Apparently chairman of the Tokyo Medical Association Haruo Ozaki in February recommended Ivermectin as effective for covid in a press conference and recommended all doctors in Japan use it.
He argued, "In Africa, if we compare countries distributing Ivermectin once a year with countries who do not give ivermectin...they don't give ivermectin to prevent COVID but to prevent parasitic disease... if we look at COVID numbers in countries that give Ivermectin, the number of cases is 134.4/100,000 and the number of deaths is 2.2/100,000."
The Japanese expert also compared statistics from African countries that did not use ivermectin yearly versus those that did not, revealing, "African countries which do not distribute ivermectin: 950.6 cases per 100,000 and 29.3 deaths per 100,000." Dr. Ozaki believes that this is evidence to show the difference between COVID rates and death rates among countries that use ivermectin and those that don't.
"I believe the difference is clear. Of course one cannot conclude that Ivermectin is effective only on the basis of these figures, but when we have all of these elements, we cannot say that Ivermectin is absolutely not effective, at least not me," Dr. Ozaki said.
He recommended that other studies be done to "confirm its efficacy" especially now that Japan is "in a crisis situation." The country is facing seeing one of its biggest surges of new COVID cases at about 23,000 new cases over the weekend. Dr. Ozaki concluded, "I think we are in a situation where we can afford to give [patients] this treatment."
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