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By BARRY TOMPKINS
September 4, 2021 at 12:00 p.m.
...Enter Sen. Ron Johnson of the great state of Wisconsin. Johnsons mantra is I dont care what drug works try a bunch of em. The last time I heard anyone spout that quote was at a Jefferson Airplane concert in Golden Gate Park in 1967.
It seems that Sen. Johnson has an inherent mistrust of the FDA. For its part, the FDA has responded by basically telling the people of Wisconsin, You actually elected this guy? ...
There is no justifying the death of a Texas man who ran an anti-vaccination group called the West Texas Minutemen. He ingested a self-prescribed cocktail of vitamin C, zinc, aspirin and ivermectin. He died a couple of weeks later.
COVID got him. But there was not a trace of hair lice.
https://www.marinij.com/2021/09/04/you-may-still-get-covid-but-you-wont-get-worms/
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(118,039 posts)... Dr. Richard Kaner is an internist with Bellevue Medical Partners and .. treats patients who have infectious diseases ...
The short version of the advice is to avoid it, he told KIRO Radios Gee and Ursula Show. Basically, ivermectin is an anti-parasite medication. And there are different types of infections theres bacterial, theres fungal, there are viral, parasitic. So, without going into the weeds on that, ivermectin is aimed at parasites and its used largely in cattle and horses.
Recently, with much acclaim, there have been applications in humans to treat head lice and some parasitic infections, but it has absolutely no documented activity against a viral infection of any type, much less COVID, he added ...
If you look at what Merck has posted and theyre the ones that are going to make the profit theyve made a couple of statements on their website, he said. First, they said theres no scientific basis for any effect against COVID-19. And the follow up statement they made is that theres a concerning lack of safety data, concerning ivermectin.
So I dont know what else to say, but thats thats how I would counsel my patients, Kaner said.
https://mynorthwest.com/3127737/bellevue-doctor-flies-against-logic-ivermectin-covid/?
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(118,039 posts)by: Justin Trobaugh
Posted: Sep 1, 2021 / 08:46 PM CDT / Updated: Sep 1, 2021 / 10:00 PM CDT
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) Dr. Michael Bolding with Washington Regional emphasizes the dangers of people with COVID-19 being prescribed medication like ivermectin.
They are not being prescribed treatments that have been proven to work like monoclonal antibodies or the Regeneron treatment.
Gov. Hutchinson discourages using ivermectin for COVID-19 symptoms
I personally know of a 29-year-old and a 31-year-old who passed in our hospital in the last couple months who both received ivermectin prescriptions and were not referred for monoclonal antibodies, Bolding said ...
https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/doctor-emphasizes-dangers-of-taking-ivermectin/
struggle4progress
(118,039 posts)By: CBS 58 Newsroom
Posted: Aug 30, 2021 11:18 AM CDT
... As not just a physician but also a resident of Wisconsin, its shocking and appalling that any grown person, let alone our elected senator, would promote Ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19, said Dr. Bob Freedland, MD, Wisconsin State Lead for the Committee to Protect Health Care and an ophthalmologist practicing in La Crosse. To be quite clear, Ivermectin is a drug used to deworm livestock, and researchers haven't found it to have the benefits against COVID-19 that some like Johnson try to claim it has. Senator Ron Johnson, if you really want to save lives from COVID-19, please stop horsing around and start promoting measures that actually work, like masks and vaccines.
According to Committee to Protect Health Care, Johnson tweeted a piece written by Dr. Pierre Kory on Aug. 20, which advocated for using Ivermectin in COVID-19 cases. Officials say Wisconsin residents have been calling the Wisconsin Poison Center about Ivermectin at a significantly higher rate than last year with side effects like nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting.
It shames me to see our senator pushing false cures and conspiracy theories when we know how to prevent this disease, said Dr. Rebecca Beach, a family medicine physician in Richland Center. Physicians in Wisconsin and across the country have been working overtime for the past year and a half to treat COVID and to try to figure out how to best deal with it when someone does fall ill, including using ventilators when they are needed to save lives when they sometimes are the only thing that can save a life. Sen. Johnson, who is not a doctor, is trying to undermine this work, and I find that frustrating beyond belief. Of course, no doctor wants a patient to have to be put on a ventilator, but unlike Senator Johnson, we want to do what has to be done to save lives, not just save our political bases.
https://www.cbs58.com/news/wisconsin-doctors-ask-sen-johnson-to-stop-push-for-ivermectin-as-covid-19-cure
struggle4progress
(118,039 posts)By Lester Duhé
Published: Aug. 16, 2021 at 11:36 PM EDT
...62-year-old Louisiana resident Darleen Asevedo died Saturday while struggling with the coronavirus from home. Her daughter, Kortney, says her mom was not vaccinated and was taking Ivermectin.
Everybody has given me different information about what she shouldve been doing. Everybody is wrong, said Kortney Asevedo.
Youre seeing patients with COVID-19 come into your hospital, saying they used Ivermectin as a treatment? questioned Lester Duhe.
Yeah, over the past 20 months, we have seen people that have taken Ivermectin that was prescribed to animals, and try to use it to prevent or even treat COVID, said Dr. Russo ...
https://www.wafb.com/2021/08/17/we-have-let-it-go-doctors-say-ivermectin-will-not-help-treat-covid-19/
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(118,039 posts)SHAYMUS MCLAUGHLIN
... "So, this is one of those, you can't even believe that you're seeing and hearing this," Poland said. "You can't believe the number of calls to poison control centers as people take this drug unregulated, often taking the animal preparation, which is not FDA regulated, has other ingredients in it that human forms of the drug do not have, and they're getting sick, and no benefit.
"It's hard to explain."
https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/mayo-clinic-doctor-on-people-using-horse-drug-ivermectin-for-covid-its-hard-to-explain