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by goinfar 1714 days ago
Tell me this is ivermectin without telling me this is ivermectin
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New Microbes and New Infections: Ivermectin: a multifaceted drug of Nobel prize-honoured distinction with indicated efficacy against a new global scourge, COVID-19 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8383101/

> During mass IVM treatments in Peru, excess deaths fell by a mean of 74% over 30 days in its ten states with the most extensive treatments.

It is completely different compound. Check Wikipedia for both chemicals to see the difference.