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    Michael Hiltzik: Definitive study shows ivermectin is utterly useless against COVID-19

    The final results are in, and they're incontrovertible: Ivermectin, that nostrum assiduously promoted by anti-vaccine advocates and conspiracy-mongers, is utterly useless against COVID-19. That's the conclusion of a peer-reviewed study of more than 1,350 COVID patients treated with the drug, which is customarily used to combat parasitic diseases in humans, livestock and pets. The study was ...
    by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times Apr 01, 2022 4 minutes
    Tracey Savich, owner of Rolling Hills General Store, felt the need to warn customers against using veterinary ivermectin to treat COVID-19.

    The final results are in, and they're incontrovertible: Ivermectin, that nostrum assiduously promoted by anti-vaccine advocates and conspiracy-mongers, is utterly useless against COVID-19.

    That's the conclusion of a peer-reviewed study of more than 1,350 COVID patients treated with the drug, which is customarily used to combat parasitic diseases in humans, livestock and pets.

    The study was published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine, but we reported on it last August.

    That's when one of its principal investigators, Edward J. Mills of McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, disclosed the preliminary results during a research symposium. The data

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