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#194 – Bret Weinstein: Truth, Science, and Censorship in the Time of a Pandemic
Lex Fridman Podcast
What Is Ivermectin and How Much Evidence Has Been Done to Show It Works?
Ivermectin is an interesting drug. It was discovered in the 70s by a Japanese scientist named Satoshi Omura and he founded in soil near a Japanese golf course. He sent it to a friend who was at Merck, a scientist named Campbell. They won a Nobel Prize for the discovery of the Iver mectin molecule in 2015. Its initial use was in treating parasitic infections. A wonderful meta-analysis finally released this week reveals that the drug,. as clinicians have been telling us, it's highly effective at treating people with the disease - especially if you get to them early. And it showed an 86% effectiveness as a prophylactic to prevent people from contracting
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