Doctor: "OK, you're going to feel a slight prick."
Patient: "But doctor! I hardly know you!"
I had a bout of COVID-19 last March. But I was also fully vaccinated, and was able to get the anti-viral regime through the VA, so I was done with the disease by the 5th day. (As I didn't start the anti-viral until almost 3 days into the disease, that regimen last longer than the sickness.)
I did some searching at PubMed, and there were some *tentative* results that suggested Ivermectin had positive benefits. But these experiments all involved carefully proctored doses that were part of a much larger drug cocktail. And the honest one's all admitted that there was not a large enough test base to reach any solid conclusions. More recent meta-analyses conclude that, indeed, the horse dewormer provided no benefits (and only avoided killing people because of the care with which it was administered in a hospital setting.)
Doctor: "OK, you're going to feel a slight prick."
Patient: "But doctor! I hardly know you!"
I had a bout of COVID-19 last March. But I was also fully vaccinated, and was able to get the anti-viral regime through the VA, so I was done with the disease by the 5th day. (As I didn't start the anti-viral until almost 3 days into the disease, that regimen last longer than the sickness.)
I did some searching at PubMed, and there were some *tentative* results that suggested Ivermectin had positive benefits. But these experiments all involved carefully proctored doses that were part of a much larger drug cocktail. And the honest one's all admitted that there was not a large enough test base to reach any solid conclusions. More recent meta-analyses conclude that, indeed, the horse dewormer provided no benefits (and only avoided killing people because of the care with which it was administered in a hospital setting.)
And I'd wager that none of the test subjects had worms.