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I prefer homemade chicken soup to taking antiworming pills. I suppose if I got a bad case, I would consider those worming meds, but chances are if I got it I would just get a milder case since lots of the food chemistry I normally eat protects me against getting a bad case.
Ivermectin acts by inhibiting the host importin alpha/beta-1 nuclear transport proteins, which are part of a key intracellular transport process that viruses hijack to enhance infection by suppressing the host antiviral response.3 Ivermectin is therefore a host-directed agent, which is likely the basis for its broad-spectrum activity in vitro against the viruses that cause dengue, Zika, HIV, and yellow fever.3-6
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Ivermectin is an inhibitor of the COVID-19 causative virus (SARS-CoV-2) in vitro.
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A single treatment able to effect ~5000-fold reduction in virus at 48 h in cell culture.
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Ivermectin is FDA-approved for parasitic infections, and therefore has a potential for repurposing.
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Ivermectin is widely available, due to its inclusion on the WHO model list of essential medicines.
Abstract
Although several clinical trials are now underway to test possible therapies, the worldwide response to the COVID-19 outbreak has been largely limited to monitoring/containment. We report here that Ivermectin, an FDA-approved anti-parasitic previously shown to have broad-spectrum anti-viral activity in vitro, is an inhibitor of the causative virus (SARS-CoV-2), with a single addition to Vero-hSLAM cells 2 h post infection with SARS-CoV-2 able to effect ~5000-fold reduction in viral RNA at 48 h. Ivermectin therefore warrants further investigation for possible benefits in humans.
originally posted by: rickymouse
a reply to: Doctor Smith
I am thinking that pregnant women should not take Ivermectin. Worming pills are not good for pregnant animals usually, a fetus is basically a parasite. They then become kids and after they become teenagers, most wind up as money sucking parasites inspired by school sports and technology
Too little and the virus still reproduces, too much and the cell is no longer viable and dies.
originally posted by: roadgravel
Ivermectin
And you won't have worms either.