Ivermectin for covid 19
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Ivermectin reduces COVID death risk by 92%, peer-reviewed study finds | Blaze Media
A new peer-reviewed study found that regular use of ivermectin reduced the risk of dying from COVID-19 by 92%. The large study was conducted by Flávio A. Cadegiani, MD, MSc, PhD. Cadegiani is a board-certified endocrinologist with a master's degree and doctorate degree in clinical endocrinology...www.theblaze.com
Brazil's tragic ivermectin frenzy is a warning to the US, experts say
- In Brazil, ivermectin is a commonly prescribed anti parasitic drug.
- Early on in the pandemic, Brazilians thought that ivermectin might also help treat and prevent COVID-19.
- But, as one ICU doctor put it: "We Brazilians had to learn in the hardest way that ivermectin didn't work."
It was a mix of vitamins and other pills that President Jair Bolsonaro touted as early treatments for COVID-19, well before vaccines became widely available to prevent and minimize coronavirus infections.
Among the "kit" drugs were the malaria pill hydroxychloroquine and the antiparasitic tablet ivermectin.
Brazilian authorities even at one point launched an app, called TrateCov, (in English, an abbreviation of "treat COVID") which recommended the sameseven "kit" drugs to all its users. (The evidence base for that protocol leaned heavily on data from Dr. Flávio Cadegiani, who's now a member of the FLCCC, a US-based ivermectin propaganda machine.)
But Brazilians quickly discovered — through heart-wrenching personal experience — the limits of treating COVID-19 with ivermectin. Brazil suffered some of its worst death rates yet in late 2020 and early 2021, even in heavily ivermectin-dosed areas, as the more transmissible P1, or Gamma, variant spread quickly across the country.
"Look at what happened in Brazil," Natália Taschner, a Brazilian microbiologist and research scholar at Columbia University in New York, said. "Then wonder: If this drug worked, would Brazil be in such bad shape?"
Entire cities took ivermectin. It didn't work.
A COVID-19 cemetery in Manaus, Brazil, on November 21.Michael Dantas/AFP via Getty Images
The ivermectin strategy was once so popular in Brazil that entire towns tried it out. (Ivermectin is cheap and available in pharmacies across the country.)
In July 2020, ivermectin was available for free to all residents of Itajaí, to the tune of about $826,000 in government spending. The mayor of Itajaí, the physician Volnei Morastoni, said at that time that ivermectin was but "one more weapon in our war against the coronavirus."
As infection rates soared, some people were taking excessively high doses of the medicine every day, hoping to stave off COVID-19, but in a few rare cases that move prompted liver failure.
Other patients were unknowingly given the "kit" drugs by doctors in private hospitals instead of more standard treatments — and some of them died.
Ivermectin "prescription practices didn't upend the tragedy of COVID here in Brazil in terms of preventing infections, preventing hospitalizations, and then preventing deaths," said Dr. Kevan Akrami, an infectious-disease and critical-care physician working in the northeastern city of Salvador. "Whether somebody was taking it or not didn't seem to have any impact on whether or not they got hospitalized or ended up dying from their COVID infection."
The use of ivermectin might have contributed to COVID deaths in other ways, researchers suspect, as some people who assumed they were well protected from infection by ivermectin tossed aside their masks.
"There was a political promotion behind it, to make people feel safe, so that they would continue with their regular life," Taschner said.
Hospitals in Manaus ran out of oxygen in January, as the area recorded one of the highest death rates in the world.
'I have already cared for many patients who took ivermectin and were still in the ICU'
Dr. Ana Carolina Antonio, who works at a government hospital in Porto Alegre, Brazil, told Insider many of her ICU patients took ivermectin in the spring — some trying to prevent COVID-19, others "to early treat their first symptoms."Their strategy didn't work.
In fact, Antonio estimated about 70% of her ICU patients said during the country's deadly second wave (in late 2020 and early 2021) that they had taken ivermectin, and "I regret to say most of those patients have died," she said.
About half of all her critically ill patients died, and 80% of ventilated patients didn't make it, regardless of whether they'd tried ivermectin.
She called the heartbreak of the situation "indescribable."
"I've never seen so many young and previously healthy patients dying," she said. "I have already cared for many patients who took ivermectin and were still in the ICU for COVID-19."
Antonio was telling the wives of patients "my husband's age" with "children like mine" that their spouse was dead.
She worried about getting her own family sick, including her husband who wasn't a healthcare worker and therefore was ineligible for vaccination at the time. (He's now vaccinated, she said.)
Brazilians now want vaccines, not more ivermectin
Attitudes about ivermectin have quickly changed in the months since then.
"In the absence of evidence, we'll try certain things," Akrami said. "But at this point in the pandemic, we really don't have any reason to continue prescribing ineffective medications for prophylaxis or treatment."
