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This misinformation, promoted by NPR, needs to stop. Lives are on the line.
Scientists who developed ivermectin won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 2015 for its use in humans. Here are some historical statistics on it's use in humans:
https://clincalc.com/DrugStats/Drugs/Ivermectin
Please learn the facts about this medicine. Here's a good summary that explains a bit about the politically partisan folks intentionally talking about the horse formulation of ivermectin, which some people have apparently tried to use:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ivermectin-explained...
Again, ivermectin is used in people. Some say it's one of the tools that helped India with respect to the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2.
'Ivermectin Products for Animals Are Different from Ivermectin Products for People
For one thing, animal drugs are often highly concentrated because they are used for large animals like horses and cows, which weigh a lot more than we do—a ton or more. Such high doses can be highly toxic in humans. Moreover, the FDA reviews drugs not just for safety and effectiveness of the active ingredients, but also for the inactive ingredients. Many inactive ingredients found in products for animals aren’t evaluated for use in people. Or they are included in much greater quantity than those used in people. In some cases, we don’t know how those inactive ingredients will affect how ivermectin is absorbed in the human body.'
https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/why-you-shoul...
> The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015 was divided, one half jointly to William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura "for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites" ...
Roundworm parasites. Right there.
...and you were saying...?
Not only is Ivermectin a human medicine, it's one of the more globally important ones.
For example: are there other coronaviruses or any viruses which are treated (in people or animals) with ivermectin? If so, which? If not, why would the original proponent(s) attempt this drug over any other one?
EDIT: maybe I was too quick to dismiss it: follow the responses on the thread.
.. so, later, when Covid broke they were interested to see if IVT had an effect vs Covid - under the assumption that its anti-viral mechanism was host-centric rather than virus-specific. It did, wow :
The Monash paper - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.antiviral.2020.104787
Regardless of whether IVT is ultimately found to be an effective treatment vs Covid in humans [ unclear and controversial at the moment ] it is certainly important to understand its mechanism of action, as it could give rise to a whole new class of broad-spectrum antivirals.
Another interesting paper is the Pasteur study of IVT effectiveness vs covid in guinea-pigs - https://doi.org/10.15252/emmm.202114122 [ I feel compelled to give further social proof from a big name institution, given the firestorm of social media opinion ]
I can only speculate that the trials showing both effectiveness and ineffectiveness of IVT in humans vs covid, differ so widely due to some confounding factor - the simplest which I can propose is that IVT is absorbed 2.5x more if taken with fatty food .. which is what you want to get the high doses purported to be effective vs covid .. yet, the medicine is normally taken on an empty stomach to treat intestinal parasites, so it can stay largely in the gut, and not be absorbed into the rest of the body.