Ya know, this whole thing about novel uses for already established drugs in attacking certain mechanism(s) in a target pathogen. Cross uses for known drugs avoids 8 to 10 years of testing and the money saved in learning about possible novel uses represents being able to bring treatments that much faster and less expensive. Ivernectim is quite interesting, and not fully understood how it works, but its side effects, or lack thereof, are.
Internal use of dihydrogen monoxide on human health is well established, and I will assume FDA approved. . Did you know dihydrogen monoxide can be used as a solvent to clean clothes and ... hold your hat.... douse fires! The question remains, is dihydrogen monoxide FDA approved for human consumption AND ALSO for the suppression of the chemical reaction resulting from substances combining chemically with oxygen in air to rapidly oxidize? The mechanism for these side uses is totally opposite from how dihydrogen monoxide is used in the human body...
So the politics revolving around things like drugs for certain afflictions is hilarious. Chloroqin /Hydroxychloroquine is used to treat malaria... malaria isn't a virus... people I know were incredulous that anybody would take a malaria drug to treat covid, thinking that disqualified it out of hand.. . BUT wait, it is also used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus ! How can that be???? they aren't anything to do with malaria!! They even said it was dangerous for humans t take it- that it would cause death!!!... yet people with lupus take it all their lives... 25-35 years or more--- you don't know it, because it DOESN'T KILL them.
So you have to ask how it works before you call it a travesty to take it.
So here, is a peer reviewed journal to learn about ivermectim, its discovery in Japan, and the several billion doses TO HUMANS and even animals, and how it works on killing specific mechanisms in non vertebrae infestations, and also other things that cells and bacteria and viruses use and even the treatment of cancer... Think dihydrogen monoxide (water/H20)... it has a lot of uses other than the one the FDA has ( I assume) approved... Why not ask how a drug works, it mechanism(s), and accept that it may be used in many, many ways other than the one it way it was primarily known to be used/developed for.
If just to make an intelligent arguement.
https://www.nature.com/articles/ja201711https://www.nature.com/articles/s41429-021-00491-6Oh, Hydroxychloroquine works by suppressing the leading cause of death from infections by controlling the body overreactive immune mechanism commonly called sepsis. People's immune system were overreacting to covid-19... sepsis was killing them... See it was drug that didn't attack the virus, it treated the bodies toxic and often deadly reaction to it.
https://hms.harvard.edu/news/sars-cov-2-caused-more-deadlier-cases-sepsis-thoughthttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006295213003286