{"id":6036,"date":"2021-08-28T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=6036"},"modified":"2021-08-28T10:30:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T10:30:02","slug":"ivermectin-as-a-cure-for-covid-dont-be-daft-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=6036","title":{"rendered":"Ivermectin As A Cure For Covid? Don’t Be Daft, But…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There’s a bunch of idiots currently poisoning themselves by taking Ivermectin<\/a> as a cure or preventative for Covid-19. Which is doubly-dumb because not only is there no real evidence that ivermectin will do anything to deal with Covid-19, but these idiots are all too frequently getting their dose from horse-worming medication because the stocks of ivermectin for people has all run out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes you read that right ivermectin is<\/em> an approved medication for people when the dosage is appropriate. But it is not approved for treating Covid-19; it is intended to treat parasites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And nobody with any sense would suggest ivermectin paste intended for use on horses :-<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. The dose of ivermectin for a 700Kg horse is way<\/em> higher than for a person who typically weighs under 100Kg. And yes the weight makes a difference – LD50<\/a> is the measure of how poisonous a drug is, which is specified per kilogram<\/em> of the subject’s weight.<\/li>
  2. An oral preparation of a drug for a horse may well contain ingredients not suitable for people. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    So taking ivermectin without checking the ingredients and adjusting the dosage is really<\/em> dumb especially when taking it for something it hasn’t been shown to be effective for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    And don’t take the advice of random strangers on the Internet; some of us aren’t qualified as pharmacists. Consult proper experts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    There’s a bunch of idiots currently poisoning themselves by taking Ivermectin as a cure or preventative for Covid-19. Which is doubly-dumb because not only is there no real evidence that ivermectin will do anything to deal with Covid-19, but these idiots are all too frequently getting their dose from horse-worming medication because the stocks of […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[1916,2052,2051],"class_list":["post-6036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-covid-19","tag-horse-deworming","tag-ivermectin","category-7-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1f2KI-1zm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6037,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6036\/revisions\/6037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}