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Originally Posted by Jeff P
India designed their own their own Peer Reviewed Ivermectin Study looking at Health Care Workers. It was published on Aug 05, 2021 and reached a conclusion that is being completely ignored by policy makers here in the US:
https://www.cureus.com/articles/6480...thcare-workers
Two States in India, Uttar Pradesh and Kerala, acted on the conclusions of that study.
Uttar Pradesh population 241 million (est 2021) decided to continue using Ivermectin for prophylaxis and early treatment just like they had been doing since about May 11, 2021.
Imo, one of the more interesting things some of the States in India decided to do as part of their Test-Trace-Treat Program is hand out Home Medical Kits to people who tested positive as well as people identified through contact tracing as being at risk of infection.
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But not all of the States in India decided to allow use of Ivermectin.
Kerala population 35.8 million (est 2021) disallowed use of Ivermectin for prophylaxis and early treatment on Aug 06, 2021 (the day after the peer reviewed study on Ivermectin was published.)
Comparing the Covid caseload data for Uttar Prashesh vs. Kerala:
According the Johns Hopkins University CSSE Site - this is the current data for Uttar Padesh:
https://coronalevel.com/India/Uttar_Pradesh/
According the Johns Hopkins University CSSE Site - this is the current data for Kerala:
https://coronalevel.com/India/Kerala/
Obviously health officials in Uttar Pradesh India have been going about this all wrong. 
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The John Hopkins graphs are only for the last few weeks or so. It would be more fair to compare the entire timelines for Uttar Prashesh vs. Kerala. Since India is the place where the delta variant originated, it would seem logical that the Indian states would have "gotten over" the delta peak quicker than anywhere else.
This graph shows
https://science.thewire.in/covid19 that Uttar Prashesh has had 22,756 deaths vs. Kerala's 16,781. If your population estimates are correct, 10,600 deaths(Uttar Prashesh) vs. 16,783 deaths(Kerala), per million, still, a lot more for the non-ivermectin Kerala, but not as much as the Johns Hopkin's graphs would lead one to believe.
As far as where this Ivermectin saga will end, it's obvious that it(and HCQ) would have been helpful to a lot of people. I can understand why they disparaged HCQ (after all, defeating Donald Trump was far more important that saving thousands of lives), but their narrative for Ivermectin will be that:
1) More people would have died because they would not have gotten the vaccine thinking that they could always have taken Ivermectin if infected.
2)They knew that Ivermectin was effective, but it would have gutted the world's supply of Ivermectin, which for poor countries, was their only means of fighting the virus for many months.
#1 is hard to defend. It precludes that people are stupid and takes away their freedom of choice. #2 might be more defendable, although I have no idea what the state of world's supply chain for that drug is.
