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Also, wouldn't we expect to see this in these studies?

yieldcrv 4y ago
because that only appears if that's what was studied. which it wasn't. this study and many others aren't checking patients to see if Ivermectin is by coincidence being used for what it was approved for - tapeworm treatment. they are doing studies on people with covid.
- baseballdork 4y ago
  > because that only appears if that's what was studied. Why would that be the case? If there's a statistically significant portion of the population suffering from parasites and this treatment improves outcomes for those people in a statistically significant way, then why isn't that going to show up in a study looking for improvement of outcomes?
  - yieldcrv 4y ago
    Because they still never tested us they had tapeworms This hypothesis is guessing that this distribution of the population did and that’s why they are convinced they are seeing such positive correlations when using Ivermectin after a Covid ailment. Supporting aspects are that Covid affected a broad enough population for the tapeworm statistics to map 1:1 with a population, and that many severe covid cases and deaths were exacerbated by opportunistic infections. So we have to look for what the opportunistic infections could be? How strange that a horse dewormer happens to work moderately okay in those regions.
    - baseballdork 4y ago
      I'm not following. What this study shows is that ivermectin doesn't improve COVID outcomes (regardless of parasite status). This means that either the study wasn't sufficiently random over the 1,000 participants and somehow underrepresented those suffering from parasites OR that it was adequate and that either ivermectin doesn't change the outcome for those suffering parasites or those suffering parasites aren't a significant portion of the population. If you think it's the former, then you ought to point out whatever they messed up in their methodology, but if it's the latter, then it debunks your whole concept. In order for your hypothesis (which I believe is that there are a lot of people with parasites AND ivermectin helps them with COVID by killing those parasites) to be true, we'd have to see improvement in recovery to _some_ degree in this study.

because that only appears if that's what was studied. which it wasn't. this study and many others aren't checking patients to see if Ivermectin is by coincidence being used for what it was approved for - tapeworm treatment. they are doing studies on people with covid.

baseballdork 4y ago
> because that only appears if that's what was studied. Why would that be the case? If there's a statistically significant portion of the population suffering from parasites and this treatment improves outcomes for those people in a statistically significant way, then why isn't that going to show up in a study looking for improvement of outcomes?
- yieldcrv 4y ago
  Because they still never tested us they had tapeworms This hypothesis is guessing that this distribution of the population did and that’s why they are convinced they are seeing such positive correlations when using Ivermectin after a Covid ailment. Supporting aspects are that Covid affected a broad enough population for the tapeworm statistics to map 1:1 with a population, and that many severe covid cases and deaths were exacerbated by opportunistic infections. So we have to look for what the opportunistic infections could be? How strange that a horse dewormer happens to work moderately okay in those regions.
  - baseballdork 4y ago
    I'm not following. What this study shows is that ivermectin doesn't improve COVID outcomes (regardless of parasite status). This means that either the study wasn't sufficiently random over the 1,000 participants and somehow underrepresented those suffering from parasites OR that it was adequate and that either ivermectin doesn't change the outcome for those suffering parasites or those suffering parasites aren't a significant portion of the population. If you think it's the former, then you ought to point out whatever they messed up in their methodology, but if it's the latter, then it debunks your whole concept. In order for your hypothesis (which I believe is that there are a lot of people with parasites AND ivermectin helps them with COVID by killing those parasites) to be true, we'd have to see improvement in recovery to _some_ degree in this study.