The pills used for human use and the pills used for livestock are, in fact, different. Both contain ivermectin, but in not just different dosages, but with different active ingredients other than ivermectin designed to help deliver the drug in exact way required.

So, yes, please stop taking veterinary supplies as precautionary medication

The NIH has already commenced a large clinical study of ivermectin (and other drugs) to see if it's effective. Despite politics the bureaucracy is still functioning.

https://www.nih.gov/research-training/medical-research-initi...

Do you know what else stops viruses from replicating in-vitro? Bleach, alcohol, baking soda, hydrochloric acid, probably even concentrated sugar and salt solutions. In-vitro results don't really prove anything. Is there a double blind study that proves effectiveness In Vivo?

I wouldn't call it proof, but there is at least one small double blind study that showed statistically significant effectiveness in vivo. So it's certainly worth further research.

https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/13/6/989

From an actual drug researcher.

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/ivermectin-covid-1...

"some kid manning the FDA Twitter account"... seriously?

while I agree with you, the FDA feel they need to tell people to stop self prescribing the horse version of ivermectin that caused the anti-poison hotline to be overwhelmed

Source on that? All I can find is a spike in calls, often framed by the headline as a large percentage increase in total ivermectin related calls, but the actual numbers of poisonings are trivial. As in 5 per year increasing to 16 or 17 being reported breathlessly as "245% increase in ivermectin related calls..." blah blah blah. It's statistically irrelevant. Even if it all happened in a single day it hardly seems like a busy afternoon for poison hotline agents.

Ivermectin has been politicized and the narrative is that idiot flyover state citizens are "overwhelming" various systems, but this is demonstrably false. It plays to the sneering smugness and self righteous outrage that seems the preferred political prod of late.

I personally know at least 5 people that bought the horse version of Ivermectin because of Joe Rogan podcast.

They haven't taken it yet and they told me if they get COVID they will take it. Which they assume will eventually happen since they are not planning to get vaccinated.

Feed store in red state are ordering ~20 boxes of Horse ivermectin each week and are still running out.