Ivermectin Won’t Treat Covid-19, but Demand Is High Anyway September 4, 2021 Auto Bot Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Clinical Trials, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Food and Drug Administration, Ivermectin, Merck & Company Inc, Poisoning and Poisons, social media 0 The drug has spared hundreds of millions of Africans from serious parasites, but clinical trials have repeatedly failed to show that it is effective against Covid. Still, U.S. demand is high.