I had my supply of Ivermectin in the summer of 2020, obtained from a patriotic website, which was crushed and deleted shortly thereafter by the Big Pharma propaganda army, who knew Ivermectin worked, but needed to discredit it because their toxic gene therapy wouldn’t get emergency use authorization. We used Ivermectin when we got sick in December 2020 and recovered within a few days.
Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
People who tested positive for COVID-19 and took ivermectin as a treatment recovered faster than a comparison group, a new study found.
The time to self-reported recovery was a median of two days faster among the ivermectin recipients, according to the large UK study.
The quicker recovery period was statistically significant.
People who received ivermectin were also less likely to be hospitalized or die, with 1.6 percent of ivermectin recipients being hospitalized or dying versus 4 percent of the comparison group, which received typical care, which in the UK is largely focused on managing symptoms.
Ivermectin recipients also enjoyed a reduction of severe symptoms and sustained recovery, according to the study.
The paper was published by the Journal of Infection on Feb. 29.
The study covered an open-label trial that involved 2,157 ivermectin recipients and 3,256 who received typical care from June 23, 2021, to July 1, 2022. Participants were randomized and reported symptoms and recovery.
Researchers Say Findings Don’t Support Using Ivermectin
The authors, including Christopher Butler, a University of Oxford professor and joint chief investigator of the trial, downplayed the positive findings in part because the hazard ratio of 1.14 was lower than what authors pre-specified as a meaningful ratio, or 1.2. Hazard ratios are a way to determine whether a treatment is beneficial.
The authors also focused on the lack of differences in the number of days participants felt sick in the previous two weeks, impact on work, and likelihood of using the health care system at 3, 6, and 12 months following treatment.
“Overall, these findings, while evidencing a small benefit in symptom duration, do not support the use of ivermectin as treatment for COVID-19 in the community among a largely vaccinated population at the dose and duration we used,” the authors said.
Funding for the research came from the UK government.
Conflicts of interest included one researcher receiving grants from pharmaceutical companies, including AstraZeneca, and other authors receiving grants from the University of Oxford.
The trial, known as PRINCIPLE, was touted by investigators as “the world’s largest clinical trial of possible COVID-19 treatments for recovery at home and in other non-hospital settings.”
“Ivermectin is readily available globally, has been in wide use for many other infectious conditions so it’s a well-known medicine with a good safety profile, and because of the early promising results in some studies it is already being widely used to treat COVID-19 in several countries,” Dr. Christopher Butler, a University of Oxford professor and joint chief investigator of the trial, said when it was announced ivermectin would be assessed. “By including ivermectin in a large-scale trial like PRINCIPLE, we hope to generate robust evidence to determine how effective the treatment is against COVID-19, and whether there are benefits or harms associated with its use.”
Doctors Weigh In
Dr. Pierre Kory, an American physician who was not involved in the trial, said that the authors wrongly downplayed how ivermectin improved recovery from COVID-19.
“PRINCIPLE was a profoundly positive study that was instead analyzed and written up as a negative one,” Dr. Kory, who has long promoted ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment, wrote in an essay.
He accused the authors of undertaking “statistical chicanery” by coming up with the pre-specified hazard ratio (HR), noting that no such level was used in other parts of the PRINCIPLE trial.
“A hazard ratio does not need a pre-specified level. If the HR is > 1.0, and it is statistically significant, it is a robust finding,” he said.
The positive findings should also be interpreted in the context of recipients only receiving one dose per day across three days and being directed not to eat food before ivermectin, Dr. Kory said.
Dr. Butler and his co-authors said “no food should be taken two hours before or after administration” despite previous research finding that taking ivermectin with food increases plasma concentration.
Participants also received ivermectin a median of five days after symptom onset, a period of time considered by some to be too late to have much of an impact. Ivermectin works best when applied within 24 hours of symptom manifestation, according to a meta-regression of ivermectin studies.
Dr. Butler did not respond to a request for comment.
There have been additional studies that found ivermectin worked against COVID-19. The drug, commonly used for purposes such as combating malaria, has divided scientists since 2020, when doctors around the world began using it to treat COVID-19.
Some other research, including a U.S. trial, has found that ivermectin did not improve time to recovery.
Dr. David Boulware, another American doctor, who helped run that trial, argued on X that the faster recovery recorded in the UK trial was similar to the quicker recovery reported in an open-label trial of molnupiravir, an antiviral sometimes used to treat COVID-19.
“Molnupiravir also had a 2 day faster improvement in symptoms over ‘usual care’ yet no benefit existed in double-blind trial,” Dr. Boulware said on X. “Placebo effect influences self-reported symptoms.”
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Don’t ever forget what they did to you.
and TRIED to do to you as well.
I love horse paste.
I don’t exactly “love” it, but neither am I afraid to raid the veterinary medicine cabinet when necessary. We all do as we’re led to do. The trick is knowing who’s actually leading you at the moment.
I love being free to decide for myself about horse paste.
Enjoy it while it lasts! I celebrate your freedom!
Wow! What a diverse crowd we have here! We even have a down – voting fag who hates freedom and seeing people be free!
Jesus. What must it be like to go through life THAT way?
Your freedom is an illusion.
Your illusion is your freedom.
But the fact is that most people are easily fooled and are too dumb to decide for themselves. Most that decide are victims of the latest propaganda.
Let us cut to the chase, shall we? Anyone who relied on a “test” as inaccurate as PCR deserves what they got.
Anyone trusting the Government is getting exactly what THEY deserve.
And EVERYONE trusting in GOD WILL get exactly what’s coming to them as well!
It’s ALL about choices.
No question about it. When has god done anything for humanity?
After creating them? Depends on who you ask.
People who tested positive for covid.
That sentence right there just undermined the entire article premise.
Why?
Because it keeps alive TWO LIES.
1. People testing positive.
2. Covid.
Fail!
Yes.
It is terrifying and enraging how many people still don’t even know the name of the PCR inventor and his statements contra his own test’s usefulness, and on the crook Fauci.
The CDC admits it has never isolated the virus and based shots on . . . nothing. It’s all a horrible lie and the biggest crime, ever.
In 2nd place after religion/spirituality.
I love a downvote for an accurate callout.
Tards.
Not ‘tards, but Langley.
No. It’s definitely tards. I also find it giggle worthy that you think there’s a substantive difference.
Says TBP resident tard, TCS.
What the fuck did you study?
The PCR tests don’t do anything.
And there is no such thing as a pathological virus.
So what the fuck did you prove?
That you are still promoting these two falsehoods as real?
Why would you want to be a cog in their system, writhing in harmony with their lies?
Unless, gasp! you are also duped, or a willing cog participant.
Sure, if you believe in ‘medicine‘
All communist propaganda, snake oil fakery, that stuff is nothing but sugar pills, boy u people r gullible to the core, will Jumping off the sears tower cure u also? If u were dumb enuF to fall for the vax HOAX of 2020
Another study by the “experts”.
Ivermectin is just another poisonous drug courtesy of Big Pharma. They want you sick or dead. Time to wake up and stop believing in bullshit!