Not only the FDA but all the doctors who wouldn’t prescribe ivermectin, the nurses who wouldn’t administer it, and the pharmacists who wouldn’t fill prescriptions. All of them should be behind bars for life.
No, they shouldn't. The evidence going through this was poor.
Initially, support was based on laboratory tests. There's a reason we do human trials. Lab tests don't tell the full story and are never sufficient evidence for mainstream treatments. NIH says "clinical trials only." That's appropriate.
Later, we started to get evidence from small trials from around the world. This meta-analysis was created, updated, and widely circulated. If you look at the evidence, it is mixed results, small sample sizes, inconsistent methodology. That's not very convincing to any medical professional. Some are more risk-tolerant than others.
By late 2021, we were getting results from the TOGETHER trial and the ACTIV-6 trials among others. These were larger trials, 700-800 patients in the experimental group. Neither showed any statistically significant benefit with a 400 mcg daily dose given for 3 days. No reduction in symptom length or severity. No reduction in the rates of patients who required hospitalization for worsening symptoms. These were high-quality, large sample size clinical trials. They're the kind of evidence we look for, and the results were negative.
Yes, there was a lot of anecdotal evidence floating around on social media. People said they used horse paste and it worked for them. But how do you quantify that? Are these bots? Liars? Exaggerators? Did they even have a COVID diagnosis? How much did they use? How long? Obviously, the evidence here is of poor quality.
So, if you're a doctor in a high litigious society and you've got hospital administrators, legal, the licensing board, your employer, etc all breathing down your neck and threatening your employment, privileges, license, and career, do you hang your hat on anecdotal evidence or do you go with what the big clinical trials show?
There's not a jury in the world, who, confronted with the totality of the situation with the context I just described (and cited), who would convict a doctor for malpractice for choosing not to prescribe ivermectin.
Not only the FDA but all the doctors who wouldn’t prescribe ivermectin, the nurses who wouldn’t administer it, and the pharmacists who wouldn’t fill prescriptions. All of them should be behind bars for life.
No, they shouldn't. The evidence going through this was poor.
So, if you're a doctor in a high litigious society and you've got hospital administrators, legal, the licensing board, your employer, etc all breathing down your neck and threatening your employment, privileges, license, and career, do you hang your hat on anecdotal evidence or do you go with what the big clinical trials show?
There's not a jury in the world, who, confronted with the totality of the situation with the context I just described (and cited), who would convict a doctor for malpractice for choosing not to prescribe ivermectin.
Thank you for making sense.