Monash MP Russell Broadbent has shared with Parliament that he and his wife used ivermectin, a horse antiparasitic drug, after contracting Covid-19 last month.
In Mr Broadbent’s statement on Monday 14 February, he stated that he and his wife took a five-day course of ivermectin after he tested positive to Covid-19 on 21 January.
“I was in trepidation about going back home to Phillip Island to tell my wife that I had tested positive. I also had access to ivermectin, which we both immediately went on as soon as I tested positive,“ he said in Parliament.
“We had five days of ivermectin and then another five days to prove it treated.“
Ivermectin is only approved by the TGA to treat scabies and certain parasitic infections in humans.
Ivermectin is not approved for use in Covid-19 in Australia or in other developed countries, and its use by the general public for Covid-19 is currently strongly discouraged by the National Covid Clinical Evidence Taskforce, the World Health Organisation and the US Food and Drug Administration.
In his address, Mr Broadbent confirmed he was still unvaccinated against Covid-19.
“I am not vaccinated. I won’t be vaccinated because my view was the risk from being vaccinated was just as high as the risk I was taking from getting the virus itself,“ he said.
“But I believed I had actually done the right thing and protected my body in the way that I wanted to protect it.“
