A Dr who is reporting astounding field success with ivermectin treatment points out that RCT would actually be unethical, to withhold treatment with a high rate of success and potentially let untreated patients die....in the name of science. Ditto with HCQ.
Fauci the bureaucratic scientist who treats no patients....has no such moral qualms.
RE: A Dr who is reporting astounding field success with ivermectin treatment points out that RCT would actually be unethical, to withhold treatment with a high rate of success and potentially let untreated patients die....in the name of science. Ditto with HCQ.
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That doctor’s name is Thomas Borody, a world renowned medical doctor from Australia with over 40 years experience in clinical research and practice, including at the St Vincent Hospital in Sydney and at the Mayo clinic in the US.
Some of his most ground breaking contributions in medical science include the development of a tritherapy for peptic ulcers, the development of faecal microbiota transplants for colitis and other diseases, and recently, a therapy for Crohn disease.
In 1984 he established the Centre for Digestive Diseases in Sydney. He oversaw its growth into an active clinical research institute with 65 employees.
Professor Borody has published numerous articles and is a reviewer for leading international medical journals.
His interview can be watched here:
http://covexit.com/professor-thomas-borody-interview-part-1/
Interestingly, his opinion on RCT is also shared by Dr. Didier Raoult, director of the Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes. He gained significant worldwide attention during the COVID-19 pandemic for promoting Hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for the disease.
Actually that is either a prospective trial that is observational, or a retrospective observational study — both have some validity. But the ONLY way to quantify it is to perform an RCT
There are some things an RCT is unethical for — ie RCT on needing a parachute to jump out of an airplane — if randomized to the placebo group there would be 100% death. As for Ivermectin, there is excellent observational data for it, but nothing conclusive. Its a jump to state that it is unethical not to study the drug prospectively.
wrong. We have had many medications that everyone “knew” worked that when the trials were done were actually harmful. look up xigris.
If the randomized trials show a clear survival benefit there is a way to unblind and release the results early