Recommendation regarding the use of Ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19

A recent study informed that ivermectin was successfully used in vitro for the treatment of SARS-CoV-2 in experimentally infected cells and two preprint publications on observational clinical studies reported the apparent utility of ivermectin to treat patients with COVID-19 needing mechanical ventilation. However, neither of these studies were peer-reviewed nor formally published and one of them was later retracted.