Ivermectin
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Here's why I hate the media.
Personally, I have no opinion on the effectiveness of ivermectin. This is NOT an endorsement of the drug.
CNN's Headline: Health officials warn people not to take a drug meant for livestock to ward off or treat Covid-19
Mississippi health officials are warning residents not to take an anti-parasitic drug -- in most cases, a formulation purchased at livestock supply centers -- to treat or prevent Covid-19.
The Mississippi State Department of Health issued an alert on Friday that the Mississippi Poison Control Center has received an increasing number of calls from people who have taken the drug known as ivermectin -- and that at least 70% of such calls related to "ingestion of livestock or animal formulations of ivermectin purchased at livestock supply centers."
While there are human uses for the drug, the US Food and Drug Administration has not approved ivermectin to treat or prevent Covid-19 in humans and the drug is not an anti-viral medication.
Ah, "while there are human uses...."
So, IOW, it's not just a livestock drug as the headline screams.
Ivermectin, sold under the brand name Stromectol among others, is a medication that is used to treat parasite infestations. In humans, this includes head lice, scabies, river blindness (onchocerciasis), strongyloidiasis, trichuriasis, ascariasis, and lymphatic filariasis.
Assholes.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@george-k said in Ivermectin:
@mik said in Ivermectin:
I cannot help but wonder what their word choices would have been if t were Trump.
"Stubborn"
"Inflexible"
"Entrenched"Those work?
Maybe “doubled down” or “dug in”.
Look up “Russell conjugation”.
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Apparently, Ivermectin didn't work as well as planned.
Reuters
An anti-vaxx police officer has died in Georgia after a short battle with COVID-19.Captain Joe Manning posted anti-vaxx messages on Facebook and took the drug ivermectin.
A Georgia police officer who frequently posted anti-vaxx messages on Facebook and took an anti-parasitic drug instead of a vaccine has died of COVID-19.
Captain Joe Manning, 57, of the Wayne County Sheriff's Office died on Wednesday after a short battle with the virus, according to local news station WSAV.
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Education is extremely important.
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@horace said in Ivermectin:
A mea culpa was presented about some pro-Ivermectin study that now seems likely to be fraudulent.
I think you're referring to the Egyptian study. I may have linked to it.
A couple of people found that that study was rife with statistical errors, made-up data, and plagiarism.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@george-k said in Ivermectin:
@horace said in Ivermectin:
A mea culpa was presented about some pro-Ivermectin study that now seems likely to be fraudulent.
I think you're referring to the Egyptian study. I may have linked to it.
A couple of people found that that study was rife with statistical errors, made-up data, and plagiarism.
Sadly no, I'm not referring to that study. This was another one, I think out of Argentina, which focused on the prophylactic effects of the drug, rather than curative effects. When Bret discussed the Egypt study a couple weeks ago, he shrugged it off, and reminded everybody that he's most excited about the prophylactic value of Ivermectin. Now when discussing this Argentina study, he mentioned that it didn't say anything about the curative properties. Sigh.
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@george-k said in Ivermectin:
Here's why I hate the media.
Personally, I have no opinion on the effectiveness of ivermectin. This is NOT an endorsement of the drug.
CNN's Headline: Health officials warn people not to take a drug meant for livestock to ward off or treat Covid-19
Mississippi health officials are warning residents not to take an anti-parasitic drug -- in most cases, a formulation purchased at livestock supply centers -- to treat or prevent Covid-19.
The Mississippi State Department of Health issued an alert on Friday that the Mississippi Poison Control Center has received an increasing number of calls from people who have taken the drug known as ivermectin -- and that at least 70% of such calls related to "ingestion of livestock or animal formulations of ivermectin purchased at livestock supply centers."
While there are human uses for the drug, the US Food and Drug Administration has not approved ivermectin to treat or prevent Covid-19 in humans and the drug is not an anti-viral medication.
Ah, "while there are human uses...."
So, IOW, it's not just a livestock drug as the headline screams.
Ivermectin, sold under the brand name Stromectol among others, is a medication that is used to treat parasite infestations. In humans, this includes head lice, scabies, river blindness (onchocerciasis), strongyloidiasis, trichuriasis, ascariasis, and lymphatic filariasis.
Assholes.
Again, this is supposed to be a hard news piece:
Always remember, Operation Valkyrie was an act of sedition.
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@jolly said in Ivermectin:
Again, this is supposed to be a hard news piece:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/tv/ivermectin-debacle-exposes-hypocrisy-of-anti-vaccine-crowd/vi-AANQRE2CNN's Pamela Brown reports this includes an anti-parasitic medicine for horses and cows.
AND HUMANS, you assholes.
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And this is CNN.
It's a great hard news story, but they spent more time researching clips of commentators on FOX than they did on actually reporting the news about the drug.
BTW, did y'all know that CNN has two FTE's tasked to monitoring FOX News programming?
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The issue is it is almost impossible to get the human form of ivermectin so all the anti vaxxers are sharing tips and tricks to get it in animal form. I saw a FB site (reading it was ghoulish) dedicated to such and some podcasts. It’s still a thing even as a few major anti vax ivermectin taking and pumping leaders in Texas and Florida died of Covid this past week.
So I think the emphasis on animal form has some merit in this context.
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The amount of dosage is all over the internet. The problem is that people do not follow it or that they're totally unfamiliar with how to deliver a paste dose from a syringe.
Ivermectin may not help them, but a normal dose has a very low probability of hurting them.
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It's getting crazy in the next county over from me.
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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@loki said in Ivermectin:
The issue is it is almost impossible to get the human form of ivermectin so all the anti vaxxers are sharing tips and tricks to get it in animal form. I saw a FB site (reading it was ghoulish) dedicated to such and some podcasts. It’s still a thing even as a few major anti vax ivermectin taking and pumping leaders in Texas and Florida died of Covid this past week.
So I think the emphasis on animal form has some merit in this context.
@loki I’ve got about human’s dose worth* leftover from Ruler’s last deworming. Bonus with this one is you can get rid of your tapeworms too.
*actually don’t know anything about human dosage/ route of administration for ivermectin, for horses it’s oral, at 91 mcg/lb, and I’ve got 150lbs-worth leftover. It’s a lovely orange color and I have no idea what flavor it is.
