Acta Scientific Pharmaceutical Sciences (ASPS)(ISSN: 2581-5423)

Commentary Volume 6 Issue 1

Should We Routinely Use Ivermectin to Treat Covid-19 in Early Stage?

Tapan K Chaudhuri* and Paul E Marik

Professor, Hampton, Virginia and Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA

*Corresponding Author: Tapan K Chaudhuri, Professor, Hampton, Virginia, USA.

Received: November 27, 2021; Published: December 07, 2021

The FDA/CDC/NIH/WHO‘s negative campaign of labeling Ivermectin (IVM) as the drug for horses appears paradoxixal because FDA had already approved IVM for use in human too for de-worming, river blindness and Scabies without any concern for any side effects. Then why does FDA have concern for side effects of IVM when used for COVID-19?

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Citation

Citation: Tapan K Chaudhuri and Paul E Marik. “Should We Routinely Use Ivermectin to Treat Covid-19 in Early Stage?". Acta Scientific Pharmaceutical Sciences 6.1 (2022): 13-14.

Copyright

Copyright: © 2022 Tapan K Chaudhuri and Paul E Marik. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.




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