Jonathan Berry <jonathanberry3...@gmail.com> wrote: It is not marginal, look at Africa, the places where they give Ivermectin > routinely has basically no Covid death spikes, the places where they don't > have the familiar looking waves. >
These effects are more easily explained by demographics (many young people) and by very poor data collection. They are not caused by the use of ivermectin. As I said, if ivermectin could have this effect, this would be clear from the double-blind clinical testing. As noted above, many tests have been done, and 70 in total will be done. That is more than enough to reveal an effect. Furthermore, even if we assume that the most positive tests so far are correct, the effect they show is so small it cannot begin to explain the result in Africa or India. Beware of wishful thinking and people who do not understand epidemiology and statistics. The epidemiologists in India are right; the ivermectin advocates are wrong. I am not aware of any epidemiological look at the situation in Africa, but the population profiles and the poor quality of health care and public health statistics are similar. You cannot draw conclusions from the public health data. For example, in Uttar Pradesh recent statistics indicate that no one has died from anything. Deaths are zero in all categories. That can't be right. See: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.04.21261604v1.full QUOTE: "For Uttar Pradesh, the raw mortality data obtained from a Right-to-Information request contained anomalies, such as multiple districts with zero deaths for numerous months."
