How to Use ivermectin in a Sentence

ivermectin

noun

• Stephens said in a Facebook post that the couple were prescribed ivermectin, which is used to treat parasites.
  — Mary Bowerman, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2018
• Karas is the current provider and a defendant in a lawsuit over its use of ivermectin to combat covid-19 among inmates.
  — Tom Sissom, Arkansas Online, 29 Dec. 2022
• Doctors at the time warned that this did not justify using ivermectin for covid-19.
  — Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2021
• Unimed Belem is giving out a kit containing the drug, plus the antibiotics azithromycin and ivermectin, in the Amazonian state of Para.
  — Simone Preissler Iglesias, Bloomberg.com, 20 May 2020
• The study compared about 1,300 people in Brazil who received either ivermectin or a placebo.
  — Molly Beck, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2022
• The results were clear: Taking ivermectin did not reduce a Covid patient’s risk of ending up in the hospital.
  — New York Times, 30 Mar. 2022
• Some judges have refused to order hospitals to give ivermectin.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Oct. 2021
• Now they are increasingly being asked to weigh in on the deworming drug ivermectin.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Oct. 2021
• The other thing that’s not clear from the episode is why exactly Jones was supposedly taking ivermectin.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2021
• The new method solves the drug-residue problem because moxidectin, the newer version of ivermectin, has a zero-day withdrawal, at least when used in cattle.
  — Maryn McKenna, WIRED, 19 July 2023
• Doctors prescribed the man the anti-parasitic ivermectin, and the rash and diarrhea improved.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 22 Apr. 2022
• The agency has also warned against taking ivermectin without a prescription.
  — Lex Treinen, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Nov. 2021
• But when a person harboring tens of thousands of Loa loa worms in each drop of blood takes ivermectin, all the baby worms die off in a sort of mass extinction, causing potentially lethal brain swelling.
  — Brian Rinker, CNN, 17 Apr. 2018
• Researchers are looking into the factors that contributed to the decline, but some users online are claiming the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin and the removal of vaccines are the reason.
  — Mckenzie Sadeghi, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2021
• Maher has also touted the use of ivermectin against Covid-19 despite the lack of real scientific evidence to support such use.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2022
• Arguably and no one has been more successful at promoting ivermectin than Rogan himself.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2021
• But Karas espoused the use of ivermectin in public statements on his clinic’s social media page and sought to conduct his own research on the drug’s efficacy, according to the lawsuit.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2023
• Bowden's Twitter account shows a series of tweets praising the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin.
  — Amanda Watts, CNN, 13 Nov. 2021
• Hope has been put in drugs that attempt to slow the replication of the virus—those currently in clinical trials like remdesivir, ivermectin, and hydroxychloroquine.
  — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 21 Apr. 2020
• The study, which compared more than 1,300 people infected with the coronavirus in Brazil who received either ivermectin or a placebo, effectively ruled out the drug as a treatment for Covid, the study’s authors said.
  — New York Times, 30 Mar. 2022
• The couple required additional ivermectin treatments to kick the bum worm infection.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 1 Mar. 2018
• The effects of taking ivermectin can range from gastrointestinal issues to nervous system changes, according to Froberg.
  — Rashika Jaipuriar, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Sep. 2021
• Worse, Adalja said, some people are using the drug instead of getting vaccinated, and are taking the higher-dose veterinary ivermectin instead of the version that would be used to treat a human.
  — Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Aug. 2021
• Hawaii—the state with the third highest proportion (74%) of people with at least one vaccination shot—was a notable exception, having the fourth highest proportion of web searches for ivermectin of all states.
  — Robert Hart, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
• Still, viral rumors have led some Covid patients and their families to insist on receiving ivermectin from doctors who refuse to prescribe it as a treatment in their hospitals.
  — NBC News, 24 Sep. 2021
• Half of the patients took a relatively high dose of oral ivermectin for five days, and the other half -- the comparison group -- received treatment for their symptoms, such as fever-reducing medications.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 18 Feb. 2022
• State and federal government agencies issued warnings this week not to take ivermectin — a pill to treat parasites — as a coronavirus cure or prevention for pets or people.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 16 Apr. 2020
• The doctor who prescribed the deworming drug ivermectin to an Ohio man despite protests from hospital officials belongs to a larger group of medical professionals who promote the drug as a cure for Covid-19.
  — NBC News, 27 Aug. 2021
• YouTube suspended Johnson for a week last year over his promotion of hydroxychloroquine and the anti-parasite drug ivermectin.
  — Lawrence Andrea, Journal Sentinel, 24 Aug. 2022
• Meanwhile, others are ingesting livestock-grade ivermectin, which can result in overdoses in humans.
  — Zoe Christen Jones, CBS News, 9 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 10 Aug 2024