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Michael Capuzzo (born May 1, 1957) is an American journalist and author best known for his New York Times-bestselling nonfiction books The Murder Room and Close to Shore [1] He was formerly a reporter with the Miami Herald and the Philadelphia Inquirer, where he received four Pulitzer Prize nominations. [2]
The Independent Medical Alliance (formerly Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance [FLCCC]) is a group of physicians and former journalists, formed in April 2020, that has advocated for various unapproved, dubious, and ineffective treatments for COVID-19 (e.g. hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, and other miscellaneous combinations of drugs and vitamins).
Ivermectin is an antiparasitic drug. [7] After its discovery in 1975, [8] its first uses were in veterinary medicine to prevent and treat heartworm and acariasis. [9] Approved for human use in 1987, [10] it is used to treat infestations including head lice, scabies, river blindness (onchocerciasis), strongyloidiasis, trichuriasis, ascariasis and lymphatic filariasis.
Ball-and-stick model of Ivermectin. Ivermectin is an antiparasitic drug that is well established for use in animals and people. [1] The World Health Organization (WHO), [2] the European Medicines Agency (EMA), [3] the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), [4] and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) [5] all advise against using ivermectin in an attempt to treat or ...
Ivermectin, formulated from Avermectin, has a wide variety of uses in human beings. According to a paper (Ivermectin: “Wonder Drug” from Japan: the human use perspective) written by the drugs co-creator Satoshi Ōmura and Andy Crump for The Japan Academy, Ivermectin has improved the lives of billions of people worldwide and not solely for ...
Pierre Kory is an American critical care physician who gained attention during the COVID-19 pandemic for advocating widespread off-label use of certain drugs as treatments for COVID-19, as president and co-founder of the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC).
Veterinary ivermectin, sold alongside an unproven povidone-iodine nasal spray [145] as COVID-19 treatments, at an Amish-run grocery store near McBain, Michigan. In March 2020, then US President Donald Trump promoted the use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, two related anti-malarial drugs, for treating COVID-19. The FDA later clarified ...
August: Health Canada began to receive reports that some Canadians were using veterinary ivermectin, which has a much higher dose than the prescription drug ivermectin to treat parasitic worms in humans. The first warning was issued advising Canadians that side effects of taking the medication intended for large animals included seizures and ...