There was an importqnt typo in my Comment #20. In the 4th line of the first paragraph, it should say ...”40ng/ml in the US.” (not USg/ml.)
A really valuable political effort would be to ask our Congresscritters (especially the 100 reported to use Ivermectin) to pass law to require NIH to spend a useful precent of its money distributed for studies to be spent on effectivenss of Ivermectin, HCQ and other IONOPHORES used in combination with such items as Vitamin C, Vitamin D, zinc, and other vitamins, minerals and herbal supplements. There has been a systematic effort over the years to minimize use of Vitamin C. Linus Paulings institute has faced pressure to publicize favorable use of Vitamin C LESS. Dr. Robert Cathcart’s 10,000 reported favorable treatments with Vitamin C have been dismissed as “anectodal reports.” Still no serious efforts to validate or disprove his successes. The same goes for a number of other potential low cost treatments.
Meanwhile the Big Pharma CEOs and others receive benefits in the amount of $20million a year. How about a law that companies cannot DEDUCT more than $1 million a year for salaries from their income taxes. Let the stockholders decide if these guys are really worth $20 million a year.
Every “off-label” use of medication is “anecdotal”— some “off label” uses are virtually the standard practice, but never went through clinical trial or actually failed clinical trial for one reason or another, maybe because of less-than -rigorously defined study group, which may be ivermectin’s problem. It would be hard to show benefit when most people get over it anyway, timing of test relative to “onset of symptoms,” can’t be clearly defined.