@Rabbits by Accident is absolutely right - ivermectin has well-documented anti-viral effects (as well as anti-helmintic, anti-microbial and even anti-cancer effects).This is false.
Ivermectin is for parasites, not viruses or other diseases.
The Nobel Prize you mentioned was for curing roundworm infestations which are a parasite, not a disease.
Ivermectin is acknowledged to inhibit invasion and replication of viral RNA through a variety of pathways (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9823263/).
It's considered a wonder drug by many in the microbiology and epidemiology fields.
Since it is such a tremendous and important resource, I try to limit its use to absolute necessity (RHDv2 would probably be one), so as to delay the inevitable resistance that some organisms will eventually develop. I do not ever use it prophylactically. Apparently there are already nematodes that are ivermectin-resistant.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41429-020-0336-z
https://www.nature.com/articles/ja201711
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9823263/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8088823/
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