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Here is what Alberta Health Services said about Ivermectin for covid 19.
https://www.albertahealthservices.ca/assets/info/ppih/if-ppih-covid-19-sag-ivermectin-in-treatment-and-prevention-rapid-review.pdf
Ivermectin Evidence Review Update Oct 5, 2021, AHS Scientific Advisory Group
The AHS Scientific Advisory Group (SAG) and the COVID-19 The****utics Working Group
continue to monitor new evidence on ivermectin. After review there continues to be insufficient
evidence of benefit, and the previous recommendations continue to be upheld:
• At this time, ivermectin should not be prescribed or taken to prevent or treat COVID-19
(outside of a clinical trial, although SAG is currently not aware of ongoing trials in
Alberta).
The SAG and the The****utics Working Group will continue to monitor and assess new
evidence on ivermectin as it is published. Several high quality randomized controlled trials are
being conducted to further study the use of ivermectin for COVID-19; this review and
recommendations will be updated as new evidence comes to light.
Since the previous reviews, there were two significant updates on the evidence for ivermectin
use in COVID-19 that SAG would like to comment on:
1. Guidelines and Evidence Review Update: Fraudulent Data Withdrawn
A recent Cochrane systematic review by Popp et al. (July 2021) is in alignment with AHS and
other jurisdictions (including the US National Institutes of Health, the World Health Organization,
Health Canada, and the US Food & Drug Administration. It concludes that the reliable evidence
available to date does not support the use of ivermectin for treatment or prevention of COVID-
19 (outside of well-designed randomized trials). The authors found that the available studies
varied widely in the dosages used, the other medications included as comparators, and the
outcomes examined, and that many of the studies were at high risk of bias (meaning any
differences noted across groups were likely due to other factors).
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