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OldBlackDog
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Coronavirus (COVID-19) tracker, latest cases in Canada
Coronavirus updates: Areas in Canada with cases of the latest novel coronavirus (COVID-19 or 2019-nCoV)
www.covid-19canada.com
Yet has 4 times the population.
Facts show this.
wildmanyeah
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And yet India has fewer deaths and people with COVID than the US and Canada.Coronavirus (COVID-19) tracker, latest cases in Canada
Coronavirus updates: Areas in Canada with cases of the latest novel coronavirus (COVID-19 or 2019-nCoV)
Yet has 4 times the population.
Facts show this.
Drugs Shown to Inhibit SARS-CoV-2 in COVID-19
Open Access
Disease: Comparative Basic and Clinical Pharmacology of
Molnupiravir and Ivermectin
Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19 Infection: A Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, and Trial Sequential Analysis to Inform Clinical Guidelines - PubMed
Moderate-certainty evidence finds that large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin. Using ivermectin early in the clinical course may reduce numbers progressing to severe disease. The apparent safety and low cost suggest that ivermectin is likely to have a significant...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19 Infection: A Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, and Trial Sequential Analysis to Inform Clinical Guidelines
Conclusions: Moderate-certainty evidence finds that large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin. Using ivermectin early in the clinical course may reduce numbers progressing to severe disease. The apparent safety and low cost suggest that ivermectin is likely to have a significant impact on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic globally.
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The fact you think India was reporting accurately is laughable.And yet India has fewer deaths and people with COVID than the US and Canada.Coronavirus (COVID-19) tracker, latest cases in Canada
Coronavirus updates: Areas in Canada with cases of the latest novel coronavirus (COVID-19 or 2019-nCoV)
Yet has 4 times the population.
Facts show this.
We Still Don’t Know India’s True COVID-19 Death Toll
Journalists are only now discovering the extent of the government’s underreporting.
foreignpolicy.com
OldBlackDog
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And that applies to all.The fact you think India was reporting accurately is laughable.
We Still Don’t Know India’s True COVID-19 Death Toll
Journalists are only now discovering the extent of the government’s underreporting.
Aces
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The fact you think India was reporting accurately is laughable.
We Still Don’t Know India’s True COVID-19 Death Toll
Journalists are only now discovering the extent of the government’s underreporting.
GLG
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Health Canada Warning
Ivermectin not authorized to prevent or treat COVID-19; may cause serious health problems
Last updated: 2021-08-31Summary
- Product: Ivermectin (veterinary or human versions), an antiparasitic agent (tablets, paste, oral solution, injectable solution, medicated premix or topical).
- Issue: Consumers, are purchasing veterinary ivermectin to prevent or treat COVID-19.
- What to do: Do not use veterinary ivermectin for the prevention or treatment of COVID-19. If you have purchased ivermectin for this purpose, discard it immediately. Consult a healthcare professional if you have used this product and have health concerns.
Issue
Health Canada has received concerning reports of the use of veterinary ivermectin to prevent or treat COVID-19. Canadians should never consume health products intended for animals because of the potential serious health dangers posed by them.In this light, Health Canada is advising Canadians not to use either the veterinary or human drug versions of Ivermectin to prevent or treat COVID-19. There is no evidence that ivermectin in either formulation is safe or effective when used for those purposes. The human version of ivermectin is authorized for sale in Canada only for the treatment of parasitic worm infections in people.
The veterinary version of ivermectin, especially at high doses, can be dangerous for humans and may cause serious health problems such as vomiting, diarrhea, low blood pressure, allergic reactions, dizziness, seizures, coma and even death. Ivermectin products for animals have a higher concentrated dose than ivermectin products for people.
The Department is aware of multiple reports of patients in the U.S. who have required medical support and been hospitalized after using ivermectin intended for horses.
Health Canada is closely monitoring all potential therapeutic treatments for COVID-19, including treatments being studied in international clinical trials. To date, Health Canada has not received any drug submission or clinical trial application for ivermectin for the prevention or treatment of COVID-19.
For drugs that have the potential to be helpful in treating COVID-19, Health Canada encourages drug manufacturers to conduct clinical trials. This would provide an opportunity for the healthcare community to collect information on the effectiveness of the treatment and its associated risks.
Should a manufacturer provide a submission to Health Canada related to the use of ivermectin to prevent or treat COVID-19, Health Canada would conduct a scientific evaluation of the evidence to determine the drug's quality, safety and effectiveness.
Health Canada will continue to monitor the situation and will take appropriate and timely action should new information become available, including any information regarding the illegal advertising or sale of ivermectin. Health Canada will also communicate any new safety information to healthcare professionals and consumers.
Health Canada has previously warned Canadians about products making false and misleading claims to treat or cure COVID-19. For information on Health Canada authorized vaccines and treatments, visit Canada.ca.
