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Re:Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19 Infec... by laverya on Saturday June 19, 2021 @06:15PM (#27564989)
> If you don't have a proven, understood mechanism (which ivermectin doesn't for a virus like Covid) then you have to rely on trials, and those just don't stand up.

Please, there are a ton of antiviral drugs without an understood mechanism. We don't even know how Acetaminophen (Tylenol) works!

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Re:Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19 Infec... by dragonwriter on Saturday June 19, 2021 @06:58PM (#27565298)
> > If you don't have a proven, understood mechanism (which ivermectin doesn't for a virus like Covid) then you have to rely on trials, and those just don't stand up.

> Please, there are a ton of antiviral drugs without an understood mechanism

Yes, but they have trials that stand up.

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Re:Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19 Infec... by laverya on Saturday June 19, 2021 @07:32PM (#27565533)
Right, but trials are all that matter - there's a huuuuuuge list of drugs where we "know the mechanism" and it turns out that they still don't actually work despite that.
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Re:Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19 Infec... by rbanffy on Saturday June 19, 2021 @06:58PM (#27565291)
“then you have to rely on trials, and those just don't stand up.”

The trials for all those antiviral drugs show they work. As do with Acetaminophen.

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