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> Nonetheless, Ivermectin is safe drug to take in normal doses, and will help people that are hospitalised with COVID and are given steroids. In what way will

• jiggawatts 5y ago
  You don't necessarily know if a patient has parasites or not when they present at a hospital with severe COVID. Even if just 1% of patients have parasites, then giving them a single pill of Ivermectin before commencing steroid treatment could save their life. For the other 99% of patients, it does nothing. It's a bit like an episode of Dr House. Trying to determine an illness solely with tests is often futile or prohibitively expensive. It can also take long enough that meanwhile the patient will die. Directly treating them "just on the off chance" can actually be a better approach, but obviously this would have to be weighed up against the side-effects and risks of the treatment and drugs involved. Ivermectin luckily is so safe that some doctors have called for giving it to every COVID patient that goes to hospital. Saving 1% of patients is... thousands of people at the scale of the pandemic.