Posted on 05/03/2023 7:47:15 PM PDT by george76
Australian medical practitioners can now prescribe ivermectin for COVID-19 among other diseases under new rules confirmed by the nation’s therapeutic goods authority.
The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) confirmed on May 3 that the prescribing of oral ivermectin will no longer be limited to specialists such as dermatologists, gastroenterologists, and infectious diseases specialists.
The move— which takes effect from June 1, 2023—comes amid high rates of vaccination and hybrid immunity against COVID-19 in Australia and thus the use of ivermectin by individuals is unlikely to now compromise public health, the TGA said in a statement.
Despite ivermectin being regularly administered in countries including India, Brazil, and Africa, TGA said that approved vaccines and treatments should still be the preferred choice due to most studies showing that ivermectin is not a useful medicine for COVID-19.
“A large number of clinical studies have demonstrated ivermectin does not improve outcomes in patients with COVID-19,” the TGA statement said.
“The National Covid Evidence Taskforce (NCET) and many similar bodies around the world, including the World Health Organization, strongly advises against the use of ivermectin for the prevention or treatment of COVID-19.”
The Pharmacy Guild of Australia even wrote to the panel and advised against removing the Appendix D entry relating to ivermectin because they think that if the treatment is available, people may choose not to get vaccinated.
However, after weighing all risks, the TGA concluded that restrictions should still be removed.
“The risk of medical professionals prescribing ivermectin at higher doses, or for use against COVID-19, is low given the overwhelming evidence against ivermectin use for this indication,” TGA stated.
Drug Banned Because It Was a Threat to Vaccination Uptake..
Australia banned general practitioners from prescribing ivermectin in Sep. 2021. “The concern was the likelihood that persons prescribed the drug for COVID-19 would believe themselves protected and would not get vaccinated, and would not seek the appropriate medical care if symptoms developed,” the notice of the final decision by TGA said.
“This would pose a significant risk to the community through the spread of the disease as well as the risks to individuals using ivermectin for this purpose.”
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They said that ivermectin was being advocated for use in “unreliable social media posts,” increasing the risk of overdose and misuse.
Additionally, they argued that there were national shortages, although little detail was provided about the supply issues in Australia or in other countries. India even reported an excess production capacity of 23 million units a month of ivermectin.
Study Finds Ivermectin Kills COVID-19..
However, in a peer-reviewed study by Monash University in Australia, published in April 2020, it was demonstrated that ivermectin could eliminate SARS-Covid-19-2 in cells in 48 hours.
The team, who have been researching ivermectin for over ten years with different viruses, discovered that a dose of ivermectin could stop the SARS-CoV-2 virus from growing in cells.
“We found that even a single dose could essentially remove all viral RNA by 48 hours and that even at 24 hours, there was a really significant reduction in it,” senior research fellow and lead study author Kylie Wagstaff said.
Ivermectin is very widely used and seen as a safe drug,” Wagstaff said.
The scientists said that the FDA-approved anti-parasitic drug has also been shown to be effective in vitro against a broad range of viruses, including HIV, Dengue, Influenza, and Zika virus.
They started investigating whether it worked on the COVID-19 virus as soon as the pandemic was known to have started.
However, the researchers announced a year later that they had paused their work due to insufficient sample size despite securing funding for clinical trials.
“The low numbers of COVID cases in Australia in 2020 meant the planned trial in Australia had to be paused,” the Monash University laboratory said in an ivermectin research progress update in Aug. 2021.
“The establishment of a trial depends on Australian and overseas circumstances and will be communicated when we are in a position to do so.”
Industry Incentives Under Scrutiny..
Meanwhile, pharmaceutical authorities around the world are under growing scrutiny over the funding many receive from the industry itself, with an investigation revealing that half of their funding comes from the pharmaceutical industry—the industry they are supposed to be regulating.
In a report, published in the British Journal of Medicine, it was discovered that the U.S. FDA receives 65 percent of its funding from the pharmaceutical industry, the MHRA (UK) receives 86 percent, and the Australian TGA receives 96 percent of its funding from the pharmaceutical industry.
Additionally, award-winning investigative journalist Maryanne Demasi found in the report that the TGA approved 94 percent of all applications between 2020 to 2021.
She filed for FOIA report to get disclosures on the TGA committee members who had conflicts of interest in their approval of the mRNA vaccines, but the TGA allegedly redacted the identity of these members, highlighting that it was personal information.
The final decision to remove restrictions on ivermectin prescriptions followed an application to remove the rules, according to the process required under the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989.
It also took into account advice from an independent advisory committee on the scheduling of medicines and two rounds of public consultations.
Another in vitro standard. Are we still in the Dark Ages?
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PREDICTION: Politicians around the world will lift restrictios on Ivermectin due to public outcry, however this will be followed shortly by a new law forbidding "off-label use".
Stock up on Horse Wormer at TSC or your local Feed Store/Tack Shop while you still can.
They make it in Green Apple, tastes ok.
The damage has been done. Covid was allowed to spread with no restrictions. You think masks work? They fooled us into thinking they do.
Those ‘right to try’ laws didn’t apply. Different results in different countries were a non-factor here. It was government power that forced it on us. What good was RFK Jr’s book after the fact? I hope he hurts the incumbent like his uncle Ted did.
I know masks did Zip/piff/nil/nada/zero.
I personally didn’t believe shit about anything the goobermint said or tried to make us do.
I knew that it was Biowarfare from the beginning. Pure gut feeling. Cannot explain it but I was correct.
Still Praying that the Family and Friends that got the clotshot ended up with the saline version. So far all is good on that aspect.
The ones that I knew that got the chicom plague and listened to Me got well in a week with the Ivermectin and vitamins plan I gave them.
I took Ivermectin with my last bout of Kung Flu a year and a half ago. I can’t say if it helped of not because I felt pretty crummy for two weeks. But I took it anyway and after recovering my lungs have felt great. I always had mild asthma and since then I haven’t had any issues and have never been able to take those big deep refreshing breaths like I can now.
When I got Covid last September, I started ivermectin right away, along with zinc, quercetin, Vit D, etc., and my fever and most of my symptoms were gone in a day. I never developed a cough. I took it 5 days. Hubby took it one day and he also had a mild course. He did get the cough that lasted a while, though.
The craziest thing is that a condition I had since 2017 resolved. I had severe food intolerances (similar to IBS-C except also caused PVCs, my diet was down to about 10 foods I could eat with no issues).
I had seen 4 different specialists and they had no clue, except the cardiologist said I might need a pacemaker.
Anyway, I started adding foods back and was finding I could eat anything! I was back to normal for about 7 months but the issues have started coming back and I plan to take a couple of doses 48 hours apart and see if it helps.
My GP is 100% onboard. But she is treating patients with long Covid with ivermectin, and other supplements.
Oh, NOW they drop restrictions, after putting their own citizens in concentration camps over this manufactured biological warfare?
Not heard of presearch before. After reviewing it, I’m now going to use it more often than bing. Thank you for that.
Tastes like vaseline. I still have three tubes of it in my fridge.
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