The state Health Department introduced Ivermectin as prophylaxis for close contacts of Covid patients, health workers as well as for the treatment of the patients themselves through a government order on August 6, 2020. (Wikimedia Commons)
Posted on 09/07/2021 7:54:39 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
The state Health Department introduced Ivermectin as prophylaxis for close contacts of Covid patients, health workers as well as for the treatment of the patients themselves through a government order on August 6, 2020. (Wikimedia Commons)
A year after the country’s first Covid-19 cluster, with 5 cases, was reported in Agra district, the Uttar Pradesh government has claimed that it was the first state to have introduced a large-scale “prophylactic and therapeutic” use of Ivermectin and added that the drug helped the state to maintain a lower fatality and positivity rate as compared to other states.
Citing the results from Agra in the month of May and June last year, following which the use of Ivermectin, a medicine to treat parasitic ailments, along with Doxycycline was introduced as a protocol across the state for both prophylactic as well as treatment purposes, the state Health Department said it would conduct a controlled study once the second wave of the pandemic subsides.
The state Health Department introduced Ivermectin as prophylaxis for close contacts of Covid patients, health workers as well as for the treatment of the patients themselves through a government order on August 6, 2020, after a committee headed by the Director General, Medical and Health Services, gave it the go ahead.
“Uttar Pradesh was the first state in the country to introduce large-scale prophylactic and therapeutic use of Ivermectin. In May-June 2020, a team at Agra, led by Dr Anshul Pareek, administered Ivermectin to all RRT team members in the district on an experimental basis. It was observed that none of them developed Covid-19 despite being in daily contact with patients who had tested positive for the virus,” Uttar Pradesh State Surveillance Officer Vikssendu Agrawal said.
He added that based on the findings from Agra, the state government sanctioned the use of Ivermectin as a prophylactic for all the contacts of Covid patients and later cleared the administration of therapeutic doses for the treatment of such patients.
Claiming that timely introduction of Ivermectin since the first wave has helped the state maintain a relatively low positivity rate despite its high population density, he said, “Despite being the state with the largest population base and a high population density, we have maintained a relatively low positivity rate and cases per million of population”.
He said that apart from aggressive contact tracing and surveillance, the lower positivity and fatality rates may be attributed to the large-scale use of Ivermectin use in the state, adding that the drug has recently been introduced in the National Protocol for Covid treatment and management. “Once the second wave subsides, we would conduct our own study as there has been an emerging body of evidence to substantiate our timely use of Ivermectin from the first wave itself,” Vikasendu told The Indian Express.
Agra District Magistrate Prabhu N Singh also attributed the state’s relative success in keeping the Covid numbers down to the timely nod to the use of Ivermectin as a prophylactic. He added that government doctor Anshul Pareek had approached him last year citing use of the medicine abroad.
“We reported the first Covid-19 cluster in the country after five members of a family, who had returned from Italy, tested positive. Soon, the virus spread, with a large number of police personnel getting affected. Doctor Pareek approached me with a request to introduce Ivermectin on an experimental basis. I was told there are no risks involved with the use of the drug,” Singh told The Indian Express.
He said the district administration had formed small groups of personnel from the same police station as well staffers at his office. “We introduced it (Ivermectin) for three days, 12 mg as advised in the national guidelines at the time, followed by tests on the fourth or fifth day. We introduced it in the jail as well and the results helped us reduce positivity to a great extent, following which Additional Chief Secretary Health Amit Mohan formed a committee to access its usage and it was finally introduced in the state’s Covid management protocol in 2020 itself,” Singh said.
It can’t possibly be a cure, not when there are more elections to steal!
Told ya.
All these comics memes are hilarious!
Why does Uttar Pradesh have better healthcare than America?
One problem with “ controlled studies” is that some people do not get the drug, and some of those people die because they don’t get the drug.
This is the kind of controlled study didactic bureaucrats like Fauci demand. The humans lost are in the interests of “science’”.
One of the first to detail his success with IVM, early in 2020, Dr Thomas Borody, said they tried running a trial, but the drug was so effective, it was unethical to deny it to patients in the study…so they didn’t
I don’t wish Kamala Harris ill; so I have this suggestion.
I suggest she embraces Ivermectin as a treatment for CoVID due to it’s effect in India. As she is obviously in a position way over her head (or with legal basis to hold) as US VP.
So she announces she will quit the US and run for President in India based on her mother’s India citizenship when she was born ‘overseas’ in the US.
In this way she could leave behind Ivermectin as a treatment to a grateful US, and set her sights on an office she can hold with dignity.
ping
Do you have a link to his test report?
From his interview
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3884051/posts
“What kind of research mechanism are you implementing to monitor and to report on your results?”
Well we are treating everybody mainly because we cannot make a decision between who shall live and who shall die. We’re using historical controls specifically in the aged care facilities. If it was something like a disease like hypertension, we would have a placebo arm, but you cannot really have that in a situation where there is no alternative treatment.
“Regarding the information from treating various patients, are you planning to gather it and analyze it and publish it?”
Exactly, we will be comparing those that straight observational data with retrospective historical data from the same homes. It will not be the ideal situation, but we are forced by this type of condition to have to go this pathway.
If anyone suggests a randomized controlled trial, it tells me they don’t know what they’re talking about.
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