Zimbabwe Physician Reports Ivermectin Correlated with Dramatic Decrease in Covid Cases & Deaths

Trial Site News ^ | 04/28/2021

[SeekAndFind]

TrialSite reported that the nation of Zimbabwe eased regulations involving ivermectin so as to allow for research, as well as research as a care option. Back on January 29, 2021, TrialSite reported that the Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ) did an abrupt turnaround from a harsher stance against the drug. The ministry would be allowed, and according to MCAZ spokesperson Richard Rukwata TrialSite indicated, that the nation’s research authority embraced a pragmatic and proactive approach to offer research as a care option targeting COVID-19 in a quest to protect human life. Jackie Stone, a heavily credentialed physician with the Optimum Health Center here in Harare, recently shared in a video presentation that there has been a dramatic turnaround here. While COVID-19 cases skyrocketed in January (at 921 cases per day in one week), they have waned to only now a seven-day average of 41 cases per day. The death rate in January peaked at 70 deaths per day and a month later, accompanied by a substantial ivermectin administration program, deaths fell to zero according to the doctor. Retailers report a “35-fold increase” in turnover associated with the anti-parasitic drug. Distributors report 1,057 bottles were sold in January 2020 while January 2021 that figure jumped to 8,500. From December through February, 500,000 doses of ivermectin were administered.

This latest report, published on Medical Update Online, comes from Dr. Stone. TrialSite did check in with one of the spokespersons affiliated with MCAZ, Richard Rukwata, who suggested we communicate with local providers. This country of 14.3 million people was spared for much of the pandemic then hit with its first major spike in January. While there is no randomized controlled trial proving that ivermectin is correlated with dramatically lower cases and deaths, real world evidence certainly exists to indicate that the drug has had a positive influence.

No Lightweight

Dr. Stone’s reputation carries weight. Although she found herself in some hot water in the nation for administering the drug prior to the change in MCAZ stance, Dr. Stone practices with top credentials, holding degrees in medicine and medical biochemistry from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She has worked in London, Dubai, and Australia and also holds a Diploma in Aviation Medicine.

The Interview

In a recent interview, Dr. Stone recently shared that while the death rate climbed much higher in January, again peaking at 70 deaths on the 25th of that month, Official authorization for the use of ivermectin was granted a day later.

A month later, the number of deaths fell to zero. Again, the correlation here along with Dr. Stone’s direct clinic experience is ivermectin sales. Over 500,000 doses of the generic, FDA-approved drug were administered from December through February. This compares to 1,057 bottles turned over in January 2020.

Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ)

MCAZ initially took a rigid stance with ivermectin but then as the conditions became worse on the ground in January, the regulatory agency made an abrupt turnaround, opening up to the use of ivermectin for research and what appears to be the research as a care option—or a sort of compassionate use program. TrialSite has interfaced with representatives on the board.

MCAZ, a statutory body, was established by an act of Parliament and is the successor of other acts that go back to 1969.

Lead Physician Contact

Jackie Stone, BSc Med Hons, MBChB, MRCP, FRACGP, D Av Med, FACAsM, Primary Care Physician

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Dr. Jackie Stone holds degrees in medicine and medical biochemistry from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She has worked in London, Dubai, and Australia and holds a Diploma in Aviation Medicine. She now works in family practice in Zimbabwe.

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

Well if you can’t trust a third world Zimbabwe physician and a crappy blog who can you trust?

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

Well if you can’t trust a third world Zimbabwe physician and a crappy blog who can you trust?

[alstewartfan]

Yes, they all know the truth, but Truth is disdained by leftists. Plus, tell the truth and government grants end, not to mention you will be canceled.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Well if you can’t trust a third world Zimbabwe physician and a crappy blog who can you trust?

Yep, if the attitude is you can’t trust ANYTHING that comes from any third world country because their doctors ( even those like this one who has been educated in the West )are inferior, then I guess nothing that comes from the country, no matter how carefully the studies and observations are made can be trusted.

A Swedish Doctor actually took the time to look at the PUBLISHED studies made by Doctors in third world countries ( See here: https://sebastianrushworth.com/2021/05/09/update-on-ivermectin-for-covid-19/ ).

