...Peruvian President Sagasti's fateful decision to outlaw Ivermectin. Before taking power, the COVID deaths had dropped 14 fold to almost nothing with Ivermectin use. However after Sagasti was elected, Ivermectin was stopped, and deaths roared back at 13 fold.
There are plenty of RCT’s.
Just not in the US or the EU, but IMHO, that’s a strawman that the NIH is using at this point.
RE: WOW!! Yet we can’t have it in the USA because of lack of placebo-controlled, double blind trials.
I direct you to this blog by a Swedish Physician who actually LOOKED at some trials conducted in 3 different ( non-western) countries (Colombia, Iran, Argentina ) :
https://sebastianrushworth.com/2021/05/09/update-on-ivermectin-for-covid-19/
Here is what he concluded after objectively looking at the results:
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What we see is a 62% reduction in the relative risk of dying among covid patients treated with ivermectin. That would mean that ivermectin prevents roughly three out of five covid deaths. The reduction is statistically significant (p-value 0,004). In other words, the weight of evidence supporting ivermectin continues to pile up. It is now far stronger than the evidence that led to widespred use of remdesivir earlier in the pandemic, and the effect is much larger and more important (remdesivir was only ever shown to marginally decrease length of hospital stay, it was never shown to have any effect on risk of dying).
I understand why pharmaceutical companies don’t like ivermectin. It’s a cheap generic drug. Even Merck, the company that invented ivermectin, is doing it’s best to destroy the drug’s reputation at the moment. This can only be explained by the fact that Merck is currently developing two expensive new covid drugs, and doesn’t want an off-patent drug, which it can no longer make any profit from, competing with them.
The only reason I can think to understand why the broader medical establishment, however, is still so anti-ivermectin is that these studies have all been done outside the rich west. Apparently doctors and scientists outside North America and Western Europe can’t be trusted, unless they’re saying things that are in line with our pre-conceived notions.
Here is what he concluded after looking at at least 4 of the placebo-controlled, double blind trials: