The drug hydroxychloroquine has pretty much fallen off the front pages, but it has been supplanted by another treatment claimed to be spectacularly effective despite an utter lack of scientific evidence.
President Trump’s hype of a potential treatment for COVID-19 gives false hope to virus patients and causes real harm to others.An especially loopy variation on this theme comes from the generally worthless pen of Matt Taibbi, who charged earlier this month that the truth about ivermectin has beenTaibbi took up arms to defend one Pierre Kory, a physician in the front lines of ivermectin promotion who complained that his posts building up the drug kept getting removed.
“With the world desperate for news about an unprecedented disaster, Silicon Valley had essentially decided to disallow discussion of a potential solution...Once, people weren’t allowed to take drugs before they got FDA approval. Now, they can’t talk about them.”to the Senate Homeland Security Committee in which he called ivermectin “effectively a ‘miracle drug’ against COVID-19.”
The ivermectin craze threatens to discourage people from getting vaccinated, the only sure path to widespread immunity from COVID. It also undermines faith in medical science, which can have profound consequences for public health.So let’s take a look at the evidence for ivermectin as a COVID treatment. Cutting to the chase: There isn’t any evidence with scientific validity.
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