For context, that's not a fact fact - that's a statement (that may be true or false) by a cadre of Brazilian biologists.
And a very qualified statement at that. Barely a sentence later ...
Despite this promise, the antiviral activity of ivermectin has not been consistently proven in vivo.
ie. Never repeatedly proven in living organisms (animals or humans).
By "demonstrated antiviral activity" they specifically mean that in places such as Brazil (and elsewhere) large spectrum courses of Ivermectin are positively correlated and associated with reduced viral activity (fewer sick and fewer dead from influezenza, covid, etc).
Does that mean that Ivermectin "kills" (or harms) COVID directly?
Nope.
It does mean (or rather strongly implies) that in places with relatively wide spread parasites in water, etc treating parasites improves community health.
Fewer parasites, better immune systems, nore people can fight off the effects of the flu, COVID, etc.
The point is not whether ivermectin turned out to be the best tool against Covid, the point is that it's safe for humans to take and early in the pandemic when everything was being tried, it was not crazy or dangerous to try ivermectin. There was an actual censorship campaign to stop open discussion by qualified medical professionals of anything but the state-approved solutions, the vaccines with a shifting official story which turned out not to be vaccines.
The excoriation and censorship of ivermectin before a study showed the confounding parasite idea, and the subsequent coming out of the woodwork to embrace that study, served to increase the sense that it was not about truth and research, but about only allowing certain messaging.
And a very qualified statement at that. Barely a sentence later ...
ie. Never repeatedly proven in living organisms (animals or humans).By "demonstrated antiviral activity" they specifically mean that in places such as Brazil (and elsewhere) large spectrum courses of Ivermectin are positively correlated and associated with reduced viral activity (fewer sick and fewer dead from influezenza, covid, etc).
Does that mean that Ivermectin "kills" (or harms) COVID directly?
Nope.
It does mean (or rather strongly implies) that in places with relatively wide spread parasites in water, etc treating parasites improves community health.
Fewer parasites, better immune systems, nore people can fight off the effects of the flu, COVID, etc.
Who'd have thought, hey?