Vaccines and treatments are both extremely valuable and complementary. All practical, effective, and safe means should be used. Elimination of COVID-19 is a race against viral evolution. No treatment, vaccine or intervention is 100% available and effective for all current and future variants. Denying the efficacy of any method increases the risk of COVID - 19 becoming endemic; and increases mortality, morbidity, and collateral damage. We do not provide medical advice So, the very literature some use to bludgeon others on this thread clearly points out that vaccines and treatments are complementary.
The reason that I post this is that there are those who believe that ivermectin is a cure -- it is not in my judgment and from treating several patients with it and seeing them progress (and yes some were even quite early)
I have arrived at the conclusion that every source that talks about the pandemic demonstrates what we have known all along -- that vaccines and treatments are complementary and should be used in tandem. The one treatment that I have seen work even in patients getting awfully close to late phase is Regeneron which also shows good activity against delta variant. Delta variant, for what it is worth, appears a lot more transmissible but somewhat less dangerous. I can say clearly in our area, hospitalizations are way up, but not as many in the ICU. The majority of patients I am seeing are not vaccinated. This is across several large hospitals in a major metropolitan area.
Thank you for the insight. What do you think of early treatment with ivermectin? Surely it couldn’t hurt if someone caught this virus, could it?