Ivermectin and vaccines

DESPITE having my Messenger account flooded with stories about ivermectin, I have remained skeptical and continue to put my trust in the Department of Health, the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and their words of caution. Times are confusing enough, and getting contradictory information about what works and what doesn’t only makes it worse.

That being said, however, and while, unfortunately, there have been no clinical trials that meet the standards required by authorities to approve ivermectin as a prophylactic or treatment for SARS-CoV-2 infection and disease, the drug is definitely more than an antiparasitic for animals. It is one of four drugs used by the WHO in mass drug administration programs, also known as “preventive chemotherapy and transmission control,” against seven neglected tropical diseases.