Follow-up on a Pre-print Study shows routine Ivermectin use helped out in African countries
WHO program was giving ivermectin out to 114 million persons in Africa
Note: An updated list of ivermectin nations will follow soon …
In a pre-print study, researchers looked at the 31 African nations targeted for community-directed treatment with ivermectin (CDTI) to ward off “river blindness” (onchocerciasis).
I carried the numbers forward to the week of 8 Mar 2021, to get the accumulated excess death per 100,000 in ivermectin countries versus non-ivermectin countries — and a Wilcoxon Rank Sum test was significant.
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Evidence from 53 nations in Africa suggests that ivermectin keeps people alive.
Note: An updated list of ivermectin nations will follow soon …
Reference
[pre-print study looking at protective effect of ivermectin] — Why COVID-19 is not so spread in Africa: How does Ivermectin affect it? https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.26.21254377v1.full.pdf
[WHO program which had been giving ivermectin to 114 million people in Africa] — WHO. African Region. Onchocerciasis. https://www.afro.who.int/health-topics/onchocerciasis
[cumulative excess death per 100,000 (The Economist)] — OWID. https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid