Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on ivermectin: what the evidence says · JRE #1999
SUBJECT: IVERMECTIN
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Yeah. It's insane. And the fact that and won the nobel prize for for efficacy in humans yeah in humans yeah it was wild it was just wild they had to do it
What the evidence says 01 / RECORD
The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine recognized the discovery of avermectin (whose derivative ivermectin is used against parasitic roundworm diseases such as river blindness), a discovery made decades before COVID-19 existed; it did not address any antiviral or COVID-19-related application. Separately, a WHO guideline panel reviewed pooled data from 16 randomized controlled trials (2,407 patients) on ivermectin for COVID-19 and found the evidence on whether it reduces mortality, mechanical ventilation, hospitalization, or time to clinical improvement to be of very low certainty, and in 2021 WHO recommended ivermectin be used for COVID-19 only within clinical trials. Kennedy's statement that ivermectin "won the Nobel Prize for efficacy in humans" is accurate as far as parasitic disease treatment goes, but raising it in this COVID-19 discussion implies the prize supports ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment, which it does not, and which the rigorous trial evidence reviewed by WHO has not established.