Although the form of the drug sold in pharmacies is routinely prescribed for U.S. last month (compared with an average of 3,600 per week in 2019).
Nevertheless, ivermectin prescriptions are soaring, topping 88,000 a week in the U.S. He worries not only that the hype over the antiparasitic drug may keep some people from getting vaccinated but also that sick people taking it at home might delay going to a hospital and miss the efficacy window for evidence-based COVID treatments. But unlike the data supporting vaccines, Griffin says, the evidence behind that use of ivermectin is questionable and unclear. A recent poll by the Economist and YouGov indicated that a total of about 56 percent of people who believe ivermectin is effective against COVID either do not plan to get vaccinated or are unsure about the vaccine. The notion that ivermectin is a miracle medicine gives people who reject vaccines a false sense of security, says Daniel Griffin, a physician and infectious disease researcher at Columbia University and Chief of the Division of Infectious Disease at the company ProHEALTH. Yet treatment protocols, links and videos from these groups are sweeping through social media, promoted by vaccine skeptics. The organization, along with two others called the British Ivermectin Recommendation Development (BIRD) Group and America’s Frontline Doctors (AFLDS), have drawn criticism from many other physicians and scientists. Kory is president of the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC), a group of physicians and scientists who champion ivermectin, along with other drugs and vitamins with dubious efficacy against COVID. In doing so, some experts believe these groups are undermining vaccination efforts.ĭerived from a compound discovered in a soil microbe in Japan, ivermectin has been called a “miracle drug” and “the penicillin of COVID” by Pierre Kory, a critical care physician in Madison, Wis. But now several groups of doctors are encouraging and enabling people to take the drug off-label to treat or prevent COVID-despite a lack of solid evidence that it works against the disease and the fact that high doses can be harmful. Its discovery even garnered a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2015. Ivermectin has helped treat hundreds of millions of people and billions of pets and farm animals for parasitic diseases.
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