The "kit" which was once widely prescribed (and self-dosed) in Cuiaba, Macapá, Natal, and Manaus, is now being thrown out by the government. Brazil has a new health minister — a cardiologist who replaced a military general — and vaccines are more widely available.
"We've seen a huge decrease in the number of cases and the number of hospital admissions," Antonio said of the period since vaccinations began. "We Brazilians had to learn in the hardest way that ivermectin didn't work."
More than nine in 10 Brazilians say they've been vaccinated or intend to get their shots, according to a May poll.
"Across political divides, most people still are being rational and saying, 'I should get vaccinated to protect myself,'" Akrami said. "There's a pretty proud tradition of getting vaccinated here. It's kind of seen as like your civic duty."
Itajaí Mayor Morastoni's Facebook page is peppered with celebrations of vaccine milestones in his city and information on how and where to get vaccinated. (He hasn't mentioned ivermectin once on his page since vaccinations started being administered to healthcare workers in his city in January.)
"People are tired of all the lies and the manipulation and the promotion of miracle cures that they realize don't work," Taschner said.
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Fact Check-Gaps in study claiming that ivermectin reduces risk of COVID-19 death by 92%
What a potential conflict of interest:The current study does disclose extensive relationships between its authors and groups with an interest in promoting ivermectin, Ray noted. “The Disclosures section of the article reveals that multiple authors including the lead author have financial or consulting relationships with a company that manufactures ivermectin and groups that have a long history of promoting its use. Such conflicts do not invalidate a study, but they do represent potential conflict of interest, and the study’s weak scientific methods don’t mitigate these concerns”
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I was joking... why did you not get that?
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Your sister sounds like my sister, when I was telling my mom on a family chat that ivermectin has shown great promise in combating Covid 19.
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I told them they shouldn't buy ivermectin from Dr Fauci.Brazil's tragic ivermectin frenzy is a warning to the US, experts say
Many Brazilians used to spend about $30 a head on what they called the "kit COVID."
- In Brazil, ivermectin is a commonly prescribed anti parasitic drug.
- Early on in the pandemic, Brazilians thought that ivermectin might also help treat and prevent COVID-19.
- But, as one ICU doctor put it: "We Brazilians had to learn in the hardest way that ivermectin didn't work."
It was a mix of vitamins and other pills that President Jair Bolsonaro touted as early treatments for COVID-19, well before vaccines became widely available to prevent and minimize coronavirus infections.
Among the "kit" drugs were the malaria pill hydroxychloroquine and the antiparasitic tablet ivermectin.
Brazilian authorities even at one point launched an app, called TrateCov, (in English, an abbreviation of "treat COVID") which recommended the sameseven "kit" drugs to all its users. (The evidence base for that protocol leaned heavily on data from Dr. Flávio Cadegiani, who's now a member of the FLCCC, a US-based ivermectin propaganda machine.)
But Brazilians quickly discovered — through heart-wrenching personal experience — the limits of treating COVID-19 with ivermectin. Brazil suffered some of its worst death rates yet in late 2020 and early 2021, even in heavily ivermectin-dosed areas, as the more transmissible P1, or Gamma, variant spread quickly across the country.
"Look at what happened in Brazil," Natália Taschner, a Brazilian microbiologist and research scholar at Columbia University in New York, said. "Then wonder: If this drug worked, would Brazil be in such bad shape?"
Entire cities took ivermectin. It didn't work.
A COVID-19 cemetery in Manaus, Brazil, on November 21.Michael Dantas/AFP via Getty Images
The ivermectin strategy was once so popular in Brazil that entire towns tried it out. (Ivermectin is cheap and available in pharmacies across the country.)
In July 2020, ivermectin was available for free to all residents of Itajaí, to the tune of about $826,000 in government spending. The mayor of Itajaí, the physician Volnei Morastoni, said at that time that ivermectin was but "one more weapon in our war against the coronavirus."
As infection rates soared, some people were taking excessively high doses of the medicine every day, hoping to stave off COVID-19, but in a few rare cases that move prompted liver failure.
Other patients were unknowingly given the "kit" drugs by doctors in private hospitals instead of more standard treatments — and some of them died.
Ivermectin "prescription practices didn't upend the tragedy of COVID here in Brazil in terms of preventing infections, preventing hospitalizations, and then preventing deaths," said Dr. Kevan Akrami, an infectious-disease and critical-care physician working in the northeastern city of Salvador. "Whether somebody was taking it or not didn't seem to have any impact on whether or not they got hospitalized or ended up dying from their COVID infection."
The use of ivermectin might have contributed to COVID deaths in other ways, researchers suspect, as some people who assumed they were well protected from infection by ivermectin tossed aside their masks.
"There was a political promotion behind it, to make people feel safe, so that they would continue with their regular life," Taschner said.
Hospitals in Manaus ran out of oxygen in January, as the area recorded one of the highest death rates in the world.
