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Numbers in that study too low to be of scientific merit, quite a few holes in the study criteria and not peer-reviewed.Haven't had your Ivermectin today?
There's enough medical evidence around to, at the very least, consider Ivermectin as a treatment in the early stages of Covid. For example:
"A double-blind Israeli study has concluded that Ivermectin, an inexpensive anti-parasitic widely used since 1981, reduces both the duration and infectiousness of Covid-19, according to the Jerusalem Post."
Numbers in that study too low to be of scientific merit, quite a few holes in the study criteria and not peer-reviewed.
Yeah, nah.
If you caught Covid and were offered Ivermectin to possibly reduce the duration of Covid, and to shorten your isolation time, would you take the plunge?Numbers in that study too low to be of scientific merit, quite a few holes in the study criteria and not peer-reviewed.
Yeah, nah.
Not based on that study, no. There are other better treatments I would be seeking if I had Covid and was unwell enough to require treatment. Not sure how it would shorten isolation time at all.If you caught Covid and were offered Ivermectin to possibly reduce the duration of Covid, and to shorten your isolation time, would you take the plunge?
If you caught Covid and were offered Ivermectin to possibly reduce the duration of Covid, and to shorten yourisolation timelifespan, would you take the plunge?
Dave, Ivermectin has been used for over 40 years with great effect in treating other problems.
It has been used very successfully to treat Covid in India.
Anecdotally, Louis Gossett Jnr survived Covid-19 because he took a course of Ivermectin.
There's enough positive news around it for it to considered seriously.
Dave, Ivermectin has been used for over 40 years with great effect in treating other problems.
It has been used very successfully to treat Covid in India.
Anecdotally, Louis Gossett Jnr survived Covid-19 because he took a course of Ivermectin.
There's enough positive news around it for it to considered seriously.
Telling me that there's 'some positive news around for it' won't cut it. Trying to convince me by telling me that it's a 40 year-old drug used to treat parasitic infections won't cut it. One actor 'surviving' the infection because he took it would be the same as me saying I survived a heart attack because I said five Hail Marys.
I'd love to see evidence that using it on patients in India actually did effectively shorten disease duration or limit morbidity. Published evidence with scientific rigour, peer-reviewed. And I'd want there to be evidence of how it works.
Until that time, if I'm unlucky enough to catch Boris Johnson virus, I'll stick with the experts who dedicate their professional lives to assessing the evidence. Certainly not those who've spent the last 15 months diminishing the seriousness of the pandemic, and undermining public health efforts to try and curb it.
Edit: citing the treatment of Covid in India would also be a fairly dangerous tactic, it was an absoulte human tragedy.
I would have thought you guys would have knocked that over in no time. That sucksCases increasing in leaps & bounds, now at 277 of which all but 14 are in Auckland & most of those South Auckland. Still none in the South Island: Covid has been detected in Christchurch's waste water but that could be from MIQ rather than the community.
NZ other than Auckland's lockfown gets reviewed tomorrow & I'm hopeful they'll flag a drop to Level 3 for the South & most of the North in which case I could potentially be working Saturday to get the joint ready for trading from Monday.
Auckland I think will remain in hard lockdown for at least another week & possibly two until the numbers start to come down.