I would love to see one damn set of full clinical trials to get the use of ivermectin approved in the treatment of COVID-19 (DELTA). However, the problem with ivermectin and other alternate treatments is it requires a tremendously expensive procedure (clinical trials) to get them approved for use. The major pharmaceuticals are not apt to finance it given the financial situation. To get the financing you will need an organized effort and that could open up the door to people taking the money to their offshore banks (like Clinton did with the Haiti relief money).
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.
I would love to see one damn set of full clinical trials to get the use of ivermectin approved in the treatment of COVID-19 (DELTA). However, the problem with ivermectin and other alternate treatments is it requires a tremendously expensive procedure (clinical trials) to get them approved for use. The major pharmaceuticals are not apt to finance it given the financial situation. To get the financing you will need an organized effort and that could open up the door to people taking the money to their offshore banks (like Clinton did with the Haiti relief money).
If only we had a President to push the FDA to begin clinical studies of Ivermectin funded by Operation Warp Speed while simultaneously procuring a billion doses to distribute in case the study proved effective. But those tweets!
Me too! I'd also like to see a full investigation into the FISA abuses. And a full investigation into the after hours ballot stuffing simultaneously in several key states after Election Day. And a full investigation into FauXi's role in the Wuhan bioweapons funding. And a full investigation into the role that the FBI played on Jan 6th. I'd like to see it. I likely won't tho'. Not under this administration. And probably not even under a Trump 2024 victory.