I believe millions needlessly died.
Ivermectin has also been shown to inhibit a broad range of viruses in laboratory studies, including HIV, influenza, West Nile virus and other RNA viruses. In 2018, more than 130,000 patients in the U.S. were prescribed the drug.
In African countries where ivermectin is prescribed as a prophylactic against parasites that cause river blindness, those country’s death rate per million from Covid is very low.