Posted on 03/23/2021 8:29:23 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The European Medicines Agency (EMA), which regulates drugs in the EU, on March 22 decided not to recommend the use of anti-parasitic drug Ivermectin for COVID-19 treatment.
Ivermectin is used in treating Malaria.
However, the EU drug regulator allowed the use of Ivermectin in well-designed clinical trials.
The Europe drug regulator decision comes following the review of all the evidence from laboratory studies, observational studies, clinical trials and meta-analyses.
In February this year, the US National Institute of Health (NIH), after a review of evidence said that there was insufficient data to recommend either for or against the use of Ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19.
It further said results from "adequately powered, well-designed, and well-conducted clinical trials are needed to provide more specific, evidence-based guidance on the role of Ivermectin in the treatment of COVID-19."
Ivermectin, the anti-parasitic drug has been widely used in India and many other countries as off-label medication to treat mild and moderate COVID-19 patients, despite limited evidence of its efficacy.
While Ivermectin is not included in the COVID-19 Clinical Management Protocol, that's not stopping physicians and hospitals from using it. For instance, West Bengal government's COVID-19 protocol released on September 25, 2020, allows the use of Ivermectin and doxycycline combination for treating mild-moderate COVID-19.
The West Bengal government asks physicians to share clinical records and data regarding the use of Ivermectin with the state, as clinical trials of the drug are going on.
How did Ivermectin shoot to fame?
Ivermectin, which is an age old drug used for parasitic worm infestations like head lice, has shot to limelight during the COVID-19, as in-vitro studies suggest that the drug in certain doses can kill SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Ivermectin is known to have broad spectrum antiviral properties. Broad spectrum means it can kill or block a host of viruses.
William C. Campbell and Satoshi Omura have jointly won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015 for discovering Ivermectin.
Medical experts divided
Dr. Rahul Pandit, Director of Director-Critical Care, Fortis Hospitals Mumbai says he has never used Ivermectin to treat COVID-19 patients.
"There is little scientific evidence that this drug works against COVID-19, like Hydroxychloroquine it gained prominence for having antiviral properties," Pandit said.
Another doctor who treated COVID-19 patients but didn't want to be named said he found Ivermectin along with doxycycline beneficial to patients as "it cleared virus much faster."
To be sure, the results from clinical trials are mixed. Some clinical studies showed no benefits or worsening of disease after Ivermectin use, while others reported shorter time to resolution of disease, greater reduction in inflammatory markers, and lower mortality rates in patients who received it than in patients who received comparator drugs or placebo.
The debate on Ivermectin is not settled yet.
The US-based Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC), that counts some of the top critical care specialists as its members, said 16 randomised controlled trials (totaling over 2,500 patients), the majority have reported a statistically significant reduction in transmission or disease progression or mortality.
"Further, a meta-analysis recently performed by an independent research consortium calculated the chances that Ivermectin is ineffective in COVID-19 to be 1 in 67 million. The FLCCC Alliance, based on the totality of the existing evidence, supports recommendation for the use of Ivermectin in both the prophylaxis and treatment of all phases of COVID-19," FLCCC said early this year.
Ping for your interest
Because it works, it’s cheap, and the multi billion dollar vaccines would be useless.
If an effective therapy exists for a disease, the CDC may NOT issue and emergency use authorization for experimental vaccines.
That is why HCQ and Invermectin are so viciously attacked.
RE: Because it works, it’s cheap, and the multi billion dollar vaccines would be useless.
Seems to me, those are the reasons FOR approving it for Covid-19 treatment.
Actual science:
44+ studies (more than 20 radom controlled trials) 15,000+ subjects and massive support for effecticeness.
For the same reason. There are not Billions of dollars to be made from it.
100% of the 46 studies to date report positive effects (22 statistically significant in isolation). Random effects meta-analysis for early treatment and pooled effects shows an 79% reduction, RR 0.21 [0.10-0.44], and prophylactic use shows 89% improvement, RR 0.11 [0.05-0.23]. Mortality results show 75% lower mortality, RR 0.25 [0.15-0.44] for all treatment delays, and 84% lower, RR 0.16 [0.04-0.63] for early treatment.
•100% of the 24 Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) report positive effects, with an estimated 70% improvement, RR 0.30 [0.19-0.47].
•The probability that an ineffective treatment generated results as positive as the 46 studies to date is estimated to be 1 in 70 trillion (p = 0.000000000000014).
Money, pure & simple.
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If [redacted] were found [redacted], we’d live in a much better world.
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Two rats are sitting in a pub, the one asks his friend “Have you had your vaccine yet?”
“ARE YOU NUTS?,” replies the 2nd rat, “They haven’t finished the human trials yet.”
They’re still trying to get people to take the vaccine. Once that runs the course*, then they’ll say something like:
“We always knew Ivermectin worked, so we were confused as to why people were against it.”
*at least another year, for most of the world, given the slow rate of vaccinations in other countries.
Don't screw with the Fascist's leverage to maintain control of the masses to implement their New World Order and undermine their destruction of America and the Constitution.
HCQ and Ivermectin are dangerous.
They represent the complete unmasking of the mask/vaccine/lockdown dictators who presently rule the indoctrinated masses.
What????
Lice are worms?
Did the writer of this article even take high school biology?
Invermectin while it might reduce symptoms it won’t keep a person from being contagious for a period of time. That means the R0 won’t drop below one and the virus keeps circulating. The vaccines on the to hand now with data pouring in show 90+ effectiveness in preventing symptomatic AND asymptomatic infection which means 90+% of people fully vaccinated can not incubate the virus and therefore CANNOT spread it. If a person has no virus present in the nose or mouth and tests negative on a PCR they cannot infect someone else period full stop. Israel has the largest data set and they show 94% /96% effectiveness in preventing symptomatic AND asymptomatic infection that’s why vaccines are important. While a treatment is welcome it will not end this virus spreading there’s no data to support that. Remember the vaccines that eliminated smallpox was 95% effectiveness no vaccine is 100% not smallpox not polio not measles not yellow fever they all have viral breakthrough the proper medical term for those last few percent that still get sick due to their own immune system deficiency
Also because the emergency use authorization for the new vaccines is permitted when there is NO available alternate treatment. Admitting the off-label effectiveness of the off the shelf alternatives renders the EUA invalid.
That provision can be voided by an executive order you are throwing up a straw man argument the Donald would have just signed an EO directing the FDA to ignore that portion of the EUA process due to the declared national emergency for operation warp speed. Sleepyjoe most certainly would as well there is too much political momentum in finding a means of ending the chain of infection which the vaccines are proving to do exactly that. Therapeutics don’t reduce the R0 value below one as they require you to get sick before use. Invermectin has not been proven to be a preventive in a double blind challenge test where as Pfizer now has double blinded and real world live virus challenge data. Look up thread the study is in the link. The date is convincing and they have 600,000+ data points. 139 got sick enough to need medical care out of 600,000 that’s a heck of a strong data set and result.
Will future pathologists be able to discern the long-term fatal implications of vaccines, as assiduously as they are presently ascribing deaths to the Wuhan Virus ?
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