Ivermectin for refugees but not Americans? 🤔

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that doesn't say how it works just that it might by some unknown mechanism

I guess you could say ivermectin kills parasites and a virus is actually a parasite. It's just weird it is this known drug used for years, and people won a Nobel for it, but they don't know how it works. It sounds kind of like a vaccine. Ivermectin is a bacteria itself, you give it to someone and I guess it effects the immune system, boosting it?

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/07/23/one-big-myth-about-medicine-we-know-how-drugs-work/

Here’s how we think we discover powerful new medicines: Scientists dig deep into biology and zero in on a molecular Achilles’ heel that could disable a devastating disease, be it cancer or an infection. They concoct experimental drugs that hit the target. Then they conduct trials to find one that is safe and effective in people.

Here’s how we actually develop a surprising number of treatments: good old-fashioned observation, trial and error, and luck. Detailed scientific understanding of how a drug works often comes, ironically enough, near the end of the process.

More trial and error has gone into Ivermectin than those covid vaccines.

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you're not reading what I'm saying