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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Sep 13

      Health Nerd Retweeted KBirb

      It's amazing how stuff like this gets created and spread. This is absolute nonsense, but unless you know quite a bit it's hard to understand whyhttps://twitter.com/birb_k/status/1437131684118347777 …

      Health Nerd added,

      KBirb @birb_k
      1) 13.6x lower death rate in Africa IVM countries vs. non-IVM countries. The difference in outcomes is stark and the primary variable is use of IVM. Other differences (e.g., demographics) can have effect, but a 13.6-fold difference suggests something else likely the key driver… pic.twitter.com/AEeP4GecMr
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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Sep 13

      The designation of "ivermectin" vs "non-ivermectin" countries is based on Mass Drug Administration campaigns (MDAs), which are used in Africa to combat endemic parasitic diseases

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    3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Sep 13

      Those MDAs are aimed at eliminating river blindness, and are amazingly effective. They use (among other things) 1/2/4-yearly doses of ivermectin which are given to a large % of the countries in questionpic.twitter.com/IFTck7uCxM

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    4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Sep 13

      Now, firstly it's worth wondering how a drug with a half-life of about a day could prevent COVID-19 up to 11 months after it was last given. Is this a reasonable thing to argue?

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Sep 13

      But perhaps more importantly, these MDA programs were all interrupted by the pandemic. In many countries, ivermectin hasn't been given ~at all~ in this manner since early 2020pic.twitter.com/U24wiiQEzp

      4:32 PM - 13 Sep 2021
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        2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Sep 13

          Health Nerd Retweeted Health Nerd

          On top of that, this isn't the only reason ivermectin is given in these countries, nor even the only reason it is mass-distributed, as I pointed out earlierhttps://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1436201903788998657?s=20 …

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          Health NerdVerified account @GidMK
          This graphic has been passed around a lot by the ivermectin crowd, so I thought I'd very briefly explain why it's quite clearly incorrect 1/10 pic.twitter.com/hfecgKyf1L
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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Sep 13

          Meanwhile, we know that the private consumption of ivermectin - people buying it for themselves - has skyrocketed across the world

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        4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Sep 13

          In fact, the use of ivermectin for onchocerchiasis cannot possibly explain any variation in COVID-19 death rates in Africa And yet, I bet you that graphic will be shared (as the last one was) many, many times

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        5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Sep 13

          The original graphic, for posteritypic.twitter.com/7UuWq98FMI

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