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.”
“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.”
Exactly right. It needs to be administered at the start of the symptoms.
Here they go missing the Mark again. Ivermectin works best when tried early not late
Digging into that rabbit hole is one of my 2022 to-dos.
Using hydroxychloroquine late in the disease progression and not with zinc etc. is how Cuomo sabotaged the very early test to see how HCQ worked
After judge orders hospital to use experimental Covid-19 treatment, woman recovers
And that was what Dana White’s interview/press conference was all about. Especially when the lib from YahooNews chimed in.
Both Rogan and White did Ivermectin and monoclonal antibodies. Fine within a couple of days from taking the stuff
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4imQ63r_AvE
The biggest problem with it is, it’s readily available. Very available. But the FDA isn’t letting the big pharmacies give it out since they deemed its use for covid as off-label. Even though, previously, doctors could use whatever they wanted for what never they wanted.
My mom went through the FLCCC, early, and go the whole protocol for $30. About a week later, the FDA dropped the hammer. Now you have to find an apothecary, where you’ll pay over $100 for it.
Here in Georgia, there are many doctors that’ll help you with it and help you find it, but you have to test positive. I guess making sure there’s enough to go around for those that are sick as opposed to everyone trying to get it as a prophylactic.
Interestingly, there are still so many that don’t know much about it or they’re the liberal/Fauci Cultists that still think it’s horse paste.
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That's a good example to remember. It’s not too late to try Ivermectin (IVM) in the advanced pulmonary stage of COVID-19 disease. Ivermectin acts to prevent viral replication in the early incubation and viral replication phase of COVID-19, but an exciting aspect of Ivermectin is its potent anti-inflammatory action potentially having a role in the treatment of late stage COVID-19.
The following is another example among others where treatment of a critically ill COVID-19 patient on a ventilator was successful.
https://rescue.substack.com/p/a-judge-stands-up-to-a-hospital-step
Mr. Ng was on a ventilator for more than three weeks while his daughter and her attorney fought the hospital administration. Delay is deadly in cases of severe, late stage COVID-19 disease and Mr. Ng was on death’s door before he was finally given five daily doses of 24mg of IVM. Within five days of receiving IVM, he had recovered enough to remove the endotracheal tube himself and breathe without the ventilator. He has since been discharged from the hospital and is recovering at the Illinois home of his daughter.
“... for critically sick COVID-19 patients ...”
That’s really too late. Ideally, Ivermectin (and zinc, D, etc.) should be taken at first symptoms.
So the patients have to be on life support and they have to request the IVM.
This is moronic.
If it's critical patients they want to help, the need to push for therapeutics like Zyesami to get the nod.
Not only has it been on the market for many years, it’s been given to humans in over 3.5 BILLION doses.
It seems a real cop out to allow only when the person is dying. The idea is to keep them from the hospital and cure them before the critical point.
If it is an effective drug, why wait until people are on death’s door?
Because CoupFlu has NEVER been about public health.
Because liability protection confers only to prescribers of covered countermeasures thanks to the PREP Act.
Nobody needs to pass a law.
Ivermectin can be prescribed.
Docs aren’t doing it because they’re being threatened with losing their licenses, jobs, and because they can be sued if things go south.
Best question: Why isn’t Ivermectin a covered countermeasure?
Answer: See my first sentence.
Everything I have heard or read about Ivm is that its efficacy diminishes in time. The first 48hours of a congested cough with fever is the best time for IVM or HCQ to be most effective.
RE: Everything I have heard or read about Ivm is that its efficacy diminishes in time
Same is true for Hydroxychloroquine.
The FLCCC doctors, Dr. Zev Zelenko, Dr. Peter McCulloagh, etc. all emphasize these two words -— EARLY TREATMENT.
The purpose is to PREVENT HOSPITALIZATION.
Do not wait till the patient is already hospitalized before you administer Ivermectin or Hydroxychloroquine.
And that’s the problem with most detractors when they say that these do not work.... They look at these drugs in an ICU setting, not in an early treatment setting.
Had we actually allowed doctors to prescribe IVM and HCQ at the early onset of symptoms, hospitalizations would DECREASE tremendously. This is the experience of places like Mexico City, Brazil and India’s state of Uttar Pradesh.
If you think about it, the same principle applies in treating someone with cancer or heart disease. You do not wait till they are in the late stages of the disease to treat the patient.
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