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At Del Miragro Hospital in Salta, Argentina, Ibermectin has already been prescribed to healthcare professionals, high-risk elderly and patients with underlying illness to prevent COVID-19 infection. Health Minister Juan Jose Esteban himself has stated that he will take 6.9 mg of ivermectin every 7 days.

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Recaps the Argentine prophylaxis study.

It was confirmed by the Minister of Health, Juan José Esteban, stating that first, workers from the Hospital del Milagro began to take it and now it is prescribed to patients with underlying diseases and the elderly.

It is an ancient medicine and its patent has already expired. It is accessible and so locally produced that you can even order its formula at a pharmacy. Those are the characteristics of Ivermectin, the medicine for medical and veterinary use that, according to an investigation carried out by the Institute for Investigations of Tropical Diseases (IIET), of the Oran regional headquarters of the National University of Salta (UNSa), "produces the faster and deeper elimination of the virus ” . However, it is not yet recognized as a 100 percent effective drug to combat SARS-CoV-2, the virus that produces covid-19, since tests and research would be lacking for it.

"Ivermectin is used by (who are) the staff of (Hospital El) Milagro and now for preventive resolution" also for older adults and people with underlying diseases or causes of comorbidity, who are included in the so-called risk groups Said to Salta / 12 Esteban. The Health Minister said that in his case, he takes 6.9 milligrams every 7 days.

For his part, the manager of the Arturo Oñativia Hospital, Marcelo Nallar , affirmed that for about a month he made available to the workers of that Hospital the possibility of accessing a treatment of ivermectin and carrageenan (nasal drops), as a preventive method of contagion. The foundations arise from a study carried out by three hospitals in the province of Buenos Aires , in which workers were given the possibility of accessing substances, whose medical use has already been applied for years for other health situations without knowing until the moment serious side effects.

The iver.car protocol
According to the applied study, in charge of a protocol generated by the doctor Héctor Carvallo , among other specialists, the combined use of Iota-carrageenan and ivermectin (iver.car Protocol) “in the prophylaxis of health agents showed an effectiveness of one hundred percent among those who received the treatment ”.

1,195 health agents from different healthcare centers voluntarily participated in the preparation of this protocol between June 1 and August 10, spread over four healthcare centers in Ezeiza, Caseros and Cañuelas , the study indicates.

It is stated that of the 1,195 health workers who participated in the trial, 788 received iver.car, while 407 did not. In the group that did not receive iver.car, 237 infections (58%) were verified. On the contrary, in the group that received iver.car there were no infections.

Not everyone accepts it
“Both this work from the Buenos Aires hospitals and that of Alejandro Krolewiecki (the researcher who led the group that investigated the effects of ivermectin on the virus) serve not to prescribe it with proven effectiveness but to develop a hypothesis”On the results of the drug, said Nallar. And it is that he understood that to verify the effectiveness of the drug, a "double-blind" study would have to be done, with a very high number of people with the same physical characteristics and pre-existing diseases, giving the drug to one and the other a placebo. "So in the middle of the pandemic an ethical problem is generated, because who decides to whom the medicine is given and who is not?" He added that the drugs have already been used as antiparasitics, for example, in the case of ivermectin, without producing risky side effects.

He reported that in the case of the Oñativia Hospital for four weeks a donation of ivermectin was received "from a laboratory that produces it" and the medicine was offered to the personnel under his charge. There are those who accepted it and those who did not, among them more than one doctor . "It is a relative indication," said Nallar, clarifying that this implies that it can be offered to Health workers or patients with covid to take it as an alternative, but with all the explanations of the case, since it does not imply (as the ibuprofen sodium) that is 100 percent effective in curing covid.

It is not even guaranteed that a serious stage of the disease cannot be generated even while taking the drug. Although it was seen in some mild and moderate cases who took it that a serious form of the disease did not develop, it may happen that they did. "But make no mistake, it is not the same as chlorine dioxide," clarified the doctor . Unlike ivermectin and carrageenan, color dioxide, which is not a drug, is harmful to health and caused deaths.

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I still don't know what the hell carrageenan is and if it's a key part of the success.

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Let’s see how it goes there in the next month. The numbers from Peru are something bad though if they’re really using ivermectin

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