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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 5537030" data-attributes="member: 48469">Your article cites what the FDA was saying about ivermectin as of 12/10/2021:&quot;Currently available data do not show ivermectin is effective against COVID-19.&quot;--------------------------------On the other hand, this is what the NIH was saying about ivermectin as of 8/3/2021:<a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34466270/" target="_blank">Ivermectin: a multifaceted drug of Nobel prize-honoured distinction with indicated efficacy against a new global scourge, COVID-19 - PubMed (nih.gov)</a><h2>&quot;Abstract</h2>In 2015, the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, in its only award for treatments of infectious diseases since six decades prior, honoured the discovery of ivermectin (IVM), a multifaceted drug deployed against some of the world&#039;s most devastating tropical diseases. Since March 2020, when IVM was first used against a new global scourge, COVID-19, more than 20 randomized clinical trials (RCTs) have tracked such inpatient and outpatient treatments. Six of seven meta-analyses of IVM treatment RCTs reporting in 2021 found notable reductions in COVID-19 fatalities, with a mean 31% relative risk of mortality vs. controls. During mass IVM treatments in Peru, excess deaths fell by a mean of 74% over 30 days in its ten states with the most extensive treatments. Reductions in deaths correlated with the extent of IVM distributions in all 25 states with p &lt; 0.002. Sharp reductions in morbidity using IVM were also observed in two animal models, of SARS-CoV-2 and a related betacoronavirus. The indicated biological mechanism of IVM, competitive binding with SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, is likely non-epitope specific, possibly yielding full efficacy against emerging viral mutant strains.&quot;Lots of legitimate medical-use drugs can kill someone if taken in the wrong formulation or dosage. So which agency are we supposed to believe regarding ivermectin?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 5537030, member: 48469"] Your article cites what the FDA was saying about ivermectin as of 12/10/2021: "Currently available data do not show ivermectin is effective against COVID-19." -------------------------------- On the other hand, this is what the NIH was saying about ivermectin as of 8/3/2021: [URL='https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34466270/']Ivermectin: a multifaceted drug of Nobel prize-honoured distinction with indicated efficacy against a new global scourge, COVID-19 - PubMed (nih.gov)[/URL] [HEADING=1][SIZE=4]"[/SIZE][SIZE=5]Abstract[/SIZE][/HEADING] In 2015, the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, in its only award for treatments of infectious diseases since six decades prior, honoured the discovery of ivermectin (IVM), a multifaceted drug deployed against some of the world's most devastating tropical diseases. Since March 2020, when IVM was first used against a new global scourge, COVID-19, more than 20 randomized clinical trials (RCTs) have tracked such inpatient and outpatient treatments. [B]Six of seven meta-analyses of IVM treatment RCTs reporting in 2021 found notable reductions in COVID-19 fatalities, with a mean 31% relative risk of mortality vs. controls. During mass IVM treatments in Peru, excess deaths fell by a mean of 74% over 30 days in its ten states with the most extensive treatments. Reductions in deaths correlated with the extent of IVM distributions in all 25 states with p < 0.002. Sharp reductions in morbidity using IVM were also observed in two animal models, of SARS-CoV-2 and a related betacoronavirus. The indicated biological mechanism of IVM, competitive binding with SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, is likely non-epitope specific, possibly yielding full efficacy against emerging viral mutant strains."[/B] Lots of legitimate medical-use drugs can kill someone if taken in the wrong formulation or dosage. So which agency are we supposed to believe regarding ivermectin? [/QUOTE]

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