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Monday, 02/21/2022 9:06:28 PM

Monday, February 21, 2022 9:06:28 PM

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Vexari, JimLur, Even when it's manufacturer Merck says there is no evidence covid has any role in treating covid it's weird politicians still push bills in support of it as a covid treatment.

Ivermectin: How false science created a Covid 'miracle' drug
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Controversial Doc Resigns From Medical School
— Paul Marik, MD,
has been embroiled in legal battle with Virginia hospital
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A controversy subsequently blew up over an article by the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance .. https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/FLCCC-Ivermectin-in-the-prophylaxis-and-treatment-of-COVID-19.pdf , a group of doctors and researchers that lobbies for the use of ivermectin.
P - This article, summarising multiple small studies of the effects of ivermectin on COVID-19 patients, was provisionally accepted for publication in the journal Frontiers in Pharmacology in January 2021 but then rejected and removed from the journal’s website in March .. https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/frontiers-removes-controversial-ivermectin-paper-pre-publication-68505 . The journal’s editor stated that the standard of evidence in the paper was insufficient and that the authors were inappropriately promoting their own ivermectin-based treatment.
p - One larger randomised clinical trial was published in March 2021. This showed no effect of ivermectin on duration of symptoms of adults with mild COVID-19 .. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2777389 . The authors stated that the findings did not support the use of ivermectin in these patients, but again highlighted that larger trials were needed to determine whether the drug had other benefits.
Why isn’t it recommended?
While some other studies did appear to show benefits of ivermectin, many did not. These were summarised by the National Institutes of Health .. https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/tables/table-2c/ , showing severe limitations arising from small sample sizes and problems with study design.

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FLCCC - Your man - "Dr. Pierre Kory"

Pierre Kory is an American critical care physician who gained attention during the COVID-19 pandemic for advocating widespread off-label use of certain drugs as treatments for COVID-19, as president and co-founder of the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC).[1][2] Kory testified twice to the U.S. Senate regarding COVID-19. During his testimony in December 2020, Kory erroneously claimed that the antiparasitic medication ivermectin was a "wonder drug" with "miraculous effectiveness" against COVID-19.[3]

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In November 2021 the Journal of Intensive Care Medicine retracted a paper written by Kory, Paul E. Marik, and others. The retraction was triggered when it was found the paper misreported the mortality figures of people treated for COVID-19 with the FLCCC's "MATH+" protocol, falsely making it appear to be an effective treatment.[17][18]

In February 2022, the American Journal of Therapeutics issued an expression of concern against a 2021 systematic review of which Kory had been lead author. The notice said there were suspicions about the integrity of the underlying data on which the paper depended to show that ivermectin was a viable treatment for COVID-19.[19][20]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Kory

You can see big Pharma as ALL bad, or as all multinational companies a mix of good and bad. I choose the latter. And in
the case of this virus i choose to see it as the best people doing the best they can to control it in way they believe is best.

It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”

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