Pushed by quacks, use of Ivermectin is poisoning people

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Good grief. America's Frontline Doctors, a group of quacks who claim to know more than actual experts are pushing the use of ineffective parasite med to prevent and or treat COVID. 

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ivermectin-demand-drives-trump-telemedicine-website-rcna1791

On a personal note, my hubby works for a farm store and has overheard customers explaining to each other how to dose animal wormer for people. This is in a community that is anti-mask, anti-vaccine, let's just all get infected. Up until, you know, they need hospitalization . 

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Specializes in MSN, FNP-C, PMHNP, CEN, CCRN, TCRN, EMT-P.

What makes this group “quacks”?  Many other countries are utilizing Ivermectin and didn’t the CDC director just say that they are pushing boosters on “hope” rather than real data?

What I don’t understand is why these people are freaking out over something with over 99% survival rate for most populations.  

 

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I don't get WHY anyone would use a NON FDA approved horse medication to treat active disease rather than prevent it with a NOW FDA APPROVED vaccine. Seems like quackery to me! Isn't FDA approval what all the anti-vax crowd are concerned about?

Oops my bad. Of course not. The goal posts have moved!

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Specializes in NICU, PICU, Transport, L&D, Hospice.

Nothing says that you are sheepishly following pseudoscience more than ingesting veterinary worming paste rather than accepting vaccination.  

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This 30 year old man got Covid and treated himself with vitamins and Ivermectin. It may not have hurt, but it sure didn't help him. Now his wife, unborn child, and three children pay the price.

https://www.gosanangelo.com/story/news/2021/08/22/texas-covid-delta-variant-hospitalizations-high-mom-fights-save-husband/8196516002/

Update to this article is that Caleb died this afternoon at 3pm CST.

 

 

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Specializes in Psych, Addictions, SOL (Student of Life).

I am still trying to figure out how taking horse wormer is supposed to stop covid.

 

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Specializes in MSN, FNP-C, PMHNP, CEN, CCRN, TCRN, EMT-P.

Review of the Emerging Evidence Demonstrating the Efficacy of Ivermectin in the Prophylaxis and Treatment of COVID-19

Ivermectin is far more than a “horse wormer” and is approved for use in humans for various things all over the world.  The scientist who discovered it won a Nobel prize for it.  There is a lot of data out there supporting it’s use.  

As someone who has had Covid twice I would never take it though.  I was hiring new bench press PRs when I had the China virus last time 

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Specializes in MSN, FNP-C, PMHNP, CEN, CCRN, TCRN, EMT-P.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8088823/
 

Ivermectin is being used all over the world.  Don’t be so close minded.

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4 minutes ago, GordonGekko said:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8088823/
 

Ivermectin is being used all over the world.  Don’t be so close minded.

Are we expected to open minded enough to condone using veterinary deworming meds based upon social media dosing guidelines? 

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On 8/28/2021 at 10:15 PM, GordonGekko said:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8088823/

Ivermectin is far more than a “horse wormer” and is approved for use in humans for various things all over the world.  The scientist who discovered it won a Nobel prize for it.  There is a lot of data out there supporting it’s use.  

As someone who has had Covid twice I would never take it though.  I was hiring new bench press PRs when I had the China virus last time 

No kidding. 

The issue isn't whether the drug has value.  The issue is antivaxxers treating themselves with veterinary medicine based upon dosing guidelines from social media accounts. 

Your statement that you've been infected twice in 18 months or so suggests that natural immunity isn't long term.  Previously infected individuals are encouraged to vaccinate.  

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Call a wambulance, someone is doing something outside of the guidelines of all the geniuses who are still trying to figure out what to do, change their minds weekly,  contradict their previous recommendations frequently,  and are authoritarian bureaucratics to the core...? 

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