Posted on 09/27/2021 9:24:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Two people in New Mexico died recently after taking ivermectin, a drug typically used to treat livestock for parasites which has not been recommended to fight COVID-19, health officials announced last week.
The two people, who were not identified, died after being hospitalized with ivermectin toxicity, Dr. David Scrase, acting cabinet secretary of the New Mexico Department of Health, said Wednesday. The patients included one who was dealing with a serious COVID-19 infection that required them to be on a ventilator and on dialysis.
“The ivermectin was basically taken in lieu of or instead of effective treatments,” Scrase said. “It’s a serious issue. We need to watch it.”
The deaths came after state officials announced earlier this month that they were investigating what was suspected to be New Mexico’s first fatal ivermectin poisoning, the Las Cruses Sun News reported.
Ivermectin has been touted by some as a possible treatment for COVID-19. However, health officials, including the Food and Drug Administration, the American Medical Association, the American Pharmacists Association and several others, have urged people not to take the drug, which has not undergone a clinical trial to determine its efficacy against COVID-19.
Last month, officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in an advisory that they were seeing a rise in calls to poison control centers in which callers reported overdoses or adverse effects after taking ivermectin. In New Mexico, officials reported 14 ivermectin-related calls to the state’s Poison Control Center between Aug.6 and Sept. 21. Scrase said Wednesday that officials were fielding one or two ivermectin calls each day, about a doubling of what they had been seeing in the previous week. He added that officials saw two problems with using ivermectin to treat COVID-19.
“One, it can be toxic,” he said. “Two is that while people are pursuing – perhaps they’re at home and they have symptoms and risk factors, and they’re obtaining a veterinary ivermectin prescription and trying that to control their COVID-19, they’re missing on proven treatments from randomized clinical trials.”
Ivermectin is not an anti-viral medication. It is typically used to treat animals for parasites although smaller dosages can be prescribed for human use to treat parasitic worms, head lice or skin conditions like rosacea, according to the FDA.
Health officials have urged people to get vaccinated against COVID-19 to best protect against the viral infection. Research has shown that vaccinated people can still spread the highly transmissible delta variant of the virus, the most common one in the U.S., although officials said the vaccines still protect well against serious or life-threatening cases of COVID-19.
As of Monday, 42.9 million COVID-19 cases have been reported across the U.S., resulting in more than 688,000 deaths, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University. Globally, more than 232 million COVID-19 cases have been reported, resulting in 4.7 million deaths, according to the university.
Ping for your interest
Pants *still* on fire.
What a dishonest article.
Par for the course.
Has any TV station so eagerly reported the 15,000+ deaths possibly and probably related to the vaccines, as reported to VAERS?
What a bullcrap article from this brain-dead reporterette Theresa, whoever the hell she is.
No mention of the human pill version invented in 1987 and used to treat blindness in the Third World....taken by billions of people.
No mention that the inventor of the human version won the Noble Prize for Medicine in 2005.
No mention of the doctor in Arkansas who used ivermectin to cure 528 inmates at a jail in Arkansas. No one died, no one needed hospitalization.
Cox Media = liberal BS.
Gosh. I came down with Covid symptoms while working on my ranch. Confused and knowing that if I were hospitalized it would most likely be the end. So I went to my nearest farm supply store to stock up on supplies. I admit it was a stretch but I followed the directions on some stuff 5 days ago, somewhat recovered and now I’m just a little hoarse.
Idiots can overdose on ANYTHING, even water.
They’re reining people like you in.
What a bullcrap article
No,no,no, it’s a HORSE manure article.
Are you sure that you didn’t become a little *horse*, after taking this dangerous livestock medicine?
“The patients included one who was dealing with a serious COVID-19 infection that required them to be on a ventilator and on dialysis”
Okay, it may be a stretch but it sounds like this person died of Covid. Or the PC treatments for Covid.
“officials say”. Unnamed officials. Why doesn’t this bolster credibility and confidence? Name the officials, and perhaps we will stop realizing that we are being lied to.
According to a story in US News & World Report I just looked at, about 128,000 Americans die each year as a result of deaths from prescription drugs.
It has eliminated Covid from 250 million in India. Took cases from 30,000 to 200.
Bkm
You aren’t funny. You are ignorant. Ivermectin is widely used in Africa for a variety of tropical ailments. Perhaps coincidentally, perhaps not, Covid deaths-per-million in central Africa - where Ivermectin is widely used - are a tiny fraction of Covid deaths in America and Europe.
Well my wife has been complaining that my snoring has been a bit strange since then.
Mellow out Steve. I know I butchered the joke .. ripped off from a doctors conference about Covid.
Hee-haw, Sir!
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