Tag Archives: ivermectin

Tucker Carson Unhappy Over Shortage Of Horse Paste

Mediaite reports: Tucker Carlson hopped back on the ivermectin train on Monday night, stopping in Quackville to speak with a psychiatrist who claimed the anti-parasite drug is also an effective treatment for Covid-19. (It is not.) The Fox News host cited a paper in the American Journal of Therapeutics suggesting that ivermectin led to “significant reductions in mortality.” What he …

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AZ Health System Reports Horse Paste Hospitalizations

The Arizona Republic reports: Arizona’s largest health system is warning the public against using the antiparasitic drug ivermectin to treat or prevent COVID-19. Misuse of ivermectin has led to 30 calls managed by Banner Health’s Poison and Drug Information Center this year, including 10 cases in August, according to data from the Phoenix-based nonprofit health system. At least seven cases …

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Judge Won’t Force KY Hospital To Use Horse Paste

Louisville’s NBC News affiliate reports: A woman’s emergency order request for a Louisville hospital to treat her husband, who is suffering from COVID, with ivermectin, has been denied by a judge. Angela Underwood said in a lawsuit that Norton Brownsboro refused to give the treatment to her husband, Lonnie, without a court order and supervision by a doctor who has …

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Inside The Scammers Hawking Horse Paste Online

The Guardian reports: At the top of a Florida-based telehealth website that promises “quality meds with fast shipping”, above a menu of skin care products, erectile dysfunction medications and hair loss treatments, sits a bright orange banner with bold lettering: “LOOKING FOR IVERMECTIN? CLICK HERE,” it reads. The telehealth site is one of numerous online providers that have moved to …

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Ohio County Judge Reverses Order Forcing Hospital To Administer Dewormer To Intubated Anti-Vaccine Patient

The Ohio Capital Journal reports: A Butler County judge sided with a local hospital and reversed a previous court order forcing it to honor a prescription of ivermectin, which infectious disease experts have warned against as a COVID-19 treatment, for a patient who has spent weeks in the ICU with the disease. After two days of testimony and arguments, Common …

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TN Poison Control: Horse Paste Causing Mental Issues

Nashville’s NBC News affiliate reports: The Tennessee Poison Center has seen a dramatic increase in calls for people experiencing issues after taking ivermectin for COVID-19. Many of those calls were for people accidentally getting the drug on their skin, Dr. Rebecca Bruccoleri said. “It can cause GI upset, it can cause neurological symptoms too,” Dr. Bruccoleri said. “We’ve been seeing …

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Inmates Weren’t Told They Were Getting Dewormer

The Associated Press reports: Several inmates at a northwest Arkansas jail said they weren’t told a medication they were given to treat COVID-19 was actually an anti-parasite drug that federal health officials have warned should not be used to treat the coronavirus. Three inmates at the Washington County jail told The Associated Press they didn’t know they were being given …

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Oklahoma ERs Overwhelmed With Horse Paste ODs

Oklahoma City’s NBC News affiliate reports: A rural Oklahoma doctor said patients who are taking the horse de-wormer medication, ivermectin, to fight COVID-19 are causing emergency room and ambulance back ups. “There’s a reason you have to have a doctor to get a prescription for this stuff, because it can be dangerous,” said Dr. Jason McElyea. Dr. McElyea said patients …

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Court Denies Bid To Force IL Hospital To Use Dewormer

The State Journal-Register reports: The wife of Randy Clouse, 61, lost her bid to force Memorial Medical Center to allow her husband to receive ivermectin, a drug mentioned by Fox News hosts Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham as a possible treatment for COVID-19. “She should have a right to try to save her husband,” Ralph Lorigo, a lawyer …

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CDC Reports 88,000 Dewormer Prescriptions Per Week

The New York Times reports: Prescriptions for ivermectin have seen a sharp rise in recent weeks, jumping to more than 88,000 per week in mid-August from a prepandemic baseline average of 3,600 per week, according to researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Calls to poison control centers about ivermectin exposures have risen dramatically, jumping fivefold over their …

