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I don't get your angle here. I guess that the biggest share of produced anti-worm meds is used on animals? What was he trying to say.

• vfclists 4y ago
  https://edition.cnn.com/videos/health/2021/08/22/ivermectin-mississippi-poison-control-calls-surgeon-general-murthy-reaction-keilar-sotu-vpx.cnn https://edition.cnn.com/videos/health/2021/08/22/ivermectin-...
  • bigbillheck 4y ago
    That clip doesn't want to play for me, but ivermectin's great if you or your pets (or livestock, I guess) have nematode trouble. Doesn't do a whole lot for the famous virus tho.
    • vfclists 4y ago
      Nope. The Surgeon General should have corrected her by saying that Ivermectin was a drug approved for human use but he went along with the horse dewormer bullshit. I guess you could say all the Africans who used Ivermectin were consumers of horse-dewormer. The issue is his integrity and honesty as a state medical official. If he can't be relied upon to speak the truth in one area, how can he in another?
• gus_massa 4y ago
  It depends on the country you live. In some countries it's used (almost) only for animals, because the health conditions of humans is so good that you don't need dewormers. In other countries there are national plans to give most of the population dewormers because it's an endemic problem. Many of the papers claiming that ivermectin was good against covid-19 were produced by hospitals running these national programs. You are already giving ivermectin to a lot of people, so you it's almost free to count the deads in the people getting ivermectin and compare it to the death of the general population. (In my opinion they use bad statistics to get the results, there are a lot of bias that they can't fix. Double blind randomized controlled trial or it didn't happen.)