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The trials for ivermectin have been plagued with flaws in the data. No trial has verified its effectiveness. While some studies suggest reduced risk of death, and others hint at fewer COVID-19 patients progressing to severe disease after taking ivermectin at an early stage of infection, the evidence is shaky. “We don’t know whether ivermectin is helpful or not in the fight against COVID-19,” says Stephanie Weibel, a biologist at the University of Wuerzburg in Germany. “Trustworthiness of the pool of available studies is limited.” In a recent review of 14 ivermectin studies, Weibel and her colleagues found that often the trials enrolled few patients or weren’t designed well, sometimes leading researchers to overestimate ivermectin’s impacts. She encourages more robust clinical trials, like the one underway at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

“If there isn’t evidence that the product works, then any risk the product might convey is unacceptable,” says Peter Lurie, president of the Center for Science in the Public Interest and former associate commissioner at the FDA. “We have people who have gotten ill from ivermectin, who’ve wasted a bunch of money for no proven benefit, and the concern is that ivermectin is diverting people from things that actually work: vaccines, masks, and social distancing.”

Also, ivermectin supporters, who possibly weren’t able to acquire prescriptions for the drug from their physicians, may resort to the animal-version stocked in farm supply stores, not knowing the difference. Ivermectin for animals contain ingredients not tested for humans. The recommended dose for animals by weight is much higher, and if people ingest ivermectin at that high dose, they’re likely to be poisoned, says Michael Teng, a health virologist at the University of South Florida.

RE:We have people who have gotten ill from ivermectin, who’ve wasted a bunch of money for no proven benefit, and the concern is that ivermectin is diverting people from things that actually work: vaccines, masks, and social distancing.”

1. Using Vaccines, masks and social distancing as excuses are distractions. Most ivermectin proponents aren’t telling you to not be vaccinated, not mask or not social distance.

2. Why is the FDA concerned with people spending their own money on a cheap drug? It’s not their business or their money.

3. “No proven benefit”. The reason why so many are actually clamoring for it despite the clampdown by authorities is because they are seeing benefits on others with their own eyes. They are seeing the testimony of CREDENTIALLED doctors who have actually administered it on patients and swear that it works.

If it were useless for Covid, it would already be known long ago.

4. What exactly is the proposed alternative for most people who get infected ( vaccinated or not ), other than to take Tylenol and an antibiotic and hope that their condition does not worsen? I haven’t read any PUBLIC RECOMMENDATIONS from the CDC, and if they do have such recommendations, where are the formal well designed studies and publications they demand of Ivermectin that show that such a recommended strategy works?