Posted on 01/30/2021 1:17:44 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
South Africa’s drug regulator has approved “controlled” access to a controversial parasite drug to treat surging coronavirus infections in the country, saying it will be administered on “compassionate” grounds.
Doctors and advocacy groups had urged the government and the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (Sahpra) to legalise ivermectin to treat Covid-19 patients, claiming international studies showed it was effective against the virus.
The drug, co-developed by Irish Nobel Prize winner William C Campbell, is used globally to treat parasitic diseases in livestock and humans. But it was registered to treat animals only in South Africa.
However, a campaign to have it legalised for human use has gained traction in recent weeks after it emerged that some doctors had been administering it to seriously ill patients since mid-December, when virus infections in South Africa began to surge.
Earlier this month 100 doctors publicly backed a Durban-based GP who wrote to President Cyril Ramaphosa asking him to set up an urgent special council to conduct a rapid review of the antiparasitic.
In her open letter Naseeba Kathrada said scientific evidence was emerging daily that showed the positive effects of ivermectin on Covid-19 patients.
Afrikaner civil rights organisation Afriforum was also scheduled to take Sahpra and health minister Zweli Mkhize to court next month on behalf of a doctor and two patients who want ivermectin approved for use against Covid-19.
(Excerpt) Read more at irishtimes.com ...
If we had a public health edifice that was worth anything, front line health care workers and public-facing store employees would be on Covid prophylaxis. The Federal public health agencies (FDA/NIH/CDC) have seemingly completely ignored cheap effective re-purposed therapeutics that could have significantly reduced deaths and transmission.
Ivermectin is effective for COVID-19: meta analysis of 35 studies
https://ivmmeta.com/
Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance
https://covid19criticalcare.com/
Key protocols from this group use Ivermectin.
COVID Care for Clinicians
https://www.evms.edu/covid-19/covid_care_for_clinicians/
Ditto this group.
India has been using HCQ and Ivermectin for many months as therapeutics and for prophylaxis. Their curves are quite impressive, scroll down to see them here.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/india/
Anyone able to interpret a basic graph will be impressed. Why is this not being talked about in Western media?
Also from India:
Ziverdo Kit Contains Zinc Acetate 50 mg, Doxycycline 100 mg & Ivermectin 12 mg Dispersible Tablets. It is currently indicated in the first line treatment for COVID-19 positive patients. Quadruple Therapy with Ivermectin is effective in treating COVID-19
https://www.rxindia.com/medicines/medicines-by-therapeutic-class/covid-19/ziverdo-kit/
That’s a link to an Indian online pharmacy selling that Covid treatment kit for under $2, just add vitamin D3.
Cost thus keeps rising: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Durvet-Duramectin-Ivermectin-Paste-1-87-Horse-Dewormer-Removes-Worms-Bots/303157286525?epid=1800333000&hash=item469595167d:g:QksAAOSwhDRZ4S5D
Wow. I bought 6 tubes of the Durvet back in November for $22 total, delivered. Bought a couple tubes of a similar product at a brick and mortar TSC for $4 each at Christmas.
Bump
The only place that I can find Ivermectin for sale in Indonesia is online from some vendor in Bandung. The price is IDR300,000 (USD23.00) for two 12mg tablets.
The Indians appear to still be selling it dirt cheap. See the last link in my post #2.
BTW that’s $1.75 for the whole card, 3X12mg Ivermectin, a Doxcycline cycle, and a bunch of zinc tablets.
$4 at tractor supply...
https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/durvet-ivermectin-paste-187-608-g?cm_vc=-10005
Get yours early!
Not buying any myself now, and shipping might make the price about the same, plus I get
Access Denied You don’t have permission to access “http://www.tractorsupply.com/” on this server.
Must not like blocked ads.
Can you get vaccine EUA approval from the FDA if there is an approved therapy?
No
Big Pharma vaccine=Big Money
joshua c wrote:
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“Can you get vaccine EUA approval from the FDA if there is an approved therapy?”
No
Big Pharma vaccine=Big Money”
Ok, other way round:
If there’s a vaccine with EUA approval, can a therapy be approved?
I think from a practical standpoint that’s a “No”. The people who granted the EUAs would have to admit they were wrong about availability of effective therapeutics.
The whole thing is wrapped up in money from Big Pharma. It’s another part of our society that totally screwed, like the stock market and hedge funds (GameStop) and election integrity, or lack thereof.
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