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Be aware that quite a few of the ivermectin studies contain fraud or dodgy data. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/ivermectin-covid-study-susp
by winocm 5y ago
Be aware that quite a few of the ivermectin studies contain fraud or dodgy data.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/ivermectin-covid-study-suspect-data https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/ivermecti...
https://gidmk.medium.com/is-ivermectin-for-covid-19-based-on-fraudulent-research-part-3-5066aa6819b3 https://gidmk.medium.com/is-ivermectin-for-covid-19-based-on...
Not to even mention that the only realistic effect it would have is blunting the effects of IL-6. There’s better options for antagonizing IL-6 with less of a side effect profile, specifically tocilizumab and sarilumab.
If you refer to blocking nuclear import, ORF6 in SARS-CoV and other sarbecoviruses already does that to begin with. Adding SARS-CoV ORF6 to a MHV model actually made it more pathogenic, so there is little benefit to not blocking nuclear import.
Here are some associated material on the topic:
https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/JVI.01012-07 https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/JVI.01012-07
https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jvi.01308-07 https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jvi.01308-07
https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/JVI.79.17.11335-11342.2005 https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/JVI.79.17.11335-11...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124721002308 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221112472...
- nradov 5y agoWe can generalize that a bit and say that most medical research on all topics contains some dodgy data. https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124 https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo... The quality of COVID-19 research has been pretty bad across the board with researchers racing to publish and journals doing weak reviews. But I haven't seen any credible allegations of fraud against the specific studies that I linked above. There are multiple other hypothesized mechanisms of action beyond antagonizing IL-6. It's not completely clear what, if anything, is actually happening in vivo. https://journals.lww.com/americantherapeutics/fulltext/2021/08000/ivermectin_for_prevention_and_treatment_of.7.aspx https://journals.lww.com/americantherapeutics/fulltext/2021/...