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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: Hiddigeigei

I just checked and Amazon says they are out until 10/7/2021.


81 posted on 09/01/2021 10:44:29 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: SeekAndFind
"can be dangerous if not used appropriately"

Like any drug on the market, including many OTC drugs like aspirin.
82 posted on 09/01/2021 10:46:20 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

ImJustAnotherOkie wrote: “Cite a case.”

read the article.


83 posted on 09/01/2021 10:51:15 AM PDT by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


84 posted on 09/01/2021 10:53:21 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: DugwayDuke

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?


85 posted on 09/01/2021 10:55:36 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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To: econjack
I wonder why they are ignoring the 30+ controlled experiments that have been conducted on Ivermectin?

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.

86 posted on 09/01/2021 10:57:48 AM PDT by Blennos ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

Right to try.
My body my choice.
Homos demand special rules; Blacks demand special rules; so why can’t whites, conservatives and heteros?


87 posted on 09/01/2021 10:58:16 AM PDT by Honest Nigerian
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To: SeekAndFind
Prescriptions for Ivermectin - a deworming drug

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.

88 posted on 09/01/2021 10:58:30 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


89 posted on 09/01/2021 11:20:18 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: Lurkinanloomin; All
Japan has just announced they are using it for the Fauci/China virus.

Video: Director of the Nagao Clinic.Dr. Nagao speaks on Ivermectin
90 posted on 09/01/2021 12:32:10 PM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: SeekAndFind

It works, people know it, and you can lie about it all you want, but nobody will believe you.


91 posted on 09/01/2021 12:50:03 PM PDT by EastTexasTraveler
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To: SeekAndFind

Are they really that stupid? Numerous studies attest to the safety and efficacy of IVM. Nothing but bullshit.


92 posted on 09/01/2021 12:50:08 PM PDT by willfulknowledge
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To: SeekAndFind
People can overdose from water.
93 posted on 09/01/2021 1:24:53 PM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: SeekAndFind
Baselessly...
94 posted on 09/01/2021 1:32:10 PM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: SeekAndFind

That headline!?! No Agenda News, at your service!


95 posted on 09/01/2021 1:39:10 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Get off your ass and earn it !)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

Marianne Guenot pooped out her opinion, which is valuable, if you hang on the words of a failed English major.


96 posted on 09/01/2021 1:53:03 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: cherry
there used to be a way to buy the cheap stuff from India.

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.

97 posted on 09/01/2021 1:54:36 PM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: DugwayDuke

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.


98 posted on 09/01/2021 3:18:39 PM PDT by sarge83
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To: SeekAndFind

The banshees are screeching tonight.


99 posted on 09/01/2021 3:39:24 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (RISE UP O MEN OF GOD. BE DONE WITH LESSER THINGS.)
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To: SeekAndFind; All

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!


100 posted on 09/02/2021 6:27:47 AM PDT by politicianslie (NO ONE CAN STOP WHAT IS COMING)
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