Ivermectin was tested via the gold standard double blind method. Here's a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, adaptive platform trial involving 3515 symptomatic SARS-CoV-2–positive adults recruited from 12 public health clinics in Brazil.
Conclusions
Treatment with ivermectin did not result in a lower incidence of medical admission to a hospital due to progression of Covid-19 or of prolonged emergency department observation among outpatients with an early diagnosis of Covid-19.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2115869
Translation: Ivermectin did nothing against Covid.
And while we're on the subject, let's look at another favorite of Trumpsters - hydroxychloroquin.
Randomized double blind placebo controlled study shows HCQ (hydroxychloroquin) does nothing for Covid-19 with or without AZ (azithromycin)
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30389-8/fulltextAlso see
https://wtop.com/national/2020/06/malaria-drug-fails-to-prevent-covid-19-in-a-rigorous-study/ A MUCH BIGGER retrospective study (96,000) was done by the US Veterans Admin
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/500021-va-hospitals-drop-hydroxychloroquine-as-coronavirus-treatment VA has almost completely stopped prescribing an anti-malaria drug touted by President Trump to veterans with COVID-19 after studies questioned its efficacy in treating the disease.
Not that science is gonna convince most Trumpsters. They deny evolution, climatology, and the geological age of the Earth. So they have no problem denying epidemiology and immunology too!!
