Sometime last month, I went digging through the CDC's guideline on COVID treatment (~400 pages, ugh) and ran into their statement that there was insufficient evidence to make a recommendation on ivermectin. I was familiar with the results in India at the time, but wanted to see specific RCTs.
This meta-analysis was able to find 31 randomized, placebo-controlled, clinical trials: 17 testing IVM as prophylaxis, 11 testing it for treatment of early disease, and 3 testing it for late-stage disease. Over 6,500 patients were involved in these trials and there's strong agreement in the results regarding efficacy, with only 4 showing the drug to be ineffective.
This is really inexcusable on the part of health officials who are supposed to be trying to solve this pandemic (as opposed to prolonging it so politicians can milk it to extend their own power). This website is run by volunteers who do that research in their spare time, and our professionals who get paid extremely well by the government can't seem to manage a similar literature search and analysis? (But why don't you trust CDC? ...... This shit is why I don't trust CDC)
I remember seeing the Brazil study last year. 2 comparable cities in each of 4 regions were studied. One with ivermectin and the other as the control in each region.
The results were astounding in favor of ivermectin.
Sometime last month, I went digging through the CDC's guideline on COVID treatment (~400 pages, ugh) and ran into their statement that there was insufficient evidence to make a recommendation on ivermectin. I was familiar with the results in India at the time, but wanted to see specific RCTs.
This meta-analysis was able to find 31 randomized, placebo-controlled, clinical trials: 17 testing IVM as prophylaxis, 11 testing it for treatment of early disease, and 3 testing it for late-stage disease. Over 6,500 patients were involved in these trials and there's strong agreement in the results regarding efficacy, with only 4 showing the drug to be ineffective.
This is really inexcusable on the part of health officials who are supposed to be trying to solve this pandemic (as opposed to prolonging it so politicians can milk it to extend their own power). This website is run by volunteers who do that research in their spare time, and our professionals who get paid extremely well by the government can't seem to manage a similar literature search and analysis? (But why don't you trust CDC? ...... This shit is why I don't trust CDC)
I remember seeing the Brazil study last year. 2 comparable cities in each of 4 regions were studied. One with ivermectin and the other as the control in each region.
The results were astounding in favor of ivermectin.