Ivermectin has been promoted by rogue doctors and celebrities, but has never proven to be an effective treatment against COVID.
This is how the antiparasitic drug, ivermectin, became COVID's latest conspiracy theory ...
This is how the antiparasitic drug, ivermectin, became COVID's latest conspiracy theory ...
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00:00If ivermectin worked against COVID, we would love it. But the studies that people are relying
00:10on are not good data. It primarily has been used to treat parasitic infections, but there
00:22is a hypothesis that it might have some anti-inflammatory benefit, and it might have some anti-viral
00:28benefit as well. The way that ivermectin works in parasites is that it targets the neural system.
00:36It actually paralyzes the digestive system of a parasite. The traditional way that ivermectin
00:41would work wouldn't really work on a virus because it doesn't have the same makeup as a parasite.
00:53Turns out I got COVID. So we immediately threw the kitchen sink out of all kinds of meds,
00:57monoclonal antibodies, ivermectin, Z-Pak, prednisone, everything.
01:07If you were so confident with it, why take the monoclonal antibodies? Why take the prednisone?
01:12You wouldn't need to if ivermectin was a miracle cure.
01:14I've had a lot of backlash from Joe Rogan fans, especially recently, for saying,
01:18oh no, he didn't push it. He gets experts on and they talk about the data. Well,
01:24he's had more experts on talking about ivermectin and alternative treatments to COVID than he has
01:29had from the legitimate scientists behind the vaccine, which indirectly pushes the agenda.
01:46This is what happens when y'all want to be fools and use our damn stuff.
01:50Everybody loves a conspiracy theory. So I completely see where they're coming from. Now,
01:56everybody can meet on a forum or a social media and say, oh, I thought that as well.
02:01I'm not getting vaccinated. I'm not a sheep. That's selfish. Oh, but instead,
02:08I will take a deworming drug. Isn't that meant for horses? Yeah. Yeah.
02:20There is a human form, FDA approved, and if you take the dose from the human form,
02:30then the side effects are probably going to be mild. The common side effects, yeah, diarrhea,
02:36headaches, rash. Now, that's if you take the recommended dose.
02:43Don't take ivermectin if you plan on driving, operating heavy machinery,
02:48or if you're wearing your good pants. What we're seeing that's very concerning is people
02:52using the animal ivermectin, which comes as a paste or a liquid. If you try and self-medicate
02:58with animal medication, then, you know, you're putting yourself at risk of overdosing. We've
03:02seen people have seizures. We've seen people have real adverse neurological events and
03:09those will put you in hospital.
03:28The studies that have been quoted by people who support ivermectin are all what we call
03:32retrospective. So that means that they're looking back at things. And when you look back,
03:37you're more likely to have confirmation bias because you think that ivermectin works for COVID.
03:53Oxford University did a meta-analysis of 10 studies. Meta-analysis is really the pinnacle
04:00of evidence-based medicine. So that's an analysis of all of the good trials that are out there.
04:05Their conclusion from doing the meta-analysis of these 10 studies was that there was no benefit
04:11whether you used ivermectin or placebo.
04:23The clinical trials for the vaccines have been through hundreds of thousands of people,
04:28if you include all the trials all over the world for the different vaccines.
04:33So that's evidence and that's robust evidence. Unfortunately, I think people have such a
04:38mistrust of authority and now medical authorities come into that subgroup. My message in social
04:45media is just look at where the sources are coming from and try and think for yourself.