Ivermectin Wins Again
Covid is still with us because it’s a corona virus and these viruses have been around longer than we have. Just look at the label of the Lysol can. They are bringing back the mask mandates without any metrics at all. The Governor is recommending vaccinations even when the Cleveland Clinic has shown that the more vaccinations you get against Covid the MORE likely you are to get the infection. What’s next? Recently the FDA was forced to admit that it was not inappropriate for physicians to prescribe Ivermectin to prevent or treat covid. Of course they have spent the last few years vilifying doctors who were using it off label and convinced (with financial incentives!) the major medical organizations like the AMA to condemn its use. Now that yet another publication has shown the dramatic benefits of Ivermectin it should be clear that THESE GOVERNMENT AND ORGANIZATION POLICIES RESULTED IN MORE DEATHS than if prescribing Ivermectin had been allowed. If we had just trusted the doctors on the front lines of fighting this outbreak we would have saved more lives than all the other therapeutics combined. That’s a national tragedy.
The latest study is a report from Peru from October of 2020 showing a 74% reduction in excess deaths in the 10 Peruvian states where Ivermectin was used most extensively. Additionally there was a 14-fold reduction in nationwide excess deaths when Ivermectin was readily available and a 13-fold increase in excess deaths in the two months after Ivermectin use was restricted.
And it wasn’t just Peru, the largest state in India, Uttar Pradesh, with a population of 229 million showed the cumulative total of covid-19 deaths per million in population from July 7th 2021 to April 1st 2023 was 4.3 in Uttar Pradesh as compared to 70 in all of India and 1,596 in the United States. Those are astonishingly different numbers.
A similar series of events occurred in the Brazilian city of Itajai which has 220,000 people. Dr. Peter Kory and 8 co-authors published a paper on the results of using Ivermectin prophylactically. 113,000 residents elected to take Ivermectin. Those who used Ivermectin had a 44% reduction in covid infection, a 68% reduction in mortality and a 56% reduction in hospitalization compared to those who did not. Meanwhile, a study from Japan demonstrated that just 12 days after doctors were allowed to legally prescribe Ivermectin to their patients, cases dropped traumatically.
Let’s remember this drug is on the World Health Organization’s “essential medication” list, in fact, according to the literature, since 1987 3.7 billion doses of Ivermectin have been used among humans worldwide. So, it’s been proven to be helpful in India, Brazil, Peru, and Japan amongst others and what did we do in America? We vilified doctors who tried to prescribe it off label. The USDA tweeted, “You’re not a horse you’re not a cow seriously you’all…stop it.” On August 16th 2023 the FDA was forced to tweet “Healthcare professionals generally may choose to prescribe any approved human drug for an unapproved use when they determine that unapproved use is medically appropriate for an individual patient.“ That’s a win for the doctors.
Of course, you can trust the American Society of Health System Pharmacists, the American Pharmacist Association and the American Medical Association as well as almost every other Medical Society warned that these drugs should not be used. What would the difference in death and hospitalization be in America had physicians who had the interest and courage to do so had been allowed to routinely prescribe Ivermectin off label. It’s been estimated that 40% of all drugs dispensed in America are used off label. Off label doesn’t mean wrong.
Fundamentally, Ivermectin works by binding to the SARS Co V-2 Spike protein, limiting the virus’s mobility and infectivity. It’s best known for its antiparasitic effects but it’s also demonstrated antiviral and anti-inflammatory properties and an in vitro study demonstrated that a single treatment with Ivermectin effectively reduced viral load 5,000 times in 48 hours in cell culture. Also, a meta-analysis in the American Journal of Therapeutics showed the drug reduced infection by an average of 86% when used preventively.
Disturbing it is that Merck, who is a major manufacturer of Ivermectin, was downplaying its effectiveness at the same time that it was developing its own patented (and much more lucrative) covid-19 therapeutics.
As always, even in medicine, follow the money. Had there been any evidence that these repurposed drugs worked there would be no way to authorize the experimental treatments including the vaccines. Will we ever get the people in power to admit they were wrong and their decisions cost American lives? I’m not holding my breath but I am holding my prescription pad and look forward to the next pharmacist calling with a problem with my prescribing off label.
Any and all of the references below will show you the evidence.
Chamie J J, Hibberd J A, Scheim D E (August 08, 2023) COVID-19 Excess Deaths in Peru’s 25 States in 2020: Nationwide Trends, Confounding Factors, and Correlations With the Extent of Ivermectin Treatment by State. Cureus 15(8): e43168. doi:10.7759/cureus.43168
https://swprs.org/who-preliminary-review-confirms-Ivermectin-effectiveness/
Do your own research. It’s your body and it should be your choice.
Until next month…get well and stay well.
JT BARRY MD
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