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Ivermectin: How false science created a Covid 'miracle' drug
BBC News ^ | 11/6/2021 | Rachel Schraer & Jack Goodman

Posted on 10/07/2021 8:25:20 AM PDT by BB62

"Ivermectin has been called a Covid "miracle" drug, championed by vaccine opponents, and recommended by health authorities in some countries. But the BBC can reveal there are serious errors in a number of key studies that the drug's promoters rely on.

For some years ivermectin has been a vital anti-parasitic medicine used to treat humans and animals.

But during the pandemic there has been a clamour from some proponents for using the drug for something else - to fight Covid and prevent deaths.

The health authorities in the US, UK and EU have found there is insufficient evidence for using the drug against Covid, but thousands of supporters, many of them anti-vaccine activists, have continued to vigorously campaign for its use."

FIRE AWAY !!

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KEYWORDS: bbc; chinavirus; covid; ivermectin; rfkjr; scamdemic
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To: throwthebumsout

‘Ask yourself why the media has been so invested in demonizing this drug.’

this is the salient point in all this covid kerfuffle...the ‘mitigation’ has nothing to do with actually making people well, but with maintaining authoritarian control of the response...

the media is nothing if not tyrant-centric...


41 posted on 10/07/2021 9:51:29 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: Sergio

RE: “And where is the mountain of evidence for the effectiveness of, and lack of side effects for, the jabs being touted?”

The jabs were working great for the original strain. Once it mutated it became much less effective. Similar to flu, last years flu vaccine doesn’t work very well against this years new strain.....however it does off some protection (10% vs 50%). Probably not worth the side effects for the very healthy but likely beneficial for the frail.

Besides the mRNA vaccine is only give you antigens against the spike protein....not as effective as getting a dead piece of the virus with multiple antigen sites.....thus you can still get infected. That’s the price you pay for getting a rapid vaccine to market with this newer technology. Also a reason why they will not likely make flu shots based on mRNA.


42 posted on 10/07/2021 9:56:00 AM PDT by consult
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To: cyclotic

RE: I’m 58 years old and have asthma and some high blood pressure.

Glad you got better quickly. You posting is an “anectdote”....similar to having a movie star tout some product on a TV commercial. Very weak science.

BTW: Controlled asthma and controlled blood pressure are minimal risks for covid. If you are obese, then that is a significant risk.


43 posted on 10/07/2021 9:59:08 AM PDT by consult
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To: IrishBrigade

RE: “the media is nothing if not tyrant-centric...”

That’s an understatement!


44 posted on 10/07/2021 10:00:08 AM PDT by consult
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To: BB62
Major problems included:

The same patient data being used multiple times for supposedly different people

Evidence that selection of patients for test groups was not random

Numbers unlikely to occur naturally

Percentages calculated incorrectly

Local health bodies unaware of the studies


45 posted on 10/07/2021 10:00:39 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: consult
Oh you have a feeling do you? That's nice. What does your brain say, as that is what you should rely on, not your feelings.

Follow the money and examine the costs of both hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin coupled with zinc, and azithromycin, which are far cheaper. Then listen to doctors that are willing to risk everything to tell people the truth.

Perhaps that will cure your feeling inaccuracies. Not trying to be mean, I am trying to make you learn the truth, and to learn to quit relying on feelings. They are lying to us all, because their true agenda is not to cure people. Their agenda is to massively reduce the world's population.

You may believe, or have feelings, that I am some kind of nut job. But when you start doing the deep dive you will find that this is the trigger they are using to usher in the Great Reset. Look that up also, along with Agenda 2030.

Do you believe it was just a coincidence that they held a pandemic exercise in 2019 just months before Covid hit? What was the virus you ask? Why it was a new strain of deadly Coronavirus. It was named event 201, look that up too.

Bill Gates : Reduce World Population With New Vaccines

So, tell me how if we do a great job with vaccines and health services we reduce population by 10%. One would think that would increase population, as vaccines are supposed to save lives aren't they?

COVID-19 Vaccines: How Much Revenue Will Each Drugmaker Generate in 2021?

