Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance, is AKA Dr. Paul E. Marik (63). The good doctor was at one time a renowned pulmonary heart specialist, however now in semi retirement is a lecturer in pulmonary heart disease at Eastern Virginia Medical School.
His dubious claims to fame since taking up his new post are that a number of years ago he began endorsing his own Nostrum remedy for Sepsis. In “clinical trials” he administered what was basically aspirin mixed with large doses of vitamin C to patients en masse. When the research, because he had not used a double-blind testing method, was invalidated, his defence was that to give patients placebos was unethical because that would be fibbing to them.
His work on Ivermectin in COVID-19 cases has been equally dogged with controversy. His clinical “tests” being to give very small doses of Ivermectin cut with aspirin (again, I wonder if he owns shares) to people who don't need it. Wait a while and then ask them if they are feeling any better. In other words, he is basically using ivermectin AS a placebo, in spite of his own ethical objections to telling Porkies to patients.
In 2016 Dr. Paul Marik's article, “Humans Are Not Yeast,” (wow he's a doctor you know) was roundly condemned for claiming a)“Lactic acidosis doesn't exist.” and B) “this whole idea of trying to get rid of lactate by revving up oxygen delivery is … another bogus myth.”
He was basically advocating that the Centres for Medicare and Medicaid Services should not be adopting measures ratified by the National Quality Forum.
The Man is a known conspiracy theorist, and publicity seeker. He has variously been accused of saying anything will cure anything if a drug company is willing to pay him to say so. In various medical journals, it has been speculated that his purpose in doing so is to draw attention to his own fading flame by antagonizing the status quo.

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Dr. Marik did carry out one legitimate trial of Ivermectin last year, mixing it with vitamin C, Aspirin, an anticoagulant and a powerful steroid. The results were very definite, the concoction actually increased the likelihood of dying from Covid 19

@LenHazell53 basically like saying that because some patients who were subjected to blood letting for a whole variety of ailments actually survived and recuperated must mean that blood letting works and is good medicine, so let’s get the buckets and razor blades out and make all disease go away! Oh wait, more people died than survived? Just a hiccup, proceed. And if that doesn’t work, I understand praying makes a lot of diseases go away when mixed with medical intervention. Let’s just all do that and see how it works out.

Can't help but notice You didn't ingest it.......

@AnneWimsey I didn’t take ivermectin. I’m in a covid survivors group on Facebook and many say their doctor prescribed it

@abyers1970
So I could speculate using your logic that during the time you had Covid-19 that if you drank coffee, and you found many members of the “survivors” group ALSO drank coffee, then OBVIOUSLY caffeine MUST be a cure for Covid-19.
After all it is a drug, many survivors drank it and of course we all know correlation = causation … oh yeah right it doesn't.

@LenHazell53 No I watched a YouTube channel and doctors said they have seen success with ivermectin. Enough success that they are actually doing clinical trials on ivermectin to see what the efficacy rates are.

Are they doing a clinical trial on Coffee ? If so then maybe your comment has merit but I didn’t see any on the clinical trial website

@abyers1970
Have you actually been to [clinicaltrials.gov] and read the studies on Ivermectin for COVID-19 test worldwide?
I have and guess what...
26 studies have returned results out of 75 done worldwide, most are for Ivermectin mixed with a variety of other drugs for the treatment of SYMPTOMS of Covid-19, NOT for the treatment of Covid-19.
35 tests used Ivermectin as the Placebo or comparative drug and were not tests on Ivermectin itself

Only 7 such studies were carried out in the US

1 US study was terminated, This was the only US test actually testing Ivermectin alone and was a failure, actually causing illness
1 US was Withdrawn the manufacturers of Ivermectin pulled consent
2 test were for Doxycycline + Paracetamol (tyranol) aspirin/ Doxycycline + Zinc supplements
1 was for Fluvoxamine and Metformin
1 was for Fluvoxamine and Fluticasone
1 was to test for biomarkers in Urine using Ivermectin as a detector not a treatment

Just out of curiosity I used the same site to check if Caffeine HAS been clinically tested for the treatment of Covid-19 or Covid symptoms and again believe it or not there are 16 of them worldwide
8 (Eight) of them in the US

@abyers1970 Merck is the manufacturer of ivermectin and they've done trials and published the results. Their web page says they could find no indication that Ivermectin was useful in treating covid. I can guarantee you if they could find any small inkling of good in their own drug they would have broadcast it to the world and made a million off of it.

Are you referring to Merck or the crazy advocates of using ivermectin for covid.

@Lorajay Both

@Lorajay Making fun of the idiot anti-vaxxers.