Posted on 02/02/2022 6:04:41 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Lawmakers in Iowa’s state Legislature have advanced a measure that would allow the use of ivermectin for critically sick COVID-19 patients who request it.
Ivermectin has been used for decades to treat parasitic worms in humans, but during the COVID-19 pandemic, some patients and doctors have attested that the drug is effective in relieving symptoms of the disease.
The Iowa measure stipulates that COVID-19 patients who are on ventilators should have the option to use ivermectin. Specifically, it expands the state’s “right to try” law, which allows terminally ill patients to access medicines that have been approved under the first phase of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) trials.
“I completely support it. I think that we should give patients the right to try,” Rep. Ann Meyer, a Republican and one of the measure’s co-sponsors, told the Des Moines Register in late January.
Rep. Lee Hein, also a Republican, said he sponsored the measure after hearing that two families of critically ill COVID-19 patients had sought ivermectin, but hospital policies prevented them from obtaining the medication. Both patients died of COVID-19, according to Hein.
“I don’t know whether any of these drugs work, but I think at that late stage in the game, once you’re on a ventilator, families ought to have at least a glimmer of hope to try something,” he told Radio Iowa.
The FDA’s website states that its “currently available data” suggest that the medication isn’t effective at treating or preventing COVID-19. However, the agency courted controversy in 2021 when it issued a Twitter post suggesting that the drug is only used for “deworming” horses and other livestock, although it has long authorized ivermectin tablets as a treatment for worms in humans.
The FDA and other agencies have warned against people taking livestock-grade ivermectin, which doesn’t require a prescription, amid reports of increases in people being admitted to hospitals after taking the livestock version of the drug.
The drug gained more attention after podcaster Joe Rogan confirmed that he took human-grade ivermectin in a bid to curb his COVID-19 symptoms. Ivermectin is also being used across Latin America for COVID-19, including in Peru, Guatemala, Bolivia, and other countries.
In December 2021, the family of an Illinois man, Sun Ng, who developed severe COVID-19 symptoms and was near death, said he recovered after taking ivermectin. It came after a court ordered the hospital to administer the drug to Ng, the family’s attorney told The Epoch Times at the time.
Meyer, who’s also a nurse, said ivermectin has “been around” for “many years.” The legislation would allow “off-label” use of the drug for COVID-19 patients who are on life support in hospitals, she told Radio Iowa.
Republicans advanced the measure through a subcommittee meeting on Jan. 26. One Democrat on the subcommittee, Rep. Mary Mascher, voted against advancing the measure.
“There’s a lot of folks in the room who are medical folks,” Mascher said during last week’s hearing. “And I have heard no one in support of the bill.”
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Trump’s touting Ivermectin has really labeled it the anti drug. Strange how people think.
This may be a start, but it misses the point that Ivermectin is best used at the START of the infection rather than when the patient is critically. It kills the virus before it can do the damage that makes the patient critical.
From what I’ve read, ivermectin wouldn’t be much use if you’re on a ventilator. Perhaps I’m wrong.
RE: From what I’ve read, ivermectin wouldn’t be much use if you’re on a ventilator. Perhaps I’m wrong.
There are still cases of patients who have recovered even when on a ventilator but the performance is MIXED.
Every single doctor proponent emphasizes EARLY TREATMENT. Application of the Ivermectin protocol with a week of onset of symptoms.
Same applies to Hydroxychloroquine.
RE: Trump’s touting Ivermectin has really labeled it the anti drug.
Trump touted Hydroxychloroquine, not Ivermectin.
And what gives these control freaks the right to determine what one may or may not take to alleviate whatever may ail oneself?
OK, thanks for the correction. Many thanks for making me smart-ish.
People need this drug before the ventilator. Nobody should have to craft laws to take a medication that has been on the market for many years and is pretty safe.
We have to stop these work arounds. Time to stand up a make the people like Fauci keeping this drug from people to pay . It is all political.
It was my experience. First symptoms, horse paste and vitamins, mucinex for upper congestion and fight it like a cold. It worked for me.
Studies on whether ivermectin is beneficial in treating COVID-19 patients haven’t been conclusive, and health officials have warned people not to self-medicate. But multiple large trials are continuing to assess the antiparasitic drug. Click on the English version if it appears in Spanish:
RE: OK, thanks for the correction. Many thanks for making me smart-ish.
You’re welcome. I hasten to add that the FrontLine Covid Critical Care Alliance now has BOTH Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine in their protocols. So does Dr. Zev Zelenko ( the one who originally wrote a letter to Trump endorsing the use of Hydroxychloroquine ). Dr. Zelenko now adds Ivermectin to his protocol.
It needs to be administered early, not when critical. They really don’t want that drug to succeed, do they?
Reality is: The newly diagnosed would benefit, as well. It could easily prevent cases from becoming more serious. One step at a time, tho
The primary benefit of ivermectin is preventing viral reproduction in cell that usually occurs in the first week of infection; except for some anti-inflamatory properties, critically sick COVID-19 patients get little benefit from ivermectin.
Ivermectin links. More than you probably want to know about Ivermectin:
General info on use vs. Covid, etc.
https://www.barnhardt.biz/ivermectin/
Huge meta study
https://ivmmeta.com/
Doctors using it and protocols
https://covid19criticalcare.com/ivermectin-in-covid-19/
https://covid19criticalcare.com/covid-19-protocols/
https://vladimirzelenkomd.com/treatment-protocol/
Emory University has a very prestigious medical school. The Dean of Emory Medical School has Indian heritage, and co-wrote an article in the Times of India advocating using Ivermectin against Covid, among other things. This has gotten =ZERO= coverage in US media, including his hometown paper, the AJC, and his hometown news network, CNN.
Try to convince me that isn’t newsworthy - both his original article and the non-coverage of it by US media.
Link to the article discussed above, and Emory’s leadership page.
Existing affordable drugs could rapidly reduce Covid-19 cases and deaths in India
One of the authors appears below as Dean
https://www.med.emory.edu/about/leadership/index.html
Africa and Ivermectin
https://archive.is/2021.08.28-042601/https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1431339779703017477.html
The infographic there is excellent. Summary: The parts of Africa where Ivermectin is in widespread use to prevent a terrible parasitic disease, African River Blindness, also have very low Covid incidence.
Interesting Twitter account that has linked many Ivermectin and other med studies on Covid treatments.
https://twitter.com/Covid19Crusher
Discovery of Ivermectin. A National Historic Chemical Landmark per the American Chemical Society. Not something to be derided as “horse dewormer”.
https://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/discovery-of-ivermectin-mectizan.pdf.
“The Story of Ivermectin” https://www.bitchute.com/video/ZqVlyy6YtNiz/
Good 24 minute summary.
Ivermectin and Cancer
https://communities.win/c/Conspiracies/p/12kFnAdfAW/ivermectin-cures-cancer-/
India’s Ivermectin Blackout - Part V: The Secret Revealed
https://www.thedesertreview.com/opinion/columnists/indias-ivermectin-blackout-—part-v-the-secret-revealed/article_9a37d9a8-1fb2-11ec-a94b-47343582647b.html
Ivermectin: enigmatic multifaceted ‘wonder’ drug continues to surprise and exceed expectations
https://www.nature.com/articles/ja201711.pdf
What is the logic of not administering the medicine upon onset of symptoms and/or positive test?
What is the logic of withholding medicine until it’s probably too late and then giving it?
Is that idea the product of studies? History of usage outcomes? Show your work, doctors.
Such a pile of poorly researched words.
“ivermectin for critically sick COVID-19 patients” — why would they delay it’s use until the point where it is almost too late? That is utterly ridiculous.
I remember once, in a time long, long ago, and in a galaxy far, far away, when people used to think there was a cure for cancer, but the pharmaceutical companies were covering it up.
Now those are the same people crying out for more censorship of “covid misinformation”, including “false” articles - and even interviews, about IVM and HCQ.
Irony doesn’t seem like a strong-enough word.
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