Background
Ivermectin, a prescription drug product, is authorized for sale in Canada for the treatment of parasitic worm infections in humans, specifically intestinal strongyloidiasis and onchocerciasis, and should only be used for this purpose, under the supervision of a healthcare professional. A veterinary version of this medication is available to treat parasitic infections in animals. People should never use the veterinary version of this product.What you should do
- If you have purchased ivermectin for the prevention or treatment of COVID-19, stop using it and discard it:
- Follow municipal or regional guidelines on how to dispose of chemicals and other hazardous waste; or
- Return the product to the point of sale for proper disposal.
- Consult a healthcare professional if you have used ivermectin and have health concerns.
- Report any side effects from this product directly to Health Canada.
- Submit a complaint to Health Canada should you have any information regarding the illegal advertising or sale of ivermectin or any other health product using its online complaint form.
GLG
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Merck says experimental drug molnupiravir cuts worst effects of COVID-19
Oct 01, 2021Merck & Co. said Friday that its experimental COVID-19 pill reduced hospitalizations and deaths by half in people recently infected with the coronavirus and that it would soon ask health officials in the U.S. and around the world to authorize its use.
If cleared, Merck's drug would be the first pill shown to treat COVID-19, a potentially major advance in efforts to fight the pandemic. All COVID-19 therapies now authorized in the U.S. require an IV or injection.
Merck and its partner, Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, said early results showed patients who received the drug, called molnupiravir, within five days of COVID-19 symptoms had about half the rate of hospitalization and death as patients who received a dummy pill. The study tracked 775 adults with mild-to-moderate COVID-19 who were considered higher risk for severe disease because of health problems such as obesity, diabetes or heart disease.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/merck-covid19-pill-us-fda-deaths-1.6196007
wildmanyeah
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Israelis rush to get boosters in mass campaign for 3rd COVID-19 shots
GLG
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How a small-town B.C. council meeting became a source of COVID-19 disinformation worldwide
Disinformation expert says incident illustrates need for caution in who gets a platform
Oct 06, 2021The city of Dawson Creek, B.C., home to about 12,000 people near the B.C.-Alberta border, has removed a previously published portion of a recent city council meeting video after it began circulating in COVID-19 disinformation groups worldwide.
The incident illustrates why everyone — including small communities — needs to think more deeply about who they give a platform to, says Ahmed Al-Rawi, an assistant professor at Simon Fraser University who specializes in disinformation.
The portion of the video that was removed featured several speakers at a Sept. 2 council meeting making false or misleading statements about COVID-19 vaccines and their effectiveness.
The speakers arrived at city hall ahead of the meeting to protest the B.C. government's recent announcement of a vaccine card program, which limits access to non-essential recreational and social activities to people who can provide proof of vaccination.
The meeting was called to clarify how the program would impact city facilities such as the pool and curling rink, said Mayor Dale Bumstead — not to debate the merits of the vaccine card or vaccination itself.
But outside city hall, about 100 people angry about the vaccine card held placards and demanded a chance to speak.
Council decided to let some of them make short presentations ahead of the regular meeting. Bumstead said it was not an effort to endorse their ideas, but to allow them to be heard as members of the community he was elected to represent.
"We had no way to verify or even identify some of the information and people speaking, because it was spur-of-the-moment," he said in an interview with CBC.
False comparisons to the Holocaust
Things didn't get off to a smooth start. Before the meeting, police were called to respond to several protesters who refused to wear a mask inside council chambers, a requirement under public health guidelines.In a video live-streamed to Facebook by one of the protesters, police can be seen escorting one man away as another begins yelling, "Brownshirts!" Later, members of the crowd joined in, calling RCMP "Nazis" and "Gestapo."
The video has prompted condemnation from both B.C. Premier John Horgan and the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, headquartered in Toronto, which said the comparison of B.C.'s public health policy to "the systematic identification, humiliation, persecution and murder of Jews and millions of others is absurd, dangerous and disrespectful."
Inside council chambers, several presenters made similar arguments, comparing B.C.'s voluntary vaccine card to 1930s Germany and sharing false information about the safety and efficacy of vaccines.
Since then, one of those presentations has been circulated on multiple social media platforms by anti-vaccination groups, racking up tens of thousands of views.
The presentation in question was made by a woman who, in local small business listings, identifies herself as the owner of an "alternative clinic" that uses "energy healing" and "psychic readings," along with herbal teas and essential oils, to help clients.
While presenting to council, she said she was a "molecular biologist," without specifying her credentials. She falsely called the vaccines a "genetic experiment" with a high fatality rate, when the reality is they are the result of years of research and have been safely distributed to millions of people worldwide after passing multiple clinical trials.
At the end of the presentation, the mayor thanked the woman for her time, and she thanked him for hearing her out.
And that, thought Bumstead, was the end of it. Council later voted to follow public health guidelines and adjourned.
Afterwards, city staff did what they do with every meeting: they uploaded it to the city's YouTube page, where the woman's presentation took on a life of its own.
