I had onchocerciasis in Malawi - my whole family got it from swimming in Lake Malawi, and the ivermectin dose worked fine against this parasite. Since COVID is a virus - and invades multiple organs as well as blood, there would be no expectation that it would work at all against COVID. And that's what the peer reviewed research showed. P…
I had onchocerciasis in Malawi - my whole family got it from swimming in Lake Malawi, and the ivermectin dose worked fine against this parasite. Since COVID is a virus - and invades multiple organs as well as blood, there would be no expectation that it would work at all against COVID. And that's what the peer reviewed research showed. Peer review research - which means scientists not involved in the study read and review the results, and it showed COVID vaccines were highly effective. How anyone could read this and still think taking ivermectin- which has serious side effects (and especially at high doses given to horses) - is a good idea, is beyond me. Literally, beyond me.
Ivermectin had shown some minor anti-viral potential in-silico in extremely large doses. If it were used in sufficient dose to have a similar effect in humans, as an "antiviral" its adverse effect on the central nervous system would have been more widely reported. Note that the Veterans Administration discontinued a large ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine study due to futility and adverse mortality outcomes.
For parasites, the effective dose is much smaller because its CNS effect on parasites requires a lower concentration, due to their relative size. Its antiviral effect was never actually proven in-silico, but that identification was made by a rather simplistic AI analysis of thousands of existing compounds early in the outbreak.
I had onchocerciasis in Malawi - my whole family got it from swimming in Lake Malawi, and the ivermectin dose worked fine against this parasite. Since COVID is a virus - and invades multiple organs as well as blood, there would be no expectation that it would work at all against COVID. And that's what the peer reviewed research showed. Peer review research - which means scientists not involved in the study read and review the results, and it showed COVID vaccines were highly effective. How anyone could read this and still think taking ivermectin- which has serious side effects (and especially at high doses given to horses) - is a good idea, is beyond me. Literally, beyond me.
Ivermectin had shown some minor anti-viral potential in-silico in extremely large doses. If it were used in sufficient dose to have a similar effect in humans, as an "antiviral" its adverse effect on the central nervous system would have been more widely reported. Note that the Veterans Administration discontinued a large ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine study due to futility and adverse mortality outcomes.
For parasites, the effective dose is much smaller because its CNS effect on parasites requires a lower concentration, due to their relative size. Its antiviral effect was never actually proven in-silico, but that identification was made by a rather simplistic AI analysis of thousands of existing compounds early in the outbreak.