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Twreet from the fda warning people not to take it, and yet celebrities like joe rogan have been talking about taking it. you see this tweet. you are not a horse. you are not a cow. seriously, stop it. doctor, how did this become so popular? is there any research that points to it being effective? >> it's hard to figure out. i took ivermectin in 2014 with a team of doctors and nurses in haiti and on a relief trip. we were exposed to scabies in a significant way. ivermectin is a great drug. it won the nobel prize in between. it treats scabies, river blindness, large animals, to deworm them. we d...

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 ...

Now? yesterday the cdc put out a national advisory warning the whole country against taking this drug for covid. but also noting that lots of people and lots of states are doing it anyway. the title of the new cdc advisory is rapid increase in prescriptions and reports of severe illness associated with use of products containing ier have mick ten to prevent or treat covid-19. most of the new cdc advisory is sort of technical detail about what they're observing about people misusing this drug that is properly used for deworming livestock or in the human formulation to kill head lice or scabies ...

Package of medicines that's now reached more than a billion people. one of them is ivermectin. in someways i helped treat more people with ivermectin than just about anyone and it's a great drug for river blindness and other conditions, for scabies. it does nothing for covid-19. again, this is version 2.0 of hydroxychloroquine and this is, again, coming out of the disinformation from the far right. it's again, it's a sign of defiance. it's saying be against vaccines but we'll give you something else to champion and that's ivermectin. it's absolute nonsense. it does absolutely nothing for covid...

AP Photo/Gerald Herbert Perhaps It’s because I’m a born skeptic, but when it comes to COVID-19, any claims of scientific consensus make me suspicious. This is why a tweet from David Frum struck me as ridiculous. After reading the article, it was even more absurd: Through COVID epidemic, individual dissenters have challenged scientific consensus on lab escape, off-beat treatments, vaccines. When challenged, they answer, basically: "Well, everybody laughed at the Wright Brothers." https://t.co/3tYkWZDvUb 1/2 The very idea that the scientific community can build consensus around anything in...