This “fact check” is a flat out lie. Rule of thumb. When the fact checkers you reference overtly lie to you, you are both dumb and/or lazy, and are on the wrong side. I have already posted the data from India. Look at it. The provinces like Delhi and Udar Pradesh that used ivermectin sliced their bell curves in half compared to the provinces that did not. Notice that your “fact check” isn’t even differentiating between provinces that did and did not use ivermectin. Kind of a big problem isn’t it? The India data is so unassailable that the Indian bar association (the highest law authority in India) is coming after the officials in provinces who chose not to use ivermectin with the death penalty. From your retarded fact check site.
“Both ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine were touted as potential treatments for COVID-19. However, international health agencies such as the World Health Organization pointed out the
lack of clinical evidence supporting such expectations.”
This is a flat out lie here. I’ve already referenced this WHO study in this thread. They found 81% effectiveness, and came to the conclusion that it should be studied more instead of recommending immediate use. Which I argued was a ridiculous considering that which they already recommend with far far far less studies, patients, standards, and efficacy. We’ll get to that later. The fact checks entire conclusion rests on this study. Whoopsie.
So, here’s the actual studies on ivermectin. All of them
Meta analysis of all ivermectin studies done in relation to treating COVID. 60 studies total. No studies excluded to eliminate selection bias. 42 peer reviewed. 30 of which are randomized controlled studies, the gold standard. Over 23,000 patients in ivermectin studies.
Their findings(per the meta analysis from the randomized controlled studies alone):
Ivermectin as prophylactic -84% efficacy
Ivermectin with early treatment - 67%
Late stage treatment - 30%.
“The probability that an ineffective treatment generated results as positive as the 61 studies to date is estimated to be 1 in 354 billion (
p = 0.0000000000028). “ Is that number good? Did ivermectin break it?
How about those other treatments that the WHO and our NIH recommends. Let’s take a look. How about the amount studies, amount of patients, and the determined efficacy.
Budesonide- 1 study - 1779
Patients -17% improvement.
Remdisivir- 1 study - 1063 patients -31% improvement (this study didn’t age well, also a whoopsie).
Idevimab-1 study - 799 patients -66% improvement
What was ivermectin at again?
ivermectin- 61 studies -23,285 patients -70% improvement
It’s quite a doosie of a claim to say that there’s “no data to suggest” with all of that. Unless you wish to argue that Indians are somehow genetically different and the same laws of medicine don’t apply to them as the people in these studies. It’s also a doosie when the WHO data they cite says otherwise.