Ivermectin fails another COVID trial as study links use to GOP politics

[Ohio Joe]

From a few paragraphs in:

The study began when researchers led by Harvard health policy researcher Michael Barnett took note of the sharp increase in prescriptions for ivermectin during the pandemic despite evidence that the drug is ineffective at treating COVID-19. The researchers set out to see if prescription levels could be linked with county-level political voting patterns in the 2020 US presidential election. For comparison, they also looked at the prescribing patterns for another antiparasitic drug called albendazole as well as the immunosuppressive drug methotrexate.
Barnett and colleagues reviewed medical claims from more than 18.5 million adults to assess prescribing practices in counties across the US from January 2019 to December 2020. They then sorted counties into four groups based on their share of Republican votes, with the first quartile having the lowest share of Republican votes and the fourth having the highest

Overall ivermectin prescribing increased 964 percent in December 2020 compared with prepandemic prescription levels in 2019. But those December 2020 prescriptions weren't evenly distributed; the counties with the highest shares of Republican votes had the highest levels of ivermectin prescribing. In fact, the higher the share of Republican votes in a county, the higher the level of ivermectin prescribing.

The authors saw a similar pattern with hydroxychloroquine after the Food and Drug Administration revoked an emergency use authorization for use against COVID-19 in March 2020. Use of the immunosuppressive drug increased in the later half of 2020, with the highest prescribing in counties with the highest shares of Republican votes. Meanwhile, there were no such politically linked trends or changes in prescription levels for the two control drugs, methotrexate and albendazole.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/02/ivermectin-fails-another-covid-trial-as-study-links-use-to-gop-politics/

So... Yet another study that not only shows horse paste does not work with a virus but that people stupid enough to think it will are repugs. I wish them well in their attempt at suicide by covid.

[Johnny2X2X]

1. My next door neighbor was taking this when she died

Very very nice lady, and really funny too. But naive about some things. She had bladder cancer that had come back for the 3rd time, the chemo was having side effects, so against the advice of her doctors and on the advice of people in her bible study group from church, she stopped chemo and started taking Ivermectin. Because someone in her church group said they know someone who had terminal cancer and they started taking Ivermectin and they're still alive 3 years later.

She died in October, 3 months after stopping real treatment and starting Ivermectin. Her family is just lost without her, she was the matriarch of the family and her home and pool were the center of the family get togethers all Spring Summer, and Fall. Sweet little old lady about 68 years old, didn't have to die, was probably going to live for years more.

This stuff kills, it kills normal innocent people who just take advice from the wrong people. But I'm sure whoever got her to start taking Ivermectin doesn't feel an ounce of guilt, the delusion is too powerful. Just makes me angry and sad.

[brewens]

2. The counties with the highest Ivermectin use should have lower death totals since it would

be working so well, right? Exactly the opposite. In fact, it's probably contributing to more deaths. COVIDiots think they're covered if they have that shit and take stupid risks.