Consider dexamethasone. > There is, no, no large-scale RCT for IVM. However, it is inherently obvious that none will happen, none that give it a fair shake. W

Consider dexamethasone. > There is, no, no large-scale RCT for IVM. However, it is inherently obvious that none will happen, none that give it a fair shake. Well, the gold standard RCT Recovery (https://www.recoverytrial.net/ https://www.recoverytrial.net/) had a look. > The entire public health apparatus in the West has a huge desire to treat all illness with only on-patent, new medications. Dexamethasone is a cheap steroid. (For that matter, vaccines are incredibly cheap and yet nobody seems to have stopped them in favour of, say, monoclonal antibodies.) > Do you not thin that this incentive influences what gets into the news? Evidently not terribly much, given that dexamethasone was at least in all the British newspapers. > Do you think the public health authorities in Uttar Pradesh are lying? Quite plausibly. UP is perhaps the worst governed state in India and has been under all political parties. The case of Kafeel Khan is rather illustrative. More to the point, I don’t care whether they’re lying. The whole article is full of vague statements that are hardly a good basis to believe anything about ivermectin.