD’s, hospitals, universities, etc.) accepting “gifts” from Big Pharma.
3. Congress-critters accepting gifts from Big Pharma.
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posted on
09/29/2021 2:16:45 PM PDT
by
RouxStir
(No peein' in the gene pool.)
To: exinnj
It’s Uttarly ridiculous this drug is not over the counter in the US.
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posted on
09/29/2021 2:39:52 PM PDT
by
week 71
To: yoe
A group of Republican lawmakers is supporting doctors who advocate for the right to use ivermectin, an inexpensive antiparasitic drug, for treating COVID-19. What's stopping them? Other than vague threats from unnamed 'medical boards' which may or may not be able to do anything to them?
To: Steve_Seattle
Punish those who won’t take the vaccine.
Punish those who advertise other effective treatments.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
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posted on
09/29/2021 3:45:06 PM PDT
by
c-five
To: yoe
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posted on
09/29/2021 5:22:49 PM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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