I was also called an idiot (if I remember correctly; I tend to discount fanatics), so welcome to the club.
1. I pick my doctors with care.You seem to have a lot of faith in your local doctor?
I can assure you that the average doctor has not read the full publication of a research paper in the last year.
One has to only look at the prescribing habits of some of my colleagues wrt steroids in Covid to see the superficial understanding of the evidence.
Have you had a look at who makes up the SAHPRA board?
the sahpra board - SAHPRA
www.sahpra.org.za
I feel quite confident that those persons are qualified and competent to assess Ivermectin's current and future role in Covid 19.
I've done quite a bit of reading on the studies for it, posted in the other thread about it, all cases of it "helping" are either fraud or not conclusive.
I can assure you that I know quite a few doctors that have read full publications within the last month. I can also assure you that near all of them are in contact with other doctors about diseases including profs that write those papers.You seem to have a lot of faith in your local doctor?
I can assure you that the average doctor has not read the full publication of a research paper in the last year.
One has to only look at the prescribing habits of some of my colleagues wrt steroids in Covid to see the superficial understanding of the evidence.
Have you had a look at who makes up the SAHPRA board?
the sahpra board - SAHPRA
I feel quite confident that those persons are qualified and competent to assess Ivermectin's current and future role in Covid 19.
I’ll just state the obvious that a court would be overstepping their boundaries should they make any declaratory order on the safety of a drug in the treatment of covid. They can force the authorities to but that doesn’t mean the authorities are forced to do anything except process the application accordingly.
As you please. I have also read all the papers. And my assessment is that doctors are so sh't scared of court cases and malpractice suits that many have turned into useless protocol-bound wimps.
I’m not sure that would do much besides the nutritional value and whatever that nutrition may contribute in whatever way to your own body and health. It’s still way less problematic than advising the consumption in undetermined quantities of a drug that could be dangerous and could have no efficacy whatsoever for the sake of seeing if it helps.
Clearly you don't see the joke.
Some of us do. 1 or 2 feel like we should be able to do what we want, prescribe meds here by stating their dosages, or informing people what the act can't cover (like importing your own meds). These are the worst of the worst. Don't belong here in what should have been a decent debate.
Yep, you see people like this and those pushing this as the miracle drug will drive the price up for the rest of us. And farmers. So, they can pat themselves on their collective backs and say: well done!
That is awesome!
SAHPRA is totally responsible for creating this black market. They need to find themselves under investigation by the competition commission.
Your understanding of the scheduling of drugs is flawed. The reason why Ivermectin has not been made available for human consumption is because there are alternative, safer drugs with better efficacy for the treatment of parasitic infections. I think I've stated enough times now that there is no clinically scientific and reviewed data to support ivermectin's effectiveness against covid and the hype and frenzy around it is ridiculous until there is such evidence. What I do know is that this is not the first "cure" and it won't be the last.
