Indiana considers approving ivermectin to treat COVID-19 despite FDA warnings

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

An Indiana lawmaker wants to block the state's health care providers from discouraging use of anti-parasite medicine ivermectin to treat COVID-19, a controversial treatment that has been rejected by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

The legislation would allow an Indiana doctor or advanced practice registered nurse to write a standing order for ivermectin – and ban pharmacists from discouraging using of the drug to treat coronavirus.

The FDA says ivermectin should never be used to treat or prevent COVID-19, and that incorrect use has required some patients to seek medical treatment.

"Currently available data do not show ivermectin is effective against COVID-19," the FDA says on its website.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/indiana-considers-approving-ivermectin-to-treat-covid-19-despite-fda-warnings-live-updates/ar-AASXQrd

[Srkdqltr]

1. They will all be parasite free. Who cares anymore .

[SunSeeker]

2. All I can say to that is...

[samnsara]

3. oh plz let them :)

[struggle4progress]

4. "And it's time define pi to be three again!"

Indiana pi bill of 1897

[Emile]

5. My wife found out her 73 year old cousin and his wife are taking ivermectin

down in Arkansas. They swear by it, lol.

[Aristus]

6. I don't live or practice in f*****g Indiana, thank God,

but if this were to happen in Washington State, I'll be damned before I let a lawmaker override my clinical judgement in anything, much less some bone-stupid politicized non-issue for the brainless of the world.

[RKP5637]

14. Well said!!! K&R!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We sure have a lot of damn fools in the US. n/t

[helpisontheway]

7. Let the fools take it! Nt

[Crunchy Frog]

8. I thought pharmacists had the right to not fill prescriptions that they're morally opposed to.

[pnwest]

9. F*****ng Indiana, man... Rednecks all over the damn place.

It is a great place to be FROM. And it never looked more beautiful than in my rearview mirror when I left in '98.

[DFW]

10. People who request Ivermectin should be offered the following

Show proof of being a registered Republican, and then be given the medication for free--as much as they want, in fact.

[SunSeeker]

12. LOL

[Golden Raisin]

11. Good. And be sure to wash it down with a Clorox chaser.

[RKP5637]

15. I think they're now into urine too. n/t

[Disaffected]

13. These dimwits do not realize

that Ivermectin, while it has shown some Covid efficacy in the lab, does not work in humans as the dosage required to generate the required concentration of Ivermectin in lung tissue is far to high to be tolerated by other organs (liver in particular IIRC). IOWs, cure the Covid but kill the patient...

OTOH, maybe said dimwits are simply trying to make political hay out of it.

[Emile]

16. Stupid Rednecks must have found out about Bill Gates using the

vaccine to exterminate them!

[mnhtnbb]

17. Step right up and join a clinical trial

of Ivermectin being conducted by Duke and Vanderbilt to determine whether repurposed use of it to treat COVID is warranted.

I kid you not.

https://www.newsweek.com/researchers-seek-volunteers-study-ivermectin-possible-covid-treatment-1652773

https://corporate.dukehealth.org/news/nationwide-clinical-study-expands-platform-test-medications-treat-mild-moderate-covid-19