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As healthcare workers, we have a lot of training in viral infection. So we had reason to be cautiously optimistic that we’d get through the infection if we got exposed to it ourselves.
The bigger fear back in March 2020 was that we would infect our households and infect those who are vulnerable close to us. Plus, there’s only so much you can do with a rigorous implementation of infection-control procedure. There’s a generous amount of luck involved in not picking up the infection because, in the nature of our work, we have to work closely together.
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Irish Covid patients being treated in intensive care are to start receiving the drug ivermectin as part of an international clinical trial.
Ivermectin is an anti-parasitic drug that has been controversially promoted by some as a cure for the disease.
In 2015, Donegal scientist Professor William Campbell shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his role in the discovery of ivermectin.
Launched in the 1980s as a drug against parasites, it was crucial in treating river blindness in many tropical countries.
Ivermectin is used in various animal medicines including ones for roundworms, mites and lice in sheep and cows.