Experts argue against ivermectin use
Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper. As the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (Sahpra) settled several court applications on Tuesday 6 April to provide wider access to ivermectin for the treatment of Covid-19, the country’s infectious disease specialists insisted that this was not the right way to do it. Despite battling through two brutal waves of the Covid-19 pandemic, South Africa’s frontline doctors, all infectious disease specialists, were among a group of esteemed medical experts who told the court that it was not in the public interest to allow broad access to iver...