Hi John, I love your great public service! I have a question about another study. One of my friends is one of those people who has drunk the Kook-Aid hook, line, and sinker. He forwarded this study to me from the American Journal of Therapeutics which seems to show that Ivermectin has some therapeutic use. What is your opinion on this study? I see that it has cited the retracted Elgazzar paper. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8088823/. I am very skeptical, but then again there is a history of groupthink in medicine, as in other fields.
The inclusion of the discredited and fraudulent Elgazzar paper basically disqualifies this review from being worthwhile to consider.
That said, I think ivermectin deserves clinical trials to assess its efficacy and safety in COVID-19 applications. I understand that several are underway and await their results, but in the meantime I do not know of any blueprint available for safe and efficacious use of the drug. We have several lines of other COVID-19 defenses, thankfully, beginning with vaccination and continuing through to monoclonal antibody cocktails and eventually steroids and oxygen. Nearly every COVID-19 death is preventable without the use of experimental drug regimens.
Hi John, I love your great public service! I have a question about another study. One of my friends is one of those people who has drunk the Kook-Aid hook, line, and sinker. He forwarded this study to me from the American Journal of Therapeutics which seems to show that Ivermectin has some therapeutic use. What is your opinion on this study? I see that it has cited the retracted Elgazzar paper. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8088823/. I am very skeptical, but then again there is a history of groupthink in medicine, as in other fields.
The inclusion of the discredited and fraudulent Elgazzar paper basically disqualifies this review from being worthwhile to consider.
That said, I think ivermectin deserves clinical trials to assess its efficacy and safety in COVID-19 applications. I understand that several are underway and await their results, but in the meantime I do not know of any blueprint available for safe and efficacious use of the drug. We have several lines of other COVID-19 defenses, thankfully, beginning with vaccination and continuing through to monoclonal antibody cocktails and eventually steroids and oxygen. Nearly every COVID-19 death is preventable without the use of experimental drug regimens.