{"id":902,"date":"2021-07-21T17:42:57","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T17:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=902"},"modified":"2021-07-21T17:42:57","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T17:42:57","slug":"ivermectin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=902","title":{"rendered":"Ivermectin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Authors: NIH<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:24px\">Ivermectin is a Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved antiparasitic drug that is used to treat several neglected tropical diseases, including onchocerciasis, helminthiases, and scabies.<sup>1<\/sup>\u00a0It is also being evaluated for its potential to reduce the rate of malaria transmission by killing mosquitoes that feed on treated humans and livestock.<sup>2<\/sup>\u00a0For these indications, ivermectin has been widely used and is generally well tolerated.<sup>1,3<\/sup>\u00a0Ivermectin is not approved by the FDA for the treatment of any viral infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">For More Information: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov\/therapies\/antiviral-therapy\/ivermectin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov\/therapies\/antiviral-therapy\/ivermectin\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authors: NIH Ivermectin is a Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved antiparasitic drug that is used to treat several neglected tropical diseases, including onchocerciasis, helminthiases, and scabies.1\u00a0It is also being evaluated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,307,549],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","category-medications","category-standards-of-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}