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I got even more allegations for u guys to clarify (someone in my household is antivaxx) (lemmy.ml)
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I heard an allegation that ivermectin is being used in India to treat the coronavirus? Can someone explain that?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

The studies about the positive effect actually come from Bangladesh, and you know what? People are pretty poor there and often have chronic worm infections. So if you kill those worms their immune system can better concentrate on fighting the Covid19 virus instead. Its as simple as that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Also I remember reading that the worms are held back by the immune system, but a treatment (against covid) will kill your immune system which is good for covid but will help the worms so killing worms first is good. That's why the positive finding ivermectin studies come from areas with high rates of worms in ppl.