TGA ban on ivermectin lifted !
https://www.tga.gov.au/news/media-releases/removal-prescribing-restrictions-ivermectin
The ridiculous reason given for disallowing doctors prescribing ivermectin was that there might not be enough ivermectin for proscribed uses, and also that when they are healed of coronavirus (sorry typed that in error) it might cause vaccine hesitancy. They restate these reasons in their blurb below.
TGA press release:
Removal of prescribing restrictions on ivermectin
From 1 June 2023, prescribing of oral ivermectin for ‘off-label’ uses will no longer be limited to specialists such as dermatologists, gastroenterologists and infectious diseases specialists.
In its final decision published today, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has removed the restriction through its scheduling in the Poisons Standard because there is sufficient evidence that the safety risks to individuals and public health is low when prescribed by a general practitioner in the current health climate.
This considers the evidence and awareness of medical practitioners about the risks and benefits of ivermectin, and the low potential for any shortages of ivermectin for its approved uses. Also, given the high rates of vaccination and hybrid immunity against COVID-19 in Australia, use of ivermectin by some individuals is unlikely to now compromise public health.
However, the TGA does not endorse off-label prescribing of ivermectin for the treatment or prevention of COVID-19.
A large number of clinical studies have demonstrated ivermectin does not improve outcomes in patients with COVID-19. The National Covid Evidence Taskforce (NCET) and many similar bodies around the world, including the World Health Organization, strongly advises against the use of ivermectin for the prevention or treatment of COVID-19.
Ivermectin for oral use is a Prescription Only (Schedule 4) medicine in the Poisons Standard. It is only approved by the TGA for the treatment of river blindness (onchocerciasis), threadworm of the intestines (intestinal strongyloidiasis), and scabies.
The restriction on ivermectin was introduced in September 2021 because of concerns about the safety of consumers using ivermectin without health advice to treat COVID-19, widespread use of ivermectin instead of approved vaccines and treatments for COVID-19, and potential shortages of the medicine for approved uses.
The final decision follows an application to remove the restrictions and has been made according to the process required under the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989. It takes into account advice from the independent Advisory Committee on Medicines Scheduling (ACMS) and two rounds of public consultation.
Satire alert - the following 3 paragraphs are satirical! It is not a fact check!
Monologue of health bureaucrat in unnamed health authority in unnamed medical banana republic: “Gee so ivermectin costs a few pennies to produce- we can’t use it for the deadly plague coronavirus cause we might not have enough for scabies a far less serious and only slightly annoying disease that is not deadly.” Underling asks: “?Well why not sir maybe we could produce ivermectin ourselves? It’s cheap and royalty free?” Bureaucrat’s Answer: “what? You fool? Are you a vaccine denier? No - !!! Instead they must be forced to take the expensive experimental ψ-mRNA vaccines which will not stop transmission and will send lipid nanoparticles to many parts of their bodies hahahaha! where they’re not supposed to go and we might hopefully kill them all off with myocarditis or shingles or cancer. You read the studies Pfizer submitted for authorisation! That’s what it did to the rats! That’s what it will do to the useless eaters like you, you peasant! Oops did I say that part out loud?”
Very - Logical.
Also - I hear the distance sound of bovine excreta plopping out onto the ground and being squished as I read in their blurb about studies showing ivermectin is no use - for giant metastudy of all studies showing effectiveness of ivermectin see:
Rebekah Barnett did a great article here with many more salient points:
Addendum - More Satire alert - the following paragraph is satirical! It is not a fact check either! (Sorry Blaise Pascal)
How nice -we got an apology from an unnamed health bureaucracy in an unnamed medical banana republic ! “We apologise to the general public for banning a safe and effective medication and gently encouraging people using extreme coercion to take one that does not stop transmission and caused the consequent iatrogenic mortality increase. We are sorry for our errors and everyone involved will lose their bonuses and some have already resigned and the rest of us will resign forthwith. Thank you for your patience with us. We will try to do better in the next plague. Yours sincerely the Very Pewkic Bads Administration.”
BTW Nothing in this article or any of my articles is to be construed as health advice. For health advice see a Doctor who follows the ancient Hippocratic Oath. Hard to find.
Much of this article is satire btw. If you didn’t notice. For my more serious work on ivermectin see:
Fact check: Ivermectin doesn't help against COVID-19
STRONG EVIDENCE IVERMECTIN IS USEFUL TO TREAT COVID-19 There is a great deal of very strong scientific evidence that Ivermectin is helpful in treating Covid-19. NOBEL PRIZE FOR DISCOVERERS CAMPBELL AND AMORA Ivermectin was discovered in 1975. The discoverers, William Campbell and Satoshi Amora, were given the Nobel Prize in 2015 for its discovery.
Claim: Ivermectin was suppressed.
The actual moment that health bureaucrat Andrew Hill decided to continue suppressing the use and knowledge of Ivermectin as an effective treatment, causing 15,000 deaths a day, is on a Zoom call video recorded by Tess Lawrie. This documentary is 18 minutes long. If you want to see the relevant parts, look at 5:59 onwards.
Claim: only 1.9% of Australians are against the Covid vaccine.
A tabloid Gaslighting the majority of the Australian population with fallacies and misinformation. The Sunday Times, a once-a-week tabloid that disseminates its misinformation in Perth, Western Australia, published a nasty, divisive article by journalist John Flint last Sunday that sets up one straw man after another and then with a great heaving effort…
A letter to the editor of the Sunday Times.
I wish to raise some points about Mr Flint’s divisive article about ‘anti-vaxxers’ on the 2nd October 2022. This letter was sent to the editor of the Sunday Times, however it was not published, and I am concerned that the misinformation purveyed by Mr. John Flint will be allowed to let stand, so I am sending this to first fact check in the hopes that it…
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