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The intervention group received a single 12 mg dose of ivermectin plus 100 mg of doxycycline twice a day for five days (doxycycline is an antibiotic). According to the researchers the study was double-blind and placebo-controlled, although it is unclear from the study protocol whether the control group actually received a placebo, and what the placebo consisted of. Patients with severe covid were excluded from the study. It included patients over the age of 18 with mild to moderate covid confirmed with PCR.
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The first trial was carried out in Bangladesh and completed in October. Personally, I don’t think peer-review is worth very much, so that doesn’t bother me at all, but it’s just something to be aware of. Note that (as far as I’m aware) none of these studies has yet been published in a peer-reviewed journal. I’ve managed to find four reasonably large randomized controlled trials looking at ivermectin for covid, and those are the trials we’re now going to discuss (I also found a fifth one, but it only enrolled 12 patients in each group, which to me is so small it’s not even worth looking at).
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That means the research on ivermectin as a treatment for covid has been pretty much entirely carried out outside the west. Who does have an interest? Poorer countries, that can’t afford expensive new drugs. Unfortunately, that also means western pharmaceutical companies have zero interest in doing research on ivermectin, because there is no way to make a decent profit from it. If ivermectin were shown to be effective against Covid, that would be great, because it’s generic, cheap, safe, and widely available, so it would be easy to start treating people quickly. The interest in ivermectin as a potential treatment for covid-19 is likely due to a study published way back in June of 2020, that showed a large reduction in SARS-CoV-2 in a cell culture after addition of ivermectin. It was discovered in the 1970’s, and the researchers who discovered it were awarded the Nobel prize for their discovery in 2015. Ivermectin is an anti-parasitic drug, used primarily to treat infections caused by parasitic worms. Over the last two months I’ve literally been bombarded by people asking me about my opinions on ivermectin as a treatment for covid, so I figured I’d better look in to it.