Posted on 07/20/2021 8:32:19 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Newswise — WASHINGTON, D.C. and BATH, SOMERSET, U.K. – The Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC), a group of highly published, world-renowned critical care physicians and scholars, and the British Ivermectin Recommendation Development Group (BIRD), a U.K. based group of medical and scientific experts from over 15 countries, are concerned over the misrepresentation of science in the recent article published in the Guardian regarding the withdrawal of Professor Emeritus Ahmed Elgazzar’s study into ivermectin that was first posted December 16, 2020.
Contrary to the voices quoted in the article, there is no scientific basis to state that the removal of one study from meta-analyses would ‘reverse results.’ Worryingly, this article’s insinuation is reported as if it is fact.
According to the most recent analyses by BIRD, excluding the Elgazzar data from the cited meta-analyses by Bryant and Hill does not change the conclusions of these reviews, with the findings still clearly favouring ivermectin for both prevention and treatment.
This article raise questions of journalistic integrity and we invite the Guardian to make appropriate corrections to the reporting and properly check the veracity of their claims.
“This is not just about correcting facts but about people’s lives,” said Dr. Tess Lawrie, director of the Evidence-Based Medicine Consultancy and organizer of the BIRD group. “Ivermectin is already in use around the world and can reach the poorest people long before other expensive COVID treatments will ever get to them. Ivermectin has an ever-increasing evidence base that shows that it works –even the prestigious Institute Pasteur in France has confirmed that the evidence is sound.”
“When we examine the extensive evidence on ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19 without this latest study, we still see a significant reduction in the spread of COVID-19 as well as a reduction in hospitalizations and death,” said Dr. Pierre Kory, president and chief medical officer of the FLCCC. “All science needs to be scrutinized. As some of the most published researchers in our fields, we are used to having our work examined by others. I hope that Dr. Elgazzar’s work will be impartially judged and any errors that might be found are corrected.”
About the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance
The FLCCC Alliance was organized in March 2020 by a group of highly published, world renowned Critical Care physician/scholars – with the academic support of allied physicians from around the world – to research and develop lifesaving protocols for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 in all stages of illness. Their MATH+ Hospital Treatment Protocol, introduced in March 2020, has saved thousands of patients who were critically ill with COVID-19. Now, the FLCCC’s new I-Mask+ Prophylaxis and Early At-Home Outpatient Treatment Protocol with Ivermectin has been released – and is a potential solution to the global pandemic.
For more information: www.FLCCC.net
About the BIRD group
Convened by The Evidenced-Based Medical Consultancy (E-BMC) in Bath, United Kingdom, the BIRD meeting was assembled according to the World Health Organization Handbook of Guideline Development to review the latest science on the safety and efficacy of Ivermectin for the treatment and prevention of COVID-19. The expert panel included medical and scientific experts from 16 countries, including Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Hungary, India, Ireland, Japan, Peru, Nigeria, South Africa, Philippines, United States, United Kingdom
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Ping for your interest
The FDA does not want to recognize ANY treatment option for Covid other than vaccine. If they do recognize a treatment option, by law, the EUA has to be withdrawn and the vaccine can no longer be administered.
Did Trump say Ivermectin is Bad so the idiots would say it’s good ?
No, the opposite. Trump mentioned it as possibly being positive just like HCQ. After that, the med establishment, dems and msm attacked both drugs.
nailed it
Remdesivir is an officially approved treatment. Why then is the vaccines EUA still in place?
I dont know.
Here is the FDA EUA page:
https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/mcm-legal-regulatory-and-policy-framework/emergency-use-authorization
Perhaps it is because Remdesivir is limited in scope (hospitalized patients) and also a EUA.
Pretty sure Remdesivir isn’t under EUA approval.
In any case, no off-label drug use should be off the table if one’s doctor thinks it is effective. Sadly, this isn’t the case for far too many doctors it seems.
That said, I view relying on any potential treatment as a poor substitute for vaccination.
Waiting for the regular fearmongers to join the thread
https://ivmmeta.com/ is the meta-analysis, which already REMOVED the Elgazzarstudy in the Guardian article.
Even after removing that work, the meta-analysis shows “The probability that an ineffective treatment generated results as positive as the 60 studies to date is estimated to be 1 in 193 billion (p = 0.0000000000052).”
The EUA for Remdesivir is on that page, down towards the bottom. You will see it beside the date 05/01/2020
Ivermectin - How it works
In vitro studies suggest that ivermectin acts by inhibiting the host importin alpha/beta-1 nuclear transport proteins, which are part of a key intracellular transport process that viruses hijack to enhance infection by suppressing the host’s antiviral response.4,5 In addition, ivermectin docking may interfere with the attachment of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spike protein to the human cell membrane. Ivermectin is thought to be a host-directed agent, which may be the basis for its broad-spectrum activity in vitro against the viruses that cause dengue, Zika, HIV, and yellow fever. — NIH COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines (https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/therapies/antiviral-therapy/ivermectin/}
bkmk
I do not understand why Remdesivir is officially approved. It has not produced any results that are any better than Ivermectin or HCQ.
Agreed. It seems all of them are only marginally helpful.
That’s what I don’t understand!
It basically does very little. In fact, I think the ivermectin clinical trials have produced FAR better results than the Remdesivir.
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