Right to ask, but not without also balancing against the issue of people being utter idiots. A little sensible conversation has lead to tens of thousands of hours doctors talking patients down when they come in demanding anti-parasitic medicines.
I don't know what the best balance is. One thing is evident: social media is not the venue for scientific debate.
No, they're not licensed for that. They're still testing. And that's even forgiving how much work the word "similar" is doing there.
It is still the case that thousands of people are badgering their HCPs, trying to get off-licence scripts for something that's efficacy is contested and method isn't certain.
The Venn diagram between people who want wormer and those that refuse a vaccine is practically a circle. I stand by my original statement on what sort of people these are.
If you want to have a chat about the ongoing research into protease inhibitors, that's great, but anecdotes about curing it with an ill-gotten tube of horse medicine is as dangerous and virulent as covid in the first place.
I think he was talking about Ivermectin, which is a glutamate-gated chloride channel binder. I've never heard of people taking unprescribed protease inhibitors, although I guess there's no end to snake oil.
>Ivermectin was found as a blocker of viral replicase, protease and human TMPRSS2, which could be the biophysical basis behind its antiviral efficiency.
I don't know what the best balance is. One thing is evident: social media is not the venue for scientific debate.