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It’s already approved. It’s just not approved specifically for covid on the label. But that shouldn’t matter either because it has long been accepted by the FDA, doctors and pharmacists that an approved drug may be used for other ailments it wasn’t specifically approved for (so-called “off label uses”). All that went out the window as covid was weaponized and politicized.

You are absolutely right, and the authors of this article missed one important point at least in this piece. True there is no financial sponsor willing to investigate it and run a good clean trial because it is a cheap generic. They won’t get their investment back (and given the politics they might not even get the political support to conduct the study). But that too doesn’t matter. Taxpayers shelled out hundreds of billions of dollars to fight this virus. We could have put a few million to enroll an ivermectin trial using so-called surrogate markers such as viral load, time to negative test, oxygen levels, chest x-rays and other data points that would show (or not) evidence of efficacy. If that worked we could have started using it, and/or run a second larger confirmatory trial. It would have taken just a few weeks. We had millions of cases out there. Take 1000 people with positive covid test, randomize them into 2 balanced groups (balanced by age, sex, severity of disease etc) and give half of them IVM. See which group turns out better at days 1, 3, 5, 7, 10, 14. That is “science”.

There was a small study that did basically that. I think it was in Israel but not sure. They had people who flew into the airport and stopped because of symptoms or exposure. They were put into quarantine hotels. Some researchers gave IVM to half of those quarantined. They cleared the virus from their system some 2.5x faster than the non-IVM group.

What these jerks in charge of our policy did was actively subvert science for their own enrichment, ego and political power.