Daily Archives: August 17, 2021
An Alvin Opry Get-Together . . .
Our long-time friend Chris Yust, who’s actually now on a Carnival cruise in the Caribbean, was nice enough to send Jan these beautiful Flamingo earrings, her new favorites.
Thanks, Chris!
I mentioned last week that people were buying Ivermectin from their local Tractor Supply, where you can buy it for $6.49 a tube vs $20 to $43 a tube on Amazon.
And now it looks like Tractor Supply is aware of what’s going. And got the lawyers involved.
Of course some would say (truthfully) that none of the vaccines are actually FDA Approved ether. They’re actually just issued under a E.U.A (Emergency Use Authorization).
And this Ivermectin is EXACTLY the same compound as the one you can pay a lot more money for at your neighborhood pharmacy.
And it may be that the run on Ivermectin is caused by several recent articles like this peer-reviewed one just published in The American Journal Of Therapeutics.
The aim of this review was to assess the efficacy of ivermectin treatment among people with COVID-19 infection and as a prophylaxis among people at higher risk of COVID-19 infection. In addition, we aimed to prepare a brief economic commentary (BEC) of ivermectin as treatment and as prophylaxis for COVID-19.
Given the evidence of efficacy, safety, low cost, and current death rates, ivermectin is likely to have an impact on health and economic outcomes of the pandemic across many countries. Ivermectin is not a new and experimental drug with an unknown safety profile. It is a WHO “Essential Medicine” already used in several different indications, in colossal cumulative volumes. Corticosteroids have become an accepted standard of care in COVID-19, based on a single RCT of dexamethasone.1 If a single RCT is sufficient for the adoption of dexamethasone, then a fortiori the evidence of 2 dozen RCTs supports the adoption of ivermectin.
Ivermectin is likely to be an equitable, acceptable, and feasible global intervention against COVID-19. Health professionals should strongly consider its use, in both treatment and prophylaxis.
Jan and I left for our lunch date about 11:15, to meet up with a bunch of old Alvin Opry friends at the Cheddar’s up in Webster.
Starting off next to Jan on the left, is Connie Taube, Maria and Bob Sutton, Sadye and Harry Dudley, finishing up with Hugh Jordan on the right.
We’ve known Bob and Maria since the mid-80’s, and the others since the late-90’s when we first started going to the original Alvin Opry.
We had great time, so much so that we’ve already scheduled the time and place to do it again next month.
So good seeing everyone.
Thought For The Day:
You never appreciate what you have until it’s gone. Toilet paper is a good example.
