Ivermectin (Still) Lacks Scientific Support as a COVID-19 Drug

A Cochrane review bolsters scientists’ advice that ivermectin should not be used against the disease outside of clinical trials, while a study claiming to have found beneficial effects in patients was withdrawn following allegations of data manipulation.

  Ivermectin for COVID-19 — Breakthrough Treatment or Hydroxychloroquine Redux?

It’s an indisputable fact that we need better treatments for COVID-19. This is particularly true in the outpatient setting. Let’s count how many we have today, hmm, this shouldn’t take long. That would be zero — the same number we had over a year ago, when the disease first emerged in China. Something safe, easy to take as a pill, and inexpensive. Something that isn’t a costly bioengineered molecule that requires lengthy infusions, given within a short time after diagnosis, to a highly contagious person. Enter ivermectin — and let the controversy begin.

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“At some point it will become a waste of resources to continue studying an unpromising approach,” one expert said.

  The dubious rise of ivermectin as a Covid-19 treatment, explained

Evidence suggests ivermectin is not a Covid-19 “miracle drug.” How did it get so popular?

 Covid-19: Why all the fuss about ivermectin, that became in many countries a ‘dirty word’

This article is not trying to answer this question but instead looking for readily available information because this drug has been the focus of much media attention recently.

 Demand Surges for Deworming Drug for Covid, Despite Scant Evidence It Works

Prescriptions for ivermectin have jumped to more than 88,000 per week, some pharmacists are reporting shortages and people are overdosing on forms of the drug meant for horses.

 Explainer: Here’s what we know and don’t know about ivermectin, the deworming drug some people are taking for COVID-19.

Dubbed a “wonder drug” from Japan, ivermectin has been used since the 1980s to treat parasites like worms and lice. The drug has helped diminish the threat of river blindness and elephantiasis, both diseases caused by worms, around the world.

 How Ivermectin Became The New Focus Of The Anti-Vaccine Movement

It's a tale that spans science and politics, pitting health officials against celebrities and communal responsibilities against individual rights.

 How Ivermectin Took Over the COVID Skeptic Internet

Ivermectin: the latest unproven COVID treatment to blow up the internet. It’s an anti-parasitic used to treat things like river blindness and lice in humans and, quite commonly, worms and other parasites in horses, cows, and dogs. While there are some clinical trials examining ivermectin as a potential treatment for COVID-19, none have suggested that it reduces the disease. One analysis that touted it as an effective treatment had to be withdrawn for ethical reasons.

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Despite promising words in some studies, experts say ivermectin is a false hope for treating COVID-19. Here's why.

 Ivermectin (Still) Lacks Scientific Support as a COVID-19 Drug

A Cochrane review bolsters scientists’ advice that ivermectin should not be used against the disease outside of clinical trials, while a study claiming to have found beneficial effects in patients was withdrawn following allegations of data manipulation.

 Ivermectin and COVID-19: What you need to know about this unproven drug

People continue taking a horse dewormer, thinking it's a treatment for COVID.

 Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19 Infection: A Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, and Trial Sequential Analysis to Inform Clinical Guidelines

Ivermectin is likely to be an equitable, acceptable, and feasible global intervention against COVID-19. Health professionals should strongly consider its use, in both treatment and prophylaxis.

 Ivermectin Shows No Clear Benefit in the Treatment of Covid-19

New trial results find no statistically significant effect.

 Ivermectin shows us how hard it is to use old drugs for COVID. Here’s how to do better next time

Many hopes have been pinned on repurposing existing drugs, such as ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, to treat COVID-19. However, we shouldn’t be too surprised these drugs haven’t yet lived up to the hype. Our study, published today in Science Translational Medicine, shows it’s notoriously difficult to repurpose existing drugs for new diseases or for new uses. Here’s what we need to consider for this pandemic — and the next.

 Six Reasons Why Not to Steal Your Pet’s Ivermectin to Prevent or Treat COVID-19

Ivermectin is one of many so-called “miracle cures” that we’ve seen pushed on the internet. Like most others, there’s limited substance to the stories behind it. There’s no magic bullet for COVID-19.

 Some Americans ignore warnings against using ivermectin to treat Covid.

Clinical trials have repeatedly failed to show that the drug is effective against the virus. Still, U.S. demand is high.

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Ivermectin in COVID-19

We regard ivermectin as a core medication in the prevention and treatment of COVID-19. Ivermectin is a well-known, FDA-approved anti-parasite drug that has been used successfully for more than four decades to treat onchocerciasis “river blindness” and other parasitic diseases. It is one of the safest drugs known. It is on the WHO’s list of essential medicines, has been given 3.7 billion times around the globe, and has won the Nobel prize for its global and historic impacts in eradicating endemic parasitic infections in many parts of the world.

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Ivermectin As a COVID-19 Therapy

So let me finish up by saying that my mind is not yet made up about ivermectin. I can be convinced by good data; if I couldn’t be, I shouldn’t be doing my day job at all. But I am not too optimistic – the data so far are consistent with a lot of other sorta-kinda-maybe-maybe not things I’ve seen over the years, where if you climb up on the right chair and hold your hand up to your face to block out the exact right stuff then things might look OK, but otherwise not so much.

Ivermectin is still not a miracle cure for COVID-19, despite what you may have read

Ivermectin is a hugely useful medicine in treating parasitic illnesses such as lice, worms and scabies, particularly in developing countries. But as we have already seen in the case of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, just because a medicine is useful for one purpose, it cannot automatically be considered a miracle cure for COVID-19.

