their members who are pushing the drug and denied the largest medical association in the country the american medical association, along with the american pharmacist, the american society of health system pharmacists, just issued a new statement calling for quote an immediate end to prescribing and use of ivermectin to prevent or treat covid-19 outside of clinical trials, doctor herman great to have you on tonight. why is the guidance you're issuing tonight and why did it come about? chris thanks for having me, you already identified our joint statement with the pharmacist association, we're asking we see subscribing ever megaton for treatment of covid-19. we allow in a clinical trial, but we do not want it outside of an established chemical trial, we can understand why folks are grasping at things,