There was an article that come out on the internet not long after the covid started about treating with Ivermectin. I was in a feed store about a week after the article came out,I was talking to the owner who is an 80 year old man and he told me that in the week after the article came out he had sold over 700 tubes of ivermectin horse wormer. That is taking self medication to the extreme.
Not to worry there will be more regulation on the way. Back in March when they came out that taking Famotidine (pepcid)helped speed recovery, there was a run on it. They noticed that the poor people that could only afford cheaper stomach medicine and not the prilosec or the other expensive one. They saw the poor people were getting over it quicker, that was in China I think.
For years we have heard not to buy medicine from Canada or Mexico cause it could have bad stuff in it. Then when when Catastrophe hits and meds were running low it was because China was out.
There was something about the ivermec 10 years ago or so that humans shouldn't take it because ( I think the pour on has something that humans don't need or maybe it was the taking it internally, can't remember). It was not because it had stuff in it that wasn't pure stuff. I can't imagine the law suit if someones $1 million dollar race horse took contaminated ivermec and died.
Any way there will be a push to get it out of the little farm stores . I don't think I've ever saw over 10 tubes at a time at Rural King. It will get so you have to pay for a vet prescrip to worm your horse or pig.