BarryLaverty Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 Under the category of 'DUH, told you so months ago', it doesn't help with Covid. https://fortune.com/2022/03/31/ivermectin-covid-joe-rogan-cure-treatment-effectiveness-study/ Study finds ivermectin, the horse drug Joe Rogan championed as a COVID treatment, does nothing to cure the virus BY EAMON BARRETT March 31, 2022 2:11 AM CDT When doctors and scientists scoured for a COVID-19 cure during the early days of the pandemic, initial studies suggested a number of potential remedies that turned out to be bogus. But few dubious solutions have had the staying power of ivermectin, an antiparasitic drug used to treat large farmyard animals. Ivermectin has been promoted as an “alternative” COVID cure by the likes of podcast host Joe Rogan—who has supported the horse deworming drug over COVID vaccines, even using it himself—and doctors have prescribed the treatment to COVID patients. In small doses, ivermectin can be prescribed to treat head lice or other parasites in humans, but the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not approved the drug as a COVID treatment. In the U.S., ivermectin prescriptions soared to 88,000 per week last August, from a baseline of 3,600, prompting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to issue a warning against using the drug. The CDC said its poison control center had witnessed a fivefold increase in calls related to ivermectin overdoses and adverse effects. Maybe that madness is coming to an end as, on Wednesday, a large-scale scientific study showed that ivermectin has “no significant effects” in treating COVID. The so-called TOGETHER study, conducted in Brazil, is the largest clinical trial into the effects of ivermectin on COVID to date and generally supports the findings of smaller studies, which have also found no significant benefit to ivermectin treatment. The TOGETHER trial took 3,515 COVID patients and randomly assigned treatment of either ivermectin, a placebo, or a third intervention. The study was double-blind, meaning neither the patients nor the doctors knew which of the three options each participant received at the time. “Treatment with ivermectin did not result in a lower incidence of medical admission to a hospital due to progression of COVID-19 or of prolonged emergency department observation among outpatients with an early diagnosis of COVID-19,” the researchers concluded. The scientists behind the Brazil trial presented initial results from their experiment last August, but the full peer-reviewed study was published this week in The New England Journal of Medicine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Monte1076 Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 @BarryLaverty you DO realize it has human applications as well, right? If you actually SAW the clip with Joe Rogan and Sanjay Gupta (from CNN, you know) they actually had a discussion about it, and Gupta actually agreed with Rogan that CNN shouldn't have said he took the "animal" version. So at least acknowledge that Ivermectin does have human applications. The article even says as much. So disingenuous headline at a minimum. And before you decide to put words in my mouth, I never bought into the "Ivermectin as a COVID cure" thing, so don't even try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirtFalcon Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 So tell us Larry, what does CURE THE VIRUS? I'll tell you .... NOTHING Ivermectin DOES help fight the symptoms .... that's already been proven .... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DannyZuco Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 Before Ivermectin--the Horse Drug It does wonders for your mane. After Ivermectin--The Horse Drug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarryLaverty Posted March 31, 2022 Author Share Posted March 31, 2022 37 minutes ago, Monte1076 said: I never bought into the "Ivermectin as a COVID cure" thing, so don't even try. Why not just say just that and spare yourself all your normal quibbling??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBizzle Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 The Horse Drug!!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monte1076 Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 56 minutes ago, BarryLaverty said: Why not just say just that and spare yourself all your normal quibbling??? Because my "quibbling" is correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ObiOne Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 1 hour ago, BarryLaverty said: Under the category of 'DUH, told you so months ago', it doesn't help with Covid. https://fortune.com/2022/03/31/ivermectin-covid-joe-rogan-cure-treatment-effectiveness-study/ Study finds ivermectin, the horse drug Joe Rogan championed as a COVID treatment, does nothing to cure the virus BY EAMON BARRETT March 31, 2022 2:11 AM CDT When doctors and scientists scoured for a COVID-19 cure during the early days of the pandemic, initial studies suggested a number of potential remedies that turned out to be bogus. But few dubious solutions have had the staying power of ivermectin, an antiparasitic drug used to treat large farmyard animals. Ivermectin has been promoted as an “alternative” COVID cure by the likes of podcast host Joe Rogan—who has supported the horse deworming drug over COVID vaccines, even using it himself—and doctors have prescribed the treatment to COVID patients. In small doses, ivermectin can be prescribed to treat head lice or other parasites in humans, but the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not approved the drug as a COVID treatment. In the U.S., ivermectin prescriptions soared to 88,000 per week last August, from a baseline of 3,600, prompting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to issue a warning against using the drug. The CDC said its poison control center had witnessed a fivefold increase in calls related to ivermectin overdoses and adverse effects. Maybe that madness is coming to an end as, on Wednesday, a large-scale scientific study showed that ivermectin has “no significant effects” in treating COVID. The so-called TOGETHER study, conducted in Brazil, is the largest clinical trial into the effects of ivermectin on COVID to date and generally supports the findings of smaller studies, which have also found no significant benefit to ivermectin treatment. The TOGETHER trial took 3,515 COVID patients and randomly assigned treatment of either ivermectin, a placebo, or a third intervention. The study was double-blind, meaning neither the patients nor the doctors knew which of the three options each participant received at the time. “Treatment with ivermectin did not result in a lower incidence of medical admission to a hospital due to progression of COVID-19 or of prolonged emergency department observation among outpatients with an early diagnosis of COVID-19,” the researchers concluded. The scientists behind the Brazil trial presented initial results from their experiment last August, but the full peer-reviewed study was published this week in The New England Journal of Medicine. This trial from this article only did 3 days of ivermectin. Most of the successful trials I have seen were 5 days. Seems like this one was set up to fail. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoubleTeam Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 You have to stop testing as soon as you find your answer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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