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by croon 5y ago
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/09/04/1034217306/ivermectin-overdose-exposure-cases-poison-control-centers https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/0...
It's not a lot in absolute numbers, but it probably hides a sizable amount of cases not serious enough to get to poison control.
- kragen 5y agoOn the contrary, the majority of people who called poison control were "worried well" who had no symptoms. And I think "not a lot in absolute numbers" is really underselling it: the total number of "reported exposure cases" was 459 in a country of 330 million people, up from 133 cases the previous month (before people started thinking ivermectin was a suppressed miracle cure). That's one out of every million people. Of those, zero died. By way of comparison, every year, two out of every million people in the US die by falling out of bed.
- croon 5y agoThe obvious followup question is, does a horse dose of ivermectin give humans any symptoms? Because the introduced question was regarding characterization of proponents, not the rate injury.