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Ivermectin

Ivermectin is an antiparasitic agent with antiviral properties that is approved by the FDA and WHO for a myriad of treatments. It is listed as an essential medicine by the WHO.

The bacterium Streptomyces avermictilis was first discovered in the soils of Japan in the 1960s by Satoshi Ōmura while searching for new antibacterial agents. After some altering to improve its safety the resulting compound was dubbed ivermectin. It was first approved for use in animals in 1981 and later in 1987 for the treatment of river blindness in sub-Saharan Africa. Since then Merk Laboratories have donated billions of doses globally for the treatment of onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis and other worm-caused diseases. William C.

A paper titled 'Ivermectin, ‘Wonder drug’ from Japan: the human use perspective' by Crump & Omura.1)

In 2015 William Campbell and Satoshi Ömura were awarded a Nobel Prize for the drug.2)3)

The Global Disinformation Campaign Against Ivermectin in COVID-19 (Part I) is a Substack piece, written by Pierre Kory on January 6, 2021.4)

See also Ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19

Mainstream Media Campaign

Touted in the mainstream press as “horse dewormer,” ivermectin is that and more. It is important to take into consideration that any acceptance of ivermectin as a viable treatment for covid-19 puts at risk the vaccination campaign under Emergency Use Authorization and all policies associated with it.

August 26 2021, the CDC issued a Health Advisory titled “Rapid Increase in Ivermectin Prescriptions and Reports of Severe Illness Associated with Use of Products Containing Ivermectin to Prevent or Treat COVID-19”. It later emerged that this was based on scant evidence; just three cases of alleged ivermectin side effects, two involving animal formulations. No patient died; one appeared to have been hospitalized, and one declined any medical help.

The most serious case involved a man, seventy-seven, who had was said to have taken a dose of ivermectin “apparently meant for an 1800 lb. bovine.” He had “hallucinations and tremors, which improved but he was eventually diagnosed with COVID-19” for which he needed only supplemental oxygen.

In two other cases, a woman who took the human form of the drug was said to have suffered “some confusion.” Another woman had “subjective visual disturbances” after taking “a product meant for sheep” but declined medical help. These side effects are in keeping with what the National Institutes of Health calls a “well-tolerated” anti-parasitic drug with such adverse effects as “dizziness, pruritis, nausea, or diarrhea.”

The secondary source for the above case details is from a Michael Capuzzo Substack post here.

2021 August 21 FDA Twitter account even partook in the demonization of the medication with a condescending tweet saying “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y'all. Stop it.”

The snarky FDA tweet has a link to FDA website with text that says, “Why you should not use Ivermectin to treat or prevent COVID-19 - Using the Drug ivermectin to treat COVID-19 can be dangerous and even lethal. The FDA has not approved the drug for that purpose.”5)6)

On September 1, 2021 the a story came out of of Oklahoma of an excess number of calls to poison control and hospitalizations due to individuals taking ivermectin, in particular of the horse-paste formulation.7)8)

In late September, 2021, the news broke, in The Hill and elsewhere, that there had been two deaths from ivermectin overdoses in New Mexico. This emerged an announcement of "ivermectin toxicity" from David Scrase, the top health official in the state. On December 1, 2021, Scrase back-pedalled, calling his earlier assertions “offhand,” and admitting they were groundless. The two deaths were not caused by ivermectin after all. In fact, the two people died because they “actually just delayed their care…”.

Also in late September, 2021, the Washington Post published an article claiming that, in Mississippi, State Epidemiologist Paul Byers was claiming that “at least 70 percent of the recent calls” to the state's poison control center have been related to the ingestion of ivermectin “purchased at livestock supply centers.” In a later correction, carried by the Post, it turns out the actual number of calls to poison control about ivermectin was about 2 percent.

On May 12, 2021, The Indian Express published an article entitled 'Uttar Pradesh government says early use of Ivermectin helped to keep positivity, deaths low, and with the subtitle 'Claiming that timely introduction of Ivermectin since the first wave has helped the state maintain a relatively low positivity rate despite in its high population density'.

October 28, 2021: The State Supreme Court declines to take case seeking to force hospital to administer ivermectin.9)

December 13, 2021: A letter from the FDA appears to signal that the agency may start taking action against those offering ivermectin to treat Covid-19.10)

Ivermectin Horse Paste Hysterics

2021 September 13 - UK Guardian 'An Oklahoma doctor has said overdoses of the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin, which many believe without evidence can prevent or cure Covid-19, are helping cause delays and problems for rural hospitals and ambulance services struggling to cope with the resurgent pandemic.“11)

2021 September 4 - NPR National Public Radio

Poison control centers are seeing a dramatic surge in calls from people who are self-medicating with ivermectin, an anti-parasite drug for animals that some falsely claim treats COVID-19.12)

2021 September Daily Kos (CIA rag)

“Tsk, tsk, tsk, Oklahomans. Hospitals are for people who refused vaccinations and are now in the ICU with intubation tubes jammed down their throats. We can only handle one bone-jarringly stupid sociological trend at a time. Maybe just, I don’t know, get the vaccine? Come on! Come join our Borg hive, Planet of the Horse People! What do you have to lose?

McElyea also told Rolling Stone that symptoms of ivermectin overdose are not limited to “ordinary” reactions such as vomiting, nausea, and muscle aches. “The scariest one that I’ve heard of and seen is people coming in with vision loss,” McElyea told the magazine.

Really, now. What do people imagine is in this vaccine that can be worse than vision-altering horse chemicals? Even if Bill Gates and George Soros were able to track me with a microchip now, at least I can still read the magnesium content in my oat cakes.”13)

2021 October VICE News

“Internal documents obtained by Motherboard through a Freedom of Information Act FOIA request show that the federal Food and Drug Administration was absolutely delighted to do a fire tweet discouraging the use of ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19. In internal emails, supervisors with the agency’s public affairs office congratulated the author of the tweet for their “clever (humorous)” approach, suggesting the agency will employ more humor in its desperate, often ineffective efforts to keep the American public from continuing to poison themselves with unproven treatments for the novel coronavirus.”14)

Joe Rogan grills Sanjay Gupta about the lies CNN told about him taking “horse dewormer”15)

COVID Trials

2021 December “The PRINCIPLE trial led by the University of Oxford has put the ivermectin arm of the study is on “hold” due to “temporary supply issues.” Yeh, right…”

TrialSite has chronicled the ivermectin studies, including the important PRINCIPLE trial led by the University of Oxford. Now, interestingly, the prestigious Anglo-academic research center has announced the ivermectin arm of the study is on “hold” due to “temporary supply issues.”16)17)

A real-time meta-analysis of 73 studies (as of January 2, 2022) showing that 64 percent of 50,180 patients improved after taking ivermectin for Covid-19.18)

Ivermectin Prophylaxis Used for COVID-19 Reduces COVID-19 Infection and Mortality Rates: A City-Wide, Prospective Observational Study of 220,517 Subjects Using Propensity Score Matching (Kerr, Flavio et al., 2021)19)

SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic

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