@sierraand all you other anti-vaccine prophets - please do some research on your demigods and the Disallowed they are selling:
This, after a brief (and Boolian search!) search for Pierre Kory - from a publication called 'Investigative Roundup'
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Investigative Roundup, highlighting some of the best investigative reporting on healthcare each week.
Doctor took Ivermectin and Still Got COVID:Pierre Kory, MD, one of the most vocal proponents of ivermectin, got COVID-19 in August,
despite taking the anti-parasitic medication on a weekly basis to ostensibly prevent the disease,
the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
Kory has since doubled down on the drug, urging that the prophylactic dose be increased to twice per week, according to the Journal Sentinel.
In a statement, Kory told the paper: "The most important event that occurred between my testimony [at Sen. Ron Johnson's (R-Wisc.) hearing on COVID-19 in December 2020] and my getting sick was the delta variant," pointing to Delta's higher viral load compared with previous variants.
Kory had called ivermectin a "miracle drug" at the December 2020 Senate hearing, the Journal Sentinel reported.
"If you take it, you will not get sick," he said.The Journal "Sentinel" further reported on the rise of the drug in the U.S. and
its connection to conspiracy theories.According to data from IQVIA obtained by the paper, prescriptions for ivermectin jumped from less than 10,000 per week in November 2020, to about 40,000 per week by January 2021. While scripts went back down as cases diminished during the spring, they were back up to 88,000 for the week ending August 13, the latest week for which there were data.
There's been an uptick in side effects from the drug, the paper reported. According to the American Association of Poison Control Centers, 2021 has seen 1,810 cases of ivermectin poisoning in the U.S. as of Oct. 31, compared with 499 for the same period in 2019.
The Journal Sentinel noted that two large randomized controlled clinical trials -- one in the U.S. (ACTIV-6opens in a new tab or window) and one in the U.K. (PRINCIPLE) -- will provide a more definitive picture of the use of ivermectin in COVID-19 in the near future.
St. Jude Reserves Bursting While Families Go Broke: While St. Jude Children's Research Hospital promises that families will never receive a bill, many still face serious financial burdens, a ProPublica investigation found.Even though the hospital covers treatment, travel, housing, and food, there are limits, and parents have had to quit jobs to become full-time caregivers to their sick children, leading to neglected mortgage and car payments, ProPublica found. Parents have had to exhaust their savings or retirement accounts, borrow money, or ask other charities for help while their children were treated at the hospital. etc. etc.
"Alternative" is huge business in the U.S. of wonderful A.
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