Joe Rogan on ivermectin: what the evidence says · JRE #1718
SUBJECT: IVERMECTIN
Not a true/false call. Every claim is logged with its sources; read the exhibits below.
They have 230 million people in this country and they've essentially knocked COVID down to almost nothing.
What the evidence says 01 / RECORD
The claim that Uttar Pradesh's mass ivermectin distribution "knocked COVID down to almost nothing" originated with proponents such as Dr. Pierre Kory and spread widely online, but fact-checkers and epidemiologists found no scientific basis for crediting ivermectin with the state's case decline. Uttar Pradesh's government says it began distributing ivermectin as early as August 2020, well before the 2021 Delta-wave surge and collapse, and the drug did not prevent that wave. Researchers who examined all-cause mortality data for the state found implausible patterns, such as populous districts reporting no deaths at all for months, suggesting the underlying case and death data are too unreliable to support any causal claim about what drove the decline. A Cochrane systematic review of the available trial evidence found no evidence to support using ivermectin to treat or prevent COVID-19. Public health researchers who studied Uttar Pradesh's actual pandemic response describe inconsistent and rapidly-revised treatment guidance, including on ivermectin itself, not a controlled, single-variable ivermectin campaign, further undermining the causal narrative.