The FDA stated that while it had approved ivermectin for certain uses in humans and animals, it had not issued any statement affirming the safety or effectiveness of the drug for treating COVID-19.
"We've seen lots of chatter about ivermectin in the last week. Some of what you're seeing in videos and social media posts isn't true," the FDA stated on X, formerly known as Twitter.
The FDA pointed cited the National Institutes of Health COVID-19 treatment guidelines, which recommend against using ivermectin for COVID-19 treatment due to a purported lack of evidence supporting its effectiveness.
The agency was responding after some people, including Sen. Ron Johnson's, claimed that the FDA has "Quietly approved" the use of ivermectin for COVID-19.
"The doctors I've been dealing with and talking to for years now, they believe that probably hundreds of thousands of Americans lost their lives because they were denied early treatment and they were denied because the FDA sabotaged, for example, ivermectin," Mr. Johnson told FOX News on Aug. 11.
Ashley Cheung Honold, a Department of Justice lawyer representing the FDA, had said during recent oral arguments in a legal case that the FDA "Explicitly recognizes that doctors do have the authority to prescribe ivermectin to treat COVID.".
Ms. Honold said the FDA's statements "Don't prohibit doctors from prescribing ivermectin to treat COVID or for any other purpose." She said the agency advised people to consult their health care providers and that they could take medicine if the provider prescribed it.
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