'I have already cared for many patients who took ivermectin and were still in the ICU'
Dr. Ana Carolina Antonio, who works at a government hospital in Porto Alegre, Brazil, told Insider many of her ICU patients took ivermectin in the spring — some trying to prevent COVID-19, others "to early treat their first symptoms."
Their strategy didn't work.
In fact, Antonio estimated about 70% of her ICU patients said during the country's deadly second wave (in late 2020 and early 2021) that they had taken ivermectin, and "I regret to say most of those patients have died," she said.
About half of all her critically ill patients died, and 80% of ventilated patients didn't make it, regardless of whether they'd tried ivermectin.
She called the heartbreak of the situation "indescribable."
"I've never seen so many young and previously healthy patients dying," she said. "I have already cared for many patients who took ivermectin and were still in the ICU for COVID-19."
Antonio was telling the wives of patients "my husband's age" with "children like mine" that their spouse was dead.
She worried about getting her own family sick, including her husband who wasn't a healthcare worker and therefore was ineligible for vaccination at the time. (He's now vaccinated, she said.)
Brazilians now want vaccines, not more ivermectin
Attitudes about ivermectin have quickly changed in the months since then.
"In the absence of evidence, we'll try certain things," Akrami said. "But at this point in the pandemic, we really don't have any reason to continue prescribing ineffective medications for prophylaxis or treatment."
The "kit" which was once widely prescribed (and self-dosed) in Cuiaba, Macapá, Natal, and Manaus, is now being thrown out by the government. Brazil has a new health minister — a cardiologist who replaced a military general — and vaccines are more widely available.
"We've seen a huge decrease in the number of cases and the number of hospital admissions," Antonio said of the period since vaccinations began. "We Brazilians had to learn in the hardest way that ivermectin didn't work."
More than nine in 10 Brazilians say they've been vaccinated or intend to get their shots, according to a May poll.
"Across political divides, most people still are being rational and saying, 'I should get vaccinated to protect myself,'" Akrami said. "There's a pretty proud tradition of getting vaccinated here. It's kind of seen as like your civic duty."
Itajaí Mayor Morastoni's Facebook page is peppered with celebrations of vaccine milestones in his city and information on how and where to get vaccinated. (He hasn't mentioned ivermectin once on his page since vaccinations started being administered to healthcare workers in his city in January.)
"People are tired of all the lies and the manipulation and the promotion of miracle cures that they realize don't work," Taschner said.
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And you can't find a single proponent of ivermectin who would call it a cure.
It's a single treatment that on its own would not be considered an appropriate response to a serious SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Next time, try a rational response.
Medical professionals the world over have failed tragically to properly address the covid problem with procedures and medications that work.Brazil's tragic ivermectin frenzy is a warning to the US, experts say
Many Brazilians used to spend about $30 a head on what they called the "kit COVID."
- In Brazil, ivermectin is a commonly prescribed anti parasitic drug.
- Early on in the pandemic, Brazilians thought that ivermectin might also help treat and prevent COVID-19.
- But, as one ICU doctor put it: "We Brazilians had to learn in the hardest way that ivermectin didn't work."
It was a mix of vitamins and other pills that President Jair Bolsonaro touted as early treatments for COVID-19, well before vaccines became widely available to prevent and minimize coronavirus infections.
Among the "kit" drugs were the malaria pill hydroxychloroquine and the antiparasitic tablet ivermectin.
Brazilian authorities even at one point launched an app, called TrateCov, (in English, an abbreviation of "treat COVID") which recommended the sameseven "kit" drugs to all its users. (The evidence base for that protocol leaned heavily on data from Dr. Flávio Cadegiani, who's now a member of the FLCCC, a US-based ivermectin propaganda machine.)
But Brazilians quickly discovered — through heart-wrenching personal experience — the limits of treating COVID-19 with ivermectin. Brazil suffered some of its worst death rates yet in late 2020 and early 2021, even in heavily ivermectin-dosed areas, as the more transmissible P1, or Gamma, variant spread quickly across the country.
"Look at what happened in Brazil," Natália Taschner, a Brazilian microbiologist and research scholar at Columbia University in New York, said. "Then wonder: If this drug worked, would Brazil be in such bad shape?"
Entire cities took ivermectin. It didn't work.
A COVID-19 cemetery in Manaus, Brazil, on November 21.Michael Dantas/AFP via Getty Images
The ivermectin strategy was once so popular in Brazil that entire towns tried it out. (Ivermectin is cheap and available in pharmacies across the country.)
In July 2020, ivermectin was available for free to all residents of Itajaí, to the tune of about $826,000 in government spending. The mayor of Itajaí, the physician Volnei Morastoni, said at that time that ivermectin was but "one more weapon in our war against the coronavirus."
