COVID-19 Ivermectin

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Interesting, just read about the possibility of Ivermectin (the piggy mite treatment we all know and love!) being used to treat Covid symptoms in humans- there's a trial going on at the moment. I know some drugs work across both human and animal species, but it's not often you recognise them, so this jumped out at me!
 
Yeah. Heard about this this morning. Thought it was very funny that a medicine that cures mites might work for covid. Amazing. Hope it does. 🤞
 
Personally as a pharmacologist I dont think it will work at all at regular therapeutic doses and is only being tested in the UK to scientifically combat disinformation from some countries like Brazil where unfortunately the political administration would prefer to tout supposed cures they have available at home rather than work with global partners who can supply vaccines. But who knows...? No harm in trying though when this sort of "and also we tried this" study makes the news it does rather detract from promoting what we know does work and has a solid scientific basis... there is no plausible scientific mechanism for this, just anecdotal reports- like, today a glass of wine really and truly completely cured my vaccine side effects much better than paracetamol. It really did! I feel much better! But, would this work in a large scale double blinded randomised control study of pharmacological efficacy? Erm... NO! I just like wine :)
 
Ivermectin is great for getting rid of nematode parasites as well as mites, so possibly in countries with high levels of human gut parasites especially blood-sucking hookworms that cause anaemia, ivermectin may reduce parasite burden and therefore improve overall health and nutritional status and the abundance of oxygen-carrying red blood cells that hookworms munch on, and so improve covid outcomes that way.
But improving overall community health to make people better able to survive extra disease challenges isnt quite the same as treating covid directly... I expect for people in countries like ours where everyone is lucky enough to have toilets and plenty food and clean drinking water there will be no effect because we dont have many parasites!
 
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