>>14120399Yeah that’s a good point as well. I actually had a discussion about this with my father who’s a doctor who strongly believes in ivermectin’s efficacy. He was claiming that the research studying ivermectin in isolation is necessarily flawed because the drug only really works as a combination therapy. But at the same time he points to anecdotal evidence (like Rogan) where people got better using it as one component of a multi drug therapy. Maybe he’s right, but the reasoning seems inconsistent to me.
How would we know if the ivermectin is working when someone is also taking monoclonal antibodies, steroids, etc.. It could just as easily be that the monoclonal antibodies did all the work while the ivm did nothing.
It’s also necessary to remember that results from in vitro studies do not carry over to clinical practice in the vast majority of cases. Ivm may have been the most effective protease inhibitor out of 13 drugs tested in vitro at an unreasonably high concentration, but that doesn’t guarantee or even strongly suggest efficacy in actual humans
