March 31 (UPI) —<\/span> Ivermectin does not reduce hospitalization in people with COVID-19, a large study of 3,515 patients in Brazil found.<\/p>\n The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday, concluded that giving ivermectin to patients with COVID-19 did not result in lower incidence of medical admission to a hospital or prolonged emergency department observation due to clinical worsening of COVID-19.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n Out of 679 patients in the ivermectin group, 100 (14.7%) in the ivermectin group were hospitalized or had lengthy emergency department visits, compared with 111 (16.3%) in the placebo group.<\/p>\n The study also said there were no significant effects of ivermectin use on secondary outcomes, including duration of hospitalization, time to clinical recovery, death from any cause and mechanical ventilation.\n<\/p>\n Authors of the study said they did not find “a significantly or clinically meaningful lower risk of medical admission” for COVID-19 patients treated with ivermectin.<\/p>\n The ivermectin COVID-19 study also noted that, “A large collaboration of clinical trialists working on ivermectin treatment for COVID-19 has conducted a meta-analysis of trials and has concluded that ivermectin did not offer a treatment benefit when trials that were considered to be of moderate or better quality were examined.”\n<\/p>\n The 3,515 Brazilian patients in the study were randomly assigned to receive ivermectin, placebo or another intervention. The study was a randomized, placebo-controlled, adaptive platform trial in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil.\n<\/p>\n Median age of the patients was 49. Most of the patients were mixed race and 58.2% were women.<\/p>\n A Journal of the American Medical Association study in February found also found that ivermectin failed to prevent patients with mild to moderate COVID-19 from progressing to serious illness.<\/p>\n Ivermectin is a dewormer that was touted by celebrities and others as a treatment for COVID-19.\n<\/p>\n The World Health Organization has recommended against the use of ivermectin for treatment of patients with COVID-19.<\/p>\n “The findings in our trial are consistent with these conclusions,” the study authors wrote.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" United States President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the status of the country’s fight against COVID-19 in Washington, D.C., Wednesday. A New England Journal of Medicine study published Wednesday found that ivermectin is not effective in treating COVID-19. Photo by Rod Lamkey \/UPI | License Photo March 31 (UPI) — Ivermectin does not reduce hospitalization […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1041355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[261,2545,3905,5233,1724,1312,962,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-1041354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-covid19","9":"tag-doesnt","10":"tag-hospitalization","11":"tag-ivermectin","12":"tag-patients","13":"tag-reduce","14":"tag-shows","15":"tag-study"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n<\/div>\nUnited States President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the status of the country’s fight against COVID-19 in Washington, D.C., Wednesday. A New England Journal of Medicine study published Wednesday found that ivermectin is not effective in treating COVID-19. Photo by Rod Lamkey \/UPI | License Photo<\/div>\n\n