Here’s an EXCERPT:

As before, it appears that rich western countries have very little interest in studying ivermectin as a treatment for covid. The three new trials that had at least 150 participants and compared ivermectin with placebo were conducted in Colombia, Iran, and Argentina. We’ll go through each in turn.

[SNIP, after going through those studies carefully]

I understand why pharmaceutical companies don’t like ivermectin. It’s a cheap generic drug. Even Merck, the company that invented ivermectin, is doing it’s best to destroy the drug’s reputation at the moment. This can only be explained by the fact that Merck is currently developing two expensive new covid drugs, and doesn’t want an off-patent drug, which it can no longer make any profit from, competing with them.

The only reason I can think to understand why the broader medical establishment, however, is still so anti-ivermectin is that these studies have all been done outside the rich west. Apparently doctors and scientists outside North America and Western Europe can’t be trusted, unless they’re saying things that are in line with our pre-conceived notions.

[dsc]

“OK, isn’t there a way of figuring this out?”

I’m not sure it’s one way. Different ways for different people, perhaps. It seems to be a number of complicated ways that can involve the reading of thousands of books and a lot of life experience.

Or sometimes just coincidences or accidents that elicit epiphanies.

It’s a lot easier than it was 40 years ago when everyone denied that the media were lying. Now you can just ask, “Is that true, or did you hear it on CNN?”

[cpdiii]

I am a clinical pharmacist. I knew this a year ago as did many other clinical pharmacists. The real question is why was this clinical information suppressed and ridiculed. HCQ worked in the early stages of the disease as prophylaxis and early treatment. It was worthless in the later stages of the disease.

Ivermectin has been proven supreme as a prophylactic and treatment with acute disease combined with doxycyline, It is dirt cheap and kills the disease.

[SoConPubbie]

The only reason I can think to understand why the broader medical establishment, however, is still so anti-ivermectin is that these studies have all been done outside the rich west. Apparently doctors and scientists outside North America and Western Europe can’t be trusted, unless they’re saying things that are in line with our pre-conceived notions.

To understand this, you have to realize that for years now, actually decades, Big Pharma has been fully and completely involved with the training and education of doctors; they are in effect, in bed with the Medical schools. So, doctors from their very first days are indoctrinated into relying on both their money, and their guidance.

[SoConPubbie]

As a result of this incestuous and insidious relationship, doctors do not treat the disease, they manage the disease with the help of the pharmaceuticals of Big Pharma.

Most don't know any better and believe they are doing the right thing.

[BiglyCommentary]

These countries have a huge incentive to find inexpensive methods that work. There are no corrupt Faucis and CDC entities to steer the process in a corrupt manner.

[FreedomPoster]

There is nothing New Age about using Ivermectin against Covid. Using that sort of rhetoric is the kind of crap I would expect from the Big Government and Big Pharma allies that have suppressed its use to the detriment of millions. I consider their actions a crime against humanity.

So why do you push that line?

https://ivmmeta.com/

Ivermectin for COVID-19: real-time meta analysis of 55 studies

Covid Analysis, Nov 26, 2020 (Version 81, May 15, 2021 — Mahmud journal version)

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•100% of 36 early treatment and prophylaxis studies report positive effects (96% of all 55 studies). 26 studies show statistically significant improvements in isolation.

•Random effects meta-analysis with pooled effects using the most serious outcome reported shows 79% and 85% improvement for early treatment and prophylaxis (RR 0.21 [0.11-0.37] and 0.15 [0.09-0.25]). Results are similar after exclusion based sensitivity analysis: 81% and 87% (RR 0.19 [0.14-0.26] and 0.13 [0.07-0.25]), and after restriction to 29 peer-reviewed studies: 82% and 88% (RR 0.18 [0.11-0.31] and 0.12 [0.05-0.30]).

•81% and 96% lower mortality is observed for early treatment and prophylaxis (RR 0.19 [0.07-0.54] and 0.04 [0.00-0.58]). Statistically significant improvements are seen for mortality, ventilation, hospitalization, cases, and viral clearance.

•100% of the 17 Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) for early treatment and prophylaxis report positive effects, with an estimated improvement of 73% and 83% respectively (RR 0.27 [0.18-0.41] and 0.17 [0.05-0.61]), and 93% of all 28 RCTs.

•The probability that an ineffective treatment generated results as positive as the 55 studies to date is estimated to be 1 in 23 trillion (p = 0.000000000000043).

•Heterogeneity arises from many factors including treatment delay, patient population, the effect measured, variants, and treatment regimens. The consistency of positive results across a wide variety of cases is remarkable. Heterogeneity is low in specific cases, for example early treatment mortality.

•While many treatments have some level of efficacy, they do not replace vaccines and other measures to avoid infection. Only 29% of ivermectin studies show zero events in the treatment arm. Multiple approaches are required to protect everyone from all existing and future variants.

•Many studies do not specify administration, or specify fasting. Administration with food may significantly increase plasma and tissue concentration.

•All data to reproduce this paper and the sources are in the appendix. See [Bryant, Hill, Kory, Lawrie, Nardelli] for other meta analyses, all with similar results confirming effectiveness.

[norwaypinesavage]

It is truly astonishing that a poorly run dictatorship in Africa has better knowledge of treating a worldwide pandemic than the US CDC. My daughter and her family of three all got COVID in March. They were told the standard CDC treatment protocol: “Call 911 if you need to go to the hospital”.

In a world where there are dozens of things to do that are known to help, a tin pot dictator does a better job than Biden.

[BobL]

My bet is in a year or so, when this virus is essentially over, they’ll come clean and say something line:

“Of course Ivermectin works, we all know that because all of the data pointed the same way. Now it didn’t work as well as the vaccines and one would have to keep taking it to prevent the virus, but it would have dramatically cut down deaths and the level of sickness, thereby making the virus much more like a common cold. But if there were widespread use of Ivermectin, then support for the vaccines would have weakened and likely compromised our ability to fully wipe out the virus.”

[Stentor]

It is truly astonishing that a poorly run dictatorship in Africa has better knowledge of treating a worldwide pandemic than the US CDC.

The situation in Zimbabwe is pretty much down to Dr. Stone. Her own medical establishment wanted to toss her in the clink.

"Interview with Zimbabwe’s Dr. Jackie Stone: COVID-19 Infection & Death Rates Plummet Post MCAZ Greenlight for Ivermectin Use" https://trialsitenews.com/interview-with-zimbabwes-dr-jackie-stone-covid-19-infection-death-rates-plummet-post-mcaz-greenlight-for-ivermectin-use/

Not a video.

[Pollard]

I imagine South Africa is one of the few places in Africa to get a medical degree.

[hinckley buzzard]

A politically contaminated “science,” no matter how “advanced,” has proven to be worse than no science at all. Note that amid the rising tide in India the State of Uttar Pradesh has largely escaped the current covid wave. Reason, they have used ivermectin widely as both prophylactic and treatment.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Call 911 if you need to go to the hospital”.

In the meantime, what was the standard recommended treatment they were told to administer at home?

[Pollard]

My daughter and her family of three all got COVID in March. They were told the standard CDC treatment protocol: “Call 911 if you need to go to the hospital”.

Tucker Carlson interview of Dr Peter McCullough. There is no treatment guidance coming from resources/orgs that doctors normally look to. Go home and in two weeks when you can't breathe, go to the hospital(and likely die)

https://www.bitchute.com/video/sCfLEXs3cGv8/

[Pollard]

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3959607/posts?page=37#37

[BobL]

“I imagine South Africa is one of the few places in Africa to get a medical degree.”

Yea, one of my favorite doctors, Timothy Noakes, is from there. They tried to pull his license over a very small recommendation he made to a woman.

The thing was, they allowed him to have a fair trail and the people judging him were competent, it took 3 years of his life, but he won!!!

So between that, and my friend sending his dad to South Africa for treatment, they obviously still have some parts of their old system still working.

[norwaypinesavage]

"what was the standard recommended treatment they were told to administer at home?"

"If it hurts too much, take aspirin, not Tylenol"