Study: Horse Paste Sales Highest In Trump Counties

Here’s the most unshocking thing you’ll read today:

Hydroxychloroquine and, later, ivermectin, an anti-parasite drug that was similarly promised to quickly alleviate covid-19 symptoms, became partisan markers of how to deal with the pandemic. It wasn’t just that they were seen as more effective. It was that they were seen as acts of rebellion, siding with the people against the pharmaceutical companies, standing with Trump once again against the elites.

New research from a team representing the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School shows the extent to which consideration of those two drugs in particular became intertwined with partisanship. Trump counties were more likely to embrace the use of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin; they were also less likely to embrace coronavirus vaccines.

Read the full article. Charts are at the link.

Not only were Trump counties less likely to get vaccinated, new research shows that they were more likely to seek out hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin. https://t.co/W9xu30fKzL

— Philip Bump (@pbump) February 18, 2022