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> "According to a health advisory issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on August 26, prescriptions for ivermectin have increased 24-fold ove
by smt88 5y ago
> "According to a health advisory issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on August 26, prescriptions for ivermectin have increased 24-fold over pre-pandemic numbers. That amounts to more than 88,000 prescriptions for the drug issued between early July and mid-August of this year."
This seems worthy of hyperbole.
- gus_massa 5y agoFrom previous threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28416790 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28416790 > According to the article, the number of calls went up from 133 to 459. In percentage terms, that's an enormous jump, but it absolute terms, it's still basically nothing. There are 55 poison control centers in the country, so this works out to 8 or 9 cases per center. From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28412115 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28412115 > Let’s upperbound an average worst-case situation. [estimation...] That’s .3 people per hospital per day seeking emergency care for Ivermectin. I think that Ivermectin for covid-19 is snake oil, but I like to avoid hyperbole in the other direction too.