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2021 May 9, 10:24pm   69,572 views  621 comments

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https://sebastianrushworth.com/2021/05/09/update-on-ivermectin-for-covid-19/

Back in January I wrote an article about four randomized controlled trials of ivermectin as a treatment for covid-19 that had at that time released their results to the public. Each of those four trials had promising results, but each was also too small individually to show any meaningful impact on the hard outcomes we really care about, like death. When I meta-analyzed them together however, the results suddenly appeared very impressive. Here’s what that meta-analysis looked like:



It showed a massive 78% reduction in mortality in patients treated with covid-19. Mortality is the hardest of hard end points, which means it’s the hardest for researchers to manipulate and therefore the least open to bias. Either someone’s dead, or they’re alive. End of story.

You would have thought that this strong overall signal of benefit in the midst of a pandemic would have mobilized the powers that be to arrange multiple large randomized trials to confirm these results as quickly as possible, and that the major medical journals would be falling over each other to be the first to publish these studies.

That hasn’t happened.

Rather the opposite, in fact. South Africa has even gone so far as to ban doctors from using ivermectin on covid-19 patients. And as far as I can tell, most of the discussion about ivermectin in mainstream media (and in the medical press) has centred not around its relative merits, but more around how its proponents are clearly deluded tin foil hat wearing crazies who are using social media to manipulate the masses.

In spite of this, trial results have continued to appear. That means we should now be able to conclude with even greater certainty whether or not ivermectin is effective against covid-19. Since there are so many of these trials popping up now, I’ve decided to limit the discussion here only to the ones I’ve been able to find that had at least 150 participants, and that compared ivermectin to placebo (although I’ll add even the smaller trials I’ve found in to the updated meta-analysis at the end).

As before, it appears that rich western countries have very little interest in studying ivermectin as a treatment for covid. The three new trials that had at least 150 participants and compared ivermectin with placebo were conducted in Colombia, Iran, and Argentina. We’ll go through each in turn. ...

What we see is a 62% reduction in the relative risk of dying among covid patients treated with ivermectin. That would mean that ivermectin prevents roughly three out of five covid deaths. The reduction is statistically significant (p-value 0,004). In other words, the weight of evidence supporting ivermectin continues to pile up. It is now far stronger than the evidence that led to widespred use of remdesivir earlier in the pandemic, and the effect is much larger and more important (remdesivir was only ever shown to marginally decrease length of hospital stay, it was never shown to have any effect on risk of dying).

I understand why pharmaceutical companies don’t like ivermectin. It’s a cheap generic drug. Even Merck, the company that invented ivermectin, is doing it’s best to destroy the drug’s reputation at the moment. This can only be explained by the fact that Merck is currently developing two expensive new covid drugs, and doesn’t want an off-patent drug, which it can no longer make any profit from, competing with them.

The only reason I can think to understand why the broader medical establishment, however, is still so anti-ivermectin is that these studies have all been done outside the rich west. Apparently doctors and scientists outside North America and Western Europe can’t be trusted, unless they’re saying things that are in line with our pre-conceived notions.


And HCQ falls into that same bucket. Even worse - to admit HCQ works would be to admit Trump was right about something.

Liberals would rather that millions die than that Trump be allowed to be right about anything. They hate Trump more than they love their fellow humans.

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610   HeadSet   2024 Mar 24, 1:56pm  

Patrick says

https://flccc.substack.com/p/breaking-the-fda-has-lost-its-war




That is a ridiculous remedy. They only need to stop telling the lie? How about printing a correction on the website and social media posts.
611   richwicks   2024 Mar 24, 8:03pm  

HeadSet says

That is a ridiculous remedy. They only need to stop telling the lie? How about printing a correction on the website and social media posts.


Damage is already done. Just ignore the FDA, they are full of shit.

The FDA has been full of shit for DECADES, I'm glad they did something to wake the public up to it, at least part of it.
613   Ceffer   2024 Mar 24, 9:59pm  

Uh, Oh! The Rockefellers aren't going to like this. They'll have to sell more street fentanyl to make up for the loss of profits from the increase in population health. So, what does it mean exactly when you have to sue the agency that is supposed to oversee the health and safety of our country in order to keep them from doing the opposite?
Patrick says


https://flccc.substack.com/p/breaking-the-fda-has-lost-its-war



614   GNL   2024 Mar 24, 10:29pm  

Ceffer says

the increase in population health.

What?
615   richwicks   2024 Mar 25, 8:44am  

GNL says


Ceffer says


the increase in population health.

What?



The increase on the general health of the overall population.

After these last 3 years, it seems hard for me to deny that the purpose of modern medicine isn't to help people, it's to hurt them and make them dependents. They are basically drug pushers making you addicted not to getting high, but making you addicted to not feeling ill or sick.

The vaccines did NOTHING other than harm people. I know a few people now that think they were negatively, and perhaps permanently, effected by the injection. One is a rock climber that believes he's become considerably weaker since he took the injection. I know several women who were just beyond menopause that started experiencing menstruation again. One guy got blood clots and he's like early 40's.
616   AmericanKulak   2024 Mar 29, 9:27am  

Kid got pinworms at school. Considering.
618   Onvacation   2024 May 20, 5:44pm  

Ivermectin may cure cancer!
619   Onvacation   2024 May 20, 5:47pm  

AmericanKulak says

Kid got pinworms at school. Considering.

I think Ivermectin cures pinworms.
620   Onvacation   2024 May 20, 5:48pm  

Pre Wuhan Article
https://www.nature.com/articles/ja201711
Abstract
Over the past decade, the global scientific community have begun to recognize the unmatched value of an extraordinary drug, ivermectin, that originates from a single microbe unearthed from soil in Japan. Work on ivermectin has seen its discoverer, Satoshi Ōmura, of Tokyo’s prestigious Kitasato Institute, receive the 2014 Gairdner Global Health Award and the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, which he shared with a collaborating partner in the discovery and development of the drug, William Campbell of Merck & Co. Incorporated. Today, ivermectin is continuing to surprise and excite scientists, offering more and more promise to help improve global public health by treating a diverse range of diseases, with its unexpected potential as an antibacterial, antiviral and anti-cancer agent being particularly extraordinary.
621   Patrick   2024 May 30, 7:41pm  

https://voiceforscienceandsolidarity.substack.com/p/do-we-need-to-move-from-c-19-vaccine-fd8


Given the lack of herd immunity and the ongoing evolution of the virus towards enhanced transmissibility, combined with the fact that there is absolutely no scientific rationale to believe that updated C-19 vaccines will protect highly vaccinated populations that, by now, have experienced multiple rounds of vaccine breakthrough infections, citizens should pressure their governments to immediately ensure the availability of safe and effective antiviral drugs in sufficient supply and at affordable prices.

Ironically, this means that governments in highly C-19 vaccinated countries should ideally mandate the use of ivermectin and/or hydroxychloroquine to mitigate the detrimental consequences of their insane C-19 vaccine mandates.

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