The anti-parasitic drug ivermectin, which has
surged in popularityas an alternative treatment for Covid-19 despite a lack of strong research to back it up, showed no sign of alleviating the disease, according to results of a large clinical trial
published on Wednesday.
The study, which compared more than 1,300 people infected with the coronavirus in Brazil who received either ivermectin or a placebo, effectively ruled out the drug as a treatment for Covid, the study’s authors said.
“There’s really no sign of any benefit,” said Dr. David Boulware, an infectious-disease expert at the University of Minnesota.
In a new study published on Wednesday, the TOGETHER team reported on its ivermectin data. Between March and August 2021, the researchers provided the drug to 679 patients over the course of three days.
The results were clear: Taking ivermectin did not reduce a Covid patient’s risk of ending up in the hospital.
The researchers zeroed in on different groups of volunteers to see if they experienced benefits that others didn’t. For example, it might be possible that ivermectin only worked if taken early in an infection.
But volunteers who took ivermectin in the first three days after a positive coronavirus test turned out to have worse outcomes than did those in the placebo group.
“At some point it will become a waste of resources to continue studying an unpromising approach,” one expert said.
www.nytimes.com
Not surprising considering that the proponents of this bullshit avoided conducting a real study like the plague. The sad thing is that this won't stop our horse paste ingesting brethren on here. I am sure one of our resident idiots will be here shortly to explain that faucinazi.blog.wordpress.com has the
real study that
they don't want you to see.

