So, what you’re saying is:
- They will self-report any new or worsening symptoms or medical events.
- This study is intended to be all remote with no in person visits.
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If your friends jump off a cliff, would you do it too?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02958-2
The price of popularity
Ivermectin grabbed attention in April, when scientists were throwing every already-approved drug they could at the coronavirus. Researchers in Australia had noted that high doses of ivermectin could stop the virus from replicating in cells1. Shortly afterwards, a preprint appeared online that suggested the drug could reduce coronavirus-related deaths in people.
That report was later removed from the site by some of its authors because, they told Nature , the study was not ready for peer review. The preprint had included an analysis of electronic health records by the company Surgisphere, which provided unreliable COVID-19 data sets that raised red flags for scientists in late May. By June, two other high-profile COVID-19 studies were retracted that contained data from the firm.
Doctors are prescribing the anti-parasite drug ivermectin to people in Latin America to protect them against the coronavirus, despite a lack of evidence.Credit: Rodrigo Urzagasti/Reuters
But as far as many doctors and patients in Latin America were concerned, ivermectin’s reputation was already cemented. Doctors began justifying the drug’s use against COVID-19, arguing that even if it didn’t work, at least it had a proven safety profile for treating parasites, says César Ugarte Gil, an epidemiologist at Cayetano Heredia who is running the clinical trial with García.
(What could it hoit?)
The eagerness to use the treatment only grew as the virus spread aggressively throughout Latin America. About 153,000 people in Brazil have died of COVID-19 — the second largest death toll globally. And Argentina, Colombia and Peru have all posted some of the largest case numbers worldwide. “I do not judge a doctor who has a dying patient before him and, desperate, tries anything [to save her],” says Carlos Chaccour, a Venezuelan researcher at the Barcelona Institute of Global Health in Spain. “The problem is when non-evidence-based public policies are made.”
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Shall we get a pool going?
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Isn’t it great to be a Republican? You and your group of liars lie through your teeth, and then deny it and anyway blame the opposition.
On a related note, what do you get when you take a sack of stinking feces and add propecia and orange die? You get the feared and worshiped hero of the right.
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I think you’re both right. It is a red issue, and he is a good governor trying to work with the reality of his constituents.
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‘Poopin’ themselves to own the libs. Welcome to the revolution everybody’
Horse rules:
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“rock-chewing stupid” 
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Okay, that’s all I need to read to know whether it’s worth the trouble to take you seriously and respond to you.
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Misinformation: Is It Good or Bad? We look at both sides right after these, uh, informational messages!
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That evil big pharma, trying out cheap existing drugs in well-regulated studies so they can be approved for use on covid19 (if they work).
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I agree Gov. Beshear is not in a position to say that misinformation is largely a red issue. And it looks like he is a good governor who is doing as much good as is possible in KY. That does not change the fact that at the current moment in history misinformation is largely a red issue.
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Ummm actually, if it was just a red issue, folks would be reading about this
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/21/us/kentucky-governor-chickenpox.html
and this
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Chuck Todd is sort of the crash test dummy of TV news.
And why MSNBC tolerates him is beyond me. The only people I turn off faster are on Fox. And that is because I am preemptive and do not watch fox.
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Follow the money, always:
An Arizona-based pharmacist told The Daily Beast that their pharmacy had been inundated with ivermectin prescriptions from America’s Frontline Doctors.
The group was founded in 2020 by Dr Simone Gold, currently awaiting trial on charges related to her alleged participation in the Jan. 6 insurrection, and pushed an anti-lockdown, pro-hydroxychloroquine agenda with the help of Dr. Stella Immanuel, the so-called “demon sperm” doctor who has professed a belief in aliens and “reptilian” overlords.
After spending much of the pandemic touting hydroxychloroquine, America’s Frontline Doctors now offers tele-health consults for $90 and directs prospective patients and visitors looking to get scripts for hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin filled to Ravkoo, an online pharmacy startup based in Florida.
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Those assholes again.
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Big public health medicine. What a fucking joke of a comment. You really gotta get a grip. Public health agencies across the nation at all levels have been starved for funding for years. The only agenda they have is public health. There is no profit. There is no hidden agenda. People like you are fools. Plain and simple.
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I’m not saying Democrats are PERFECT but…why is it that they are the only sane ones??? They aren’t sucked in by this stupid stuff…horse medicine, bleach, etc. etc. We wear our masks, we get our vaccines. Good God.
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