Your Help is Needed to Fact-Check NEJM
The latest "Ivermectin Doesn't Work" study was published last Friday in The New England Journal of Medicine. If the mistakes we're finding are real, the journal will have no choice but to retract it.
Update 04/06/2022 - Thank you to everyone who reviewed the chart and posted their thoughts in the comments section. It seems none of us has a good explanation for the discrepancies in this chart. I have written to the investigators and to the editor of The New England Journal of Medicine, requesting clarification. I am giving them the week to respond. Look for a new post on this topic by the end of the weekend. - Darby
The latest study purporting to show that Ivermectin is ineffective as an early treatment for Covid-19 was heralded last week by the mainstream media and Alex Berenson as definitive proof that the hundreds of other published studies showing that it is effective are all lies.
I spent the weekend reading the study and analyzing the results. I don’t get paid for this work and, quite frankly, would rather spend my free time in other ways. However, I know that many people (myself included) have Ivermectin and/or HCQ in their medicine cabinets and are counting on these drugs to protect them from serious illness the next time Covid rolls around. Every “Ivermectin Doesn’t Work” study that gets published in a prestigious medical journal has the potential to convince people the drug offers no benefit.
So, as always, I reviewed this latest study with an open mind, ready to accept the possibility that the drug truly showed no benefit. I had already corresponded at some length with Dr. Edward Mills, a principal investigator on the study, who was advertising the results even before the study was published. I had numerous questions. His answers were disappointing but, so far at least, not entirely disqualifying.
Then he went silent.
Shortly thereafter, his study came out in NEJM. And I’m sorry to say that if no good explanation can be found for the flaws in Figure 2, this is a deal breaker.
I have emailed Dr. Mills and another investigator on the study, requesting clarification. But I’m not holding my breath.
In the meantime, I’m hoping that some of you can help me today by reading the study yourself, reviewing Figure 2, and telling me in the comments section below whether you see any problems with it.
Here is the link to the study:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2115869
And here is the figure in question.
I’m hoping I have simply misinterpreted this figure, because if not, this study as published is useless, and I wasted my weekend.
I have first hand experience with covid and ivm. My whole family came down with covid and 4 out of 5 family members took ivm right away. But one member, who has asthma and is obese, took ivm for only one day. Because she believed the msm BS about ivm, she wouldn’t continue treatment. She progressively got worse. Couldn’t stop coughing. By day five, she was so convinced that she was going to die anyway, she relented and started ivm treatment. Within 12 hours, her coughing improved 80%. Within three days of treatment, she was completely better. So, yes, it does work…. I’d also add that following the Flccc protocols for prevention was a game changer. The vitamins and supplements really do strengthen the immune system, and the two people who followed them skipped through covid as if it was nothing.
I don’t have time, since I’m at work, but Kirsch says that Dr. Kory will be addressing this pronto. Thanks for all that you’re doing, Darby!