Studies Still Show Ivermectin Does Not Work for COVID
This is how medical clinical science works. The politicians have hurt us. Let the medical researchers do what they best.
One of my pet peeves is politicians entering into medical discussions and putting a political spin on our health and medical issues. Dan Cox and Gordana Schifanelli are both notorious for promoting unproven therapeutics for Covid or providing disinformation about vaccines and therapeutics. So, this one is for you, Dan.
I follow Health Nerd, medical researcher on twitter. He is excellent. Here is the latest word on IVM from him. (I’d recommend that you follow this researcher on twitter.)
“People have asked my thoughts on ivermectin for COVID-19 recently, so here they are: At this point, it's a waiting game. Most of the benefit was seen in studies that are retracted (or should be). The remainder is slim, and based mostly on very low-quality research.
The best-quality trials show uncertain benefit, at best a MUCH lower magnitude than the original claims, and certainly not useful at every stage of disease as people were saying a year ago. What we really need now are the results from a few large trials, which will be reporting this year: Activ-6 COVIDOUT PRINCIPLE.
If those trials show minimal/no benefit, then ivermectin probably doesn't work for COVID-19. If they show a modest benefit, the overall magnitude of effect will be reasonable (~5-15%), which is useful.
It is possible that one of these will show a large benefit, but based on the evidence so far this seems very unlikely. My best guess is that we'll end up with a modest benefit only at the highest doses.
If my best guess is right, I suspect it's unlikely ivermectin will be much use for COVID-19. At the highest doses, there is some evidence of fairly uncomfortable side-effects, which make the medicine much less useful as a treatment. (Of note, the highest dose - which is what the FLCCC currently recommends - is about 20-40x higher than the standard dose for antiparasitic uses, so the phrase "it's a safe drug" is totally meaningless here.)
Regardless, this is all quite speculative until we get the results of one or all of those big trials I mentioned. They will largely end the debate over this drug.
And, as before, it is rather upsetting that we are ~still~ waiting for results from large, well-conducted trials into ivermectin. There are 67 RCTs pre-registered >12 months ago, many of which have not reported results, some of which were fake. The situation is not great.”
Here is my take:
The FLCCC should have worked toward submitting a GOOD clinical trial if they held beliefs that IVM worked. They did not do that. Good physicians do NOT prescribe medications without good clinical evidence, particularly when a very high dose of a possibly toxic drug needs to be given.
Look at the grifting that Dr. Kory and FLCCC, and others have benefited from! Follow the money!
Way too many IVM studies were retracted because of fraudulent numbers, fraudulent patients, poor research, poor clinical trial design. In my 40 years in biotech, I have NEVER seen such a load of fraudulent, piss poor research as has been done with IVM.
There are some further clinical trials ending and those should give us the final results. But as you see above in HealthNerd @GidMK, there is not a lot of optimism. At least we will have an answer with GOOD clinical studies.
This is how medical clinical science works. The politicians (like Dan Cox and Gordana) have hurt us. Let the medical researchers do what they best. STOP politicizing this. NO ONE who has no experience in medical science can speak to results of clinical data. And any politician or self-proclaimed “expert” shows a great deal of ignorance in trying.
Health Nerd makes my conclusion for me:
“I suspect that's why these conspiracies about ivermectin are so popular in that crowd. Because if you've made a huge bet that ivermectin is a perfect drug, and it clearly isn't, admitting you're wrong is very hard. Making unfounded accusations and slandering people? Much easier.”
Studies Still Show Ivermectin Does Not Work for COVID
Why does Babs write for a “conservative” page? Everything she writes is deboonker, COVID obsessed crap. Newsflash, Babs, COVID is over! Even Sleepy Creepy Joe thinks so! The only people who are still twisted in knots over it are Fauci, Dan Qux— AND YOU!