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"Earlier this month, Singing River Health System CEO Lee Bond told the Gulf Coast Business Council that one person had been admitted to a Jackson County hospital for injecting ivermectin to treat their coronavirus symptoms. ...

MSDH says 85% of callers had mild symptoms, but one person was instructed to see a doctor.

There are no current hospitalizations due to ivermectin poisoning."

Seems like all the big numbers are relative - percentage changes. The objective numbers are small - e.g. one person having to see a doctor.

I agree taking horse ivermectin seems like a bad idea. Taking any kind of "do-it-yourself" medicine without really knowing what you're doing seems like a bad idea. That said, it seems like the story here is a few people may have had mild symptoms after taking too much and one guy may have been advised to see a doctor. Not a big deal in my view.

In our area, pharmacies will not fill prescriptions for Ivermectin as a prophylactic. With a doctor's prescription, the pharmacies (Walmart, etc) are refusing to fill the prescription. The prescribing doctors are upset and say it is not the pharmacies prerogative to deny a legal prescription. But they still do.

Obviously don't take animal medicine for covid, but perhaps this is a little overblown: "MSDH says 85% of callers had mild symptoms, but one person was instructed to see a doctor."

That reads to me that they got 7 calls about this and one was referred to a doctor. That's the spike.

Ivm is a REALLY safe drug with years and years of safety research and application. In some countries they prescribe it to children to treat lice. Or for yearly deworming.

Of all the crazy things that people could attempt, ivermectin is pretty mild.

Maybe so but if you give people a tube of the stuff with instructions for a horse, and they try to take it, they are likely to overdose. Even if they try to adjust the dose, they have to do conversions and weigh it. Some people will mess up the calculations and OD. That's why the pharmacy just tells you to take 2 pills twice a day.

That's not to mention the fact that the quality control of veterinary medicine is far lower and the concentration may be significantly off.

What a misleading title compared to the body of the article. The body of the article is warning against prescriptions and medications aimed for animals vs humans. The result from this article is that people are taking the animal version of the prophylactic and not the doctor approved one. Shows you the manipulation plain and clear.

Anything to avoid masks and vaccines, which are safe, effective and preventive, and something you can do before infection.

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