“Why isn’t this in the newspapers?”
That’s what Dr. John Campbell asked on his YouTube channel yesterday, reviewing several studies of ivermectin as an agent in the fight against COVID-19 — but directly regarding the results of research out of Brazil. It was an impressive large-number study, in which the researchers invited the whole population of Itajaí to participate, with 159,561 included in the analysis: 113,845 regular users of ivermectin and 45,716 non-users.
“Seventy percent reduction in mortality in this study” of those who took a very “tiny dosage of ivermectin every fortnight, acting as a prophylaxis” over those did not. “I mean, this is just huge!”
Dr. Campbell, who has been a voice of calm science during the pandemic, goes on to say that “It’s almost as if information has been deliberately suppressed throughout the pandemic, to be quite honest.” With a wry look, he went on to say “No one’s saying that’s true, of course, but it’s almost like that.”
Droll.
But non-ironically, he insists the evidence is “powerful, present, and overwhelming.”
“Seventy percent,” he marvels, “how do you argue with a number like that? It’s a very, very high number.”
And the decrease in hospitalization was 67 percent.
All in all, the study found less infection, fewer hospitalizations, and an astoundingly lower death rate in the ivermectin group.
Earlier in the video, the doctor considered another study, comparing the cheap anti-parasitic to the far more expensive remdesivir, a Fauci-pushed Gilead Sciences anti-viral, with similar results.
It’s “almost as if” the expert class that spurned ivermectin doesn’t care if people die.
No one’s saying that, but. . . .
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
The studies:
Kerr L, Cadegiani F A, Baldi F, et al. (January 15, 2022) “Ivermectin Prophylaxis Used for COVID-19: A Citywide, Prospective, Observational Study of 223,128 Subjects Using Propensity Score Matching.” Cureus 14(1): e21272. doi:10.7759/cureus.21272.
I. Efimenko, S. Nackeeran, S. Jabori, J.A. Gonzalez Zamora, S. Danker, D.Singh, “Treatment with Ivermectin Is Associated with Decreased Mortality in COVID-19 Patients: Analysis of a National Federated Database.” International Journal of Infectious Diseases 116 (2022) S1–S130.
10 replies on “This Is Just Huge”
Pam, if you comment to this entry, please address the data as such, rather than adding more insults or quoting formulaic talking points.
“In November 2021, Campbell said in a video that ivermectin might have been responsible for a sudden decline in COVID-19 cases in Japan. However, the drug had never been officially authorised for such use in the country; its use was merely promoted by the chair of a non-governmental medical association in Tokyo, and it has no established benefit as a COVID-19 treatment.[3] Meaghan Kall, the lead epidemiologist for COVID-19 at the UK Health Security Agency, said that Campbell was confusing causation and correlation. Further, Kall said that there was no evidence of ivermectin being used in large numbers in Japan; rather, she said it “appears this was based on anecdata on social media driving wildly damaging misinformation”.”
“In November 2021, Campbell quoted from a non-peer-reviewed journal abstract by Steven Gundry saying that mRNA vaccines might cause heart problems.[4] Campbell’s video was viewed over 2 million times within a few weeks and was used by anti-vaccination activists as support for the misinformation that COVID-19 vaccination will cause a wave of heart attacks.[4] According to a FactCheck review, Campbell had in his video drawn attention to typos in the abstract, and a lack of methodology and data, but he did not mention the expression of concern that had been published for the abstract, saying instead that it could be “incredibly significant”“
“A popular misconception throughout the pandemic has been that deaths have been overreported.[14] In January 2022, Campbell posted a Youtube video in which he cited figures from the UK’s Office of National Statistics (ONS) suggesting they showed deaths from COVID-19 were “much lower than mainstream media seems to have been intimating” and concentrated on a figure of 17,371 death certificates where only COVID-19 was recorded as a cause of death. Within a few days the video had been viewed over 1.5 million times.[15] It was shared by British Conservative politician David Davis who called it “excellent” and said that it was “disentangling the statistics”, and American comedian Jimmy Dore used it to claim that COVID-19 deaths had been overreported and that it proved the public had been the victim of a “scaremongering campaign”.[16][14] The ONS responded by debunking the claims as spurious and wrong.[17] An ONS spokesman said “to suggest that [the 17,000] figure represents the real extent of deaths from the virus is both factually incorrect and highly misleading”.[16] The official figure for COVID-19-related deaths in the UK for the period was over 175,000.”
Make your own decision to the validity of anything Campbell says!
I am personally vaccinated and boosted.
That’s no guarantee you won’t get COVID. The vaccines have been proven not to protect against infection and they don’t kill the virus.
Pam, I preemptively asked you to address the data as such, instead of using argument ad hominem or quoting talking-points. Yet all that you did was to quote ad hominem talking-points.
You bring nothing of value by trolling.
QUACK, QUACK, QUACK!!! Didn’t know you were running this site.
Pam, again, you’re not addressing the data. You seem never to do anything but to troll.
And, so long as that is the case, you create the appearance that those on your side cannot argue reasonably or even honestly. It’s alright with me for you to give that impression — it conforms to my expectations — but is that really what you want?
It’s more nefarious than not caring if people die. The expert class has a vested interest in new vaccines and drugs rather than in using off-patent medications that can be prescribed at a fraction of the cost of new drugs. It’s all about the benjamins.