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>anti-parasitic medicines Protease inhibitors* , similar to the one Pfizer is testing right now for COVID.

• mminer237 5y ago
  I think he was talking about Ivermectin, which is a glutamate-gated chloride channel binder. I've never heard of people taking unprescribed protease inhibitors, although I guess there's no end to snake oil.
  • hammock 5y ago
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7996102/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7996102/ >Ivermectin was found as a blocker of viral replicase, protease and human TMPRSS2, which could be the biophysical basis behind its antiviral efficiency. https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-020-01577-x https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-020-01577-x >Our results indicate that boceprevir, ombitasvir, paritaprevir, tipranavir, ivermectin, and micafungin exhibited inhibitory effect towards 3CLpro enzymatic activity.
• oliwarner 5y ago
  No, they're not licensed for that. They're still testing. And that's even forgiving how much work the word "similar" is doing there. It is still the case that thousands of people are badgering their HCPs, trying to get off-licence scripts for something that's efficacy is contested and method isn't certain. The Venn diagram between people who want wormer and those that refuse a vaccine is practically a circle. I stand by my original statement on what sort of people these are. If you want to have a chat about the ongoing research into protease inhibitors, that's great, but anecdotes about curing it with an ill-gotten tube of horse medicine is as dangerous and virulent as covid in the first place.
  • swader999 5y ago
    It's not a perfect circle. I fixed my vaccine induced long haul covid symptoms that tested negative with the horsey paste.