Participants in the trial are followed up for a full year
June 2021 the Ivermectin trial started, to last 14 months. Sounds like 2 months of trial and 12 months of follow-up, right? But they say it was always the plan during a pandemic to do a two year trial.
the one year follow up data which should be complete by the end of July 2023
That's June 2021 + 14 months + another 12 months.
At the time it was clear from hundreds of non-"gold standard" trials that ivermectin works better the sooner you get it, and best if taken before symptoms. But PRINCIPLE recruited people after official diagnosis (sick enough to go to the doctor). That and the stonewalling clearly indicate this was designed to fail.
Yet their protocol says they can announce failure from time to time and they haven't announced failure, so even trying to find nothing by giving ivermectin after diagnosis my guess is they still found some effectiveness. Probably some people did a home test, went to doctor, and got trial ivermectin early before symptoms so the overall data shows some effectiveness.
Right now I bet they're frantically trying to figure out how to group the data so that it only shows a weak result rather than an obvious truth. For example, if they grouped it by 0, 1, 2, .. days since symptoms it'll show huge effectiveness at 0 so they only break it down like 0-3 days since symptoms to water it down.
This is what the only other randomized, controlled study did; found some effectiveness, but not statistically relevant, in 0-3 days after hospitalization - which means well into the infection. What about day 0? We'll never see that data.
June 2021 the Ivermectin trial started, to last 14 months. Sounds like 2 months of trial and 12 months of follow-up, right? But they say it was always the plan during a pandemic to do a two year trial.
That's June 2021 + 14 months + another 12 months.
At the time it was clear from hundreds of non-"gold standard" trials that ivermectin works better the sooner you get it, and best if taken before symptoms. But PRINCIPLE recruited people after official diagnosis (sick enough to go to the doctor). That and the stonewalling clearly indicate this was designed to fail.
Yet their protocol says they can announce failure from time to time and they haven't announced failure, so even trying to find nothing by giving ivermectin after diagnosis my guess is they still found some effectiveness. Probably some people did a home test, went to doctor, and got trial ivermectin early before symptoms so the overall data shows some effectiveness.
Right now I bet they're frantically trying to figure out how to group the data so that it only shows a weak result rather than an obvious truth. For example, if they grouped it by 0, 1, 2, .. days since symptoms it'll show huge effectiveness at 0 so they only break it down like 0-3 days since symptoms to water it down.
This is what the only other randomized, controlled study did; found some effectiveness, but not statistically relevant, in 0-3 days after hospitalization - which means well into the infection. What about day 0? We'll never see that data.