Major study of Ivermectin finds 'no effect whatsoever'

Re:Major study of Ivermectin finds 'no effect whatsoever' by rbanffy on Friday August 13, 2021 @08:57PM (#28176746)

IIRC HCQ was flagged in computational models as promising, but the concentrations required to have an actual effect are a large multiple of the lethal doses.

There is a ton of politically driven disinformation around. Brazilian president Bolsonaro pushed both as treatments while, we now know, government representatives were stalling direct purchases from labs while negotiating vaccines with intermediaries in order to profit from sales to the government.

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Re:Major study of Ivermectin finds 'no effect whatsoever' by cheaprentalyeti on Friday August 13, 2021 @09:11PM (#28176825)

>...but the conentrations required to have an actual effect are a large multiple of the lethal doses..."

Which was the excuse they gave when they designed actual drug trials that gave patients lethal doses and ignored the testimony of doctors who found it useful at sub-lethal doses. And therefore a drug used by tens of millions of people a year(if not more) for the past five decades was declared too dangerous to use.

Addendum: I wound up arguing with someone that thus-and-such a trial was actually using what was considered an overdose in 2017 and they would not look at the entry in the PDR.

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