Quote:According to Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center, the right-wing obsession with Ivermectin may be important to that demographic merely because it sows distrust in science in general while stirring up vaccine skepticism.

"Politics got injected into it, and then Ivermectin became a crusade for certain individuals, as a way to kind of deflect the importance of the vaccine," Adalja told Salon. "It's the same kind of story of the politics of this pandemic that's driven a lot of the interest in Ivermectin — and when I do interviews on ivermectin I get a slew of hate mail."

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"There's no evidence that Ivermectin has a beneficial effect in treating COVID-19," Adalja said. "Studies that are there are of poor quality, none of which really has an unequivocally positive result. One of the studies which was touted to provide the most evidence has been shown to be invalid study."

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Imran Ahmed, CEO of Center for Countering Digital Hate, said that promoting the idea that treatments like Ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine can treat COVID-19 fall into one of three categories of misinformation promoted by anti-vaccine influencers. The three misinformation categories, Ahmed said, include "COVID isn't dangerous," "vaccines are dangerous," and the idea that you "can't trust doctors."

"This is all part of the spreading of the idea that vaccines might not be the safest way of dealing with this," Ahmed said.[It's part of] 'the government's trying to kill you with a vaccine,' and blah, blah. It's an extremist narrative."

(08-11-2021, 02:26 AM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:Anyone living in the West might want to note that Western Health is down about 250 staff and not accepting patients in ER at Sunshine/Footscray Hospital. Same thing happened at Frankston last year when they had a CoVid outbreak amongst staff and its very hard to get agency staff to want to work in those situations.

(08-11-2021, 07:01 AM)Mav link Wrote:Just 1 point of clarification. The RCH doctor wasn't in RCH while infectious. He was in the annex to the RCH where doctors have private rooms. It has a separate entrance and lifts. But it shares common areas with the RCH, so this is of debatable significance. I've been their with my son. When you leave the private rooms and go down in the lift to the lobby, you either head out the exit or you can go in the opposite direction and there's a long walkway with shops and cafes. If you reach the other end of the walkway, you're at the RCH. So, he might not have gone into the RCH himself but he could easily have infected those who were heading there. 

(08-11-2021, 07:49 AM)madbluboy link Wrote:You have to go through a full on check in process to get into the wards now. My 4 year old son was in there a couple of months ago and my wife had to go downstairs each day to line up to get a new sticker.

(08-12-2021, 06:17 AM)Gointocarlton link Wrote:I hope all is well with your boy MBB.