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The way to convince the disbelievers is with large randomized controlled trials.


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And it's not like Ivermectin wasn't studied. In randomized control trials and was found to be probably ineffective. Still being studied by various people. But also likely that even if it were effective the doses required would be too toxic for humans. So not a wise thing to spread around as "health advice" and presumably why Facebook etc have clamped down on this.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_drug_repurposing_rese...

Also if it worked, I'm pretty sure Merck (the creator of Ivermectin) would be all over selling it for that purpose.


it's off patent for decades now, it's less than 10 cents a pill in the third world and less than a dollar a pill in usa, there's no money to be made off it, which might be the problem, I don't know

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7261036/figure/...

also see ivmmeta for studies, endless studies

I'm not going to sit here with tinfoil hat, I don't really care anymore because we have the vax now, but something was up with the way this is being buried, not just dismissed but literally buried, it's weird.


I don't see it as buried at all. Multiple studies done. All out in the open.

It's so easy to bypass the "but it's off-patent and therefore not profitable"

A) homochiral enantiomers

B) analogues

C) cocktails

"Our formulation of Norivermectin plus Foobarmanolib is 10% more effective and has 3.5% fewer incidence of side effects. The small increase in effectiveness is projected to decrease hospital stays by 4.5 h, leading to 2 million lives potentially saved."

Boom, profitable, patentable COVID cure. Doctors could still prescribe plain ivermectin off-label but would be incentivized by pharma reps to sell name brand.

Norivermectin and Foobarmanolib are hypothetical, of course. But the trick is real, see escitalopram, armodafinil, aripiprazole + antidepressants, etc.


ivmmeta probably has all the data you want

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