Ivermectin As A COVID Treatment? Why You Shouldn’t Attempt To Try It 03/01/21 AT 9:26 AM In an effort to combat the coronavirus, people are trying unproven cures that may be harmful or even worse than contracting COVID. One treatment falsely circulating as a COVID cure is ivermectin – a horse dewormer – that is being taken in lethal doses, Business Insider reported. People are obtaining the drug through veterinarians in large doses recommended for horses and using the ivermectin on themselves, Julie Weber, president of the American Association of Poison Control Centers, told ABC News. Weber continued by saying, “We just had a case of someone using a veterinary source of ivermectin, a horse medication, that contains a significantly larger dose of the drug.”