ivermectin

/ ˌaɪvəˈmɛktɪn /

noun

1. a drug that kills parasitic nematode worms, mites, and insects. It is used to treat a variety of parasitic infections in domestic animals and onchocerciasis in humans

Example Sentences

Kennedy’s mindset is curious: He has promoted treatment of COVID-19 with ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, which have been proven to be useless for the purpose, but he campaigns against fluoridation, which has demonstrated a health benefit over nearly eight decades.

From Los Angeles Times

“The FDA’s war on public health is about to end,” he wrote, decrying the agency’s “aggressive suppression” of such worthless anti-COVID nostrums as ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine.

From Los Angeles Times

Last month, he decried the FDA’s “aggressive suppression” of unproven health remedies like dietary supplements and ivermectin and warned: “If you work for the FDA and are part of this corrupt system, I have two messages for you: 1. Preserve your records, and 2. Pack your bags.”

From Los Angeles Times

Lurie said he wouldn’t be surprised to see Kennedy task researchers at the National Institutes of Health with looking for damaging side effects of vaccines and elusive benefits of potential therapies that have already been shown to be ineffective, such as chelation as a treatment for autism and ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19.

From Los Angeles Times

Last month Kennedy accused the FDA on X of suppressing the use of "psychedelics, peptides, stem cells, raw milk, hyperbaric therapies, chelating compounds, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, vitamins, clean foods, sunshine, exercise, nutraceuticals and anything else that advances human health and can't be patented".

From BBC