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Crap! The RECOVERY trial showed 30% reduction in deaths for patients who required oxygen when treated with Dexamethasone which is out of patent & costs pennies. The RECOVERY trial also showed reduction in death for severely ill patients treated with Remdesivir that costs a couple of thousand...

No. There is not 'plenty of evidence'. There is evidence indicating it's effective & evidence indicating it's ineffective. Thus far there has not been a robust double blind randomised controlled trial of Ivermectin. When there has been we will know one way or another. People were making the same...

That paper is interesting but not very strong evidence because it's not a double blind randomised trial where neither participants nor those running the trial now who received active drug & who received placebo until the codes are broken after the trial was completed. This was done arse about...

Science isn't about belief or faith it's about evidence & there is no evidence either way.

Hearing voices now?

A High Consequence Infectious Disease is something like Ebola (death rate 50%) or SARS (death rate 10-14%) or MERS (death rate 35%) or Marburg virus (death rate 24%-88%). It's quite right that COVID-19 is not classified as an HCID because it has a much lower death rate that is closely related...

That’s because the underlying trials that on which they performed the systematic reviews are rather poor. We need proper double blind trial like the PRINCIPLE trial to answer the question.

For Christ’s sake are you barking mad? Where do you get all these lunatic conspiracy theories? No, normal folk who aren’t deluded don’t think that BBC is “corrupt” or a “propaganda and misinformation machine”. What’s this crap about investors & shareholders funding the trial? Both PRINCIPLE...

There is an excellent discussion of Ivermectin in the BBC Radio Four programme 'More or Less' "Is Ivermectin a Covid ‘wonder drug’?" The conclusion is that there is no good evidence that Ivermectin is effective in prevention or treatment of COVID-19. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct2dk5...

I'm not a GP & while I hadn't read that paper before it doesn't contradict what I said. This paper is from 2004 & mainly discusses AIDS, Malaria, schistosomiasis etc in developing countries. It also discusses health risks in pregnancy. The death rate in males from COVID-19 is about 50% higher...

One very unusual feature is that if you are male your chances of dying are about 50% higher than if you are female. I know of no other infectious disease that demonstrates this gender disparity. BTW The reason that Ivermectin isn't used is because there is no good evidence that it works. As far...

There is a lot of nonsense in those recommendations for which there is no evidence of efficacy eg Vitamin C & Ivermectin. In the UK the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) publishes excellent evidence based recommendations on management & treatment...

Here is more explanation... "Gibraltar, the British overseas territory next to Spain is benefitting from the UK’s vaccine rollout, by far the fastest in Europe. Over the coming days it will become the first territory in the world where all residents over 16 who wanted a jab have got one." "To...

Here is just one example. Care home workers who live in Spain & work in Gibraltar. https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-12-07/the-first-spaniards-to-get-the-coronavirus-vaccine-cross-border-workers-in-gibraltar.html

Unfortunately the COVID deniers & Antivaxxers are a cult that is not amenable to reason.

You were spouting utter tripe regarding hospital admissions in the UK & now it appears that you have completely lost your marbles. It's very simple to explain the Gibraltar statistics. The population of Gibraltar is about 34,000 but every day about 14,000 workers who live in Spain stream across...

This is utter tripe. In the UK 60% of those in hospital with COVID-19 are unvaccinated yet only 12% of the adult population is unvaccinated. Your chances of serious illness & death are many times more likely if you are unvaccinated.

I am a practising doctor. I work as a consultant in Emergency Medicine. I'm seeing COVID-19 patients on a daily basis & am pretty sure that I know more about this subject than others posting on this forum. You are playing with words. All vaccines work in effect by being antigens that stimulate...

You obviously don't understand what vaccines are or how they work. It generally depends on the disease being prevented how effective the vaccine will be as the mimic infection by generating an immune response by any of a variety of means (live attenuated virus, dead virus, mRNA, virus antigen...

Of course the vaccines work. They are extremely effective in reducing serious illness leading to hospital admission & death. In the UK while only 12% of the adult population are unvaccinated they make up 60% of hospital admissions with COVID-19.