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ACTIV-6 trial

A randomized controlled trial testing the efficacy of ivermectin for COVID-19

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Jan 29, 2026
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What high‑quality clinical trials have tested ivermectin for COVID‑19 and what dosing did they use?

Several large, high-quality randomized controlled trials have tested ivermectin as a treatment for COVID‑19, and the consensus from regulators and later trials is that these trials did not show meanin...

Jan 14, 2026
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Which large, high‑quality randomized trials of ivermectin for COVID‑19 were completed after 2022 and what were their results?

Large, well‑conducted randomized trials and platform studies published after 2022 failed to show a meaningful clinical benefit from ivermectin for treating COVID‑19: a high‑dose outpatient platform tr...