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Goa wants all adults to take Ivermectin. Here s why FDA warned against its use hindustantimes.com | Written by Joydeep Bose | Edited by Avik Roy
Goa health minister Vishwajit Rane on Monday said that all adults everyone above the age of 18 in the Union territory will be given the Ivermectin antiparasitic drug irrespective of their coronavirus disease (Covid-19) status. Although the minister claimed that the medicine has been found to bring down the Covid-19 mortality rate in several countries, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had warned against its use in treating coronavirus patients back in April last year.
As the search continues for treatments for Covid-19, the results from a number of studies have led to changes in the advice on which drugs to give people who are suffering from the disease.
The European Medicines Agency and the United States National Institutes of Health have recently stated that one previously promising treatment – the antiparasitic drug, ivermectin – is not recommended for use in routine management of Covid-19 patients.
Despite these decisions, support for ivermectin has been circulating on social media and in WhatsApp groups, with rumours abounding that the drug is being blocked on purpose. Some have dubbed it the “new hydroxycholoroquine”, after a treatment that received a significant amount of online support but was found in trials to be ineffective against Covid-19.