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> If you don't have a proven, understood mechanism (which ivermectin doesn't for a virus like Covid) then you have to rely on trials, and those just don't stand
by laverya 5y ago
> If you don't have a proven, understood mechanism (which ivermectin doesn't for a virus like Covid) then you have to rely on trials, and those just don't stand up.
Please, there are a ton of antiviral drugs without an understood mechanism. We don't even know how Acetaminophen (Tylenol) works!
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- rbanffy 5y ago“then you have to rely on trials, and those just don't stand up.” The trials for all those antiviral drugs show they work. As do with Acetaminophen.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> > If you don't have a proven, understood mechanism (which ivermectin doesn't for a virus like Covid) then you have to rely on trials, and those just don't stand up. > Please, there are a ton of antiviral drugs without an understood mechanism Yes, but they have trials that stand up.
- laverya 5y agoRight, but trials are all that matter - there's a huuuuuuge list of drugs where we "know the mechanism" and it turns out that they still don't actually work despite that.