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2023-06-25 14:51:06 UTC - MISINFORMED_OR_POTENTIALLY_MISLEADING

The deworming medicine ivermectin’s perceived efficacy against COVID-19 is strongest in places with a high prevalence of parasitic worms and lowest in places with a low prevalence of worms. It’s treating the worms, not COVID. https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/11/18/ivermectin-may-help-covid-19-patients-but-only-those-with-worms https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.3079

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• The deworming medicine ivermectin’s perceived efficacy against COVID-19 is strongest in places with a high prevalence of parasitic worms and lowest in places with a low prevalence of worms. It’s treating the worms, not COVID. https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/11/18/ivermectin-may-help-covid-19-patients-but-only-those-with-worms https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.3079