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N=1. Me and my 2 year old had covid. My wife started ivermectin and never got sick. Shared bed and sick 2 year old wants mommy.

Ivermectin didn't work for me (diarrhea) but my fever went from 102.7 down to 99 12 hours after HQC after 6 days of a slow downward spiral (fever kept going up and up every day). So for me, my take is the drugs absolutely worked.

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this is not how science works

But it is how science starts.

Actually, it does. It starts with data.

Sure, we can't conclude from his N=1 experiment that it definitely works.

But Youtube wants to conclude from N=0 that it definitely doesn't work, and they don't want the peasantry asking questions.

It doesn't start with "my wife didn't get sick after getting treatment X". This is not data, this is noise.

How about “These milkmaids didn’t die of smallpox after contact with the udder pustules of this sick cow”? Maybe they’ll even name something after it!

anecdotes like this are how you generate a hypothesis.

the OP here said "So for me, my take is the drugs absolutely worked. "

They do not know this. This is not how science works. They jokingly said n=1 but given it's not a RCT it's more like n=N/A.

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