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by shaicoleman 5y ago
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What the WHO did to the Ivermectin evidence base?
* Single person served as Chair of Guidance Support, & member of Methods Committee, and Systematic Review Team
* Failed to publish a pre-established protocol for data exclusion
* Excluded trials.. that were included in their original Unitaid search protocol
* Excluded two "quasi-randomized" RCT's finding statistically significant lower mortality
* Excluded two RCT's compared to/given with other medications, finding statistically significant lower mortality
* Excluded up to seven or more other available Ivermectin RCT results
* Excluded all RCT's and OCT's investigating Ivermectin in the prevention of COVID-19
* Excluded 13 OCT's with over 5,500 patients, overall large reductions in mortality found
* Excluded numerous published and pre-print epidemiologic studies finding population wide mortality decreases
* Included only 3 studies such that this limited dataset allowed them to "suggest" increased harms of Ivermectin
* Graded the JAMA study as "low risk of bias" yet all independent expert reviewers have graded as high risk of bias
* Downgraded the quality of evidence on mortality due to "imprecision" despite displaying a precise estimate