Prognosis
Ivermectin Advocates Push for Unproven Covid Drug
- Mississippi’s public health association president buys in
- Regulators, companies, public health officials want more data
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When Catherine Moring, president of Mississippi’s Public Health Association, tested positive for Covid-19, she turned to ivermectin to keep her safe.
Federal health officials warn that improper dosing of ivermectin, often used for worms in domestic animals, can cause nausea, dizziness, seizures, coma and even death. Moring, however, preferred information from newsletters, social media and podcasts like one by Joe Rogan, the No. 1 Spotify commentator, who took the antiparisitic for his own infection. Moring, an unvaccinated 37-year-old dietitian, also read research papers and spoke to doctors she knew.