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Covid truthers keep taking a horse dewormer. It’s not going well.

Joe Rogan is the latest big name to announce he's taken ivermectin to treat Covid-19.

Henry Goodwin by Henry Goodwin
2021-09-02 10:51
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Vaccine skeptics and pandemic truthers across the US and beyond are turning to ivermectin – a notorious horse deworming medication – to treat Covid.

Requests for the drug have rocketed in recent weeks as significant public figures, including Joe Rogan, revealed they had used it to treat their infections. 

Fox News anchors, including Tucker Carlson, have pushed Ivermectin has a miracle drug – and it’s even been referred to as such in Congressional hearings. 

Predictably, it’s making people sick. The drug can trigger stomach problems, nerve damage, seizures, disorientation – and even death.

Prescriptions for ivermectin jumped to more than 88,000 per week in the US in mid-August, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. 

Idea; swap the labels on AstraZeneca vaccines and Ivermectin. https://t.co/XBYPM4Ffxq

— Melissa Davey (@MelissaLDavey) September 2, 2021

Pharmacists across the country are reporting shortages of the drug. One, from a small town in Ohio, said he usually filled two or three prescriptions of the drug in a typical year. This summer alone he has filled more than 20.

Calls to poison control centres about ivermectin exposures have jumped fivefold over their July baseline, the CDC said. Earlier this month, Mississippi’s health department said that 70 per cent of recent calls to the state poison control centre had come from people who ingested the drug from livestock supply stores.

“Everyone wants some cure for Covid because it’s such a devastating illness,” Dr Shawn Varney – a Texas toxicologist – said. “I plead with people to stop using ivermectin and get the vaccine because it’s the best protection we have at this point. Everything else is risk after risk.”

You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y'all. Stop it. https://t.co/TWb75xYEY4

— U.S. FDA (@US_FDA) August 21, 2021

There is no evidence that ivermectin actually prevents or treats Covid-19. But anti-vax groups are continuing to push it as a miracle drug. 

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One of the largest trials on the drug’s use for treating the virus was discontinued “because the drug had been shown to be no better than a placebo at preventing hospitalisation or prolonged stay in the emergency room,” the New York Times reported.

The newspaper added: “Dr. Edward Mills, a professor at McMaster University who led the study, which enrolled more than 1,300 patients, said the team would have discontinued it earlier were it not for the level of public interest in ivermectin.”

Nobody is simplifying “ivermectin is horse medicine”

We are saying that ivermectin doesn’t work for COVID so stop eating horse medicine

— Ryan Marino (@RyanMarino) August 31, 2021

Despite all the evidence stacked up against it, ivermectin is being used ahead of the free, effective, fully-approved Covid-19 vaccines. 

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) specifically warns against using it to treat Covid in a statement on its website, which says: “FDA has not approved ivermectin for use in treating or preventing Covid-19 in humans.

“Ivermectin tablets are approved at very specific doses for some parasitic worms, and there are topical (on the skin) formulations for head lice and skin conditions like rosacea. Ivermectin is not an anti-viral (a drug for treating viruses).

“Taking large doses of this drug is dangerous and can cause serious harm.”

Related: Piers Morgan claims job offers have ‘accelerated’ after Ofcom victory

Tags: Covid-19Ivermectin

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