When the first studies came out, the CDC's opinion was understandable as the evidence was, as they put it, low, but as time has passed a great more evidence is piling up and IF - and I agree it's still IF - but IF Ivermectin is doing what it did in a lab then it is a cheap and quick means of ending the pandemic. What's critical to understand is that this medicine which was so effective at killing stomach parasites was long known to have anti-viral properties as well, and early research in the lab showed it could inhibit SARS CoV-2 viral growth and then that research was followed up by a small study in humans and then numerous meta-analyses all of which were and are considered a low and weak amount of evidence. That was last year and early this year.
Today, we have literally millions of data points coming out of India and Africa in support of that early research as well as more than 1500 scientific papers on PubMed on Ivermectin for COVID, and medical officials in the U.S. refuse to even consider this new evidence as possibly correct. I, for one, am emailing my government representatives to say that we need an unbiased and independent review of this potential therapy because the benefits far outweigh the risks in this instance.
The FDA approved drug ivermectin inhibits the replication of SARS-CoV-2 in vitro
The effect of early treatment with ivermectin on viral load: A double-blind, pacebo-controlled, randomized clinical trial
Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19 Infection: A meta-analysis
Additional facts:
1) African nations that hand out Ivermectin to everyone every year as a prophylactic treatment have 134/100k cases and 2/100k COVID deaths but African nations that do NOT handout Ivermectin have 950/100k cases and 29/100k COVID deaths.
2) Medical Officials in Japan are now recommending it as treatment based on the available data.
Japanese Medical Officials Recommend Ivermectin
3) In India Uttar Pradesh hands out Ivermectin as prophylactic treatment to family members who do not have COVID but do have other family members with COVID. Kerala stopped giving out Ivermectin and instead is pushing vaccinces only.
Finally just compare India to Israel and Iceland. Obviously Israel and Iceland are not using Ivermectin but have two of the highest rates of vaccination in the world as compared to India with one of the lowest vaccination rates, but near universal use of Ivermectin prophylactically.
