More Idahoans using ivermectin to treat COVID

[struggle4progress]

KYLE LAND
Idaho Statesman 20 hrs ago

Treasure Valley pharmacists and officials are seeing more doctors prescribe ivermectin to treat and prevent COVID-19, going against the recommendations of federal and worldwide health officials ...

Kevin White, a pharmacist at Medicap, a drugstore in Meridian, said he now fills up to three ivermectin prescriptions a week ...

Travis Walthall, a pharmacist at Rx Custom Compounding in Kuna, said he used to fill an ivermectin prescription once a year, sometimes less. He’s already up to 25 prescriptions in 2021 ...

... patients visit multiple doctors until they find one willing to prescribe a sought-after treatment. Doctor shopping has gained more controversy in light of the ongoing opioid crisis. White said he knows of several doctors in the Boise area writing these prescriptions.

https://magicvalley.com/news/local/more-idahoans-are-using-ivermectin-to-treat-covid-19-officials-warn-it-could-be-dangerous/article_6e390824-2bf9-59d4-9494-b9a0ee6d534f.html

[Mysterian]

1. Yep

Somebody put stupid pills in Idaho's water supply.

[Grokenstein]

2. "Harmin' ourselves t' trigger th' libs!"

Keep it up, clowns. By 2024 there won't be enough of you former teabaggers left standing to fill a town hall.

[LisaL]

3. Don't know about covid, but they will be parasite free.

NT

[marble falls]

4. "Slim's waf calt last nat. Sez the Covid's gittin' better, but heze still cribbin on the headboard."

[Jilly_in_VA]

5. More Idahoans

will soon be hospitalized with ivermecitin poisoning. It's a given.

[SoCalDavidS]

12. Cool nt

[captain queeg]

6. At least they are getting the human version, not the feed store horse type

Dosage is probably safe and no added other things. At least I’d hope.

[LisaL]

7. It's not going to do anything for their covid, though.

NT

[jmowreader]

18. It will clear up their tapeworms, and that's important too

[leftyladyfrommo]

8. Hopefully the Bundys will try it and die.

They run cattle so they probably have it on hand.

[brewens]

9. It's just like the hydroxychloroquine scam. Sure. There just happens to be a cure laying around like

all the other pandemics and plagues. You just have to try everything.

[stillcool]

10. except the vaccine

can't try that because they don't know what's in it. As if they know what's in whatever else they're mainlining

[onecaliberal]

11. They are "afraid" of the vaccine but will ingest poison with no concern.

Zero ability to think critically.

[GusBob]

13. I reckon gonna be some wormy horses and cattle thereabouts

Hope they are OK

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. From Rachel

Link to tweet

[Mad_Machine76]

15. Why are doctors participating in this

What about "do no harm"? They have to know that the medication is not approved nor indicated to treat Covid and that people are being harmed (as evidenced by increased calls to poison control hotlines)? Can they be sanctioned for prescribing it for anything other than its intended use?

[LisaL]

16. The ones who end up calling poison control are presumably

those who are eating horse paste.
If they are prescribed a human dose and take it accordingly, it shouldn't kill them.

[Mad_Machine76]

17. But still

why are doctors prescribing it for unapproved purposes? I'm sure that, like with HCL, there are legitimate uses of it, but surely not everybody is using it for those purposes and are instead using it to prevent/treat COVID even though it's not approved for it, nor data to indicate that it is anything but a placebo when it comes to COVID.