Peter McCullough on health: what the evidence says · JRE #1747
SUBJECT: HEALTH
Not a true/false call. Every claim is logged with its sources; read the exhibits below.
I advise the Sri Lankan government. They reached out to me and said, listen, we're in trouble. We're getting buried with COVID.
What the evidence says 01 / RECORD
Sri Lanka did have a period in 2021 in which ivermectin was distributed and publicly promoted amid political and public pressure, and McCullough has repeatedly and publicly claimed an informal advisory role with Sri Lankan officials during this period, though independent, on-the-record confirmation of a formal government advisory appointment has not been found. Contrary to the implication that this approach resolved the outbreak, a peer-reviewed epidemiological study confirms the Delta variant and its sublineages caused the largest SARS-CoV-2 outbreak of Sri Lanka's pandemic, running from roughly July to October 2021, the same window in which ivermectin distribution was being promoted. The most rigorous evidence synthesis available, the Cochrane systematic review of ivermectin for COVID-19 (11 randomized trials, 3,409 participants), found no evidence that ivermectin is effective for treating or preventing COVID-19. The claim that ivermectin/hydroxychloroquine distribution "handled" Sri Lanka's pandemic is therefore misleading: the country's worst wave, by cases and deaths, occurred during and after the period ivermectin was being promoted, and the best available clinical evidence does not support the drug's effectiveness against COVID-19.