I love your posts. In a subpage to Swiss Policy Research link I posted previously has some really good info
https://swprs.org/on-the-treatment-of-covid-19/. They also have a link for "The Ivermectin Debate" There is also a good video showing both sides of the debate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_42LVirfNI
I found this too show a pretty good summary:
It is interesting that there are manipulations on both sides related to many of the scientific studies that indicate political influence. It is true that you can find something to support either side and there are agendas and political forces at play related to many of the studies indicating how high the stakes are for some of the stakeholders. I doubt anyone is really concerned about your health or mine in the grand scheme of things.To resolve this situation and finally answer the question of the effectiveness of ivermectin against covid, several high-quality randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are currently ongoing, sponsored by large foundations or public funds. While rather late in the pandemic, these trials are certainly of crucial importance to settle the ivermectin debate.
Large and expensive RCTs may, however, come with their own intricacies. Specifically, RCTs may to some extent be “designed to succeed” – as was the case with some covid vaccine trials as well as remdesivir – or be “designed to fail”. In the case of covid – a multi-phasic disease with a very steep age-based risk gradient – a trial can be designed to fail by enrolling (young) low-risk participants, using a drug late instead of early, under-dosing the drug or in some cases even over-dosing it.
For instance, the ongoing TOGETHER trial of ivermectin, sponsored by the Gates Foundation, was caught using just a single dose of ivermectin, whereas successful trials used two to four doses per day for up to five days. The Oxford PRINCIPLE trial, meanwhile, was caught enrolling participants up to 15 days after symptom onset, at which point some high-risk covid patients are already dead. Of note, the Oxford group had previously “botched” several other early treatment trials.
An even deeper issue, however, is that almost all covid medication trials have been looking for a single “wonder drug”, whereas it is increasingly clear that severe covid is an auto-immune, hyper-inflammatory and pro-thrombotic condition, which in high-risk patients may have to be treated by a combination of drugs (and as early as possible). This is becoming all the more important as the long-term protection by covid vaccines appears to be falling increasingly short of expectations.
Finally, ivermectin is also a prime example of the media war that has been going on during the covid pandemic, with US social media platforms – most notably Facebook and Youtube – having censored numerous doctors, scientists and politicians supporting ivermectin, while the GAVI vaccine alliance has been buying Google ads discouraging its usex. Moreover, one of the major social media “fact checking” organizations turned out to have financial ties to a covid vaccine manufacturer.
In conclusion, the current evidence base concerning the use of ivermectin in the early treatment of covid continues to be positive, but important questions regarding the quality and certainty of many studies remain. It is to be hoped that ongoing high-quality RCTs will be able to resolve the debate. Given a still rising global covid mortality of currently about ten million people, if ivermectin is even just 10% effective against covid, its professional use could already have saved a million people.
I have no expectation to change people's minds regarding the vaccines...once you head down that road there is no going back. Once you are a pickle, there is no going back to being a cucumber.
Unfortunately we do not know what the outcome will be in the long term. The only certainty is that the Pharmaceutical companies will make lots of money from the vaccines and for any adverse medical conditions caused by those vaccines--there are drugs and treatments that will drive up medical costs even further. https://rumble.com/vo086z-proof-that-bi ... -news.html
Personally, I saw that there was an agenda that became evident in late March 2020 when they attacked Hydroxychloroquine and every other therapeutic anyone raised after that. In April 2020 I suggested doing RCTs on HCQ as prophylactic, viewtopic.php?f=14&t=17881&p=84173&hili ... ine#p84173 when Cuomo was on TV daily spreading fear and releasing seniors back in to nursing homes rather than utilizing the field hospitals built for the COVID overflow. The truth is they didn't want anything other than fear and the only acceptable long term solution was the vaccine. Funny thing is that those who said that they would never take take a vaccine created under Trump are now the ones pushing it and want it mandated for everyone, even when it doesn't make sense for those with natural immunity or young people.
I don't know how many times Trump was call a Fascist or a Nazi over the last 5 years, but he has always said taking the vaccine is an individual choice. Biden signs an Executive Order mandating these experimental vaccines for Federal Employees and employers with more than 100 employees and we don't hear similar rhetoric from the liberals? Didn't the Nuremberg code http://www.cirp.org/library/ethics/nuremberg/ originate from the atrocities under Hitler? Who's the real Nazi?
They are dividing us further...the vaccinated vs the unvaccinated. Those that support individual freedom, anyone against the mandatory vaccines and even parents complaining to school boards about masks on children or CRT are now being labeled "domestic terrorists" MSM & Social Media with widespread censorship is the new Pravda. I believe we should fear this much more than any virus that has less than a 1% chance of killing those under 65.
Whether or not you are vaccinated or not, there are treatment protocols that can effectively treat COVID. I don't want anyone here to get COVID but if they do I hope they will seek early treatment to avoid hospitalization and live long enough to enjoy the fruit of their labor in retirement someday.
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