Originally Posted by
sailingfun
Did you actually read how that study was done?? Basically people showed up and said they might have covid. They were given 1 ivermectin pill plus azithromycin in a full 5 day dosing regiment. They were not tested for covid. Strangely enough most were cured of the symptoms they had! Azithromycin Is highly effective against a host of ailments prevalent in the area. If they didn’t come back they were pronounced in the study cured of covid by ivermectin! Those that came back were tested for covid with a 22% positive rate. Of the covid positive group hospitalized there was no real change in death rate.
I spend 10 weeks a year on the Caribbean, Azithromycin is the go to drug for anyone visiting the doctor because it’s highly effective against most island illnesses many of which mimic covid in symptoms. Ivermectin is also widely available do to all the parasitic illnesses. Weird however they only gave them one pill instead of a normal dosage over time.
If you read the study you would know that patients did not self diagnosed with COVID. They were either diagnosed by doctors clinically when PCR was unavailable, or by PCR or Igm. Any patient diagnosed clinically by a doctor was only diagnosed if there was high probability based on clinical data. All patients received by the ER had either PCR or Igm test.
That said, I agree this study is less than ideal. I’ve already mention that. Many of these studies are done in parts of the world where hospitals are overwhelmed, access to testing and supplies are limited. As I mentioned before there will never be a large scale, double blind, placebo controlled study done on ivermectin.
There are 116 study’s listed. The circumstantial evidence along with IVM’s well known safety profile alone should be enough to authorize its use.
There clearly is no convincing you if you have to do mental gymnastics to find any way you possibly can to reject evidence IVM is safe and effective.