Early treatment for Covid is key to better outcomes May 21, 2021, 1:50 PM IST
The non-profit organization I founded, the Covid-19 Early Treatment Fund, funds research on drugs that can treat Covid. Our collaborations with hundreds of researchers and clinicians worldwide gives us a very broad view of what works and what doesn’t work, in both research trials and in the clinic.
I would like to share with you some of the most important things we’ve learned about Covid over the past year.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Get vaccinated if possible. If you have not yet been vaccinated, taking 0.2mg/kg of ivermectin once a week has been shown to reduce the risk of getting a Covid infection by an average of 85%. It is advisable to take two doses of 0.2mg/kg spread 2 days apart in the first week.
Do the NIH and WHO COVID treatment recommendations need to be fixed? Publié le 20/05/2021 à 11:06 - Mise à jour à 17:16
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Executive Summary
This is the first in a series of articles arguing that obeisance to constrictive evidence-based medicine (EBM) treatment protocols in a pandemic is causing an unnecessary loss of hundreds of thousands of lives.
If, instead of exclusively relying on EBM for developing treatment recommendations, we made medical decisions based on looking at and 1) made recommendations, which are most consistent with the evidence to date, 2) made recommendations that are more likely than not to save the most lives, and 3) considered the costs of being wrong (death vs. minor temporary side effects), then we would arrive at a completely different set of recommendations. We would not be afraid to make mistakes because we would be seeking to minimize the loss of life.
How India can reduce COVID cases and deaths: Short of mass vaccination, the next best scalable way to prevent people from getting COVID is Ivermectin.
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There is a way to dramatically reduce these numbers.
The problem is that India, like most countries, has been following the advice recommended by the recognized authorities (NIH, CDC, WHO, and EMA) for how to prevent and treat COVID. This advice is based on evidence-based medicine (EBM), which takes a relatively long time to discover and rigorously validate effective treatments.
Today, India doesn’t have the luxury of time. Hospitals are so overloaded now that extremely sick people cannot get in.