Clinical Data just out - Ivermectin does not work on Covid

[jmbar2]

Just in case anyone is still pinning their hopes on horse dewormer cures

In this open-label randomized clinical trial of high-risk patients with COVID-19 in Malaysia, a 5-day course of oral ivermectin administered during the first week of illness did not reduce the risk of developing severe disease compared with standard of care alone.

Meaning The study findings do not support the use of ivermectin for patients with COVID-19.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2789362

[SoCalDavidS]

1. Isn't Going To Change A SINGLE MIND

Anybody with half a brain already knows this. Those who don't, aren't going to listen, just like they haven't listened to science since the beginning.

[LW1977]

2. Drinking their own piss it is..

[Samrob]

3. After reading the entire article and research results, it appears to me that both were about equall

Correct me if I am wrong but this is not a result that definitively rules out ivermectin based on doing harm.

I am not a virologist so someone with qualification correct me. In fact, twice as many subjects with standard treatment alone were intubated (8 vs 4).

I am not a proponent of ivermectin or any treatment for COVID other that what the science has shown and the accepted protocol being used by the CDC/WHO. So please do not accuse me of being and anti-vaxxer. I am twice vaxxed and once boosted. Just trying to understand these results.

[jmbar2]

4. TBH, I'm not an expert here either

Sounds like they had mostly vaccinated patients, which would probably mitigate the severity of disease regardless of the treatment they received. But they saw no improved outcomes using Ivermectin compared to the control groups.

They did see a lot of side effects from Ivermectin.

It would be useful to see a comparison of vaxxed and unvaxxed groups, treated with ivermectin alone, versus the standard treatments. It would be hard to isolate the effect of Ivermectin with these other variables in play. But it would also be an ethical dilemma.

[UTUSN]

5. K & big R#5

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. Who is surprised by this?