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Some COVID-19 Patients Want Ivermectin So Badly They’re Taking Hospitals To Court
(fivethirtyeight.com)
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Relevant:
Peer reviewed paper: Effect of Ivermectin on Time to Resolution of Symptoms Among Adults With Mild COVID-19: A Randomized Clinical Trial It's from April 2021, the latest clinical trial I could find.
From the abstract:
And this was a highly controlled clinical trial under medical supervision. If someone just popped a bottle of the stuff, it will not only not work, it will probably just speed up that whole "dying" thing.
Other studies did show some effect, but again, only in highly controlled doses and still not sufficient to verify medical efficacy. And again, no clinical trial involves gulping down an uncontrolled amount of any drug and assuming you're cured.