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DetroitHoo

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Did you read your links?


Your first link is a review that includes data and prominently features the now retracted study that included plagiarized data.

Your second link says that only 43% of studies showed statistical significance, but then says 92% of studies showed positive effect. That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works. And that's just the tip of the iceberg, there are a whole host of other issues with that meta analysis.

The third link is behind a paywall, which, based on the quality of your other links I'm not willing to pay, but what I've read about the numbers in Mexico, there is a lot of implied causation. Oh, and have you looked a Mexico's numbers since that article was posted? Did Ivermectin just forget to work in July and August?

And your final link seems to refer back to your first linking and referring to an article in that same journal, except if you click the hyperlink it goes to a "page not found," on that journal's website (rather than the external website hosting the article from the same journal and time period, presumably because the journal was smart enough to retract it from their website.

Seriously, I hope good evidence emerges that ivermectin is effective in the treatment of COVID. I really do, because any tool I have at my disposal is helpful. But there actually is a reason it isn't recommended, why the AMA just came out with a statement against prescribing or using it for COVID, why the NIH, CDA, WHO, etc all recommend against. Why even the manufacturer of the drug, who stands to profit most from it, says there isn't adequate evidence to support its use for COVID.

Just look at the Cochrane Review that came out recently. Much better quality of evidence went into that meta analysis which just doesn't support it at this time. Studies are in process. Hopefully they show benefit. But we've been through this before with hydroxychloroquine, with some terribly designed/run studies showing benefit and a bunch of people doubling down on a medication that didn't work and was causing actual issues in the ICU. So maybe give the medical community some time to figure it out before buying some med for off label use.

And to the OP, I wish your grandmother the best. You can look into how Regeneron is being handled in her area. Based on her age she qualifies, can be given as a single subcutaneous injection, and there is at least some better quality evidence suggesting benefit (although there are a few issues with that data as well that I won't get into here, it's probably the best we have now for mild illness not requiring oxygen/hospitalization).

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Posted: 09/04/2021 at 04:58AM



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  Did you read your links? -- DetroitHoo 09/04/2021 04:58AM
  Has anyone seen Paul Marik and Wadhoo in the same room? ** -- TomGlansAski 09/04/2021 02:43AM
  Sure they did ** -- psychobilly 09/03/2021 9:17PM
  Thank you! ** -- 00 Hoo 09/04/2021 1:04PM
  You are such a dic ** -- HiwasseeHoo 09/03/2021 10:17PM
  Are you calling his grandmother a liar? ** -- TomGlansAski 09/03/2021 9:57PM
  Just able to see through the BS. ** -- psychobilly 09/03/2021 11:21PM
  Psycho, I think you know deep down that you need help. -- TomGlansAski 09/04/2021 02:47AM
  Sure, kid ** -- SchmHoo 09/03/2021 11:50PM
  Walk away now, drain on society. ** -- psychobilly 09/03/2021 11:51PM
  Crackpottery knows no party ** -- Plano Hoo 09/03/2021 8:52PM
  That's a credible story. I totally believe you. -- BocaHoo91 09/03/2021 8:25PM
  What strategy was that? ** -- JMHoo 09/03/2021 10:53PM
  He also tried to ban vaccine mandates. -- BocaHoo91 09/04/2021 09:31AM
  As they say in comedy, DarthSantis is killin’ it ** -- TomGlansAski 09/03/2021 10:00PM
  Yes they did, sadly ** -- WaxHoo 09/03/2021 9:45PM
  Gillum is for sure Whacks' kinda guy!!! ** -- ResistHoo 09/03/2021 9:50PM
  Isn't it DarthInSanetis?!?!? ** -- ResistHoo 09/03/2021 9:55PM

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