I think ivermectin has its place — sort of. HCQ is yesterdays news, not effective at all. As evidenced by the total lack of support for it.
Ivermectin is a partial treatment. Probably pretty good but not robust as a prophylaxis but in the absence of anything else, not a worthless choice.
As I have said on numerous other threads — If you have the disease and want to survive it...without exception once you have a (+) test and symptoms of mild or moderate disease, and not later than 10 days from symptoms, WITHOUT DELAY, get the infusion of Bamlanivimab or Regenron. These are monoclonal antibodies which arrest disease, convey passive immunity and stop progression. I have seen it save many lives. There is a surplus, because unfortunately our outpatient colleagues are not up to date enough to proactively get this done.
And then there is the more politically charged but evidence based vaccine. This is an excellent prophylaxis. “having the disease with the vaccine” but remaining asymptomatic is a distinction without difference as there have been numerous reports suggesting that asymptomatic spread is actually not that big of a thing. If we stop running 35+ cycles with the nucleic acid augmentation testing, then I think we will see a vast reduction in the cases.
We have evidence based way to STOP this pandemic with monoclonal antibody treatment and vaccine. We no longer have to sniff in the dirt for partial treatments that let way to many people deteriorate to critical illness and death.
While I know I will continue to get flamed by the usual suspects, this is the most robust and reasonable medial evidence there is. Anything else is just political posturing.
All the best to you this evening!
When I had symptoms and went for a test the doctor recommended to get this treatment if positive test. It was negative but it’s interesting to read about it because I had never heard of it before and the doc didn’t go so far as to explain what exactly it is.
How has India managed the results they have with neither monoclonal antibodies nor mass vaccination?
I find this quite impressive:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3934485/posts?page=40#40
They’ve been using HCQ and Ivermectin for quite some time.