It seems to me like it’s has the potential to be an antiviral. At the moment we don’t have studies to be certain whether it has significant clinical benefit with high certainty but the studies we have does suggest it’s has a significant clinical benefit.
Our study suggests that ivermectin may offer beneficial effects towards Covid-19 outcomes. More randomized clinical trial studies are still needed to confirm the results of our study.
Kory who advocated ivermectin for a while things it might be a broad spectrum antiviral and also be useful against other viruses.
The potential of ivermectin to be a day one preventative measure for viral pandemics seems to warrent the research to validate whether it is.
As far as general risk prevention goes it’s worth noting that Coronaviruses seem to be a type of virus that’s releatively easy to vaccinate against. Having antivirals is important in the face of a pandemic caused by a virus that isn’t easy to vaccinate against.
I read through the ivermectin research in the last days. General strategy, search Google scholar for metareviews and put them on Wikidata to be listed on (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User%3AChristianKl%2Fivermectin).
It seems to me like it’s has the potential to be an antiviral. At the moment we don’t have studies to be certain whether it has significant clinical benefit with high certainty but the studies we have does suggest it’s has a significant clinical benefit.
A recent meta analysis concludes:
Kory who advocated ivermectin for a while things it might be a broad spectrum antiviral and also be useful against other viruses.
The potential of ivermectin to be a day one preventative measure for viral pandemics seems to warrent the research to validate whether it is.
As far as general risk prevention goes it’s worth noting that Coronaviruses seem to be a type of virus that’s releatively easy to vaccinate against. Having antivirals is important in the face of a pandemic caused by a virus that isn’t easy to vaccinate against.