Exploiting 'a fake expert'
At first, people just shared a direct link to the entire council meeting. But before long, some users started extracting the woman's presentation and sharing it on its own. One YouTube user with more than 21,000 subscribers clipped her speech and uploaded it to their channel, where it has racked up more than 200,000 views.The video has also been posted to Twitter, TikTok and Facebook, as well as to alternative sites popular among anti-vaccine users. In most posts, the woman is referred to as a molecular biologist, while in some she is wrongly identified as a doctor. Few mention her true profession as a natural healer and psychic.
Disinformation expert Ahmed Al-Rawi said this is a common technique among anti-vaccine groups — inflating or inventing the credentials of people speaking out against public health measures in an effort to give their viewpoints a false sense of credibility.
"They bring in a fake expert who will provide contrary evidence to what the scientific consensus is to cast doubt on the validity of public health policies," he said.
Al-Rawi compared the technique to past efforts to undermine consensus science surrounding climate change or the dangers of smoking. People can search the internet for videos like the Dawson Creek council meeting that can be re-purposed to serve their needs.
"They cherry-pick information … in order to convince others that they are right."
Al-Rawi said the presence of the video on the city's official website lent it additional credibility, as did the appearance of Dawson Creek's logo and the fact that the presenter was speaking inside council chambers. Without context around why she was being allowed to speak, he said, the setting added a sense of legitimacy to what she was saying, no matter how incorrect the content.
No more impromptu sessions
As the number of views of the video increased, so did scrutiny of Dawson Creek's council for giving anti-vaccine protesters a platform to speak in the first place.Bumstead said staff at city hall were inundated with calls from people across North America about the video, some pleased with what they had seen, others upset the city had allowed false assertions to be broadcast unchecked.
After several weeks, Coun. Shaely Wilbur issued a public apology on her Facebook page. "I am from the core of my being disturbed that if in any way I have allowed misinformation to be taken as fact and distributed through social media via a delegation to council," she wrote, and encouraged residents to get vaccinated.
- 'Misinformation can kill people': Friends and family grieve loss of loved ones who refused COVID vaccines
- How the spread of COVID-19 misinformation is undermining trust in public health
The official reason, Bumstead said, was that none of the speakers had properly applied to give their presentations to council, nor had they been properly vetted or identified in advance, so ultimately they are not considered part of the official meeting.
But other videos out of the city's control are still circulating, which illustrates why officials need to think more deeply about who they give a platform to, said Al-Rawi.
In years past, he said, council meetings were seen only by those able to attend in person. Now they can be recorded, edited and redistributed for millions worldwide.
"[Local governments] have to be more literate about how to deal with these issues."
For his part, Bumstead said he still believes in listening to people with differing opinions, but the whole episode has left him "disappointed and hurt." Moving forward, he said he will not consider allowing impromptu presentations from members of the public, no matter the topic.
"We were trying to be lenient," he said. "But it just created a huge amount of extra work."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/brit...vaccine-disinformation-dawson-creek-1.6201246
ILHG
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Everyone should take a second to read the article. The Canadian media is a couple weeks late on this story. This should never be ignored or brush pepole off as anti's. There is more to this story that we may never know.
calgaryherald.com
Wuhan, U.S. scientists had plan to engineer new coronavirus, proposals reveal
Documents leaked last month show the international team of scientists was planning to mix genetic data of closely related strains, and grow new viruses
wildmanyeah
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yeah it's like the people who hoarded fish antibiotics. Stupid but that does not mean antibiotics don't work.
that does not mean that Ivermectin is not a successful antiviral, nor does it make this study false. It just means you should not take **** thats not formulated for humans.
Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19 Infection: A Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, and Trial Sequential Analysis to Inform Clinical Guidelines - PubMed
Moderate-certainty evidence finds that large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin. Using ivermectin early in the clinical course may reduce numbers progressing to severe disease. The apparent safety and low cost suggest that ivermectin is likely to have a significant...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Conclusions: Moderate-certainty evidence finds that large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin. Using ivermectin early in the clinical course may reduce numbers progressing to severe disease. The apparent safety and low cost suggest that ivermectin is likely to have a significant impact on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic globally.
OldBlackDog
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Ivermectin for COVID-19: real-time analysis of all 254 studies
Ivermectin for COVID-19: real-time analysis of all 254 studies
c19ivermectin.com
ryanb
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Ivermectin for COVID-19: real-time analysis of all 254 studies
Ivermectin for COVID-19: real-time analysis of all 254 studies
Ivermectin has shown strong antiviral properties against sar-cov2 in vitro. That is why there are and have been many real double blind clinical trials in progress/completed studying it's efficacy. Calling it a whackjob consipracy theory is total nonsense...and is misinformation just as much as some of the anti-vax nonsense.
Unfortunately it's efficacy signal in the trials I've seen is not super strong, but it's statistically significant nevertheless. It doesn't appear to be a wonder drug for covid anyhow.
Aces
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Why You Should Not Use Ivermectin to Treat or Prevent COVID-19
Using the Drug ivermectin to treat COVID-19 can be dangerous and even lethal. The FDA has not approved the drug for that purpose.
Aces
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Funny I heard there was only a few that were willing to be suspended for not getting vaxxed
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