George Rebane
The prominent article on front page of the 26jul21 WSJ declares ‘Covid Treatment Options Remain Elusive, Despite Months of Effort and Rising Delta Cases’. And the most elusive treatment options remain Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and Ivermectin (IVM) which are nowhere even mentioned in an otherwise comprehensive piece on the various medicines having been tested and used in treating C19.
The effectiveness of HCQ, and especially IVM, as both a preventative and therapeutic for the virus has been well known for over a year. Physicians all over the world, including the US, have used it and prescribe it regularly. Numerous studies have been conducted on their efficacies at various stages of the disease. Curiously, the overseas studies show remarkably positive results, and the US studies show them to be little more effective, if that, than a placebo (none have shown it to do harm to the patient).
A very comprehensive study – ‘Ivermectin for COVID-19: real-time meta analysis of 60 studies’ – was already released last fall. (H/T to reader) It concludes –
Ivermectin is an effective treatment for COVID-19. The probability that an ineffective treatment generated results as positive as the 60 studies to date is estimated to be 1 in 193 billion (p = 0.0000000000052). As expected for an effective treatment, early treatment is more successful, with an estimated reduction of 74% in the effect measured using random effects meta-analysis (RR 0.26 [0.16-0.43]). 64% and 96% lower mortality is observed for early treatment and prophylaxis (RR 0.36 [0.15-0.85] and 0.04 [0.00-0.59]). Statistically significant improvements are seen for mortality, ventilation, hospitalization, cases, and viral clearance. The consistency of positive results across a wide variety of heterogeneous studies is remarkable, with 92% of the 60 studies reporting positive effects (26 statistically significant in isolation).
Even the simplest back-of-envelope calculations will show that the widespread use of IVM would have saved hundreds of thousands of lives over the past year and a half. Given the reported results, its suppression by our governmental public health institutions has been nothing short of rank criminality. Neither the commonly available and generic HCQ nor IVM will benefit the big pharmas selling medicines on which their patents still hold sway.
Omitting any mention of, say, IVM and the cited study reeks to high heaven, and goes a long way to maintain the loss of credibility that our society’s major institutions have suffered. I repeat the WSJ citation above – not a hint of even the existence of HCQ or IVM. Even repeating the CDC’s official stance on these medicines would have served to allay some suspicions, but total silence screams collusion and conspiracy at the highest levels.
Your physician will more than likely already have his/her own supply and be happy to prescribe IVM if you request it. Given the readily available research, the Rebanes have stocked their medicine cabinet appropriately.
[29jul21 update] So ‘Why is the FDA Attacking a Safe, Effective Drug?’ Ivermectin is a promising Covid treatment and prophylaxis, but why is the FDA still denigrating it? People continue to suffer and die at numbers that could be greatly reduced were this safe, inexpensive, and effective drug promoted and made available to all of us who should have it in our medicine cabinets. More specifically, “Ivermectin fights 21 viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, the cause of Covid-19. A single dose reduced the viral load of SARS-CoV-2 in cells by 99.8% in 24 hours and 99.98% in 48 hours, according to a June 2020 study published in the journal Antiviral Research. Some 70 clinical trials are evaluating the use of ivermectin for treating Covid-19. The statistically significant evidence suggests that it is safe and works for both treating and preventing the disease.”
CDC’s newest mask mandate continues to be based on no science, just imperiously incompetent control. Governors and mayors are beginning to give the agency pushback, asking for the substantiating science or at least some supporting data. The best that CDC could do to date is to mumble something about an unpublished report (the one that failed peer review?). When asked, they could not advise when the report would be made public. The bottom line of all this is that we are 18 months into this pandemic, and the government is becoming more dysfunctional by the day in the response policies it struggles to put out. This is the outfit that the neo-Marxists are trying to enlarge and control more of our everyday lives??!
But the biggest ongoing tragedy is the response of the American sheeple. The overwhelming majority of our citizens respond with a muffled compliance, very similar to that of cattle being prodded down the chute on their final walk to slaughter. Consider Covid as a training aid used by government elites to prepare us to accept more serious measures to come from on high.
[31jul21 update] The evidence for Ivermectin continues to pour in. Given the number of people that Covid has killed, IVM is truly a demonstrated wonder drug. Its timely application would have save hundreds of thousands of lives, and it still can be the medicine that will allow us to live with C19 as its variants make it endemic for the indefinite future. ‘How to Kill a Cure: The War on Ivermectin’ is a must read to appreciate the level of criminality that IVM's suppression has entailed, and continues today as a perfidious blight in our society. (H/T to reader)
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