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Sebastian Rushworth
Personal blog · sebastianrushworth.comhealthscience
Sebastian Rushworth's personal blog at sebastianrushworth.com covers health and science. Since 2020, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 30 times, most often “Update on Ivermectin for Covid-19”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (21) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Sebastian Rushworth's posts on COVID-19 vaccines, long covid, ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine trials, and Sweden's pandemic strategy. Commenters value him as a doctor who follows the science.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 21 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Update on Ivermectin for Covid-194 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2021-05-09
- /2020/11/17/what-is-long-covid/3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-11-20
- /2020/09/28/herd-immunity-without-antibodies/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-30
- How much do statins prolong life?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-15
What Hacker News says?
Try this one, from a thoughtful MD who tries to follow the science: https://sebastianrushworth.com/2020/11/19/covid-19-new-evide...
Comment linking /2020/11/19/covid-19-new-evidence-on-face-masks/
on “YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content”Submitted A Swedish doctor's perspective on Covid as a story · 160 points
HN discussion> Since no live virus is even remotely involved in any COVID19 vaccines it has zero relevance here. Your omnipotent knowledge is inspiring. We have absolutely zero years of experience with RNA based vaccines. We had incidents with vaccines, not of the same kind. Ergo, there's a non zero probability we will have incidents in the future, by any reasonable inference. > I qualified my original comment with "in most peop…
Comment linking /2020/11/17/what-is-long-covid/
on “Oxford University breakthrough on global COVID-19 vaccine”Submitted Update on Ivermectin for Covid-19 as a story · 13 points
HN discussionIs the long covid phenomenon any more pronounced with this virus than any other coronavirus (last I read[0], the answer seems to be 'no')? Since there are four others circulating, will this vaccine even have a significant effect on these post-viral symptoms? 0: https://sebastianrushworth.com/2020/11/17/what-is-long-covid...
Comment linking /2020/11/17/what-is-long-covid/
on “Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK”Submitted Does it make sense to vaccinate those who have had Covid? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIs the long covid phenomenon any more pronounced with this virus than any other coronavirus (last I read[0], the answer seems to be 'no')? Since there are four others circulating, will this vaccine even have a significant effect on these post-viral symptoms? 0: https://sebastianrushworth.com/2020/11/17/what-is-long-covid...
Comment linking /2020/11/17/what-is-long-covid/
on “Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK”Submitted A Reflection on Covid Mania as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe moment you go down that road, every academic epidemiologist and COVID expert will immediately be prosecuted because they have repeatedly made claims that were totally false and which have led directly to many deaths. For example, the claim that lockdowns work (they don't and this was known before COVID times), has led directly to people dying due to delayed medical treatment. Poverty also kills of course and the…
Comment linking /2021/11/27/is-saturated-fat-unhealthy/
on “Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people?”Submitted Update on Ivermectin for Covid-19 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://sebastianrushworth.com/2021/05/09/update-on-ivermect... I’ve included every double-blind randomized placebo-controlled trial I could find of ivermectin as a treatment for covid. Using only double-blind placebo-controlled trials means that only the highest quality studies are included in this meta-analysis, which minimizes the risk of biases messing up the results as far as possible. In order to be included,…
Comment linking /2021/05/09/update-on-ivermectin-for-covid-19/
on “Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19 Infection”Submitted How deadly is Covid-19? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://sebastianrushworth.com/2021/03/04/hydroxychloroquine... Two observational studies, both carried out in New York (Carlucci et al. and Derwan et al.), appear to show promising results in patients treated with a combination of hydroxychloroquine, zinc, and azithromycin. The first, involving 932 paitents, showed a 55% reduction in relative risk of death among those getting zinc in addition to hydroxychloroquine…
Comment linking /2021/03/04/hydroxychloroquine-for-covid-lifesaving-or-useless/
on “Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19 Infection”Submitted How much do statins prolong life? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThat's without taking into account other factors such as comorbidities. Sebastian Rushworth did an interesting article on this, pointing out that it is likely wrong. https://sebastianrushworth.com/2020/11/29/how-many-years-of-...
Comment linking /2020/11/29/how-many-years-of-life-are-lost-to-covid/
on “India’s second wave”Submitted Should the Patient Get the Drug? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionOne of the unfortunate things about SARS2 is that there is reasonable evidence of some asymptomatic spread. Particularly the recent Japanese study[0] "When taken together, I think these two studies show that people with asymptomatic covid-19 can and do spread the disease, and the best estimate from both studies is that those with symptomatic disease are about three to four times more infectious than those with asymp…
Comment linking /2021/06/06/can-asymptomatic-people-spread-covid-19/
on “Evaluating necessity of Covid-19 vaccination in previously infected individuals”Submitted How accurate are the Covid tests? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAn opinion on ivermectin trials by an MD who tries to be rational: https://sebastianrushworth.com/2021/05/09/update-on-ivermect...