An overview of the MATH+, I-MASK+ and I-RECOVER Protocols

This is our recommended approach to COVID-19 based on the best (and most recent) literature. This is a highly dynamic topic; therefore, we will be updating the guideline as new information emerges. Please check on the FLCCC Alliance website for updated versions of this protocol

Censorship Kills: The Shunning of a COVID Therapeutic

Our manuscript conclusions were further supported by the British Ivermectin Recommendation Development (BIRD) Panel. Following the World Health Organization Handbook of Guideline Development, it voted to strongly recommend the use of ivermectin in the treatment and prevention of COVID-19, and opined that further placebo controlled trials are unlikely to be ethical.

Could Ivermectin be an answer to both parasites and pandemics?

It is sitting on most veterinary supply shelves and a staple for numerous cattle owners, but the drug Ivermectin could also be a viable preventative and treatment for critically ill COVID-19 patients.

COVID-19 Update: Ivermectin

Ivermectin is interesting, there is certainly signal to evaluate further, but in our desire to want a treatment option, let’s not continue to do the same thing over and over again, as we saw play out with Hydroxychloroquine.

How anti-vaxxers weaponized Ivermectin, a horse de-wormer drug, as a COVID-19 treatment

The right-wing obsession with the veterinary drug is a tactic to undermine COVID-19 vaccines, experts say.

How to Get Ivermectin

We understand and empathize with the challenges faced in obtaining a prescription for ivermectin during this time period prior to its use being formally adopted in national or international COVID-19 treatment guidelines. However, we are anticipating these treatment guidelines to be updated in the near future.

Huge study supporting ivermectin as Covid treatment withdrawn over ethical concerns

The preprint endorsing ivermectin as a coronavirus therapy has been widely cited, but independent researchers find glaring discrepancies in the data

India is fighting a healthcare crisis of unimaginable proportions with woefully outdated science

The official Covid-19 treatment protocol in India continues to encourage the use of treatments that many scientists across the world have written off.

Ivermectin against COVID-19: The unprecedented consequences in Latin America

In Brazil and in most of Latin American (LATAM) and Caribbean countries, IVM has been prescribed and widely used for the preventive treatment of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) immediately after the publication of its in vitro effect against the virus

Ivermectin and COVID-19: A medical can of worms

Ivermectin, an antiparasitic, was first developed in the 1970s and has been used as a treatment for everything from river blindness to head lice. It has become a common veterinary medicine as well. In 2015, the scientists who discovered ivermectin won the Nobel Prize in Medicine. Their discovery had “provided humankind with powerful new means to combat these debilitating diseases that affect hundreds of millions of people annually,” the Nobel committee’s announcement said. “The consequences in terms of improved human health and reduced suffering are immeasurable.”

Ivermectin and Covid-19: how a cheap antiparasitic became political

The common antiparasitic ivermectin is being touted as a miracle cure for Covid-19 by doctors and campaigners the world over. Demand for approval of the drug is growing globally – with some countries recommending ivermectin as a treatment for coronavirus patients – despite leading health authorities consistently warning against its use.

Ivermectin Is a Fake COVID Treatment That’s Typically Used on Horses

Stop taking veterinary drugs, people.

Ivermectin: why a potential COVID treatment isn’t recommended for use

The antiparasitic drug was thought to be a potential treatment for COVID-19, but there isn't sufficient evidence to recommend its use, despite widespread support online.

Popular Drug Does Not Alleviate Mild Covid-19 Symptoms, Study Finds

Ivermectin, a drug typically used to treat parasitic worms, has been prescribed widely during the coronavirus pandemic, but rigorous data has been lacking.

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She started posting about ivermectin in one of her doctors’ Facebook groups — one for physicians who are also moms. Expecting to be met with the same sense of experimentation she saw in earlier months, the response she got was jarring. “When I try to talk to doctors about ivermectin, it feels like someone has poisoned them against it before I even say my first word,” Lieberman said. “The level of response is: You’re suggesting eye of newt. Why don’t we try some mugwort? Why don’t we try some fairy dust?”

The Drug that Cracked COVID

Kory sometimes despairs at the forces against him. “Our little Ivermectin has so many big enemies,” he says. “It’s David versus ten Goliaths.” But word is getting out. More than twenty countries representing some 20 percent of the Earth’s population use Ivermectin, many in their national protocol. Every day it seems Kory hears from someone like the Toronto doctor, a Bulgarian, who used Kory’s data to convince the health ministers in his home country to sign on. Kory talks every day to his growing base of 17,000 Twitter followers, and his peer-reviewed paper on Ivermectin recently exploded online as one of the most-discussed scholarly papers ever posted out of seventeen million tracked by Altmetric.

There’s no proof that hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin caused a drop in cases in India

Neither drug is approved in the US for COVID-19. And the FDA and WHO recommend against using them to prevent or treat COVID-19.

What is ivermectin, and should we be using it to treat Covid-19?

World-leading parasite researcher Dr Carlos Chaccour says using the drug in fight against the virus could be ‘very, very harmful’ “What people need to know is that ivermectin has not been established as a treatment for Covid,” he said. “Now that doesn’t mean it won’t work, but my feeling from looking at the various studies done so far is it probably isn’t going to work. But we do need to show that through clinical trials. We do need to know that for sure. So it’s worth testing.”