Robert wrote: ↑Mon Dec 18, 2023 10:43 am
Ken wrote: ↑Mon Dec 18, 2023 10:19 am
Both Fauci and the CDC warned against taking those drugs for COVID because they were ineffective.
This is not what the research showed. Both had antiviral properties. I read the research, all done years before Covid. They were not cures, but therapeutics, same as the "vaccine" seems to be.
During the height of the pandemic the COVID death rate was about 1% to 1.5% and that was mostly older people above 65. For younger people it was well below 1%.
This means that any charlatan can prescribe any treatment at all such as wrapping a poultice made from the blood of vampire bats, garlic, and wolfsbane around your neck. And guess what, out of 100 people treated, on average 99% of be cured! So miracle COVID cure!
That is why for a disease with a low mortality rate like COVID, anecdotal information and informal small trials are complete garbage. Some of the early anecdotal reports about HCL and Ivermectin were from doctors who only did a few dozen trials. Which is meaningless and not statistically significant in any way. And it also doesn't account for the placebo effect which is why legitimate medical trials are always double-blind trials (the patient doesn't know if they are getting the drug or a placebo).
That is also why the Pfizer double-blind vaccine trials had 46,331 participants. They needed to do such a large-scale study to get statistically significant results about both safety and effectiveness. Similarly Moderna's stage 3 trials had over 30,000 participants.
When large-scale double-blind studies were finally conducted for HCL and Ivermectin they were both found to be completely ineffective and provide no better results than a placebo. So Fauci, the CDC, the FDA, and the drug manufacturers were actually right and the anti-vaxers promoting this stuff on the internet were wrong.
