Doctors are continuing to prescribe ineffective Covid-19 treatments such as ivermectin despite the mounting evidence that they do not work, top scientist Salim Abdool Karim has warned in an editorial published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday.
Karim is an internationally recognised epidemiologist at the University of KwaZulu-Natal who previously led a team of scientists advising the government on Covid-19. His editorial accompanied a US study, called Covid-OUT, that found three repurposed generic drugs — the anti-parasitic ivermectin, the antidepressant fluvoxamine and the diabetes treatment metformin — did not prevent high-risk patients with confirmed Covid-19 from developing severe illness...
