The final results are in, and they're incontrovertible: Ivermectin, that nostrum assiduously promoted by anti-vaccine advocates and conspiracy-mongers, is utterly useless against COVID-19.
That's the conclusion of a peer-reviewed study of more than 1,350 COVID patients treated with the drug, which is customarily used to combat parasitic diseases in humans, livestock and pets.
The study was published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine, but we reported on it last August.