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Feed Store Requires Selfie With “Your Horse” [VIDEO]

Las Vegas’s CBS News affiliate reports: “It’s just kinda common sense. Don’t take horse wormer,” says Shelly Smith, a manager at ATV&V Tack and Feed, where they normally stock and sell ivermectin. “I had a gentleman come in, he was an older gentleman, he told me that his wife wanted him to be on the ivermectin plan. I immediately brought …

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Fauci: Please Stop Eating The Horse Paste [VIDEO]

Mediaite reports: Dr. Anthony Fauci reacted with some exasperation Sunday to the baffling news that people in multiple states are taking a drug meant for animals to treat covid-19 symptoms. Ivermectin has not been proven an effective treatment for the coronavirus. It can be used to treat parasites in humans, but the ivermectin people have been taking is used to …

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Homocon Milo: I’m Injecting Pig Dewormer For COVID

Newsweek reports: Far-right political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos said he tested positive for COVID-19 in a social media post and shared an image of himself using ivermectin— an anti-parasitic drug that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned Americans against using. Yiannopoulos posted a photo of a positive coronavirus test strip with the caption “Rona,” to his Telegram account, according …

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Horse Paste Advocate Georgia Cop Dies Of Something

Savannah’s CBS News affiliate reports: A longtime member of the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office has died after a short battle with COVID-19, according to Sheriff Chuck Moseley. Capt. Joe Manning died Wednesday at the age of 57, Moseley announced. Manning’s 31-year career with the sheriff’s office began at the Wayne County Jail. In 1990, he started as a detention officer …

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Inside The Cultist Site Doling Out Horse Paste Orders

NBC News reports: When users visit the telemedicine website SpeakWithAnMD.com, they are immediately hit with a warning: “Due to overwhelming demand, we are experiencing longer than usual wait times.” The demand is for ivermectin. And the website, in partnership with the organization America’s Frontline Doctors, whose founder stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, has become well-known in the Facebook …

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TX Poison Control Issues Warning Amid Flood Of Calls

McClatchy News reports: The Texas Poison Center Network has received dozens of calls this month about people exposed to ivermectin, an animal dewormer some are using for COVID-19 treatment. But the drug, which is flying off the shelves in many parts of the United States, is not a suitable treatment and health organizations are warning against its improper use. “Patients …

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Arkansas Jail Prescribes Cow De-Wormer For Inmates

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports: Washington County Sheriff Tim Helder on Tuesday confirmed that the medical provider for the Detention Center has been prescribing ivermectin to detainees to treat them for the covid-19 virus. The question was raised at a meeting of the Quorum Court’s Finance & Budget Committee during a discussion of the proposed 2022 budget for the Detention Center. …

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2020 RNC Speaker Promotes Horse De-Wormer Drug

Leading anti-abortion activist Abby Johnson, who was a keynote speaker at the 2020 Republican Convention, earned unrelated headlines that week when she declared that “in a godly household, the husband gets the final say” on how his wife should vote. Shortly before her speech, Johnson doubled-down, advocating for “household voting” in which husbands get the sole vote. Last night she …

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FDA: “You Are Not A Horse Or Cow, Seriously, Stop It”

The Daily Beast reports: You know it’s bad when the Food and Drug Administration has to take to Twitter on a Saturday to encourage people not to take the “horse paste” drug ivermectin to fight COVID-19. “You are not a horse. You are not a cow,” the agency tweeted, not bothering to dance around the facts. “Seriously, y’all. Stop it.” …

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STUDY: Drug Touted By Anti-Vaxxers Has “No Effect”

The Los Angeles Times reports: Ivermectin, the latest supposed treatment for COVID-19 being touted by anti-vaccination groups, had “no effect whatsoever” on the disease, according to a large patient study. That’s the conclusion of the Together Trial, which has subjected several purported nonvaccine treatments for COVID-19 to carefully designed clinical testing. The trial is supervised by McMaster University in Hamilton, …

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