Oh No! An effective treatment means no more population control. Put this report in the circular file!
IMO the reason the FDA has not recognized the value of ivermectin is that if the do, the EUA for the mRNA and rDNA prevention approaches must be rescinded.
Good morning. An interesting article indeed. There are a couple of standard critiques. First this is a met analysis. Usually this is not considered gold standard but retrospective. Although they give some passing reference to RCT there is no presentation of such data that allow a deeper analysis. My gestalt from the treating side is that there is some improvement with ivermectin as prophylaxis. As a treatment is is underwhelming. It does not rise to the level of effective treatment.
Ivermectin could probably be used where distribution chains are weak. But this does not suggest this should replace vaccine as prophylaxis. Perhaps a bridge.
At this point there is no argument as to choice of vaccine (get it don’t get it). If there are physicians autonomously writing for ivermectin provided RBA are explained let’s get the show on the road and get thjngs normal.