Ivermectin for COVID? The jury is still out

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Ivermectin for COVID? The jury is still out

Jim Vause

Thursday 2 September 2021, 04:21 PM

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Ivermectin has long been used for treating parasites [image: TajPharmaImages / WikiCommons CC-BY SA 4.0]

Jim Vause trawls through the evidence of using Ivermectin to treat and prevent COVID-19 and finds “a right old mess”

“[Ivermectin] has been used widely, sometimes even as a national strategy, without any good evidence for its effectiveness” “Hey, Doc. You bette

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[2] Bryant, Andrew MSc1,*; Lawrie, Theresa A. MBBCh, PhD2; Dowswell, Therese PhD2; Fordham, Edmund J. PhD2; Mitchell, Scott MBChB, MRCS3; Hill, Sarah R. PhD1; Tham, Tony C. MD, FRCP4 Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19 Infection: A Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, and Trial Sequential Analysis to Inform Clinical Guidelines, American Journal of Therapeutics: July/August 2021 - Volume 28 - Issue 4 - p e434-e460 doi:

10.1097/MJT.0000000000001402https://journals.lww.com/americantherapeutics/Fulltext/2021/08000/Ivermectin_for_Prevention_and_Treatment_of.7.aspx

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[4] Hill A, Abdulamir A, Ahmed S, Ashgar A, Babalola OE, Basri E, et al. Meta-analysis of randomized trials of ivermectin to treat SARS-CoV-2 infection. researchsquare.com/article/rs-148845/v1 (first received 19 January 2021). [DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-148845/v1] https://assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-148845/v1_stamped.pdf?c=1611086534

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[6] Nature. News. Flawed ivermectin preprint highlights challenges of COVID drug studies. Sarah Reardon Available online @ https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02081-w

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