As infection rates soared, some people were taking excessively high doses of the medicine every day, hoping to stave off COVID-19, but in a few rare cases that move prompted liver failure.
Other patients were unknowingly given the "kit" drugs by doctors in private hospitals instead of more standard treatments — and some of them died.
Ivermectin "prescription practices didn't upend the tragedy of COVID here in Brazil in terms of preventing infections, preventing hospitalizations, and then preventing deaths," said Dr. Kevan Akrami, an infectious-disease and critical-care physician working in the northeastern city of Salvador. "Whether somebody was taking it or not didn't seem to have any impact on whether or not they got hospitalized or ended up dying from their COVID infection."
The use of ivermectin might have contributed to COVID deaths in other ways, researchers suspect, as some people who assumed they were well protected from infection by ivermectin tossed aside their masks.
"There was a political promotion behind it, to make people feel safe, so that they would continue with their regular life," Taschner said.
Hospitals in Manaus ran out of oxygen in January, as the area recorded one of the highest death rates in the world.
'I have already cared for many patients who took ivermectin and were still in the ICU'
Dr. Ana Carolina Antonio, who works at a government hospital in Porto Alegre, Brazil, told Insider many of her ICU patients took ivermectin in the spring — some trying to prevent COVID-19, others "to early treat their first symptoms."
Their strategy didn't work.
In fact, Antonio estimated about 70% of her ICU patients said during the country's deadly second wave (in late 2020 and early 2021) that they had taken ivermectin, and "I regret to say most of those patients have died," she said.
About half of all her critically ill patients died, and 80% of ventilated patients didn't make it, regardless of whether they'd tried ivermectin.
She called the heartbreak of the situation "indescribable."
"I've never seen so many young and previously healthy patients dying," she said. "I have already cared for many patients who took ivermectin and were still in the ICU for COVID-19."
Antonio was telling the wives of patients "my husband's age" with "children like mine" that their spouse was dead.
She worried about getting her own family sick, including her husband who wasn't a healthcare worker and therefore was ineligible for vaccination at the time. (He's now vaccinated, she said.)
Brazilians now want vaccines, not more ivermectin
Attitudes about ivermectin have quickly changed in the months since then.
"In the absence of evidence, we'll try certain things," Akrami said. "But at this point in the pandemic, we really don't have any reason to continue prescribing ineffective medications for prophylaxis or treatment."
The "kit" which was once widely prescribed (and self-dosed) in Cuiaba, Macapá, Natal, and Manaus, is now being thrown out by the government. Brazil has a new health minister — a cardiologist who replaced a military general — and vaccines are more widely available.
"We've seen a huge decrease in the number of cases and the number of hospital admissions," Antonio said of the period since vaccinations began. "We Brazilians had to learn in the hardest way that ivermectin didn't work."
More than nine in 10 Brazilians say they've been vaccinated or intend to get their shots, according to a May poll.
"Across political divides, most people still are being rational and saying, 'I should get vaccinated to protect myself,'" Akrami said. "There's a pretty proud tradition of getting vaccinated here. It's kind of seen as like your civic duty."
Itajaí Mayor Morastoni's Facebook page is peppered with celebrations of vaccine milestones in his city and information on how and where to get vaccinated. (He hasn't mentioned ivermectin once on his page since vaccinations started being administered to healthcare workers in his city in January.)
"People are tired of all the lies and the manipulation and the promotion of miracle cures that they realize don't work," Taschner said.
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I suspected you were joking as soon as I read your post. Is that OK?
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One of those HCQ deaths was a democrat poisoning her husband and blaming Trump.
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Not surprised
What I am still surprised about was people's willingness to try an untested vaccine, just because they were told to by mainstream media talking heads
But... But... They gave us free donuts.
A handful of democrat tyrants mandated the vaccine produced by pharmaceutical companies that donated big bucks to their campaigns. Fauci only touted vaccines produced by the companies in the industry that made him rich over the decades.
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If by "free donuts" you mean some people in my family were induced to feel anxiety about me just wanting to wait this one out, and not get any experimental gene therapy (whoops I mean "vaccine"), then true.
Krispy Kreme doubles its free doughnut incentive for vaccinations
As coronavirus cases in the U.S. spike once again, Krispy Kreme doubles its free doughnut incentive for vaccinations.
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Lucky.Krispy Kreme doubles its free doughnut incentive for vaccinations
As coronavirus cases in the U.S. spike once again, Krispy Kreme doubles its free doughnut incentive for vaccinations.
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I remember when Krispy Kreme first came to the city where I lived and worked. The buzz was incredible. People in my office were eager to try it and somebody brought in a box early on. I couldn't stand them. I much prefer dunkin' donutsKrispy Kreme doubles its free doughnut incentive for vaccinations
As coronavirus cases in the U.S. spike once again, Krispy Kreme doubles its free doughnut incentive for vaccinations.