Actually, both ivermectin and HCQ are effective at helping you resist the virus and recover from it. But it’s real service is in combination with zinc. In combination with zinc it is almost 100% effective even in late stage cases.
You’ll notice that the trials, even trials that show them in a positive light, never include zinc. Zinc is the key. They know that. The doctors using it effectively know it and the ones resisting their use know it too.
Multiple studies looking at this have conflicting results. One shows a 2 day decrease in hospitalization but no effect on mortality. Others show no effect while still others show quicker improvement in symptoms in outpatients. The official FDA and CDC recommendation is to not use Ivermectin in treating Covid. The adverse effect profile demonstrates the most common issues relate to nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. Those reactions do not seem significant given the potential effect of full-blown Covid. They can easily be managed if they occur. In my practice I have seen no adverse effects but can not verify that it had a symptom-shortening effect as no large double-blind study is possible for an individual physician. Informed consent, patient education and shared decision making with the doctor / patient should be the hallmark of medical care without governmental interference when utilizing the off-label use of a medication or treatment already approved for human use by that same government. Ask yourself, if the drug is safe and approved to use for one indication and has minimal, manageable adverse effect profile why could a doctor not use it for another illness with patient acquiescence. All medicine involves a risk-benefit analysis. From the NIH web site: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7709596/ an article from the International Journal of Infectious disease Feb 2021. “Although the study sample was too small (n = 72) to draw any solid conclusions, the results provide evidence of the potential benefit of early intervention with the drug ivermectin for the treatment of adult patients diagnosed with mild COVID-19. First, early intervention promoted faster viral clearance during disease onset, which might have prevented significant immune system involvement and hastened the recovery. Secondly, early intervention reduced the viral load faster, thus may help block disease transmission in the general population. A larger randomized controlled clinical trial of ivermectin treatment appears to be warranted to validate these important findings.” Studies such as these should not be ignored. “First Do No Harm” is the motto of the medical profession, and in my reading prescribing Ivermectin in concert with doxycycline, Vit C, Vit D and Zinc (in patients without an allergy to those) falls into that category !