Posted on 08/13/2021 8:44:21 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Researchers say there is no conclusive evidence that the anti-parasite drug is an effective COVID-19 treatment.
Ivermectin is not approved for COVID-19 prevention or treatment by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The FDA has also gone a step further, recommending against its use for COVID-19.
A widely shared Facebook post claims that ivermectin, which has emerged as a controversial drug during the coronavirus pandemic, is effective in treating COVID-19.
"How long after the last day of fever with the Rona should I wait to return to work? I feel fine now just don’t want to get the guys sick," the Facebook user says, with "Rona" being a reference to the coronavirus. "Btw less than a hour after taking Ivermectin paste per my body weight I was mostly symptom free.... Was in bad shape until then! This s*** works I don’t care what anyone else says."
With the post is a photo showing a box and a syringe of ivermectin paste — both labeled "for oral use in horses only."
The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)
In the United States, ivermectin is approved for some uses in humans, but not to prevent or treat COVID-19. While some studies have asserted that the anti-parasite drug might work against COVID-19, researchers who have reviewed numerous ivermectin studies say there is not conclusive evidence that it is effective against the disease.
Since March 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned not to use ivermectin — which is often used in the United States to treat or prevent parasites in animals — to prevent or treat COVID-19:
"The FDA has received multiple reports of patients who have required medical support and been hospitalized after self-medicating with ivermectin intended for horses.
"FDA has not approved ivermectin for use in treating or preventing COVID-19 in humans. Ivermectin tablets are approved at very specific doses for some parasitic worms, and there are on-the-skin formulations for head lice and skin conditions like rosacea. Ivermectin is not an antiviral — a drug for treating viruses.
"Animal drugs are often highly concentrated because they are used for large animals like horses and cows, which can weigh a lot more than we do—a ton or more. Such high doses can be highly toxic in humans."
The World Health Organization, in its COVID-19 treatment guidelines, says: "We recommend not to use ivermectin in patients with COVID-19 except in the context of a clinical trial," citing "very low certainty evidence" about the drug.
We rated False a claim that "mountains of data" show ivermectin "basically obliterates" COVID-19 transmission.
Some limited studies suggested that ivermectin can help treat COVID-19; others show no significant impact. Overall, many of the studies had small sample sizes and other limitations. Some researchers have called for more study of the drug.
In June, one meta-analysis — an analysis of results from other studies — arrived at a different conclusion than another one did:
One meta-analysis concluded that "moderate-certainty evidence finds that large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin." That study was done by researchers affiliated with a group that is campaigning for ivermectin to be approved for COVID-19 use.
The other meta-analysis found that ivermectin "did not reduce all-cause mortality" when compared to standard of care or placebo. The study concluded that the drug "is not a viable option to treat COVID-19 patients."
After a preliminary December 2020 study claimed that ivermectin could reduce COVID-19 death rates by more than 90%, the publisher in July 2021 withdrew the non-peer reviewed study "due to an expression of concern communicated directly to our staff. These concerns are now under formal investigation."
Also in July, researchers from Germany and the UK who examined studies on ivermectin and COVID-19 concluded:
"Based on the current very low- to low-certainty evidence, we are uncertain about the efficacy and safety of ivermectin used to treat or prevent COVID-19. The completed studies are small and few are considered high quality. Several studies are underway that may produce clearer answers in review updates. Overall, the reliable evidence available does not support the use of ivermectin for treatment or prevention of COVID-19 outside of well-designed randomized trials."
Meanwhile, a health economist and a consultant to pharmaceutical companies argued in an opinion article in the Wall Street Journal about ivermectin that "the statistically significant evidence suggests that it is safe and works for both treating and preventing" COVID-19, and so the FDA should give it emergency use authorization for use against COVID-19.
A Facebook post declares that ivermectin is an effective treatment for COVID-19.
Some studies have raised the possibility that the drug might work against COVID-19.
But reviews of numerous studies of ivermectin have found there is no conclusive evidence that it is effective against COVID-19, and public health authorities including the FDA have recommended against using it to treat the virus.
That doesn’t exclude the possibility that ivermectin could work in isolated cases, but the post ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. The post contains only an element of truth. We rate it Mostly False.
