Even as a Brazilian city cut COVID hospitalizations and deaths in half using ivermectin, US medical authorities continue to suppress its use

December 13, 2021 By Thomas Lifson

The suppression of the off-patent, hence low-profit, drug ivermectin for use in preventing and treating COVID is grotesque and inhumane.  Consider the case of a wife who died while hospitalized for COVID while her husband begged the hospital to administer a supply he had in hand but was refused.  From the Epoch Times:.........

Nobody will pay for the very expensive "gold standard" double-blind testing of ivermectin because there are no large profits to be had from its use, now that the patent on it has expired.  That seems to be the excuse used by hospitals and doctors to oppose its use.  Even though ivermectin has proven to cause few problems among the hundreds of millions of people who have taken it.  As readers of this site know, ivermectin has been derided as "horse paste" and a "veterinary de-wormer" by people who choose to ignore the fact that its inventors received the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology for its dramatic effects in reducing the plague of river blindness in tropic countries.

Now comes word of a trial of widespread ivermectin use as a prophylaxis in the Brazilian city of Itahai.  ZeroHedge reports:..............To Read More.....