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Thread time: Ivermectin!

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By now, everyone has heard of the famous “horse dewormer” that has gained rapid publicity and popularity among conspiracy theorists as a “miracle cure for Covid that’s being suppressed by big Pharma”

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Talk about some facts and address some common beliefs and talking points about this now famous anti parasitic drug.

Ivermectin, made by Merck for human use, and various companies in different forms for veterinary and livestock use is an anti-parasitic drug. It’s not approved

For use in Covid-19 because there is no reliable scientifically valid data that shows that it has any positive effect on outcome in Covid-19 patients. This is not because it’s suppressed; in fact there are almost 100 clinical trials on its use. There were a couple showing

Positive results which have been latched on to by anti vaxxers that have since been pulled because they included plagiarism, and fraudulent data, OR were pulled early because MORE people actually died who were taking ivermectin than not.
Well why wouldn’t doctors just try it?

They have. In the early days of the pandemic, there were no known treatments for Covid-19 as it was a novel virus, so doctors desperately tried anything that showed any promise. This included ivermectin as well as many other touted treatments (hydroxychloroquine, z-pack, zinc,

vitamin d, etc). What they found (which is now supported by abundant peer reviewed clinical data) is that it had no positive effect on outcomes of patients.

“Don’t call it a horse dewormer; it’s a human medication too, you know!” Yes… we know. It is a human medication which

Most commonly comes in 3mg tablets and it’s used for the treatment of scabies, strongyloides, and river blindness, all of which are parasitic infections, NOT viruses. The fact that it comes in a human form, doesn’t change the fact that thousands of people have had to call

poison control or seek medical care because they DID ingest the livestock formulation of it. Not only does this not help Covid, but it’s very likely to lead to side effects from organophosphate poisoning which include brain, damage, blindness, paralysis, and explosive diarrhea.

“But my brothers cousins landscaper took ivermectin and he recovered from covid fine.” Cool. We know that a majority of cases of covid are either asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic. Having one of these cases and also taking ivermectin is an example of correlation is not causation

For example, I drink 2 cups of coffee every morning, specifically with heavy cream and liquid sucralose. I’ve had it every morning of the pandemic without fail and I’ve never had Covid. Therefor anecdotally I can confidently say that drinking 2 cups of coffee exactly that way is

The key to staving off Covid-19 infection. See the problem with that? That’s why anecdotes are not accepted as clinical data.
“Ivermectin won a Nobel prize as a human medication! Do your research!”
First of all, pills don’t win Nobel prizes. There’s never been a foil pack of

pills or a tube of livestock paste on stage in Sweden receiving a medal and giving an acceptance speech. The scientists who discovered Avermectin (the parent compound of ivermectin) in Japan in the 1970’s DID win a Nobel prize for their discovery. Why? Because of its treatment of

once again, PARASITES, NOT viruses. And certainly not Covid-19. Penicillin also won a Nobel prize, we don’t use that for treatment of covid. Barrack Obama won a Nobel prize; we don’t use him to treat Covid either.
“Why are the refugees from Afghanistan being given it but im not?”

Refugees from the middle east and Africa have been given it for many years, since way before Covid-19 existed. Why? For the treatment and prevention of parasites, not viruses.
“It’s being suppressed by big Pharma because it’s cheap!” The number one drug being used in hospitals

for the treatment of covid is dexamethasone, which has been off patent for years and is cheaper than ivermectin. The difference is it actually works. Merck, the manufacture of ivermectin (huge Pharma company) has come out and said DO NOT use for the treatment or prevention of

Covid-19. If all they cared about was $, they could repackage it as Covid-b-gone and make billions selling it to people like you.
“There have been trials in cell cultures in lab that have shown it can neutralize the virus”
Why didn’t they progress further to animal or human

trials? Because the effect and the safety are both dose dependent. The amount of the drug you would need to replicate that effect in a person would immediately kill you. Other things that show similar effect in a Petri dish include bleach and other household chemicals. You see,

ivermectin binds to protein; in order to have enough free in your blood to neutralize viral particles, you would have to take enough to cause brain damage, blindness, paralysis, and death

What doesn’t cause those things? The vaccine

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