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> I doesn't help at all. I have a coworker who as using ivermectin as prophylactic and went to ICU (he is recovering now).

This is an anecdote, and it is dangerous to generalize from it. I have several family members who seemed to respond well to Ivermectin, and recovered better than their initial condition would have indicated.

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ok, show me good science. I drank beer all this time, didn't got any covid yet.

MAYBE BEER IS THE MEDICIN. BIG PHARMA IS HIDING FROM US.

I am not saying it is definitely a great medicine for Covid and everyone should use it, but we must be careful to not mandate the opposite as well. Let individual patients make the decision to use it with help from their respective doctors. If there is a genuine beneficial effect, it will emerge naturally and more doctors will urge their patients to go for it. If there isn't, the opposite will happen.

Banning it from the top is not going to help most people.

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