[merpnderp]

A bit off topic, but there are hundreds of millions of people in India who have been taking Ivermectin for significant amounts of time. In some states, serum positive levels are .01%. How are there not dozens of high quality studies being done during this period to quickly answer our questions?

[Abishek_Muthian]

> but there are hundreds of millions of people in India who have been taking Ivermectin for significant amounts of time.

Misinformation. Anti-vaxx groups are sighting India because a tiny state(Goa) with a population of 1.59 Million included Ivermecitin in their home isolation medicine kit along with zinc, doxycycline, homeopathy etc. and also announced that adults in the state would be given Ivermecitin.

A fraction of their population actually received that kit, Of which negligible population actually consumed those if any. Ivermecitin, Zinc, doxycycline were removed from that kit in Goa after federal medical authority asked it to do so and it was even removed from the treatment of COVID-19 patients in the hospitals throughout India.

So, No 'hundreds of millions of people in India' never took Ivermecitin and is no way related to the drop in cases of COVID in India. But Anti-vaxx groups are using this misinformation as an ammunition at unexpected places to further their agenda[1].

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20210924045611/https://github.co...

[merpnderp]

There's no need to be uncivil and slander people as anti-vaxx (I and literally everyone I know is vaccinated) or spreading misinformation just because you are misinformed.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/no-fresh-covid-cas...

https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/lucknow-news/yogi-adit...

[Abishek_Muthian]

I didn't call you particularly as anti-vaxx, I said anti-vaxx are promoting Ivermecitin using India/Goa and provided source for that claim.

What does the attached URLs has to do with your claim of "hundreds of millions of people in India who have been taking Ivermectin for significant amounts of time." and implying somehow that Ivermectin reduced the COVID case load in India which coincidentally is exactly what Anti-vaxx are peddling?

States which were using non-evidence based medication incl. Ivermecitin have dropped them after Directorate general of health services (DGHS) has issued guidelines to stop using them[1] and recently Indian Council of Medical Research have also dropped them from the list[2].

There's no reason to put India and Ivermecitin again in the same sentence unless it's to promote misinformation.

[1] https://www.indiatoday.in/coronavirus-outbreak/story/revised...

[2] https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/icmr-drops-ivermec...

[rpmisms]

This is an extremely cogent point. We already have a test and control group for the effectiveness of Ivermectin. Not studying it is foolhardy.