The generic broad anti-viral props of ivermectin seems to have been established during the last decade https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016635

The generic broad anti-viral props of ivermectin seems to have been established during the last decade https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166354220302011 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016635422... so it isn't out of the blue that it may work as anti-covid, though whether it rises to a clinical effect that i guess is the question right now. To me it looks like the small positive clinical effect reported in many places matches that generic broad anti-viral props, and it also shows that it isn't a "cure", at least not in the current form. So all this drama is kind of strange - why not prescribe to the patients who want it? Not that doctors have anything better to offer anyway, and the patients will get a deworming as a bonus.