Old news. July seems like a few years ago, with the pandemic's compression of time. Posted for the historical record (I imagine someone writing The Story of Ivermectin someday, with this sub providing a lot of detail. Delusional?). I love the fact that the ICON trials contributed to the adoption of ivermectin in Cali.

In Cali, the voices of support continue to grow, from the medical and scientific sector, about the use of Ivermectin to treat patients with COVID-19, as proposed by Mayor Jorge Iván Ospina.

One of those voices is that of the internist and pharmacologist, José Óscar Gutiérrez Montes, who ruled out that the supply of this drug could generate any fatality.

“The most important thing when you don't have something to give and something appears that may be promising is that what appears is devoid of side effects and toxicity. With regard to Ivermectin, not a single fatality has been reported in the 40-odd years that it has been occurring and not only by doctors, in Africa it is given by rural visitors where there is river blindness and filariasis ”, assured Gutiérrez Montes, who also He is an associate professor of pharmacology at the Universidad del Valle School of Health.

The specialist added that the people who have expressed that Ivermectin should not be used are unaware of the evidence that has been published to date on the drug.

“Note that this drug was discovered in 1973 by Satoshi Omura and William Campbell and tested on parasitosis and was eventually found to be incredibly effective, specifically on two pests in the underdeveloped countries of the equatorial area: onchocerciasis, which produces river blindness. and filariasis, which produces elephantiasis, both diseases also existing in Colombia and the effect was such that the drug was donated free to treat these two plagues and at the moment, more than 25 million people annually, for 30 years, are treated in all over the world, in fact, Ivermectin has been the cornerstone for the eradication of onchocerciasis in Colombia ”, said the teacher.

The doctor, who is an emeritus researcher at Colciencias and heads the Univalle Pharmacology research group, explained that, for 20 years it was found that Ivermectin could have antiviral effects and evidence was found when treating three coronaviruses that have hit the world in the last 20 years, as are the H1N1 virus, SARS and MERS, "then, having this precedent, some trials with COVID were started and it has been found to be very effective. "

“In the United States, 280 patients were followed, divided into two arms: 173 were given Ivermectin alone and 107 were given the usual ventilator treatment, and the results showed that there was a 40 percent survival, plus survival in the Ivermectin group than in the control group and when they compared patients at risk, with lung disease, survival increased to 52 percent, ”explained Dr. Gutiérrez.

Broward County, FL, the ICON trial.

Like the mayor Jorge Iván Ospina and the local and departmental health authorities, the investigating doctor is emphatic in pointing out that Ivermectin should only be supplied under medical control and formulation.

"If the drug is as effective, as clinical studies seem to prove, we would be taking a step forward in containing, not the peak, because we are going to continue to infect, but the appearance of the disease that is what kills, " he said. Gutierrez.

Finally, the doctor stressed that the city does well to lead the search for solutions to the crisis that the Coronavirus pandemic has generated.

“We cannot wait for the country's problems to be solved for us from outside. With what we are doing, an answer is being given, I think it is positive, the infection will not disappear, but we will probably have a tool that allows us to defend ourselves, ”said Gutiérrez.

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WTF are MD associations all around the world waiting for???

They MUST press their respective national health authorities VERY HARD for these assholes to authorize the use of IVM for outpatient, hospital and prophylaxis!

People's lives matter!

F.ckers!

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