Ivermectin Would prevent or Treat Covid?

[AshGS]

There are news on that.. coming mainly from tests in Australia... Would you have any confirmation on that?

[AussieNeil Administrator]

Just published: Chaya Venkat doesn't recommend it.

updates.clltopics.net/5111-...

Do you have any later update to this analysis from 3rd September last year?

"The experiment was performed on monkey cells in test tubes, and the dose of ivermectin used was a lot higher than has ever been given to a human.6-8

More work needs to be done; first, to see if ivermectin works on the SARs-CoV-2 virus in humans, and second, to see if there is an effective dose that is also safe.

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There are some media reports about health professionals in Australia and overseas having ‘success’ using ivermectin as part of COVID-19 treatment. There are also preliminary trial results that suggest no benefit from this medicine,or possibly a shorter hospital stay.

At the moment, publicly available details about these cases and trials are limited or have not been peer-reviewed (looked at carefully by experts to make sure the data has been analysed correctly and completely)."

nps.org.au/ivermectin-and-c...

Neil

[avzuclav in reply to AussieNeil]

Here's an article from Medscape describing the NIH dropping it's recommendation against ivermectin on January 14. medscape.com/viewarticle/94...

Here is the NIH's COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel’s Statement on

the Use of Ivermectin for the Treatment of COVID-19: files.covid19treatmentguide...

Recommendation

• The COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel (the Panel) has determined that currently there are insufficient data to recommend either for or against the use of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19. Results from adequately powered, well-designed, and well-conducted clinical trials are needed to provide more specific, evidence-based guidance on the role of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19.

The group promoting ivermectin has a response to the NIH statement on their website, covid19criticalcare.com/

I think this Canadian infectious disease physician summed it up nicely:

"I would love nothing else for this pandemic to end with ivermectin, seriously- it's a cheap, safe, and globally available drug. And i'm looking forward to the many trials coming about, hopefully as a real RCT, and if there is a signal incorporating it into SOLIDARITY. But for now - I'd make sure everyone does their own appraisal. This is complete echoes of what happened in hydroxychloroquine - where people raced to prescribe it offline, rather than study it in trials. There is a higher standard here for all." twitter.com/zchagla/status/...