by Tonya L. Breaux-Shropshire, PhD, MPH, RN
Update on Ivermectin research posted 2/4/2022: Another paper was retracted for poor quality. Click here to find out more.
Ivermectin and Longhaulers. I am happy to say that the Frontline Alliance has created a protocol for long haulers based on their experience treating COVID-19 long-haulers. The protocol has no official clinical trials and was developed by physicians with trial and error to come up with the best protocol that has shown to recovery long-haulers from their suffering.
According to anecdotal evidence, some long haulers have reported improvement from getting the COVID-vaccine or from the use of ivermectin. The information in this post is in no way medical advice. Call your doctor for medical advice and the best treatment for you.
That said, thought to be the best meta-analysis for ivermectin has recently been peer-reviewed, and has been published in the American Journal of Therapeutics. This publication was done by Tess Laurie’s team of researchers and the peer reviewers supported the findings. Tess Laurie’s group found that when ivermectin was given to people with COVID-19, there was a 62% reduction in deaths compared to the people given a placebo (sugar pill).
https://youtu.be/FkCemEbh3XE
There was no definitive difference of adverse effects between the placebo and ivermectin groups. In other words, the ivermectin was shown to be safe in treating people with various levels of COVID-19.
Tess Lauri’s group concluded that there was moderate certainty versus very low to low certainty that there is a large reduction in death when ivermectin is used. to treat COVID-19. Not to take away from the success of the vaccine but, this is a big deal.
Just to remind you, the NIH is not for or against ivermectin due to the insufficient data that was available on February 11, 2021. Many publications were in preprint, which just means that the publication findings needed to be confirmed by experts to make sure the research was done right and the results should be trusted.
Tess Lauri’s group used the most trusted Chocharan Libratery GRADE criteria to conduct its metanalysis, which is a rigorous process. These results are likely valid, but you can read them for yourself at this link.
We still don’t know how to treat long haulers effectively. There needs to be more research on the topic. However, the FLCCC protocol is all we have currently to treat long haulers. According to Dr. Syed Mobeam, it will take the doctor or health care provider to utilize the protocol and tweak it for each patin=ent. In other words, use the FLCCC protocol as a starting point and make it specific for each patient.
This is nothing new, Health care providers and doctors have been utilizing guidelines and applying the guidelines specific to each patient for decades. Similar to what Dr. Pierr Kory SAID regarding the topic, patients do not really want to be characterized but they really want to be treated so that they can feel better. Within hours, days or, weeks, patients feel better when given ivermectin. , or