# Ivermectin Isn't Horse Medicine!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ivermectin-isnt-horse-medicine/949831>\
**Category:** The Quarantine Zone\
**Tags:** covid-quarantine\
**Created:** [August 31, 2021, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ivermectin-isnt-horse-medicine/949831 "2021-08-31T16:18:11Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 31, 2021, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ivermectin-isnt-horse-medicine/949831/32 "2021-08-31T19:07:32Z")

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> [@bobot](#):
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> If they pick it up at their pharmacy after dropping off a prescription. If they pick it up at the feed store, it’s horse medicine.

I posted my second explicit concession that people are taking equine formulations of ivermection after you posted. But, for the record, here’s my third concession that, yes, there are people literally taking horse medicine. Nevertheless,

> [@gdave](#):
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> But the ivermectin itself isn’t “horse medicine” per se. And saying that someone taking _prescription_ ivermectin is taking “horse medicine” is still, I think, badly wrong.

And there _are_, in fact, people taking ivermectin formulated for use in humans to “treat” covid:

> [@A no win situation for doctors](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-no-win-situation-for-doctors/949790):
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> [[Ohio judge orders hospital to treat COVID patient with Ivermectin despite CDC warnings](https://apple.news/AYZDYKynoQ5mUAfC-xXm4QA)] They are required to give potentially toxic, unapproved treatment and either way if he dies the wife will probably sue.

In the case under discussion in that thread, the patient’s wife obtained a valid prescription for ivermectin.

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