Ivermectin shows clinical benefits in mild to moderate COVID19: RCT double-blind (opens in new tab)

Please only take this medication by prescription from a medical doctor. Even if these results are replicated, there is a huge difference between 12mg/day IV for 5 days under medical supervision and consuming a tube of apple flavored paste containing 6 grams of ivermectin. Ivermectin is neurotoxic at high doses and can absolutely kill you.

a) "In vitro studies have shown the efficacy of Ivermectin (IV) to inhibit the SARS—CoV-2 viral replication, but questions remained as to in-vivo applications" [0]

b) "Sixty-three patients with positive PCR result were randomized into three arms of the study. There was 1 withdrawal, thus 62 patients completed the study" [0]

c) "We cannot conclude in this study that Ivermectin has a place in prophylaxis, but this warrants investigation." [0]

[0] https://academic.oup.com/qjmed/advance-article/doi/10.1093/q...

"Sample size: A convenient sample size of 60 with 20 in each arm, was planned. However, 62 were ultimately randomized."

Sounds very underpowered

I saw a post on NIH studies showing possible benefits and people dismissing it because it wasn't a preponderance of evidence. Totally valid to dismiss a selected sample but made me realize there was more of a basis for its usage than, let's say, bleach.

That said, I was wrong, removed. I guess it's too much to ask for people to trust the recommended medicine, perhaps we should get more pro-vaccine conspiracy theories out there =/

Trial group of 62 patients and no parasite screening in those patients - yawn. But could be interesting grounds for a more significant and controlled study with patients with comorbidities.

You know what shows great clinical benefits?

Getting vaccinated.

Awesome! Let's let medical professionals and the like make the decision about recommending it!

They are back. Spamming hacker news every day with debunked studies.

Much bigger study showing statistically significant benefits https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(21)00100-4/pdf

Ivermectin is proven to work, but it's out of patent. That means pharmaceutical companies can't profit from it. Hence the Ivermectin FUD campaign.

Big Pharma will do everything in their power, including manipulate the media, to buy time while they develop new oral Covid drugs with a slightly tweaked chemical composition (just enough for them to legally profit off it). Knowing they have a certain % of the population that will blindly follow and argue for them helps.