Posted on 02/01/2022 9:56:50 AM PST by Red Badger
A recently published study indicating the anti-parasitic ivermectin worked well as a prophylactic against the virus that causes COVID-19 should help sway critics of the drug, according to Dr. Pierre Kory, president of the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC).
“That should convince any naysayer,” Kory told The Epoch Times’ “American Thought Leaders.” “What they found was astounding.”
The Brazilian city of Itajaí launched a program that gave ivermectin to any residents that wanted any. The period that was studied was from July 7, 2020, to December 2, 2020.
Researchers found that the program, which had over 100,000 residents participate, was linked to a 44 percent drop in COVID-19 cases.
Approximately 3.7 percent of ivermectin users contracted the illness during the trial period, compared to 6.6 percent of residents who didn’t take the drug.
The program was also associated with a statistically significant decrease in hospitalization and mortality.
The peer-reviewed study was published in Cureus on Jan. 15.
“Ivermectin MUST be considered as an option, particularly during outbreaks,” Dr. Flavio Cadegiani, one of the study’s authors and a founding member of FLCCC, told The Epoch Times in an email.
FLCCC focuses on early treatment of COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus. The group has recommended ivermectin since early 2020.
Kory said the lack of reporting on the study despite it being peer-reviewed highlights how some scientific developments are ignored by many media outlets and scientists.
“You would think this would lead major headlines everywhere. And yet, nothing. And this is not new, this censorship of this highly effective science and evidence around repurposed drugs. The censoring of it, it’s not new, it’s just getting more and more absurd. And it has to stop,” he said.
Studies on ivermectin against COVID-19 have shown mixed results, with some being associated with no or little benefit and others suggesting a strong benefit. It’s been widely used in India and other countries as a preventative measure, but in the United States and much of Europe many official health care bodies recommend against its use or do not endorse it.
Ivermectin has been approved for certain uses by the Food and Drug Administration, but not for use against COVID-19. That means doctors can prescribe it off-label.
The National Institutes of Health’s COVID-19 treatment guidelines panel currently says that there is not enough evidence to advise either for or against using ivermectin to treat COVID-19. It does not address its potential use as a prophylactic.
While the new study was celebrated by some, others questioned the findings and pointed out that the conflicts of interest disclosures show both Cadegiani and another author have received funding from or contracted with Vitamedic, a company that manufactures ivermectin.
Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, an Australian epidemiologist, for instance, called it “a fairly simple example of observational research that you’d do on routine medical data” but alleged the controls for confounding factors such as occupation and risk factors were “pretty inadequate given the purpose.”
Cadegiani said the criticism was unfounded, saying he wasn’t convinced before the study that ivermectin would work as a preventative medicine and that researchers controlled for “all relevant factors,” luding comorbidities, age, sex, and race.
“Their inability to focus on the data provided by the study itself is … proof of the extreme high quality of the study,” the doctor said, adding later that “To us, this is the best observational study on COVID-19 to date, with a power almost equivalent to a huge randomized clinical trial.”
The researchers plan on publishing multiple additional papers regarding the program, including papers on the biochemical effects of ivermectin and the effectiveness of the drug in preventing hospitalization.
I wonder if Ivermectin is effective against other illnesses like the Flu or the common cold?
So, the authorities that banned Ivermectin are officially mass murderers now. They’ll never be prosecuted but they are mass murderers nonetheless.
Cancel Brazil for allowing mis/dis-information to be spread.
I don’t see why not! They are all corona virii...............
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Democrats lied. People died.
Too much money and power involved.
IBTFR$$ attempt to discredit this report and smear Dr Kory ping.
COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.The Epoch Times is the only press company doing that.
Will it convince the naysayers? Not a chance in hell. The U.S. government is owned by big pharma and a cheap generic drug threatens billion upon billions of profits. How would the Big Guy get his 10% if that gravy train were destroyed?
bttt
At the least this situation, and the Ukraine one too, have shown us who the paid trolls from the pentagon and the drug companies are.
‘’wonder if Ivermectin is effective against other illnesses like the Flu or the common cold?’’
However — d3, k2, zinc, and Quercetin combo is effective against literally 100s of inflammatory conditions!
My cat takes a similar drug. It started as a horse dewormer. It does many other things, too. He has almost zero liver function. It has kept him alive for almost three years. His dose is a dog pill cut into four pieces. Many drugs are multi purpose.
Nelson
I wonder if Ivermectin is effective against other illnesses like the Flu or the common cold?
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Yes. It cures pretty much any virus.
True.
Some are likely one and the same....maybe they get time and a half, or even double pay...for their twofer presence.
I read your info page. VERY interesting about your screen name! I was a bad history student and just can’t get enough of it now. The way you started with your screen name and then delved into the history of it - very interesting! This is the way a subject like this should be taught in school IF the little bassturds are listening!
Nelson
Fauci must be put on trial for crimes against humanity
That wpuld make the guy hawking colloidal silver on here unhappy.
Yeah, he might get the blues!
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