Fringe Doctors’ Groups Promote Ivermectin for COVID despite a Lack of EvidenceThe organizations touting unproved protocols for the antiparasitic drug may be harming vaccination efforts
Ivermectin has helped treat hundreds of millions of people and billions of pets and farm animals for parasitic diseases. Its discovery even garnered a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2015. But now several groups of doctors are encouraging and enabling people to take the drug off-label to treat or prevent COVID—despite a lack of solid evidence that it works against the disease and the fact that high doses can be harmful. In doing so, some experts believe these groups are undermining vaccination efforts.The rest here -
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