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by joe_the_user 1829 days ago
You've gone from "no, the EMA didn't really to object" to "here's why their objection is wrong". See how that works?

The thing about Covid is that it isn't "super deadly". It has about a 1% fatality rate. That's terrible for society as a whole when the disease is also extremely infectious. But it means that "I took X and recovered from Covid" isn't the most amazing thing.

"So whatever ivermectin is doing, it doesn’t seem to require the concentration that the initial in vitro study required." Maybe the trial dose does nothing at all and people are recovering like they normally do.

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This part of their objection was based on an assumption that doesn’t seem to be as bad as they thought. The trials are controlled to varying degrees of quality.