Except that it DID work magnificently for me, my family, and a number of friends.
Did Pfizer fund this bogus study ?
Funny..seemed to work just fine...in states in India.
I'm now 68, have had Type II for nearly ten years.
Last February, I caught Covid for the second time, this time it was bad. I lost 30 pounds in the week before I went to the doctor.
He prescribed for me a regimen of four prescriptions, to include IVM and HCQ. I was back at work, albeit still weak, the following Monday.
These attempts to downplay the success of IVM is disgusting.
“Except that it DID work magnificently for me, my family, and a number of friends.”
With a 99% or more survival rate, it would take a trial involving many thousands to collect meaningful data. If you took 500 people, and expect 495-499 to survive doing nothing, then how many would it take to get a statistically meaningful number?
That said, NO SCIENTIFIC STUDY means squat UNTIL you read how the study was constructed. For example, a recent study said eating grapes would add 5 years to your life...but it was done on mice, not humans. And involved freeze-dried extracts, not grapes. AND it was funded by a grape growers association:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAEV-GH6UGw
Here is what they found:
“The adjusted odds ratio for a primary event was 0.84 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.66 to 1.09; P=0.19) with metformin, 1.05 (95% CI, 0.76 to 1.45; P=0.78) with ivermectin, and 0.94 (95% CI, 0.66 to 1.36; P=0.75) with fluvoxamine. In prespecified secondary analyses, the adjusted odds ratio for emergency department visit, hospitalization, or death was 0.58 (95% CI, 0.35 to 0.94) with metformin, 1.39 (95% CI, 0.72 to 2.69) with ivermectin, and 1.17 (95% CI, 0.57 to 2.40) with fluvoxamine. The adjusted odds ratio for hospitalization or death was 0.47 (95% CI, 0.20 to 1.11) with metformin, 0.73 (95% CI, 0.19 to 2.77) with ivermectin, and 1.11 (95% CI, 0.33 to 3.76) with fluvoxamine.”
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2201662
Now, what do we know about confidence intervals:
“If the confidence interval crosses 1 (e.g. 95%CI 0.9-1.1) this implies there is no difference between arms of the study.” IOW, when the confidence interval crosses one, you don’t actually know ANYTHING.
So to repeat,, what did they find out about Ivermectin treatment?
“The adjusted odds ratio for hospitalization or death was...0.73 (95% CI, 0.19 to 2.77) with ivermectin”
The interval is 0.19 to 2.77. IOW, THEY DON’T KNOW JACK SHIT!
A proper summary would be, “We didn’t have enough numbers to learn anything from this experiment, so you might as well toss this in the trash!”
Please notice EVERY CONFIDENCE LEVEL crossed one, and crossed it GROSSLY: “0.19 to 2.77”!
“Except that it DID work magnificently for me, my family, and a number of friends.”
Me, too.
I bought another five-day regimen last week, and was surprised that the dosage was higher than it was a year ago. The pharmacist said the newer strains need higher doses. The current strain isn’t as dangerous, but may be more contagious.
Yeah....there’s that. I just don’t trust them any more. They have shown to be willing to do and say anything.
...In summary, the collective review of recent efforts suggests that IVM has a prophylactic effect and would be a strong candidate for clinical trials to treat SARS-CoV-2.
I wouldn’t doubt that Pfizer funded this piece of drivel.
Authored by their top research director, Bea Ess.
“Did Pfizer fund this bogus study ?”
Read the disclosures. NIH grants funded many of the study participants. They even disclose who provided “ivermevtin placebos”
So the sourced placebos, and were funded by Fauci’s NIH.
This is from the paper, please check it yourself.
The source of much covid propaganda to coerce vaccine uptake is not the best source of funding to study ivermectin, in my opinion.
Since they admittedly had ivermectin placebos, they may have simply only used placebos to get a result preferred by Fauci and his NIH.
That’s why you don’t politicize medicine.
I think everyone should be able to choose to use ivermectin, or the vax if they wish.
“Except that it DID work magnificently for me, my family, and a number of friends.”
I personally know almost a dozen who tested positive and were very ill with the original covid who QUICKLY recovered with the triad of iver, hydroxy and zith in kits that i supplied ... locals could pick up the kits ASAP ... others had them on hand in advance, and still others had their kits since overnight express ...
Same here. I have a supply from Mexico.
It is not effective for many things but will knock out the WuFlu. It won’t, however, power our EV.
IVM Worked for me & my family. With zinc, vitamin c,d