CONTROVERSIAL DRUG KEY TO FIGHTING RSV?

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

News, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 19 November 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Despite an aggressive media hit job on the 40 year-old Nobel Prize-winning drug, a recent study, coupled with the rising rates of RSV in children, has thrust ivermectin into the spotlight once again. Is the controversial drug the key to fighting RSV?

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0:00.0	Remember that drug it was called Ivermectin.
0:03.9	It was an anti-parasite medication,
0:06.0	40-year safety track record impeccable,
0:08.6	used all over the world.
0:10.1	All of a sudden it became called a horse paste
0:12.8	when Joe Rogan started taking it and talking about it.
0:15.5	Remember the news, this is what it looked like.
0:17.6	All right.
0:18.4	Words of warning.
0:19.3	Earlier this week, the Department of Health reiterated
0:22.1	its warning against the use of a drug called Ivermectin.
0:26.3	A new false cure for COVID in high demand.
0:30.0	Ivermectin.
0:31.4	Be aware that Ivermectin has not been proven
0:34.4	as a way to prevent or treat COVID-19.
0:36.7	Rumors circulating on social media about its use
0:39.4	specifically for COVID-19 in India
0:42.9	that is not based in reality or facts.
0:46.1	There is no scientific basis for a potential therapeutic effect
0:48.8	against COVID-19.
0:50.2	The FDA, the NIH, the World Health Organization,
0:53.0	and academic institutions across the world,
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