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Re:Third member of U.S. FDA advisory panel resigns over Alzh... by linuxftw on Friday June 11, 2021 @10:23AM (#27473768)
Do you feel the same about access to HCQ and Ivermectin?
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Re:Third member of U.S. FDA advisory panel resigns over Alzh... by triceratops on Friday June 11, 2021 @12:59PM (#27475769)
> Ivermectin

Off-topic: Touting worm medicine (I've only heard of it used for heartworm in dogs, but apparently it's also for human worms) as a Covid cure has to be the work of some troll that got out of hand. I might be out of the loop but it seems like this came out of nowhere.

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Re:Third member of U.S. FDA advisory panel resigns over Alzh... by gilbetron on Friday June 11, 2021 @10:52AM (#27474199)
No the OP, but if they were the only things around that showed any possibility of combating Covid, sure. But that's not the case. We have vaccines and other therapeutics that show incredible effectiveness. Approving HCQ and Ivermectin in this situation is wrong.
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Re:Third member of U.S. FDA advisory panel resigns over Alzh... by black6 on Friday June 11, 2021 @02:39PM (#27476989)
HCQ and ivermectin efficacy agaist SARS-CoV-2 was suppressed early on. If there were existing effective therapeutics, then emergency use authorization for the vaccines would not have been legally permissible (in the US).
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Re:Third member of U.S. FDA advisory panel resigns over Alzh... by gilbetron on Friday June 11, 2021 @08:02PM (#27480000)
Is India in on it, too? https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/nation/new-treatment-guide...

In all honesty, do you consider yourself a rational person? As in, is there something that could actually convince you that those drugs don't do much for Covid? I ask with absolute sincerity.

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