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let us know in 50 years when you get around to it
This article is pure misinformation.
numerous studies of the FDA have found there is no conclusive evidence that the FDA is corrupt and incompetent, but if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, acts like a duck and quacks like a duck its probably but not conclusively a f’n duck.
Fu<k them!
Let me say it again…..
Fu<k them!
operation opposite warp speed
we know you got our backs covered
Not if they work for a big health care provider and want to keep their jobs. Also, the chain pharmacies are balking at filling prescriptions. Fix is in. It's give the failing vaccines and pocket the profits.
Ann Barnhardt.
Yes...I read that her suggested version was a bit different than some of the others.
Thanks.
I have also seen papers saying that statins and blood pressure medications have some effect on lessening the severity of Covid. They have a biologically plausible action with respect to cholesterol and the ACE receptor. None of these are conclusive either, but I think they provide some information as to what to try if you are developing a regimen.
no mention that if there was an effective treatment, experimental vacines would not get emergency use approval....
as Paul Harvey used to say and now you know the other side of the story
Tell that to India.
By the time more symptoms start this getting worse, they are probably too late to be effective against the covid.
I find it amusing to be told by government agencies not to use two effective drugs that have been tested, approved and on the books for over 50 years, but a rushed-to-market vaccine with lots of side effects, is good for you.
Something nefarious is afoot.
I have chosen not to get vaccinated but is I should get symposiums of the covid, I will use ivermectin as soon as possible to treat it. We keep a steady supply of it in the refrigerator for treating our cows.
India’s Ivermectin Blackout
Ivermectin Wins in India
News of India’s defeat of the Delta variant should be common knowledge. It is just about as obvious as the nose on one’s face. It is so clear when one looks at the graphs that no one can deny it.
Yet, for some reason, we are not allowed to talk about it. Thus, for example, Wikipedia cannot mention the peer-reviewed meta-analyses by Dr. Tess Lawrie or Dr. Pierre Kory published in the American Journal of Therapeutics.
Wikipedia is not allowed to publish the recent meta-analysis on Ivermectin authored by Dr. Andrew Hill. Furthermore, it is not allowed to say anything concerning www.ivmmeta.com showing the 61 studies comprising 23,000 patients which reveal up to a 96% reduction in death [prophylaxis] with Ivermectin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AIvermectin
One can see the bias in Wikipedia by going on the “talk” pages for each subject and reading about the fierce attempts of editors to add these facts and the stone wall refusals by the “senior” editors who have an agenda. And that agenda is not loyalty to your health.
The easy way to read the “talk” page on any Wikipedia subject is to click the top left “talk” button. Anyone can then review the editors’ discussions.
There is a blackout on any conversation about how Ivermectin beat COVID-19 in India. When I discussed the dire straits that India found itself in early this year with 414,000 cases per day, and over 4,000 deaths per day, and how that evaporated within five weeks of the addition of Ivermectin, I am often asked, “But why is there no mention of that in the news?”
Yes, exactly. Ask yourself why India’s success against the Delta variant with Ivermectin is such a closely guarded secret by the NIH and CDC. Second, ask yourself why no major media outlets reported this fact, but instead, tried to confuse you with false information by saying the deaths in India are 10 times greater than official reports.
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Much more PROOF, of Ivermectin’s EFFECTIVENESS, at link....
See 34
“Pfizer rates this claim ‘mostly false’.”
Politilie
Does a cure exist?
My approach would be to throw everything at the virus — vaccination, Ivermectin, HCQ, Monoclonals. EMPHASIZE AND EDUCATE the public on all of these. If you have a common enemy, use every weapon you have at your disposal.
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I have read that kits with Ivermectin D3, Zinc etc. were sent to people’s homes in India and I Believe Mexico.
The FLCCC has a protocol for mass distribution.
Shame our CDC cannot provide these kits to the masses...instead of lockdowns and mask/vax mandates, the ivermectin kits actually might help us get to herd immunity...Just a thought.
Any doctor can prescribe it as an approved drug.
Not if they work for a big health care provider and want to keep their jobs. Also, the chain pharmacies are balking at filling prescriptions. Fix is in. It’s give the failing vaccines and pocket the profits.
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Sadly, A family member mentioned that a work colleague is being mandated to get the jab for work. The colleague has auto-immune disease, but their docs won’t write a letter for a medical waiver due to fear of losing licenses, etc...
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