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Politifact: No evidence yet concluding that Ivermectin is an effective COVID-19 treatment
Politifact ^ | 08/13/2021 | Tom Kertscher

Posted on 08/13/2021 8:44:21 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

If Your Time is short

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:

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.

Our ruling

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.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: covid19; dewormed; ivermectin; politifact; politiliars
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To: SeekAndFind

The EUA for the vaccines is illegal if effective treatment options exist. Hence, the powers that be must suppress any effective treatment options.


61 posted on 08/14/2021 5:16:11 AM PDT by MortMan (I before E, except after C - That's wierd!)
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To: SeekAndFind
Gee, I found this in a couple of minutes. Go figure...

Role of ivermectin in the prevention of SARS-CoV-2 infection among healthcare workers in India: A matched case-control study

Two-dose ivermectin prophylaxis at a dose of 300 μg/kg with a gap of 72 hours was associated with a 73% reduction of SARS-CoV-2 infection among healthcare workers for the following month. Chemoprophylaxis has relevance in the containment of pandemic.

62 posted on 08/14/2021 5:19:17 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: Bobalu

Top Kek!


63 posted on 08/14/2021 5:19:37 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: mewzilla
Here's an even better one....

Repurposing Ivermectin for COVID-19: Molecular Aspects and Therapeutic Possibilities

...The available data from IVM clinical trials lack uniformity and have not established the optimal anti-viral dose. However, the evidence does support its safety and efficacy in improving survival rates, especially compared to the other aforementioned drugs. It is important to note that past research has demonstrated the importance of combined, rather than anti-viral monotherapy.

64 posted on 08/14/2021 5:23:36 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: AzNASCARfan

Bttt


65 posted on 08/14/2021 5:44:51 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix circa 1984.)
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To: romanesq

They don’t expect folks to push a few buttons to see they they’re lying tho. This is how our shit media survives.


66 posted on 08/14/2021 5:47:14 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: ConservativeMind

Bttt


67 posted on 08/14/2021 5:47:27 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix circa 1984.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The answer is to MAKE it a FELONY to offer, prescribe or administer Ivermectin or HCQ to ANY AND ALL Public Employee’s and Health Care Workers Nationwide.

Put your Money where your Mouth is!


68 posted on 08/14/2021 6:06:43 AM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: SeekAndFind
The FDA has received multiple reports of patients who have required medical support and been hospitalized after self-medicating with ivermectin intended for horses.

What hospital? Where can we read this report? I've been doing horse paste since December. I may have to quit taking it once "it" reaches my ankle, but other than that, all good.

69 posted on 08/14/2021 6:20:27 AM PDT by Malsua
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To: romanesq

Just because it has been used successfully all over the world does not make it “conclusive” when politics and money are involved.


70 posted on 08/14/2021 7:17:22 AM PDT by EastTexasTraveler
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To: SeekAndFind
Ivermectin vs Jab?

I'm not necessarily gonna die from Ivermectin, maybe possibly from complications due to COVID-19, if I am seriously compromised due to co-morbidities.

If I take the jab, I will suffer all sorts of injuries (potentiall permanent - cario-vascular injury: the heart doesn't heal itself) from the experimental, untested mRNA jab, in the short term. In the long term the damage the spike proteins have done are documented and will become manifest in 2-5 years.

My hypothesis is that most, who have taken the jab, will experience cardiovascular, neurological, and/or re-emergent cancers because of these toxic vaccines. This will seriously shorten the lives of jab-recipients. Tragic.

Strategy: Take Ivermectin or HCQ prophylactically. If infected take a complementary thereapy.

71 posted on 08/14/2021 8:53:10 AM PDT by nonsporting (And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed … Galatians 3:29)
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To: CtBigPat
It was just sitting on a shelf with a "Not for Humans" sign under it for $6.49.

Up frome $3.99.

72 posted on 08/14/2021 8:54:41 AM PDT by nonsporting (And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed … Galatians 3:29)
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To: romanesq

Get both. Use the equine for those that were so against it early on by finally came across. Save the real stuff for yourself!


73 posted on 08/14/2021 9:02:10 AM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: ifinnegan

...what was in those studies that made Remdesivir “conclusive”?”...

Used on Trump with Regeneron and other goodies many of us use.


74 posted on 08/14/2021 9:04:25 AM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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