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by kitcar 1826 days ago
The link I provided from the FDA says:

"There seems to be a growing interest in a drug called ivermectin to treat humans with COVID-19. Ivermectin is often used in the U.S. to treat or prevent parasites in animals.

The FDA has received multiple reports of patients who have required medical support and been hospitalized after self-medicating with ivermectin intended for horses."

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It's also been given to people around the world billions of times for 4 or 5 decades.

Yeah, don't take the horse dose lol, take the human dose.

The most common way to treat onchocerciasis (river blindness) is by using ivermectin.