"There's enough behind ivermectin for COVID-19 that there must be something there"
This is a point that I find fascinating 
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On the other hand, the only large, well conducted trials seem to find either no benefit or at best quite a modest one
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Indeed, if you remove just two trials from your analysis - Elgazzar and Niaee - there is not a single RCT that has found a benefit for mortality, and on aggregate the result is pretty solidly

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What then separates ivermectin from other repurposed drugs? Popularity?pic.twitter.com/aKSrYM3CfG
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Anyway, this doesn't mean that we should stop the ongoing large trials into ivermectin, but I do think it's an interesting point worth considering. Take away the fraud, rewind to the actual evidence, and what remains?
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What got me thinking about all of this is that we excluded lopinavir/ritonavir as a treatment based on not that much more null evidence than we now have for ivermectin. We need to finish the bigger trials, for many reasons, but still interesting
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Ben oui, wtf ?


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