Where did he said January? I thought January was trials for vaccines. Not for ivermectin.

Ivermectin (IVM) and COVID-19
Oral Ivermectin is listed under WHO essential medicines from 2019, primarily as an anthelminthic drug used to treat various parasitic infestations.
IVM is cheap, easily available and safe for use, and in Malaysia is only licensed for use in animals.
Laboratory work showed IVM has broad spectrum antiviral properties against RNA and DNA viruses. On that basis, some clinicians have repurposed IVM with other standard of care against COVID-19.
There are now case reports and case series indicative of potential beneficial outcomes if patients are prescribed IVM early in SARS-CoV-2 infection as the mechanism to limit viral load and prevent severe  disease  progression or person-person   transmission.
A pilot study published in the Lancet a few days ago showed some promising results but the authors concluded that the study “warrants further exploration”under larger trials with clinical outcomes in patients with risk factors or more severe disease.
https://www.thelancet.com/.../PIIS2589-5370(20.../fulltext
The current opinion over IVM is that there is insufficient data to support the use for prophylaxis or treatment of COVID-19
https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/statement.../
https://aci.health.nsw.gov.au/.../20201223-Evidence-Check...
The Institute of Clinical Research and KKM Infectious Disease specialists are in the process of developing a clinical trial on IVM, as well as Favipiravir to further ascertain the efficacy of these medicine. We shall update the outcome in due course.

i don't realised non hospitalised patients need to take risk by consuming invermectin

what is the purpose? low risk group would recover on their own anyway
to credit that with a drug is such a nonsense. shorten isolation time lol

One may wonder about the public health benefit of treating mild patients since shortening the period of relatively mild symptoms may not merit a mass drug administration of ivermectin to the large population of non-hospitalized patients. However, inducing faster viral clearance and therefore reducing the time until the patient reaches a state of being non-infectious have an extremely important public health impact.

so only research favorable to your view is without shortcomings?

wow

Sembang kencang mmg best anything happen blame KKM

u dont provide the answer directly to my question.
since some of u propose that ivermectin use for covid prophylaxis. please provide us the research that support it. so far ur source fail to show as such

I support what you way. Ivermectin has not been approved for use for C-19 by any trusted authorities (FDA, Malaysia MOH or Singapore MOH) but just because you read if on the net or your neighbour said on WhatsApp that it works, then you suddenly know better than the experts.

And yet somehow, C-19 vaccines that are in billions of arms without much problems is deemed unsafe for some people.

I can't brain the logic.

Because there’s this feeling that something not allowed must be  good and something that’s pushed to you must be bad lor..

To be fair on all sides, I think all of us know that with such a "rushed" vaccine, there's bound to be some form of collateral damage.

But the thing about this "damage" is unknown. Because there's not enough testing period to accumulate data. The population became the largest data gatherers. So along the way, more side effects are known.

If our governing body can help us  prove that the cases are not related,  than i think this chat group will also not exist. But the problem is that the family of those injured have too much questions unanswered that makes it difficult for them to move on.

We are just layman trying to lend support to each other. When the professionals in the industry are just as divided by the possible results of the vaccine, who are we to say its ok, its safe.

By trying to get more information,  we are being labeled as anti Vax. The funny thing is, we are not even entitled to a free packet of 🍟fries (shake shack) if we are not Vax? Since when a matter of choice have become a social bias that business can leverage on?

Everyone knows the side effects irregardless of the scale affect a certain number of people. Though some may claim the number to be low and the benefits outweigh the risk, but who are you to judge whether or not the benefits are larger? If i were to get a stroke, a mild one for that matter, who's to take care of my children,  my family? I have to utilize my own insurance payout to settle my own daily liabilities. So since I have to use my money to settle if anything goes wrong, I have the right to make my own decision as to when I think it deems fit. The articles here serve as an additional information to people like me, to aid our decision making process but they are not making a decision for us.

so u can concur with me that ivermectin prophylaxis is bullshot... n not a reason to avoid vaccination?

yahudee small sample test, got positive result for mild cases patient.
at least 3x more effective than placebo.

Before its withdrawal, the paper was viewed more than 150,000 times, cited more than 30 times and included in a number of meta-analyses that collect trial findings into a single, statistically weighted result. In one recent meta-analysis in the American Journal of Therapeutics that found ivermectin greatly reduced COVID-19 deaths, the Elgazzar paper accounted for 15.5% of the effect.

One of the authors of the meta-analysis, statistician Andrew Bryant at Newcastle University, UK, says that his team corresponded with Elgazzar before publishing the work to clarify some data. “We had no reason to doubt the integrity of [Professor] Elgazzar,” he said in an e-mail. He added that in a pandemic setting, no one can reanalyse all of the raw data from patient records when writing a review. Bryant went on to say that his group will revise the conclusion if investigations find the study to be unreliable. However, even if the study is removed, the meta-analysis would still show that ivermectin causes a major reduction in deaths from COVID-19, he says.