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Once again ‘Dr.’ Malone making unsubstantiated and misleading claims. Why do so many still believe the things he says?

No scientific basis for claims of ivermectin’s success in Uttar Pradesh, India
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/nov/12/facebook-posts/no-scientific-basis-claims-ivermectins-success-utt/

“No evidence suggests a causal link between ivermectin recommendation and the decline of COVID-19 cases in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh”

https://healthfeedback.org/claimreview/no-evidence-suggests-a-causal-link-between-ivermectin-recommendation-and-the-decline-of-covid-19-cases-in-the-indian-state-of-uttar-pradesh/

“Why HCQ and Ivermectin were removed from India’s Covid-19 treatment protocol”

https://www.indiatoday.in/coronavirus-outbreak/story/why-hcq-ivermectin-dropped-india-covid-treatment-protocol-1857306-2021-09-26

I know the ivermectin true believers will poopoo any fact checking of the Uttar Pradesh claims, but for the rest of us, I’ll add yet another link to yours.

If you do an internet search on Uttar Pradesh Covid you will find many pages of links debunking the ivermectin success claims the other links are touting. Who to believe? Like many here, I doubt claims made by both sides. But it is good to at least consider both sides. So:

Dr. Nick Mark, who works with critical care and pulmonary patients at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, has examined claims that ivermectin has had dramatic success in Uttar Pradesh.
“This is not even remotely the case,” he said during a lecture with other doctors on Oct. 15. While there are claims that the state began using ivermectin in May 2021, during the height of India’s COVID-19 crisis, the government actually said it began giving the drug in August 2020.

“Not only did it not hasten the end of that alpha wave, but it didn’t prevent the delta wave,” Mark said.

Mark cited research where scientists looked at data for all deaths in India, and found that certain populous districts in Uttar Pradesh had no reported deaths at all for several months.

“So either you have to believe that ivermectin prevents you from dying of everything — car crashes, cancer, homicide, suicide — or, that the data is just garbage and you can’t interpret it,” he said.

Link:https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/there-is-no-scientific-basis-for-claims-of-ivermectins-success-in-uttar-pradesh-india/

The Indian government stopped recommending ivermectin (and HCQ, too) in September, citing lack of evidence (links included in source above). That may have been a bad decision when one considers the following, however:

Ivermectin may help covid-19 patients—but only those with worms [—Really ?!?!] https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4017143/posts

High prevalence of soil-transmitted helminth infections among primary school children, Uttar Pradesh, India, 2015
https://idpjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40249-017-0354-7

So, yes, ivermectin may well have been beneficial for Covid patients in Uttar Pradesh — because ... worms.