Ivermectin, a deworming drug, should not be used to treat COVID, health officials say.
COVID-19 cases are up approximately 230% in the past month.patients, is being widely dispensed despite warnings, as the nation is in the grips of the delta variant surge. Internal data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reviewed by ABC News, estimates a 19-fold increase of the anti-parasite medicine being distributed during the first week of August.
Early in the pandemic, extremely preliminary data hinted at the possibility that this medication might help treat or prevent COVID, but follow up studies failed to demonstrate any benefit.by the independent National Institutes of Health treatment committee said the studies that have been done were too small and the outcomes were unclear and they couldn’t recommend its use.
The emergency medicine physician hopes that people will start to temper their expectations, be smart and consider all possible consequences. Nogar and Majlesi wish more people would be willing to take FDA-authorized COVID-19 vaccines, which have been demonstrated to work in large, carefully controlled trials rather than consume an unproven medicine primarily used for livestock.The vaccines against COVID-19 have been shown to work through clinical trials, using control groups.
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