The controversy around using ivermectin for the prevention or treatment of Covid-19 in humans continues to make headlines.
The country’s top vaccinologists, scientists and infectious diseases experts
the “irresponsible social media hype around the use of ivermectin” to treat Covid-19 until it was officially approved for use in humans in the country.Earlier this year, former chair of the ministerial advisory committee Prof Salim Abdool Karim toldAbdool Karim said there was no compelling case for ivermectin to be used as a Covid-19 treatment.
“The studies are of really poor quality. When you look at the scientific evidence, there’s no compelling case for this. The doctor, Dr Andrew Hill, who did the overall analysis also said the evidence isn’t sufficiently robust to recommend its use,” he said. “It must be clearly stated that ivermectin does not kill the virus at dosages humans can tolerate. The amount of drug needed to kill the virus is toxic to humans. Whatever it is doing, it is not killing the virus.”
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