Thomas P Seager, PhD
2 min readMar 28, 2020

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This is dangerous garbage Dana G Smith and irresponsible of you and Medium Staff to disseminate without disclaimers.

Read the fricking warning labels on these medications, for goodnessakes.

Ibuprofen, like all NSAIDs, is notorious for causing gastrointestinal bleedouts requiring hospitalization — and the packaging tells you so.

WARNING: “may cause severe stomach bleeding” (especially among those older than 60, who are most at risk of COVID.

And you know that Tylenol (acetaminophen, or paracetamol) is toxic to the liver.

WARNING: Severe liver damage may occur.

The fact is that there is no evidence that these drugs are safe OR effective for COVID patients. There are no clinical trials in patients infected with COVID.

There are only native advertising shills paid off by the drug companies that reverse the burden of proof for the products that make them money:

“No evidence that Ibuprofen or Tylenol is harmful, except for all this evidence that we already know about!” — the people who sell you Tylenol

Don’t apply one standard of evidence to your favorite corporate drug machine, and another standard of evidence to the French doctors warning us that ibuprofen has made their COVID patients sicker.

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