{"id":39498,"date":"2021-09-02T13:14:50","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T20:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=39498"},"modified":"2021-09-02T18:15:54","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T01:15:54","slug":"american-medical-association-stop-using-ivermectin-to-treat-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=39498","title":{"rendered":"American Medical Association: Stop using ivermectin to treat COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You should seriously stop with the horse drugs.<\/p>\n<p>The American Medical Association (AMA) is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ykqcypmrvssnwpwsnfkvvnccvmntsmszzgvrpbtslbfbcs_ljnmjjgkgrmngznmhjdm.html?a=&amp;b=41998\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ykqcypmrvssnwpwsnfkvvnccvmntsmszzgvrpbtslbfbcs_ljnmjjgkgrmngznmhjdm.html?a%3D%26b%3D41998&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1630706479583000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG7NRpKYs17abbxwBeaNMeXXN-1tQ\">calling<\/a>\u00a0for the &#8220;immediate end&#8221; to the use of ivermectin to treat COVID-19, and for doctors to stop prescribing it for that purpose, amid a spike in the use of the drug.<\/p>\n<p>Ivermectin, often used as a deworming agent in animals and sometimes for humans, is not approved to treat COVID-19 and has not been shown to work for that purpose. Poison control centers have recorded a five-fold increase in calls related to ivermectin, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n<p>The AMA, the country&#8217;s largest doctors group, is now joining the Food and Drug Administration and the CDC in warning against use of the drug.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What they said:<\/strong>\u00a0&#8220;We are alarmed by reports that outpatient prescribing for and dispensing of ivermectin have increased 24-fold since before the pandemic and increased exponentially over the past few months,&#8221; the AMA said in a statement, joined by the American Pharmacists Association and American Society of Health-System Pharmacists.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As such, we are calling for an immediate end to the prescribing, dispensing, and use of ivermectin for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 outside of a clinical trial,\u201d the statement continued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You should seriously stop with the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39499,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39498\/revisions\/39499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}