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The median time to recovery in a group of 1,800 vaccinated and unvaccinated adults (median age: 48 years) was essentially the same whether the patients received ivermectin or placebo: 12 and 13 days, respectively. Death rate was slightly higher in the ivermectin group and rates of pneumonia and VTE were slightly higher in the placebo group.