Debunking the debunkers

 So what about Ivermectin, a horse medicine medicine widely used in humans for river blindness and fileriasis: does it also work for Covid?

Not according to the BBC.

ah but who analyzes the science of that article published by an esteemed news source?

Dr. C, who is a nurse educator PhD does it for you.

And his analysis reminds me of how we docs would do "journal clubs" where we would read an article and analyze the data and statistics.

LOL.

After noting the problems with the BBC article, he does cite an actual metanalysis of studies....fast forward to 20 minutes for a more scientific analysis of ivermectin studies. 

PDF from May that analyzes studies.

LINK to analysis of 64 studies.

 I am like Dr.C: I am pro vaccine, pro mask, pro keeping one's distance, and now that we are able to buy human ivermectin, pro ivermectin. 

 IF I lived in Florida, I'd be pro monoclonal antibodies, and if I lived in the US I would probably be pro the newer and more expensive medicine (although I haven't read the studies on them yet, since they aren't available here). 

Our DOH has pooh poohed the use of Ivermectin, noting they plan to do a double blind study, but then people started using it anyway, either the animal version or the pills sold in the market that might or might not be the real thing. 

So Duterte said, hey if their doctor prescribes it, let them use it. So now we can buy it at the pharmacy by prescription (or from an online pharmacy, as we do, with a doctor's prescription).

but we are middle class. Are the farmers and poor people able to get hold of it and use it correctly? I don't know.

my point is that we are a poor country and most people have not had the vaccine, although the country is busy giving it out we started a bit late in giving out vaccines due to red tape. Indeed, this is one reason that Duterte's popularity (and Biden's popularity, and the popularity of every other leader of any other country ) has gone down in recent months.

but there is some good news: although we had another outbreak due to the Delta variant, the number of cases are now going down.

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in other news: the latest typhoon was north of here, but we did have heavy rain. (Signal one)... Not a lot of wind, so hopefully the rice harvest will not be destroyed.