DennisR wrote: “It is probably impossible to know whether or not ivermectin and/or HCQ help battle Covid without doing laboratory experiments. In other words, place the Covid 19 virus in a petri dish (or whatever) and add ivermectin. See if it harms the virus at all. If it does, then it works. If not, it probably does not. Do the same with HCQ.”
https://www.healthline.com/health/in-vivo-vs-in-vitro#real-life-examples
Not all ‘petri’ dish results are transferable to in the body results.
Results Among 490 patients included in the primary analysis (mean [SD] age, 62.5 [8.7] years; 267 women [54.5%]), 52 of 241 patients (21.6%) in the ivermectin group and 43 of 249 patients (17.3%) in the control group progressed to severe disease (relative risk [RR], 1.25; 95% CI, 0.87-1.80; P = .25). For all prespecified secondary outcomes, there were no significant differences between groups. Mechanical ventilation occurred in 4 (1.7%) vs 10 (4.0%) (RR, 0.41; 95% CI, 0.13-1.30; P = .17), intensive care unit admission in 6 (2.4%) vs 8 (3.2%) (RR, 0.78; 95% CI, 0.27-2.20; P = .79), and 28-day in-hospital death in 3 (1.2%) vs 10 (4.0%) (RR, 0.31; 95% CI, 0.09-1.11; P = .09). The most common adverse event reported was diarrhea (14 [5.8%] in the ivermectin group and 4 [1.6%] in the control group).“
GUYS AND GALS READ THE STUDY!!!!
Ivermectin cut the death rate by 69 percent!! 3 deaths for Ivermectin versus 10 for standard care!! So absurd to claim the study was about “progression to severe disease” ? Isn’t death a sign of severe disease?