Covid-19 roundup: The FDA has re­it­er­at­ed its warn­ing against par­a­site pre­ven­tion drug in­tend­ed for an­i­mals; Mod­er­na be­comes lat­est biotech to man­date vac­cine

In an ef­fort to re-up a warn­ing about us­ing Iver­mectin to treat Covid-19 that was orig­i­nal­ly is­sued in March, the FDA tweet­ed out the ob­vi­ous.

“You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Se­ri­ous­ly, y’all. Stop it,” the agency tweet­ed, along with the link to a con­sumer up­date on its web­site.

Iver­mectin is a drug used to pre­vent par­a­sites in an­i­mals, and the FDA said it’s re­ceived re­ports that pa­tients have been hos­pi­tal­ized af­ter ad­min­is­ter­ing the drug to them­selves. The con­sumer up­date dou­bles down that Iver­mectin is not an an­ti-vi­ral, and re­it­er­at­ed that it has not been ap­proved to treat Covid-19.

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