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by landemva 1650 days ago
The unmentionable and ridiculously safe antiviral is available today. But Ivermectin is cheap so it must not be considered.
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mikeyouse 1650 days ago
If only it worked at all, that'd be a great option.
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landemva 1650 days ago
NIH report says it does.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7539925/ 'Ivermectin is an FDA-approved broad-spectrum antiparasitic agent with demonstrated antiviral activity against a number of DNA and RNA viruses, including severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).'

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mikeyouse 1650 days ago
That's not an NIH report -- that's a random paper posted on the NIH domain. IVM may have some benefit in countries with parasite problems, unfortunately it doesn't do much in the rest of the world. Has already been discussed to death, there's no conspiracy, everyone would have loved for it to help but it really just doesn't;

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-t...

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roywiggins 1650 days ago
Yeah, it's so silly. It's not like there aren't studies and doctors willing to investigate cheap, effective treatments for covid with existing drugs.

We know that steroids work because they were studied, they definitely work, they're cheap and now they're the standard of care. Why didn't the anti-ivermectin conspiracy come for dexamethasone? It's left unexplained...

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