Scooped me by 19 minutes, LOL. Perfect title, thanks!

Why did you delete your comment, Foggy? Seemed good to me.

“The limitations of this retrospective analysis make it difficult to draw conclusions about the efficacy of using ivermectin to treat patients with COVID-19,” the NIH statement reads.

This is referring to the Broward County ICON study. I can't remember if I have already mentioned that Dr. Ratjer and team (that did the ICON study) are working on a formal trial. Not sure how far along they are; it hasn't shown up in ClinicalTrials and presumably will.

This pisses me off:

“The reason why we use it is we don’t know what’s working and what’s not working because there are so many variables. We consider it part of our portfolio of success for patient recovery,” Lacknauth said. “We won’t know for sure if it works for about two or three years after there are more controlled trials.”

Just in time for covid-24.

"Because there are so many variables."

That's why you have a control group, dumb ass.

This is a great anecdote.'

Boros said that Carter was on the verge of having to go on a ventilator, which he said is when most deaths occur.

“He was really sick,” Boros said. “He was going down the tubes fast and was going to wind up on a ventilator.”

Starting around 4 p.m. that day, Boros gave Carter a large dose of ivermectin, 18 3-milligram pills over the next four hours. Carter took nine pills at first, five more about two hours later, and the rest of the dose early the next morning. Boros was worried at first about how much to give Carter since there are no established guidelines about using the drug to treat COVID. But he was more concerned about how fast his patient’s condition was deteriorating.

54mg for 290 pounds = 410mcg/kg. Not such a big dose; a trial is dosing at 3 times that amount, for 5 consecutive days!

“There’s nobody to tell us about what to do here,” Boros said.

“Within 12 hours, I’m starting to feel better. Twenty-four hours later, I’m out of the hospital and my actual symptoms have gone away,” he said. “I could speak entire sentences without having to cough.”

Other than a slight malaise, Carter said last week he is symptom free.

In his original new story, Dr. Ratjer spoke of bringing a patient back from the brink of death.

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Professor Thomas Borody, famous for his triple drug therapy for peptic ulcers, has a protocol he is providing to Doctors. He references several trials that did not include a placebo group. For more information check out the Facebook group The People's Medicine

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let me properly rewrite that title for miamiherald

"should a decade-old proven antiviral be used on covid19 at a fraction of the price of other treatments? yes"

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