MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show August 28, 2021 01:15:00
Happening now. prepandemic national prescriptions for this drug, ivermectin, has some legitimate uses in humans for a bad infestation of head lice or scabies. prepandemic there were about 3600 human prescriptions of this drug per week nationwide. about 3600. now? according to the cdc for the week ending august 13th. it's not 3600 per week anymore it's 88,000 prescriptions per week now. a 24-fold increase from the prepandemic baseline for a drug that neither treats nor prevents covid and can make you very sick and potentially kill you. why is this happening? interesting story, it turns out. do ...