Researchers: FDA-Approved Drug May Kill Coronavirus in "Under 48 Hours"

I am making no claims here but wanted to get the word out just in case.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166354220302011

Report: Researchers Say they Found an FDA-Approved Drug that May Kill Coronavirus in “Under 48 hours”

Researchers in Australia report that Ivermectin, an FDA-approved drug commonly used to treat parasites, appears to be effective in treating the SARS-COV-2 coronavirus (COVID-19). The drug is widely available and can be “repurposed” for this application, doctors said.

The ScienceDirect journal, Antiviral Research, published an article by a group of Australian researchers from Monash University in Melbourne reporting that Ivermectin appears to be effective at inhibiting the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.

The article states:

Ivermectin is an inhibitor of the COVID-19 causative virus (SARS-CoV-2) in vitro.
A single treatment able to effect ∼5000-fold reduction in virus at 48h in cell culture.
Ivermectin is FDA-approved for parasitic infections, and therefore has a potential for repurposing.

Ivermectin is widely available, due to its inclusion on the WHO model list of essential medicines.

“We report here that Ivermectin, an FDA-approved anti-parasitic previously shown to have broad-spectrum antiviral activity in vitro, is an inhibitor of the causative virus (SARS-CoV-2),” the researchers write. “Ivermectin, therefore, warrants further investigation for possible benefits in humans.” [Breitbart]

Dr. Kylie Wagstaffis the leader of the research team and he issued a statement on the breakthrough:

“Ivermectin is very widely used and seen as a safe drug. We need to figure out now whether the dosage you can use it at in humans will be effective—that’s the next step,” 

Newsweek magazine reported. “We found that even a single dose could essentially remove all viral RNA by 48 hours and that even at 24 hours there was a really significant reduction in it.”

More Research

Here's an interesting article from Japan on human use of Ivermectin.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3043740/

Abstract

Discovered in the late-1970s, the pioneering drug ivermectin, a dihydro derivative of avermectin—originating solely from a single microorganism isolated at the Kitasato Institute, Tokyo, Japan from Japanese soil—has had an immeasurably beneficial impact in improving the lives and welfare of billions of people throughout the world. 

Originally introduced as a veterinary drug, it kills a wide range of internal and external parasites in commercial livestock and companion animals. 

It was quickly discovered to be ideal in combating two of the world’s most devastating and disfiguring diseases which have plagued the world’s poor throughout the tropics for centuries. 

It is now being used free-of-charge as the sole tool in campaigns to eliminate both diseases globally. 

It has also been used to successfully overcome several other human diseases and new uses for it are continually being found. 

This paper looks in depth at the events surrounding ivermectin’s passage from being a huge success in Animal Health into its widespread use in humans, a development that has led many to describe it as a “wonder” drug.

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For under $7, it might be good insurance. 

I am not a medical doctor and this is not an attempt to give medical advice on prescription use. I'm simply sharing research data so you can decide for yourself.