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Re:Omicron Has Potential to Stop the Pandemic, but That's No... by boeingUH60 on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @03:46PM (#29800216)
From what I know, Merck, the manufacturer of Ivermectin, discredited its use as a Covid-19 treatment [1]. If there's any one with the incentive to promote it, it's them, but they didn't. It strikes me as weird that some people still stubbornly tout the drug.

1- https://www.merck.com/news/merck-statement-on-ivermectin-use...

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Re:Omicron Has Potential to Stop the Pandemic, but That's No... by swader999 on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @04:20PM (#29800703)
They definitely did their best to discredit it. It's off patent, they have no financial incentive to promote it and huge incentive to burry it.

They stand to make a lot of money off of their newer competitor to ivermectin called molnupiravir, just approved under emergency use authorisation.$700 per dose if I remember correctly vs less than a penny per dose to manufacture ivermectin.

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