Ivermectin — a drug once touted as a Covid treatment by conservatives — doesn't improve recovery much, clinical trial finds- A team of scientists affiliated with Duke University found that ivermectin does not meaningful improve the recovery of people with mild to moderate Covid.People who took ivermectin recovered from Covid in 12 days while people who didn't take the drug recovered in 13 days, according to the study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on Friday."Among outpatients with mild to moderate COVID-19, treatment with ivermectin, compared with placebo, did not significantly improve time to recovery," the team of scientists led by Duke University School of Medicine wrote.But there was little data backing up those claims and a study by Dr. Pierre Kory, a critical care physician in Wisconsin and president of the critical care alliance, claiming it was an effective treatment was later retracted for having flawed data.A study in the New England Journal of Medicine, published in May, found that ivermectin did not lower the risk of hospitalization from Covid."