Ivermectin found to have "antiviral effect" with Covid virus

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Not in my head, and it doesn't have to be spelled out.

Last time I checked, the FDA were not a political organisation
https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer- ... t-covid-19

My concern with certain people (i.e. Rogan and certain politicians of the right wing flavour) encouraging trying ivermectin before any clinical trials publish positive results or proper dosage/medication is available through prescription/pharmacies is that they put themselves at risk as per the FDA warning.

I am glad to see that most of the latest posts discuss this topic with respect to various viewpoints and with scientific evidence wherever possible. Although the vaccine has doubtless saved many thousands of lives, it's not a one size fits all situation, as it depends on a specific individual's immune system response, metabolism, genetic makeup etc. I know of a former WP member whose favourite teacher from his schooldays, passed away from Covid despite her being double vaccinated some time before.

Although this is the exception rather than the rule, I wonder if her death could have been prevented by taking some alternative treatment, even if it was little more than a placebo.

That's sad to hear - I hope the former member is OK and didn't take it too badly.



While "prevention is better than cure", it seems to me that too much emphasis is placed on the "prevention" side ("vaccines"), while little-to-none is spent on the "cure" side (treatments) - And when suggestions are offered in this area, politics (rather than science, or even simple compassion) tends to rear its ugly head and demand the focus be taken from looking to a "cure", and instead returned to the "prevention" area.

My opinion is that if a person is sick enough to need medical help with the virus, then they should be permitted the use of medication which has been proven safe for use (within reason: care would be needed with potentially addictive medication, and making sure the desired medication did not cause negative interactions with other medication\known to exacerbate their condition, for example) - Even if all it does is help ease their stress over their condition, it has done something for the patient (though this is difficult to quantify), and sometimes even this small assistance may be enough to set them on the path to recovery (one of the known properties of the placebo effect).

In this case, given inflamation is the major concern to hospitalised patients, any anti-inflamatory medication (including Ivermectin, which has been found to have anti-inflamatory properties), would seem worth making available to a patient (in the same way that paracetamol and ibuprofen are advised for people with the virus, despite not doing anything about the viral infection, due to their effect on symptoms of the virus (fever\muscle pain\etc.) - ibuprofen also has anti-inflamatory properties, but apparently insufficient to counter the virus's effects at safe levels) - it may not do anything directly against the virus, but it may do something to counter the result of the virus's actions on the patient's body, and so help them survive (in serious cases) and allow the body to focus on the virus, rather than it putting effort into also fighting the inflamation as well.

I missed this earlier:

Source: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/fauci-says-nih-is-studying-whether-ivermectin-is-effective-against-covid-19

As with other ongoing studies, it will be interesting to see the results... It's a shame there's no details in the article about them.