Hope there is a med like ivermectin that is cheap and is found to help against covid. However there is no pharmacological basis for ivermectin to work against covid or at least treat humans as an antiviral.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13102818.2020.1775118
Development of a Minimal Physiologically-Based Pharmacokinetic Model to Simulate Lung Exposure in Humans Following Oral Administration of Ivermectin for COVID-19 Drug Repurposing - ScienceDirect
https://ascpt.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cpt.1889
Studies cited by ivermectin advocates about antiviral effect in-vitro or in the lab fail to mention that it requires concentrations significantly higher in the human body than what is possible for standard ivermectin dosing. Reports of mass administration of ivermectin in places like India, Mexico, and Peru fail to mention how many doses were administered at what time and to how many. None of those articles go into that detail. Further there are many confounding variables going on simultaneously not taken into account.
We now have several randomized controlled double blinded trials including the recent Together Trial that showed no benefit with ivermectin and what seems to be monthly retractions of pro-ivermectin studies around the world due to fraud.
Don’t like how the fda further polarized this issue but wish these advocates for ivermectin at least admit that evidence that the drug works is at best weak and observational.