The Great Reset: The Global Elite's Plan to Radically Remake Our Economic and Social Lives

Agenda 2030

Event 201

46 posted on 10/07/2021 10:00:58 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: consult

Me and a few hundred million other anecdotes don’t count for crap in your mind do they?

Must be tough being so self righteous.


47 posted on 10/07/2021 10:08:42 AM PDT by cyclotic (Live your life in such a way that they hate you as much as they hated Rush Limbaugh)
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To: consult
“Ivermectin is much safer than aspirin.” TRUE. But that does not make it effective for COVID.

That wasn't my point. My point is that even if Ivermectin is ineffective, as long as it is safe, why is the media and authorities expending so much effort to suppress its use? My choice of aspirin in my example was simply used to illustrate the absurdity. Instead, use apples. What if the media and authorities pressured supermarkets to pull apples out of the stores because people consumed them as a preventative for Covid?

Another example: Some believe NAC (N-Acetyl Cysteine), a dietary supplement, is a Covid preventative. Suddenly, Amazon has pulled all NAC from their site. Search for NAC on their site and you get a list of alternatives, but not NAC. As a comparison, search on the Walmart site and you will see tons of NAC for sale.

48 posted on 10/07/2021 10:15:38 AM PDT by throwthebumsout
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To: upchuck
From the article: Health authorities in Peru and India have stopped recommending ivermectin in treatment guidelines.

They are very careful to leave this claim unsourced.

Here is a source...from early July:

DGHS drops Ivermectin, Doxycycline from Covid-19 treatment; ICMR rules unchanged

49 posted on 10/07/2021 10:16:39 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: consult

‘Probably not worth the side effects for the very healthy but likely beneficial for the frail.’

agreed...so here we are, two years into this nonsense, and it appears there is no quick and proven cure...

those who determined early on the only way to go was to ride it out, weather the storm as best we could, and offer the best protection to the most susceptible, and acquire immunity from exposure were right; which was obvious to anybody who actually took the time to think about it...


50 posted on 10/07/2021 10:16:52 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: consult
The jabs were working great for the original strain. Once it mutated it became much less effective.

The vaccines are exhibiting less effectiveness over time, regardless of the strain...and vaccine type matters.

Moderna trial study patients are entering their second year antibody positive, with no end in sight.

51 posted on 10/07/2021 10:33:16 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: knarf
And to not attack people with food and drink but attack people with only drinks. Can't get you when sitting down but will get you standing or walking.

Will zoom in on you if you are singing in church but not if you are chanting at a protest.

You know I would not distrust them so much if they would be consistent.

But honestly it has reached the point of, it is not so much that you lied to me, but that I can no longer believe a word you say.

52 posted on 10/07/2021 10:38:24 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (I had my emotional DNA done. Turns out I am a reincarnation of Subadar Prag Tewarri.)
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To: Bob434
The why is no surprise to anyone.


53 posted on 10/07/2021 11:22:08 AM PDT by TheDon (Resist the usurpers)
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To: IrishBrigade

Agree with your view on the public policy failures regarding CV19 but the PTB had an election coup to win so here we are.

And they aren’t done yet.


54 posted on 10/07/2021 11:25:44 AM PDT by TheDon (Resist the usurpers)
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To: BB62

The two authors are undoubtedly smug liberal know-it-alls who probably wear jewelry saying they’ve been vaxxed.


55 posted on 10/07/2021 11:32:26 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: BB62

but there is some evidence. perhaps the insistence to not use the drug or run studies on its effectiveness has something to do with that.


56 posted on 10/07/2021 2:03:40 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something)
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To: mac_truck

Thanks for the link.

I think they are a bit premature dropping Ivr and other drugs.


57 posted on 10/07/2021 3:12:58 PM PDT by upchuck (The longer I remain unjabbed, the more evidence I see supporting my decision. Psalm 144:5-8)
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To: upchuck

They had to drop it or no vaccine for them, it’s in the contracts.


58 posted on 10/07/2021 8:15:16 PM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: consult
You need to read this post:

Making Sense of the Science: Analysis of BBC Report by Ros Atkins Regarding Ivermectin

60 posted on 10/08/2021 1:26:37 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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