[know.your.why]

Please tell me about the Vaccines in AUS. Are they the same as in the US? Pfizer, MRNA, J&J, etc? How about Ivermectin? Did the AUS gov’t prohibit people from using Ivermectin for COVID like the US did? How do you feel personally about Ivermectin and the career doctors that advocated its use for COVID?

[naturalman1975]

We have a slightly different mix of vaccines being used here, I think. Pfizer, Astrazeneca, Moderna, and Novavax are the ones in common use - the J&J vaccine is approved for use, but is rarely given - the clotting risk is considered too high given the level of protection it provides.

Ivermectin can't be prescribed for COVID by general practitioners - they can prescribe it for some other conditions. Respiratory specialists, and infectious disease specialists, can prescribe it for COVID if they consider there's a particular benefit for a patient on a case by case basis, but it's unusual - the official position from the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) - Australia's rough equivalent of the US FDA - seems to be that they don't think it's effective, but they won't stand in the way of an expert in respiratory disease who wants to prescribe it.

I don't know much about it - I'm not an expert of any sort in this field. But the position doesn't seem unreasonable to me - giving the actual experts the right to make the call.