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Prescriptions for Ivermectin - a deworming drug - surged to 24 times their pre-pandemic levels as people baselessly take it as a COVID-19 cure
Business Insider via Yahoo News ^ | 09/01/2021 | Marianne Guenot

Posted on 09/01/2021 8:54:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

* Prescriptions for ivermectin jumped 24-fold in August compared to pre-pandemic levels, the CDC said.

* The drug has been promoted as a cure and treatment for COVID-19, in spite of lack of evidence.

* It's not been approved as a COVID-19 treatment and can be dangerous if not used appropriately.


The number of prescriptions of ivermectin, a deworming drug that has been baselessly touted as a COVID-19 cure, spiked more than 24 times in August compared to pre-pandemic levels, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Ivermectin has been approved for use in humans as an anti-parasitic, but not as a COVID-19 remedy.

More than 88,000 prescriptions for the drug were filled out by pharmacies in the week ending August 13, the CDC said in a report published August 26.

That's about 24 times more than the weekly average number of ivermectin prescriptions filled out in the year before March 13, 2020, when COVID-19 was declared a national emergency in the US, the CDC said.

While there is no data to conclusively support the use of ivermectin to reduce disease and death from COVID-19, high-profile figures including Sens. Ron Johnson and Rand Paul have promoted the drug as an answer to COVID-19.

Both the Food and Drug Administration and the CDC have issued advisories against the dangers of using the misusing ivermectin when using it as a drug against COVID-19.

Inappropriate use of the drug can lead to overdose, potentially causing hallucinations, seizures, coma, and death, the CDC said.

Some users of the drug have complained online about the dangerous effects, including blurry vision, diarrhea, and pooping out what they believed were "worms," as Insider's Andrea Michelson and Madison Hall reported. In July, ivermectin-related calls to poison control centers rose fivefold compared to pre-pandemic levels

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To: cuban leaf; ImJustAnotherOkie

RE: Ivermectin can make you sick if you OD, but that’s it.

Replace the word “Ivermectin” with any other drug ( or even any food or vitamin for that matter ) and it’s still true.

I wonder why this is even an issue with the media when almost everyone knows it is common sense and NO Doctor I know who prescribes Ivermectin will overdose you.


61 posted on 09/01/2021 9:42:59 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

ImJustAnotherOkie wrote: “I keep hearing these articles but am not finding any adverse consequences.”

You don’t consider these to be adverse consequences?

Inappropriate use of the drug can lead to overdose, potentially causing hallucinations, seizures, coma, and death, the CDC said.

Some users of the drug have complained online about the dangerous effects, including blurry vision, diarrhea, and pooping out what they believed were “worms,” as Insider’s Andrea Michelson and Madison Hall reported.


62 posted on 09/01/2021 9:44:45 AM PDT by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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BI is a Leftwing rag.


63 posted on 09/01/2021 9:44:54 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Pollard

RE: Don’t know if there are any that gave the full protocol of Ivermectin + Azythromycin/doxycyline + Zinc + Vitamin D (and C and A)

Ivermectin PLUS Hydroxychloroquine are part of the Zelenko Protocol for moderate to high risk patients. See here:

https://vladimirzelenkomd.com/treatment-protocol/


64 posted on 09/01/2021 9:45:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: DugwayDuke; ImJustAnotherOkie

RE: Inappropriate use of the drug can lead to overdose, potentially causing hallucinations, seizures, coma, and death, the CDC said.

True for ANY drug for that matter.


65 posted on 09/01/2021 9:46:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: Lurkinanloomin
They don’t anymore, Tractor Supply seems to have pulled it, at least the apple flavor horse paste is unavailable.

I ordered it online for pickup at my local in a week. People probably stocking up before the pols and the woke bureaucrats make it prescription only.

I keep my human form supply locations a closely guarded secret. Rather help out friends than tell them where to get it. Somebody will always screw things up.

66 posted on 09/01/2021 9:46:05 AM PDT by Stentor ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

Yep. I was thinking about aspirin when I posted that. :D

And you can self prescribe even with the simple instructions on the horse tube - or use a host of internet sites.


67 posted on 09/01/2021 9:46:19 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

I am a horse breeder. Of course, I have dosed my stock with the horse paste for years. It is an extremely well tolerated drug. The overdose level for equines is very high. I have accidently swallowed quite a bit of it over the years. I once got a 600 pound dose accidently. Unless you have Collie blood, you are probably safe. Dog breeds that descend from Collies sometimes carry a gene that makes them very sensitive to ivermectin.
I know many people using it to prevent covid. None have gotten it. I also know people that have gotten very ill relatives to take it, some even in the hospital. All had good outcomes.


