[bargl]

OK So I cannot find the videos in question I have no clue if they were or were not flagged by algorithm and that mistake was fixed or if they were flagged on purpose. I also believe this article is click bait as heck.

I want to discuss what I've found out about ivermectin and why videos about it should not be flagged by an algorithm.

Ivermectin is being proposed by Dr. Kory as a preventative drug which reduces (in trials) rate of infection from COVID down to nearly zero. To that end he believes that this should be investigated as urgently or more urgently than vaccines. His reasoning is that this is a off the shelf drug that has not been disproven in any peer review so far.

To support that the NIH has changed their recommendation from

"The COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel recommends against the use of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19, except in a clinical trial (AIII)."

to "The COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel (the Panel) has determined that currently there are insufficient data to recommend either for or against the use of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19. Results from adequately powered, well-designed, and well-conducted clinical trials are needed to provide more specific, evidence-based guidance on the role of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19."

Which can be considered a great indicator that ivermectin is gaining steam.

So, to treat the discussion of ivermectin as if it were some fringe group's conspiracy science, is ridiculous. We've thrown billions of dollars towards finding a vaccine, which is arguably a better long term solution. Dr. Kory's point is that we should be researching this treatment as quickly as possible to save lives today and let the vaccine save lives in the future. He's been saying this since well before the vaccines were a sure thing.

I'm not saying ivermectin is going to work. I'm saying it if it does work that we moved too slow in identifying it and we had evidence that it may have worked very early on.

[vfclists]

Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine are recommended in a paper published in the American Journal of Medicine. Funny how my comment mentioning that has dropped to the bottom of page.

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Pathophysiological Basis and Rationale for Early Outpatient Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Infection - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000293432...

FWIW both Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine are included in their recommendations.

[m-p-3]

> So, to treat the discussion of Ivermectin as if it were some fringe group's conspiracy science, is ridiculous.

To be honest, I've been following some discussions and there is so much disinformation out there, that at first I though someone was just spewing bullshit about it.

Don't get me wrong, it's awesome that there are people out there working on some treatments to save lives until everyone is vaccinated (which is another fight..), but with the amount of people shouting their own uneducated opinion as fact out there, it's hard to pick up the real info from the noise.