Sabine Hazan, a microbiome researcher, is on Twitter promoting the idea that SARS-CoV-2 replicates in gut bacteria. (She's an ivermectin fan and published a pilot study on ivermectin with Peter McCullough and others.)

The next step in the theory is the idea that ivermectin is excreted in the feces, where it will end up in the gut microbiome and stop SARS-CoV-2 there.

Tweets:

• https://twitter.com/alexandrosM/status/1418337834885206016 - Alexandros Marinos points out a paper about ivm ending up in feces.

• https://twitter.com/SabinehazanMD/status/1520264145391685633 - Hazan: In another life I’m related to @alexandrosM . Bingo young man . You figured it out. My microbiome data will point you in the right direction. Just follow my work https://progenabiome.com/publications

References:

• Gastrointestinal symptoms and fecal shedding of SARS-CoV-2 RNA suggest prolonged gastrointestinal infection https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medj.2022.04.001 - 4% of patients with COVID-19 shed fecal viral RNA 10 months after diagnosis.
• Could SARS-CoV-2 Have Bacteriophage Behavior or Induce the Activity of Other Bacteriophages? https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10050708 - This study suggests that SARS-CoV-2 may have bacteriophage behavior (or bacteriophage-inducing behaviour) and that it may actually replicate in gut bacteria.