The case against ivermectin isn't that it's horse goo. The case against ivermectin is that we really don't have reason to think it works against Covid-19: https://t.co/jHPgo9fAlF
— Kelsey Piper (@KelseyTuoc) September 17, 2021
Can't stress how wild the ivermectin Facebook groups have become. So many people insisting to each other to never go to an ER, in part because they might not get ivermectin, but sometimes because they fear nurses are killing them on purpose "for the insurance money."
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) September 13, 2021
A few words about the news media coverage of ivermectin, a drug that some have claimed is a treatment for covid (though experts like the FDA, CDC, NIH and the Amer. Medical Assn. disagree). A few aspects of this coverage might be worth putting in context (a thread):
— Paul Farhi (@farhip) September 10, 2021
—@MattGertz writes about the "strong correlation between partisanship and interest in ivermectin, one that mirrors the correlation between partisanship and rejection of vaccination.” https://t.co/SqBvaHfVYi
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) September 8, 2021
"QAnon supporters have in recent days targeted Amita Resurrection Medical Center with a protest and a flood of phone calls demanding that doctors give a hospitalized ally ivermectin." https://t.co/5Xd2QVCiwJ
— Donie O'Sullivan (@donie) September 8, 2021
An Ohio judge reversed a decision requiring a hospital to administer ivermectin, an anti-parasitic drug, to a patient as a treatment for Covid-19. The FDA has warned that ivermectin, primarily used for deworming livestock, can be toxic in humans. https://t.co/rTI2YrwrqZ
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 7, 2021
OK, ENOUGH ALREADY.
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) September 6, 2021
Here's the #Ivermectin saga, people.
1.) In the 1960s Japan's Satoshi Omura did chemistry work, trying to find a medicine to kill helminth worms in livestock.
2.) In the '70s he joined forces with Max Tischler at Wesleyan in USA.
3.) They brought…
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