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Study: Death Rate 38% Higher in Trump States
Originally posted by Adam_PoE
Viewers of Fox News and conservative media were more likely to have contracted COVID, according to a new poll.The survey tracked respondents "who tested positive for COVID-19" by their "main news source."
A whopping 45 percent of those with a Fox News/conservative media diet reported getting COVID.
Cumulative death data from the C.D.C., from over the last 10 months, illustrates the implications of political polarization of the COVID-19 vaccines.
An analysis of federal data found that on average, the death rates in states that voted for Trump were more than 38% higher than in states that voted for Biden, post widespread vaccine availability.
In addition, in the 10 states with the lowest percentage of full vaccinations, death rates were almost twice as high as that of states with the highest vaccination rates, the analysis found.
Politicizing a virus to pwn the libz!
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Study: Ivermectin Useless Against COVID
Originally posted by Adam_PoE
Researchers testing repurposed drugs against COVID-19 found that ivermectin did not reduce hospital admissions, in the largest trial yet of the effect of the antiparasitic on the disease driving the pandemic.Ivermectin has received a lot of attention as a potential treatment for COVID-19 including from celebrities such as podcast host Joe Rogan.
Most evidence has shown it to be ineffective against COVID-19 or has relied on data of poor quality, infectious-disease researchers said.
Public-health authorities and researchers have for months said the drug has not shown any benefit in treating the disease. Taking large doses of the drug is dangerous, the Food and Drug Administration has said.
The latest trial, of nearly 1,400 COVID-19 patients at risk of severe disease, is the largest to show that those who received ivermectin as a treatment did not fare better than those who received a placebo.
The anti-parasitic drug ivermectin, which has surged in popularity as an alternative treatment for COVID-19 despite a lack of strong research to back it up, showed no sign of alleviating the disease, according to results of a large clinical trial published on Wednesday.
The study, which compared more than 1,300 people infected with the coronavirus in Brazil who received either ivermectin or a placebo, effectively ruled out the drug as a treatment for COVID, the study's authors said.
Ivermectin's popularity continued to climb in the pandemic's second year. The podcaster Joe Rogan promoted it repeatedly on his shows. In a single week in August, U.S. insurance companies spent $2.4 million paying for ivermectin treatments.
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Study: Vaccine Resistance Comes from Childhood Legacy of Mistrust
Curious about why some people have been so passionately, often angrily, opposed to vaccination against COVID-19, a team of researchers with access to rare and unusual insights into the childhood forces that shape our adult lives thought they would try to find out.
The Dunedin data showed that 40 years ago in childhood, many of the participants who said they were now vaccine-resistant or hesitant had adverse childhood experiences, including abuse, neglect, threats, and deprivations.
The resistant and hesitant groups had scored lower on mental processing speed, reading level, and verbal ability as children. At age 45, before the pandemic, these people were also found to have less practical everyday health knowledge.