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.
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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I just checked and Amazon says they are out until 10/7/2021.
ImJustAnotherOkie wrote: “Cite a case.”
read the article.
Any alternative to the vaccines will be trashed by the media. The vaccines have gone beyond just being a recommended form of prevention and have become an obsession which feeds the fantasies of the power mad and the vengeful. Their lust for a new form of apartheid is palpable.
Written by a 10 year old?
If you have covid it’s the way to gi
What do you think ended the crisis in India?
Of course we know why. Money. Lots of money for the big pharma companies. Billions and billions. The "vaccines" only have authorization (EUA) because there is supposedly no other effective treatment. We know this to be a lie.
We know HCQ and ivermectin both are very effective. If the FDA admits this, then the "vaccines" would have be withdrawn.
Right to try.
My body my choice.
Homos demand special rules; Blacks demand special rules; so why can’t whites, conservatives and heteros?
What a loaded headline. Like proclaiming that tylenol is a 'menstrual cramp relief drug'. Sure, okay. It can do that. It's not ALL it does though.
You mean someone found a Dr with the interest in his/her patient to actually try and treat this disease?
Gimme their names. They are heros.
As to off prescription, that is common on many, many drugs.
It works, people know it, and you can lie about it all you want, but nobody will believe you.
Are they really that stupid? Numerous studies attest to the safety and efficacy of IVM. Nothing but bullshit.
That headline!?! No Agenda News, at your service!
Marianne Guenot pooped out her opinion, which is valuable, if you hang on the words of a failed English major.
Or .. if you know someone close to Mexico or a Mexican pharmacy. There are a few mail order ones ....
Not to be confused with livestock paste.
They are the “are you gonna believe what you see or what the CDC tells you” crowd. They still think the CDC craps Tiffany cuff links and their bureaucrats farts all smell like roses. Money says they have ties to big Pharma and want that $ to keep flowing.
The banshees are screeching tonight.
Editorializing in the headline?
These are NOT journalists. They are working for the ministry of truth. The idiots with medical degrees shut down HCQ with BS about it not being approved to treat C19 so they are trying the same thing again
Any approved drug can be used off label to treat anything a doctor and a patient decide to use it for. For example, HCQ is frequently used to treat arthritis but it wasn’t approved for that.
Ivermectin is an approved drug by the FDA to be used to treat humans. The gubermint hacks can stuff it
It should be obvious to even the dumbest of the dumb that the DimWITs have an agenda. By getting people vaccinated, vaccine passports will be accepted. Then the DimWITs can add social credits to their unConstitutional “papers please” program
If you don’t have your papers in order, you will NOT eat here, work there, bank at this bank, go to school where you want to.
DimWITS are so close to enslaving ALL Americans. They can’t let Ivermectin screw that Up!
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