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The economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, including unemployment spikes, GDP contraction, and recovery efforts.
Clinical trials and systematic reviews conducted during and after the COVID-19 pandemic provide limited information about ivermectin’s long-term safety in humans; most randomized trials report short f...
Ivermectin’s rise from an antiparasitic to a politicized COVID remedy was driven by a small set of physician-led advocacy groups, conservative media personalities and social-media influencers, telemed...
Donald Trump presided over continuing expansion that produced modest real GDP growth before COVID‑19 and a dramatic pandemic contraction in 2020, after which recovery was underway by the end of his te...
Washington, D.C.'s homicide totals fell sharply in 2025 — the Metropolitan Police Department reports 127–128 homicides for the year versus 187 in 2024 and 274 in 2023 — a decline that implies most mon...
Yes — there are documented adverse events from people using veterinary “horse paste” ivermectin instead of prescribed human formulations, including hospitalizations, neurologic events, and at least so...
Surveillance during the COVID-19 pandemic documented a clear rise in poison control center reports of human exposures to ivermectin — including veterinary formulations — with U.S. poison center calls ...
Early news coverage, political statements and social-media dynamics converted a scientific question about SARS‑CoV‑2 origins into a politicized public contest, reshaping which hypotheses were treated ...
Austerity — cutting spending, raising taxes, or both — can and often does reduce headline budget deficits, but its economic and social costs are large and context-dependent: in recessions or when mone...
Veterinary formulations of ivermectin differ from human prescription products in concentration, formulation and inactive ingredients, and taking them can produce toxic overdose and serious neurologica...
Clinical evidence does not reliably support ivermectin as an effective treatment or preventive for COVID-19: high-quality randomized trials and multiple systematic reviews conclude uncertainty or no c...