68 posted on 09/01/2021 9:50:19 AM PDT by Himyar (Comes A Stillness/ God Bless Robert E. Lee)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

I am a horse breeder. Of course, I have dosed my stock with the horse paste for years. It is an extremely well tolerated drug. The overdose level for equines is very high. I have accidently swallowed quite a bit of it over the years. I once got a 600 pound dose accidently. Unless you have Collie blood, you are probably safe. Dog breeds that descend from Collies sometimes carry a gene that makes them very sensitive to ivermectin.
I know many people using it to prevent covid. None have gotten it. I also know people that have gotten very ill relatives to take it, some even in the hospital. All had good outcomes.


69 posted on 09/01/2021 9:50:36 AM PDT by Himyar (Comes A Stillness/ God Bless Robert E. Lee)
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To: SeekAndFind

Wow.
No editorializing there.
I am beginning to think they’re making fun of us.

India seems to think differently about Ivermectin:
https://www.thedesertreview.com/opinion/columnists/indias-ivermectin-blackout/article_e3db8f46-f942-11eb-9eea-77d5e2519364.html


70 posted on 09/01/2021 9:51:07 AM PDT by Little Ray (Civilization runs on a narrow margin. What sustains it is not magic, but hard work. )
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To: zeestephen
It is a relentless and coordinated political attack.

Pfizer marketing? Somebody has done hit jobs on AstraZeneca, J&J, and Moderna. Who's left and who's efficacy is diving off a 27 meter platform?

71 posted on 09/01/2021 9:52:43 AM PDT by Stentor ( )
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To: SeekAndFind
That's the way gaslighhting works ...

The reason so many are taking Ivermectin is to allow the HUMAN IMMUNE system to cure the virus because the viral load is so well reduced using Ivermectin.

None of the fuax vaccines actually reduce viral oad and actually tend to reduce the immune system ability to destroy the invading virus.

When the mechanism giving Hy6droxy Chloroquine it's efficacy in treating the rona was shown to be valid, the whole mechanism was then stamped as fraudulent science. That drug doesn't kil the virus either, but it is a good zinc ionophor so it works powerfully to reduce viral load so the human immune system can kill the virus.

Funny that, the reason real vaccines work is they aid the immune system in identifying and destroying pathogenic invaders. These jabs do not do that, instead they are RNA segments aimed at using the cell's reproduction of dna strand to produce trillions of spike proteins which actually lead to destruction of epithelial cells and microscopic clotting.

72 posted on 09/01/2021 9:53:27 AM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: MHGinTN
These jabs do not do that, instead they are RNA segments aimed at using the cell's reproduction of dna strand to produce trillions of spike proteins which actually lead to destruction of epithelial cells and microscopic clotting.

That almost sounds like biological warfare. 😉

73 posted on 09/01/2021 10:06:36 AM PDT by Stentor ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

SeekAndFind wrote: “True for ANY drug for that matter.”

Yet we have those here on FR that seem to think that the COVID vaccines are the only drugs with side effects.


74 posted on 09/01/2021 10:07:18 AM PDT by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Because they don’t exist. The CDC and medical profession are whoring themselves out to big pharma for the almighty $.

When this is all said and done and the truth comes out the AMA and doctors in general will be ranked right there with sleazy used car salesmen.


75 posted on 09/01/2021 10:10:59 AM PDT by sarge83
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To: Stentor

Gates of hell is glad so few realize his agenda.


76 posted on 09/01/2021 10:11:01 AM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: Little Ray

“India seems to think differently about Ivermectin:”

But that is India, IDIOT. India is the OTHER SIDE OF THE PLANET, and therefore drugs work differently there, since it’s nighttime there when it’s daytime here (and vice versa).

Unless you can show us an example where Ivermectin is used widely in the US or Canada, then it simply CANNOT WORK HERE, because we are in the Western Hemisphere, IDIOT.

(how’s that, regarding their rationale?)


77 posted on 09/01/2021 10:36:34 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Amazon has it. Price has gone up, it seems.


78 posted on 09/01/2021 10:40:26 AM PDT by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: DugwayDuke

Cite a case.


79 posted on 09/01/2021 10:41:11 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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To: JoSixChip

Unlike this article, a prescription is written by a doctor.


80 posted on 09/01/2021 10:44:07 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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