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2021-08-03 Science & Technology

JPost: Israeli scientist says COVID-19 could be treated for under $1/day

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Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-08-03 07:26|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 lot of effort was being put into evaluating hydroxychloroquine, so he decided to join the effort.

Never "evaluating" HCQ, just demonizing it. I mean Trump said it might be useful!

Posted by Bobby 2021-08-03 07:43|| 2021-08-03 07:43|| Front Page Top

#2 It's the St Anthony of Fauci methodology:

Everybody is equally at risk under all circumstances

You can't 'waste' time on therapeutics

We need a vaccine

Don't sequester or triage the already infected by severity

Do not inform and quarantine the most vulnerable populations ( see 1)

Posted by Cesare 2021-08-03 08:02|| 2021-08-03 08:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Florida woman pleads for others to get vaccinated against COVID-19 after losing her fiancé, mother and grandmother to the virus within five days of each other

Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-03 08:52|| 2021-08-03 08:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Israel places US, Italy, France and Greece under severe travel warning

Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-03 09:01|| 2021-08-03 09:01|| Front Page Top

#5 #3...Sounded like she of the 4 was the unvaxxinated one and the survivor. Just sayin'.

Posted by 2021-08-03 09:32|| 2021-08-03 09:32|| Front Page Top

#6 Drug patents are good for 20 years after the drug's invention. Thus I would imagine that Merck is disinterested in invermecting because there is little money to be made off it.

Posted by Gerthudion Whomoper3485 2021-08-03 10:20|| 2021-08-03 10:20|| Front Page Top

#7 Can't have a pandemic if there is a cheap and effective treatment.

Posted by Grailet Speang1824 2021-08-03 12:20|| 2021-08-03 12:20|| Front Page Top

#8 In Schwartz’s study, some 89 eligible volunteers over the age of 18 who were diagnosed with coronavirus and staying in state-run COVID-19 hotels were divided into two groups: 50% received ivermectin, and 50% received a placebo, according to their weight.

So nobody with a symptomatic form (actually ill).

Nearly 72% of volunteers treated with ivermectin tested negative for the virus by day six. In contrast, only 50% of those who received the placebo tested negative.

To summarize. If you're tested positive but have no symptoms your chances of testing negative six day later are 44% better if you take ivermectin. A cure indeed.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-08-03 13:30|| 2021-08-03 13:30|| Front Page Top

#9 #3 Tiffany Devereaux of Nassau County in northeast Florida told News4Jax that her fiancé, Britt McCall, 35; her mother, Darlene Glass, 65; and grandmother Ruth Dean Griffis Devereaux, 85; all died within five days of each other.

...Her fiancé and mother were both unvaccinated. And her grandmother 85 (vaccination not necessary works).

#5 #3...Sounded like she of the 4 was the unvaxxinated one and the survivor. Just sayin'.

Dyslexia? (I'm being charitable)

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-08-03 13:37|| 2021-08-03 13:37|| Front Page Top

#10 It shows the medicine has an effect. And it's not the only study out there.

I kinda miss the old g(r)om, you know the one who read _The New Class_ instead of being featured in it.

Can we get him to do a couple shifts for old time's sake?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-08-03 16:09|| 2021-08-03 16:09|| Front Page Top

#11 It’s a small study that suggests ivermectin can help prevent a small problem from becoming a big one — and no doubt, like aspirin, this has many applications. A study of the same design with 1,000 or 5,000 for each group would be taken more seriously.

The FDA, on the other hand, has become exponentially risk averse since I did work they paid attention to, back in the 1980s. And that is even without corrupt creatures like Anthony Fauci arranging profitable relationships for themselves with certain drug manufacturers.

On the gripping hand, the FDA happily approved a prescription medication that reduces the misery of influenza by a few days, so it seems reasonable that they would approve ivermectin for that a similarly small effect, were it not for the politics and profit problems one segment of the scientific community has created for itself.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-08-03 17:23|| 2021-08-03 17:23|| Front Page Top

#12 For comparison purposes, the CDC discusses the four anti-virals approved for reducing the duration and impact of influenza here.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-08-03 17:32|| 2021-08-03 17:32|| Front Page Top

#13 Also for comparison purposes... hallucinogens and psychotropic medications that can cause mania and schizophrenia are now legal without a prescription, uh, "decriminalized" in California.

But depending on the jurisdiction you can get your license pulled for prescribing Ivermectin-for-humans.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-08-03 18:52|| 2021-08-03 18:52|| Front Page Top

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