Originally Posted by
Rob.Singer
"best scientific and medical minds?" It's all about getting the money moving into big pharma's pockets kew.
The company that makes the drug, Merck is issuing repeated statements that the drug does not work in treating covid. That is an odd strategy for moving money into their own pockets.
The fact is there have been a few trials that show some promise. Some of them very small. The first one I read about was a trial in Pakistan, I think. 72 patients, were divided into 3 group and each group given a different "trial" medication to see if there was any effect. So the 2 dozen or so given Ivermectin fared slightly better. recovered in a little less time. Means nothing. Suppose that group had 1 or 2 less people with surpressed immune systems, or diabletes, or obese or whatever risk factors.
This is why we don't approve anything on results of a few trials, especially conducted in placed that we don't know how they were conducted. If extensive trials continue to show some benefit, then it might be approved as a treatment. Until then, it is nothing. Currently people are taking huge doses of the drug meant for horses and cows and coming down with all kinds of serious, in some cases ;life threatening side effects, tremers and heart issues among them.
It is amazing that the very same people screaming that the vaccines were not properly tested, when these vaccines aren't new....they have been working on this vaccine, before covid popped up, and it has been thoroughly tested. But the same people complaining that they haven't been thoroughly tested are willing to run out and take some horse and cow medicaation based on a few trials in some countries that we have no idea how they were conducted.
You people are simply retardted. The CDC and food and drug admin, is NOT out to get people. They are top people in their feilds who have devoted their lives to medicine. And it isn't even about money for these people. If it was about money, every one of them could make much more in the private sector, working for some big Pharma.
Seriously people, use your God given brains for something other than paranoia. Everyone isn't out to get you. Everything isn't a conspiracy.