Excess Deaths in Peru: Trends, Confounders and Correlations

It is an ionophore which facilitates the absorption of zinc which destroys coronavirus's.

It is a known antiviral.

It is an anti-inflammatory.

These properties are all important in defeating coronavirus and the resulting Covid-19 cytokine storm.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7539925/

Note that Peru has a high prevalence of parasitic pathogens that would be eliminated by a course of ivermectin. I’m still convinced based on meta analysis that ivermectin reduces parasitic comorbitities and has middling impact on COVID itself.