When Canada's premiere was asked for the reasons behind not discussing ivermectin he boiled it down to 2 answers: (1) vaccines, (2) thank you for the rain.
https://twitter.com/AL_Maplewood/status/1397733921102598146?
Bizarre! But have't run across good answers except it competes with more expensive solutions (profit motive).
Quote: "Finally, why are Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Francis Collins still remaining silent about the NIH guidelines for these two drugs? If a computer entrepreneur from Silicon Valley can figure all this out 7 months ago that it’s virtually impossible for these two drugs not to work, why can’t the NIH leadership?"
Steve Kirsch is a tech entrepreneur who has put $1 million into early covid treatments (https://www.treatearly.org/). He's found fluvoxamine and other treatments work well, but but the NIH/WHO don't support it (these drugs are off-patent)
and won't even debate all the science facts he presents. He explains more here: https://trialsitenews.com/do-the-nih-and-who-covid-treatment...
Antiviral Research, showed that Ivermectin, which blocked other RNA viruses like Dengue virus, yellow fever virus, Zika virus, West Nile virus, influenza, the Avian flu, and HIV1/AIDS in vitro, decimated the coronavirus in vitro, wiping out “essentially all viral material by 48 hours.”
It has shown anti-viral properties in vitro and in-vivo, just like the FDA approved covid treatment Remdesivir.
Anti-depressants are approved after a few weeks of study, and people use them for years without safety concerns. People have taking 10 times the dose of regular ivermectin without harm (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12362927/). I guess we are in slightly uncharted waters with ivermectin, but there is no evidence from the people who chronically prophylax for covid that regular dosing has caused them issues.
And ivermectin is safest of the current covid treatments, so I find it hard to accept that we shouldn't use it because of safety concerns (for comparison, since 1992 the pharmocavigilance database shows less than 1 death per year from ivermectin, where Remdesivir has 500+ deaths, vaccines has over 2000 deaths with only months of usage).
Sounds like the doctors you spoke with didn't have any experience with ivermectin and are referencing old information (1000x standard dosage is needed). There are many doctors who do use it and see good results. Slovakia recently started using Ivermectin widely in March (https://twitter.com/BIRDGroupUK/status/1385990416730923013) and saw steep reduction in deaths.
If you are interested in having a good faith discussion about ivermectin facts, that would be great. What questions do you have?