Depressingly, I reckon that even if we do end up finding a benefit for ivermectin, many people won't use it because the charlatans have been touting it as a miracle cure for COVID-19 for most of a year
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If ivermectin does end up having a 5% benefit for mortality (say) that'll be very useful, but most people won't trust it because of the people who've been saying it 100% prevents and treats the disease
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To be fair, if we do find a modest benefit for ivermectin, I doubt that the charlatans who've been promoting it will accept that. They'll just call everyone pharma shills and retreat back to their echo-chamber of fraud
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If we find a modest benefit, it will be made widely available. Everyone will find out for themselves how effective it is and anyone making widely inaccurate claims will be discredited.
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Which is exactly why we are advocating for it and what we think will happen. The goal is to make some early treatment, any, available, instead of just nothing. Whether it's 90% or 50% or 20% is of not much interest to us.
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Seems strange to advocate for a treatment that may not work at all, but I guess that's just me
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Any early intervention with proven safety and at least some positive data should be absolutely recommended, preferably when that intervention is widely accessible and/or patent-free rather than just doing nothing. Risk mitigation. Let doctors doctor.
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There are perhaps 30 such proposed treatments, maybe more (I haven't been keeping track of them all). They all have side-effects, rare though they may be
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Moreover, of the proposed treatments, there is only one to have shown a benefit in a strong RCT so far - fluvoxamine - so the rationale for using any one treatment seems entirely based on hope rather than evidence
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