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Based on current workforce data from the 175 respondent ICUs, maximal surge would require an additional 4092 senior medical staff (345% above baseline staffing), and an additional 42 720 registered nursing staff would be required (365% above baseline staffing)

“[Ivermectin] shouldn’t have been promoted as a vaccine alternative or a miracle cure,” he said. “People are drinking sheep drench! If that’s not a call to use your clout and influence to say, ‘Enough is enough! Get your shots!’ then I just don’t know.”

And as the delta variant continues to infect the nation, even Kory admits that ivermectin (the human kind) is no match for it, tweeting on Aug. 9, “I have experienced and am getting reports from FLCCC Alliance members that Delta variant patients crashing into ICU’s ... are not showing responses to MATH+. We are demoralized and frightened. Early treatment is CRITICAL. Every household should take I-MASK+ upon first symptoms.”

Flyboy, you might get lucky with the variants: maybe Ivermectin might finally work on one of them. Ivermectin fans will be like Powerball “investors” waiting with bated breath to see if their numbers come up this time.

By the way, here’s a good article about those pushing Ivermectin: People Are Eating Horse Paste To Fight COVID. These Doctors Are One Reason Why, HuffPost.

The article deals with the Front Line Covid Critical Care Alliance, a group of Doctors who desperately sought to repurpose existing medications to give them some weapons to battle Covid when nothing else was available. They had a big win with a combination of the steroid methylprednisolone and other drugs and supplements. They pressed on despite resistance in the medical community until studies confirmed the effectiveness of steroids in treating serious cases. But then they backed the wrong horse based on dodgy studies. While steroids operate as anti-inflammatories and there’s a plausible way they might help treat Covid, it’s much harder to see how Ivermectin, an anti-parasitic rather than anti-viral medication, would help.

As the article notes, initially the FLCCCA was trying to find a stopgap pending the arrival of effective vaccines but it seems the support from right wingers and anti-vaxxers has worked to stop the FLCCCA recommending vaccines.

The article quotes Dr Eric Osgood, a former member of the FLCCCA who quit because of the group’s failure to endorse vaccines:
But even the remaining members of the FLCCCA are worried that the Delta variant is kicking Ivermectin’s arse:

You've never heard of Penicillin Mav? Used by humans and animals alike for many a decade.

Osgood? Looks like he got bought....

Why don't we just use Penicillin then, Flyboy? Could it be because it's an anti-bacterial rather than an anti-viral? We all know Penicillin doesn't work against the flu let alone Covid. Still, an antibacterial is closer to the mark than an anti-parasitic medication.
  Classic ...

I have no problem with you using Ivermectin. Have at it. You never know, maybe using horse dewormer will end up with you drawing admiring glances in the urinals at half-time in Carlton games.  Maybe you'll start showing the gentler personality of horses, although you'd probably need to stop taking that Tasmanian Devil medication first. 

The recommended safe dose of Ivermectin for typical disease treatment scenarios is 12mg dose given at a +90 day interval, at that dose there are risks of significant side-effects including oedema leading to tachycardia, myocarditis, pericarditis, coma and or liver damage.

Even at the normal dose the rate of serious side effects is many many times the risk of side-effects from the vaccines. Fwiw, the normal dose is repeated at an interval of 3 to 12 months.

The India HCW Ivermectin study used the equivalent of 2 x 24mg doses of Ivermectin given just 3 days apart, the increased risks of serious side-effects is enormous! Probably killing as many people as untreated Sars-CoV-2 per million.

Seems you missed the admission by one of the great advocates of Invermectin, Dr Kory, that the Delta variant isn't responding to Invermectin. He concedes he's demoralised & frightened. But that's only because he sees what's happening to patients. Unburdened by this sort of observation, your confidence isn't dented at all. 

The thing about vaccines is that they can be tweaked to respond to new variants or new vaccines can be formulated. But what can we do with Ivermectin? Is there an Ivermectin 2 or Ivermectin 3 waiting in the wings? Maybe we can mix it with bleach to clean the body of Covid ...

I'm looking forward to vaccine passports. I'll be able to go to the footy, pubs and restaurants again. No doubt there'll also be a vaccine passport for those who are protected by Ivermectin. It should give users access to free bales of hay, free gelding. and trips to the Middle East on live-cattle ships. 

Ivermectin has a remarkable safety profile.

And as the delta variant continues to infect the nation, even Kory admits that ivermectin (the human kind) is no match for it, tweeting on Aug. 9, “I have experienced and am getting reports from FLCCC Alliance members that Delta variant patients crashing into ICU’s ... are not showing responses to MATH+. We are demoralized and frightened. Early treatment is CRITICAL. Every household should take I-MASK+ upon first symptoms.”

A Sydney COVID-19 patient has been treated in hospital for an overdose of the drug ivermectin and other underground “cures” ordered online.

The person is now recovering at home after presenting to Westmead Hospital’s emergency department with vomiting and diarrhoea caused by the drug, according to the Western Sydney Local Health district.

“Thankfully they didn’t develop severe toxicity, but it didn’t help their COVID either,” Westmead Hospital toxicologist Associate Professor Naren Gunja said.

Meanwhile the average punter is trapped at home,  no job,  bills racking up,  while trapped in an endless loop of lock down with the end  some nebulous date in the future.  Couldn't even give us the decency of giving us a date.  Over it. Give us something, anything