• @waigl
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    427 hours ago

    Remember the whole “Ivermectin, the dewormer, helps against Covid” thing in the US? Researchers did look at those claims and came to the completely unsurprising conclusion that, unless you have gut parasites, Ivermectin does not help with anything, including Covid. However, if you do have parasites, the Ivermectin can remove a comorbidity, which is obviously going to help with just about anything, including Covid. (Unless you have the wrong kind of parasite, and the sudden presence of rotting worm corpses throughout your body leads to septic shock…)

    My takeaway from that is, modern day Americans probably have a lot more gut parasites than we used to think before Covid.

    • @[email protected]
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      7 hours ago

      We Americans don’t actually have an obesity epidemic, we’re just completely full of parasites

    • @Dkarma
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      -416 hours ago

      Ivermectin is an anti viral too. The real issue is ivermectin only works 90% of the time and the vax works 99%. Now do the math of 330mil at 9%

      30.milluon people would die.

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        5 hours ago

        You fail to mention that studies of the antiviral properties of Ivermectin showed that the dosage requirements were proported to be higher dosage than what was considered safe and was likely to be toxic. Sure, maybe it can act as an antiviral medicine, but the other thing a medicine must do is, you know, not kill the person using it.

        As an edit upon further reading, not only were some of the early studies suggesting dangerous dosage being required to see the affects, laterore rigorous studies showed little evidence it made a difference at all.

        The worse part, that only too 2 minutes to google to see dones of papers on the subject, so maybe look into things before you parrot randos on the internet

      • @Death_Equity
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        155 hours ago

        Ivermectin is a treatment, the vaccine is a defense. You can’t compare them like they do the same thing.