Ivermectin

I don’t think so, but Scott Alexander suggested I was in a blog post he wrote in response to some of my critical tweets on how he had covered the ivermectin ‘controversy’. Scott mentions he has been looking into YouTube streamers and by coincidence so have I. He is right…

In today’s Medium article, I’ll be addressing a dug-up old claim that Ivermectin supposedly works against Covid-19. …

The US-based “ACTIV-6” study showed no effect of the drug on time-to-recovery for outpatients with COVID-19. It began in a petri dish. Ivermectin, a widely-available, cheap and well-tolerated drug on the WHO’s list of essential medicines for its critical role in treating river blindness, was shown to dramatically reduce the proliferation of SARS-CoV-2 virus in cell culture. You know the rest of the story. Despite the…

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