Scott didn't convince me, I thought parasite load was the reason before he came to his conclusion. And trawling through all the studies quoted in the meta-analysis showed that the best results were in places that also had high parasite infections. Same with the Itajaí study that Alexandros is touting: it's a big port city, has a lot of the kinds of fun social diseases you would expect in such a place, and being sub-tropical climate has a ton of those kinds of diseases and infestations as well. So dosing sick people with ivermectin would probably see an improvement for any illness, never mind Covid, and the study although it was thorough about co-morbidities, doesn't seem to have checked people for infestations by threadworm, parasites, etc.
Show me a study where it's "we tested patients beforehand for worms and parasites and their results came out clean, we gave the test group ivermectin and didn't to the control group, and the ivermectin group had better outcomes" and I'll be convinced. I'm not convinced yet.
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Scott's reward for interacting with this guy is that this guy will now not leave him alone.
The reactions of Scott, his fans, and Trust The Science people to Alexandros' posts leave me convinced that Ivermectin probably works against covid.
And it's pretty fun to watch the counterarguments collapse to "why are you still talking about it!"
Scott didn't convince me, I thought parasite load was the reason before he came to his conclusion. And trawling through all the studies quoted in the meta-analysis showed that the best results were in places that also had high parasite infections. Same with the Itajaí study that Alexandros is touting: it's a big port city, has a lot of the kinds of fun social diseases you would expect in such a place, and being sub-tropical climate has a ton of those kinds of diseases and infestations as well. So dosing sick people with ivermectin would probably see an improvement for any illness, never mind Covid, and the study although it was thorough about co-morbidities, doesn't seem to have checked people for infestations by threadworm, parasites, etc.
Show me a study where it's "we tested patients beforehand for worms and parasites and their results came out clean, we gave the test group ivermectin and didn't to the control group, and the ivermectin group had better outcomes" and I'll be convinced. I'm not convinced yet.
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