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Thursday, Mar. 14, 2024

Did Aaron Rodgers promote ivermectin for treating COVID-19?

Tom Kertscher, Wisconsin Watch
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NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers praised the antiparasitic drug ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19.

Ivermectin is approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration to treat several tropical diseases, including scabies, but not for the treatment of any viral infection, including COVID-19. The FDA recommends against using ivermectin for COVID.

Rodgers is a former Green Bay Packer who now plays for the New York Jets.

In November 2021, Rodgers told interviewer Pat McAfee that 48 hours after testing positive for the coronavirus, “I’ve been taking monoclonal antibodies, ivermectin, zinc, vitamin C and DHCQ, and I feel pretty incredible.”

On March 12, 2024, The New York Times reported that independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was considering Rodgers as his vice-presidential running mate.

Kennedy has long decried vaccines. He claimed that ivermectin was discredited as a COVID-19 treatment so that COVID vaccines would get federal authorization.

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