TrumpLyftAlles | 5 points | Sep 20 2020 05:41:02

A Study of Combination Therapies to Treat COVID-19 Infection (US 2020-07-07) Borody NOT ivermectin

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04459702?term=Thomas+Borody&cond=covid-19&draw=2&rank=2

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[-] TrumpLyftAlles | 2 points | Sep 20 2020 05:48:59

I'm posting this as more evidence that Borody is a BSer. This trial has two arms, comparing HCQ + AZT to HCQ + AZT + lopinavir + ritonavir. No ivermectin.

If ivermectin is a 100% cure, as he states, then why is he looking at HCQ + AZT?

Is he even a decent scientist?

This trial was first posted on 2020-07-07.

The FDA looked at the developing data about HCQ and revoked its EUA (Emergency Use Authorization) on 2020-06-15. Was Borody (hard to believe) unaware of the FDA's action and the research that led to the revocation?

While I'm here, I don't have a link but in one of his more-recent TV commercials (I mean, TV interviews) Borody said "In the six published papers I read..." (or words very close to that). That is the some total of his so-called "ivermectin research" -- despite his saying in another TV interview that we did this study and we did this other study. Just BSing to sell his "triple therapy", IMO.

Hell, I think I've read more than 6 articles.

While I'm here, does Borody intend to patent his so-called "triple therapy" (that actually has 5 components)?

BorodyMectin(tm) is coming, folks, probably in time for covid-24. $399/pill?

Edit: One more bit of skepticism

Borody's ivermectin trial has two arms:

Experimental: Ivermectin, Doxycycline, Zinc, Vitamin D3 and Vitamin C

Control: Placebo and Vitamin D3, Vitamin C, and Zinc

Does anyone else think that it's bad science that the so-called placebo arm has 3 of the components of the experimental arm? Wouldn't it be better if the placebo arm was just placebo? Vitamin D3, vitamin C and zinc are all thought to be helpful with covid-19, or at least it's thought that they might be. I think Borody's failure to have a true placebo arm reduces the value of the study. I think it suggests that he's bad at science.

What do you think?

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