An American news headline, which has since been corrected, inaccurately reported that ivermectin was effective against Omicron in a clinical trial. The article and screenshots of the headline were widely shared by anti-vaccine groups, even after the inaccurate headline was corrected, and this misinformation is now spreading globally. The study is not a clinical trial, nor did it find that ivermectin was “effective” against COVID-19. The study found that ivermectin has some anti-viral effects in Omicron-infected cells. In other words, ivermectin can kill Omicron in cultured cells in a dish, in much the same way that bleach or ethanol can. But there is no evidence that ivermectin can kill the virus in humans or even other animals.
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