Comment linking /2021/05/09/update-on-ivermectin-for-covid-19/
on “Ivermectin Didn’t Reduce Covid-19 Hospitalizations in Largest Trial to Date”I know about the trials. I'm sure everyone does. Unfortunately, there is evidence that trials under-state risks. Evidence for this is: 1. Safety notices for the vaccines have been edited post launch to start talking about risks of heart inflammation and other problems, which were not detected by the trials but are now common enough to justify people being warned about them. 2. Drug trials appear to regularly underst…
Comment linking /2021/07/19/do-drug-trials-underestimate-side-effects/
on “SARS-CoV-2 Gamma variant infected 16 fully Pfizer vaccinated Guiana gold miners”There is no science showing antibody prevalence is required for herd immunity either; you need to cite something ..... (but you might want to look at: [0]). Everywhere except Sweden implemented legally mandated strategies -- often with police and military enforcement - that were designed to limit virus spread, including places that had just-as-bad-or-worse death outcomes such as NYC, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and Fr…
Comment linking /2020/09/28/herd-immunity-without-antibodies/
on “Vilified early over Covid-19 strategy, Sweden seems to have scourge controlled”Myocarditis is by no means "no impact" and certainly if you get it, complications are the least of your worries. Here's a blog post about the relative risks by a doctor: https://sebastianrushworth.com/2022/01/09/covid-vaccine-vs-i... "And myocarditis is a serious disease, make no mistake. Lately, I’ve been hearing this sentence alot: “but the myocarditis caused by the covid vaccines is mild!”. I’d never heard of “mi…
Comment linking /2022/01/09/covid-vaccine-vs-infection-myocarditis-risk/
on “US Destroyer can’t deploy because CO won’t get Covid vaccine, Navy says”Ivermectin has been know about since April 2020 when the Caly paper showed in-vitro that at high doses, ivermectin had anti-viral properties (sars-cov-2 sends proteins into the cell nucleus to turn off your immune response (interferon)). However, western scientists thought this anti-viral effect was implausible ( https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-599/ ) - they were mostly correct as the effect is most likely immunomo…
Comment linking /2021/05/09/update-on-ivermectin-for-covid-19/
on “Large Ivermectin Study Retracted”"I'm more concerned about the unknowns of Long Covid than I am about the unknowns of the vaccine." Unless you are in a high-risk group, this should not be a serious concern. There is almost no evidence for "long covid". The vast majority of the evidence is anecdotal, self-reported clusters of symptoms that resemble other common illnesses: https://sebastianrushworth.com/2020/11/17/what-is-long-covid... When you look…
Comment linking /2020/11/17/what-is-long-covid/
on “NHS planning to start covid vaccination of under 50s by end of January”He addressed that in a follow up post. https://sebastianrushworth.com/2020/09/28/herd-immunity-with... Sweden didn't have overloaded hospitals, used standard pandemic guidelines (i.e. before everyone shit their pants and went full authoritarian, based on "Chinas did it" as opposed to any kind of evidence based approach). A year on and Sweden are no worse off than the average European country, so we should be asking…
Comment linking /2020/09/28/herd-immunity-without-antibodies/
on “Ivermectin is effective for Covid-19: real-time meta analysis of 45 studies”This is a decent blog post by a Swedish doctor on it. Personally I have seen various studies some with good outcomes some with none. https://sebastianrushworth.com/2020/08/20/does-hydroxychloro...
Comment linking /2020/08/20/does-hydroxychloroquine-have-a-role-in-treating-covid-19/
on “Ivermectin is effective for Covid-19: real-time meta analysis of 45 studies”I have read plenty of reports both for and against Hydroxychloroqiune, to the point that I would say I had no idea what to believe about it. The fact that it appeared to be dismissed after Trump suggested it is really disappointing. Not that I think Trump has any insight, just that the whole thing felt very politicised - like the rest of the pandemic. This Swedish doctor's blog is pretty good, he has more background…
Comment linking /2020/08/20/does-hydroxychloroquine-have-a-role-in-treating-covid-19/
on “Ivermectin is effective for Covid-19: real-time meta analysis of 45 studies”> " every intervention that successfully lowers LDL has shown a reduction in CVD morbidity and mortality: by inhibiting synthesis (statins) " That's not what I'm reading; published in the British Medical Journal[1] " Drug treatment to reduce cholesterol to new target levels is now recommended [...] Achieving these cholesterol target levels did not confer any additional benefit in a systematic review of 35 randomised…
Comment linking /2020/11/13/how-much-do-statins-prolong-life/
on “Is animal fat good for you? The science on why it’s the optimal food for humans”Hi, some further information the following day! The 115 references you mention are for the entire Ivermectin WP page. There are only three related to COVID, and two of those are obviously biased reportage from the popular press. The single pertinent reference left is https://ebm.bmj.com/content/early/2021/05/26/bmjebm-2021-111... which is a well-warranted complaint regarding the chaotic nature of the current literat…
Comment linking /2021/05/09/update-on-ivermectin-for-covid-19/
on “Goa Recommends Ivermectin After Scientists Say Its Use Can End Covid-19 Pandemic”The use of ivermectin to treat human parasites is famous and has been a great success story. My evaluation of the WP article is that the content is neutral, except for the section on its use as a palliative for COVID. The difference in tone and emotion in that section is obvious. I have no reason to disbelieve the dose level cited in WP for treatment of parasites in humans, because the topic became politicized only…
Comment linking /2021/05/09/update-on-ivermectin-for-covid-19/
on “Goa Recommends Ivermectin After Scientists Say Its Use Can End Covid-19 Pandemic”
