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Re:Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19 Infec... by bmarquez on Saturday June 19, 2021 @03:46PM (#27563787)
> If someone died because of a "Take Ivermectin and you'll survive COVID" video on YouTube, who's to blame?

Ivermectin is a prescription drug in the United States. A doctor would most likely reject the request if a patient asked for it solely on a YouTube recommendation. So to answer your question, a prescribing doctor.

IMO YouTube isn't medically qualified to censor ongoing research or debate, just stick a disclaimer and be done with it.

Re:Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19 Infec... by unparagoned on Saturday June 19, 2021 @05:54PM (#27564828)
Bret implied he got it from a potentially dodgy source. He was also pointing out "risks" with the vaccine. Even in comments you had people saying they were going to avoid the vaccine and take this drug instead.
Re:Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19 Infec... by acituan on Saturday June 19, 2021 @10:52PM (#27566686)
> He was also pointing out "risks" with the vaccine.

Whoa whoa whoa. 1 year old mRNA vaccine's risks don't come with scare quotes. He often talks about the lack of long term data. mRNA covid vaccines might have been exceptionally safe so far, yet intellectual honesty demands we admit that indeed we don't have the long term data yet. Implying there would absolutely be no such risk is a fundamentalistic position itself.

Re:Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19 Infec... by unparagoned on Sunday June 20, 2021 @04:04AM (#27568085)
There is a "risk" that bill Gates is actually an alien and has been putting microchips into the vaccine.

Pretty much all risks are identified within a short period, it's very rare for there to be long term risks.So yes there may be some theoretical long term risk, but it's soo small that it is misleading to talk about it as a serious risk. Expecially compared to the real and known dangers of Ivermectin and covid.

Re:Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19 Infec... by acituan on Sunday June 20, 2021 @12:41PM (#27571676)
> There is a "risk" that bill Gates is actually an alien and has been putting microchips into the vaccine.

Do those risks look proportional to you?

> Pretty much all risks are identified within a short period, it's very rare for there to be long term risks

I am not aware of any first principles in immunology that evidence this view. Maybe you do?

Re:Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19 Infec... by ryantgtg on Saturday June 19, 2021 @04:33PM (#27564226)
You can (or could until recently?) get topical ivermectin from pet stores, no prescription. Humans use it to self-diagnose and self-treat rosacea. So there is the risk that people will buy and ingest it.
Re:Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19 Infec... by jsight on Saturday June 19, 2021 @07:23PM (#27565481)
That risk is not reduced by suppression.
Re:Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19 Infec... by void_mint on Saturday June 19, 2021 @07:58PM (#27565713)
You're suggesting that reducing awareness won't reduce abuse? That seems impossible.
Re:Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19 Infec... by void_mint on Saturday June 19, 2021 @07:59PM (#27565718)
> IMO YouTube isn't medically qualified to censor ongoing research or debate, just stick a disclaimer and be done with it.

Youtube is qualified to say "This use of this drug is unresearched/unproven by the sources we build guidelines around", as are all private companies.

Re:Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19 Infec... by rossjudson on Saturday June 19, 2021 @09:37PM (#27566251)
Must be a bunch of idiots working over there on YouTube, huh? Sounds like you have some inside knowledge about Google's resourcing of and attention paid to the COVID epidemic worldwide.