“You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously y’all. Stop it.”
FDA… You approved the drug for use in humans and it has less side effects than acetaminophen / paracetamol… y’all.
That was bs from the FDA, but it’s ok because the folksy “y’all” is endearing to who I assume they were internally calling ”flyover hicks self-medicating with horse paste”.
All they had to say was we have not approved this medication for covid and the animal applications are not approved for use in humans, their dosages can be very dangerous.
Off-topic but does anyone have a mechanism by which Ivermectin would be helpful with Coronavirus? It seems bizarre that an anti-parasite medicine targeting a eukaryote would have any efficacy against a virus.
I'll give you one (total supposition, I Am Not A Veterinarian): most people don't "get infected" with worms, but some have exposure and have immune responses that may not ever rise to the level of "symptoms". anti-parasitcs might assist and allow more robust responses to other health challenges.
Don't look too deep into how much life we host even when healthy; it'll squick you out.
So far a multitude of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) have tried but not found significant benefits from using Ivermectin to treat COVID-19 in a single-drug treatment regime.
However it's worth noting that certain multi-drug treatment regimes are looking quite promising [1][2].
Furthermore, early multi-drug treatment (before severe symptoms) using existing widely available medicines has been proven effective at reducing hospitalization and death [3][4][5][6][7]. Many front-line doctors have been using such techniques since the beginning of the pandemic, because they had to - as there were no vaccines yet and no RCTs to guide them so naturally the only option was using and combining existing medicines with established safety and efficacy profiles, the same strategy used for other difficult to treat diseases and cancers.
FDA… You approved the drug for use in humans and it has less side effects than acetaminophen / paracetamol… y’all.
That was bs from the FDA, but it’s ok because the folksy “y’all” is endearing to who I assume they were internally calling ”flyover hicks self-medicating with horse paste”.
All they had to say was we have not approved this medication for covid and the animal applications are not approved for use in humans, their dosages can be very dangerous.