I won't try to counter some of the misinformation on this thread, but do find it interesting that Matt B. posts a link which demonstrates the exact opposite of his position?
"You go to war with the army you have, not the one you want." Ivermectin "seems" to be one of many treatments with pretty good evidence for efficacy, and with a much better serious side effect profile than it appears the current vaccines have...along with no possibility of vaccine mediated disease enhancement. I can read studies that support all of this without needing the PR people at the CDC to hold my hand. So I don't really care if the mainstream group think disagrees with me, particularly without them providing a good argument for their position (I will change my opinion any time though, when there is a convincing accumulation of new information.).
I remember in the past being told by the mainstream group medical think "experts" (despite that I was not seeing a good rationale from reading the data or using my own common sense) that I should just believe them, and give every patient narcotics until they had zero pain, and give every post menopausal woman lots of estrogen, or I was committing malpractice. Turns out, the group think was wrong, but it took years for the voices in the minority to be heard.
Based upon experience, I am skeptical of everything (vaccines, ivermectin, etc.), "especially" where big pharma is involved, even though they do a lot of good. Fool me once shame on you, fool me 100 times big pharma, then shame on me.
Annecdotally...Today I went in on my day off to check for positive covid lab results. 3 more 75 year old vaccinated individuals with 2-3 days of cough and fever, positive for covid. They will be better in 24-48 hours on ivermectin which I sent in at their request. Without this, some seem to proceed to SOB between day 5 and 10, and then can end up at the hospital. Employed providers in various hospital systems don't have autonomy to use what works. I am lucky that I do.
I suspect many hospitals will get over-run with this covid wave. They seem to be doing better with their in hospital treatment, but there doesn't seem to be much of a multi-pronged effort to keep people out of the hospital through Vitamin D education, etc. Sometimes people get seen at the ER, perhaps get a single steroid injection, get released, and then end up at the ER again in 1-2 days.
Maybe enhanced access to outpatient Regen-cov treatment like in Florida will keep high risk people out of the hospital. It is expensive, so maybe that will be better accepted by the govt/pharma establishment?
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