An interesting new study - systematic review and meta-analysis for ivermectin. Found:
- no benefit for all-cause mortality
- no benefit for length of stay
Both very low-quality evidence
medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
- no benefit for all-cause mortality
- no benefit for length of stay
Both very low-quality evidence
medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
I haven't had time to read it in extreme detail yet, but a quick skim seems to show that it is a fairly good piece of research that the authors have already improved in the 24 hours since it went online
Arguably the most important point of the study - the vast majority of evidence on ivermectin for COVID-19 appears to be of extremely poor quality even when you limit the results only to the best studies
I should say - it is yet another enormous, hideous black mark against our scientific nous during this pandemic that the evidence we have about a treatment that has been given to 100s of millions of people is "very low" quality
Shameful, really
Shameful, really
Even if ivermectin is useless, we should have more than a handful of awful trials about it
And we don't
And we don't
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