Lots of others have debunked this here. Yet with all this conspiracy stuff there’s a big elephant in the room that no one seems to ever talk about: Covid is a global virus. The FDA can block and approve whatever treatments in the US, but it has no authority in Brazil or Thailand. If all these conspiracy drugs worked well yet the FDA blocked it for some malicious intent, the rest of the world would approve and use it. Particularly since these conspiracy drugs have all been around forever, are generics, and exist globally. Yet we aren’t seeing this emerging despite massive world wide deaths.
In Brazil many people have used Ivermectin and our country is getting a record of 500.000 deaths of covid today.
Also, here in Brazil we had many reports of people needing a liver transplant because they caught drug-induced hepatitis.
So, in summary, 1. Ivermectin doesn't work and 2. it can cause severe health issues if used wrongly.
Wrong - there are countries it’s being widely used in. For example, India and many Easter European countries (and some S. American???).
We need effective vaccines and therapeutics. I don’t understand this push to discredit any therapeutic before reasonable research has even been conducted.
> I don’t understand this push to discredit any therapeutic before reasonable research has even been conducted.
No such thing exists. There are literally dozens of therapeutics in trials , and a few actually approved and in non-trial general use (dexamethasone, remdesevir, and favilavir, in various jurisdictions) — for both, see [0] — the ones that tend to get strongly negative treatment are hydroxychloroquine (not actually in trials) and ivermectin (in Phase 2/3 trials), both on the basis of unsupported scams around both earlier in the pandemic, not any general aversion to therapeutics.
Well, all the data we have is from outside the U.S. so I guess U.S. doctors in-the-know are trying to discuss it but getting shut down on U.S.-based social media.
That chart shows that state being the lowest death toll both before and after ivermectin treatment, which would seem to point to some serious confounding factors in this analysis.
Not to mention dramatic changes else where as well, and that’s assuming this data is accurate. It’s also from very early in the pandemic, when we didn’t know as much generally. Plus correlation =! causation. Could be far better making behaviors there, or all kinds of other factors. That’s why you need randomized double blind clinical trials, done by experts. This arm chair “analysis” is just bad science.
To me, this kind of regional comparison, contrasting before and after Ivermectin was deployed as a treatment, has been the most convincing evidence that Ivermectin is an effective treatment.
This paper by Pierre Kory has graphs that clearly show the evolution of Covid cases and deaths across different states in Peru.
