Reports Friday from multiple trials in the United States and abroad indicate a drug already approved by the FDA to treat parasitic infections is showing "Astounding" results, and could represent a breakthrough in efforts to vanquishing the SARS-CoV-2 virus at the heart of the global pandemic.
Doctors have administered the drug ivermectin in several simultaneous trials in several countries sometimes in combination with other common medications.
Physicians who participated in the study report that patients' viral loads began declining almost immediately after they began administering ivermectin, a widely available prescription drug approved to combat parasites, scabies and head lice.
In some cases, doctors reported just one dose of ivermectin markedly improved a patient's condition.
The drug first emerged as a possible coronavirus therapeutic in June, when a study by researchers in Victoria, Australia, showed the drug wiped out the virus in a test tube.
According to a medical source familiar with the study, some 250 coronavirus patients were involved in the Broward trial.
In a separate trial on the other side of the globe, a team of doctors in Bangladesh reported Friday that they administered a combination of ivermectin and doxycycline, a common antibiotic, to 60 coronavirus patients there.
https://www.newsmax.com/us/ivermectin-drug-virus/2020/05/22/id/968688/
Doctors have administered the drug ivermectin in several simultaneous trials in several countries sometimes in combination with other common medications.
Physicians who participated in the study report that patients' viral loads began declining almost immediately after they began administering ivermectin, a widely available prescription drug approved to combat parasites, scabies and head lice.
In some cases, doctors reported just one dose of ivermectin markedly improved a patient's condition.
The drug first emerged as a possible coronavirus therapeutic in June, when a study by researchers in Victoria, Australia, showed the drug wiped out the virus in a test tube.
According to a medical source familiar with the study, some 250 coronavirus patients were involved in the Broward trial.
In a separate trial on the other side of the globe, a team of doctors in Bangladesh reported Friday that they administered a combination of ivermectin and doxycycline, a common antibiotic, to 60 coronavirus patients there.
https://www.newsmax.com/us/ivermectin-drug-virus/2020/05/22/id/968688/
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