Does Ivermectin Work for Covid-19?
Why we still don’t really know if ivermectin has any benefit at all for Covid-19
Note: because I know people will say silly things, I have never been paid by any pharmaceutical companies, hold no interests in drugs of any kind, and am funded entirely by the Australian state and federal governments, as well as a bit of money that I get from locking my stories on Medium for you all to read. I have no financial interests in any Covid-19 drugs, and honestly would love it if ivermectin cured the disease because then the pandemic would be over — I could go back to writing about whether chili peppers can stop heart attacks and that’d be much more fun.
The Covid-19 pandemic has often felt like one long parade of hope around miracle cures. First we had hydroxychloroquine, which has been used to treat countless millions across the globe despite the most recent evidence indicating that it increases your risk of death if you have Covid-19. Following that, we saw a seemingly endless cavalcade of supposed cures, from vitamin C to zinc to vitamin D to almost everything in between — there’s been an understandably desperate longing for a simple fix to the pandemic that has permeated conversations across the globe.
