Lesson of ivermectin: meta-analyses based on summary data alone are unreliable

Re:Lesson of ivermectin: meta-analyses based on summary data... by myrmidon on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @11:31AM (#28617494)

Lining up? Not necessarily.

But it seems almost certain to me that at least some people feel safe thanks to taking ivermectin (while distrusting mainstream vaccines), and those people would turn eventually to the vaccines if those were the only perceived path towards C19 safety.

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Re:Lesson of ivermectin: meta-analyses based on summary data... by rory on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @11:39AM (#28617610)

Perhaps on the margin some would, but I suspect most would fall into the "natural immunity" camp.

So in my mind, we need to weigh the damage done by blocking safe ivermectin use for some number of people to the damage done by a much-smaller number of people remaining unvaccinated when they otherwise would get the jab.

Seems like it could go either way depending on your specific assumptions.

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