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by rualca 1746 days ago
> I've personally seen it help someone who was getting significantly worse day after day. (...)

Some people do recover from Covid19 on their own. Ironically, a popular theme among covid deniers is to boast about covid's alleged 99% survivability rate. What leads you to believe that your anecdotal case was caused by taking ivermectin instead of simply correlated with its ingestion?

There's a famous Simpsons scene where Lisa shows Homer a Tiger-repelling rock. That's what ivermectin proponents sound like.

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The rate of recovery after first dose, directly correlated with it was plain and clear. If you take a drug and experience significant effects within hours of taking it, you don't question if you randomly would've felt that way anyways, you know exactly whats causing it. This person was getting nearer and nearer to hospitalization possibly, when someone in that situation has a 180 in condition just hours after a dose of treatment, you don't question "oh maybe the treatment did nothing at all".

I understand of course questioning causation/correlation, except when something is so absolute and its life and death, its criminal and morally devoid to deny access to treatment.

It works. Look deeper into it if you really care, or stop saying anything against it. If you don't know someone with covid who's been treated with it, how can you take your own opinion seriously? You can question about the reality of how effective it is of course, but its wrong to argue against something that is harmless and may be life saving.

I'm not a "covid denier" by any means but why would you mention an "alleged" survival rate? The best available data from the CDC shows a 99.4% survival rate.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...