๐ก๏ธ Ivermectin was proven to reduce risk for COVID-19 with extensive clinical evidence from hundreds of well-respected scientists in 28 countries. Reliability is confirmed by the variation in efficacy based on study design (details below).
๐ด Authorities and the mainstream news media ignored the evidence. The FDA's discrediting of ivermectin even admitted: "The FDA has not reviewed data to support use of ivermectin in COVID-19".
๐ด For all low-cost treatment - authorities and experts did not proactively analyze data in real-time. This guarantees delayed recognition of efficacy or harm, by which time moral, legal, career, and reputational liability strongly disincentivizes any admission of error.
๐ต The largest RCT (3,963 patients, Oxford) shows significantly faster recovery and 36% lower long COVID, p < 0.0001 (pre-specified ongoing persistent COVID-19 symptoms combined with meta-analysis, data on page 358 in the appendix). This is remarkable given the design for failure: very late, low-dose, incorrectly administered, truncated treatment with low-risk patients. Results were withheld for 600 days until 2024.
๐ต Meta-analysis of 106 studies shows significantly lower COVID-19 risk, p < 0.0000001. Results across studies match the biological mechanisms (i.e., efficacy varies just as predicted based on study design) which confirms reliability: meta-regression of efficacy vs. treatment delay (p = 0.0038), efficacy gradient across stages (p < 0.0000001), and fed vs. fasting administration (p = 0.03). This is not possible without a real treatment effect - it would require an unrealistic conspiracy where many well-respected teams in many countries conspire to harm humanity and coordinate fraudulent results.
๐ด Social pressure is extreme, as Scott Alexander said: "if you say anything in favor of ivermectin you will be cast out of civilization and thrown into the circle of social hell ... All the health officials in the world will shout 'horse dewormer!' at you..." This led to remarkable actions, for example nobody would think that 36% lower risk of long-term morbidity from COVID-19 is not meaningful, but the authors of the Oxford study actually claimed this (they claimed the results were "unlikely" to be "clinically meaningful").
ABC: if you really believe the claims are unproven, answer these questions:
- What reason(s) do you have for rejecting the 66 studies showing statistically significant efficacy from hundreds of scientists, including many independent and well-respected teams in 28 countries?
- Do you consider 36% lower long-term morbidity, as shown in the largest RCT, clinically meaningful (100 million+ people according to common long COVID estimates)?
- Do you think the above conspiracy is real, or have another explanation for the emergent results across studies that match the biological mechanisms?
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