Tea Party Patriots Are Behind Pro-Trump Doctors Grifting Off of Fake Covid Cures

[CousinIT]

https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2021/09/09/tea-party-patriots-are-behind-pro-trump-doctors-grifting-off-of-fake-covid-cures/

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Grifting Off of Fake Covid Cures

In late July 2020, the Tea Party Patriots hosted and funded an event with members of AFLD in front of the Capitol, where the doctors criticized business and school closings, social distancing, and mask wearing and claimed that malaria drug hydroxychloroquine could prevent and cure Covid-19. With a Trump retweet, a video of the event went viral, and right-wing media ran with it. The Food and Drug Administration has cautioned against using hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19.

Many members of AFLD have more recently added a deworming drug, ivermectin, into their arsenal. These doctors, right-wing politicians, and numerous media pundits have promoted the drug, which requires a prescription for use in humans, as a Covid-19 treatment. Another version meant for cows and horses is available at animal supply stores.

Unable to access the human version of ivermectin, desperate anti-vaxxers have snapped up supplies of the livestock version, despite warnings by its manufacturer and numerous U.S. and international government agencies against humans using the drug. Feed stores in numerous states have seen huge spikes in ivermectin sales, and ivermectin-related poison control calls in these states have dramatically increased.

As Time and NBC News reported, AFLD set up a website advertising medical consultations for $90. The site asks patients which treatment they prefer: “Ivermectin,” “Hydroxychloroquine” or “Not sure.”

Under the federal COVID-19 Consumer Protection Act from earlier this year, it is illegal to advertise that a product can prevent, treat, or cure COVID-19 “unless you possess competent and reliable scientific evidence substantiating that the claims are true.” The FDA says that no such study exists for ivermectin.

While the site claims that the $90 payment is “pending” until the consultation is complete, customers identified by Time said they’d been charged for consultations that didn’t happen. Hundreds more said that after paying the fee, AFLD didn’t deliver the desired prescription, and others said that the digital pharmacies that AFLD connected them to quoted very high prices of up to $700 for ivermectin, which is not a costly drug.

“They’re the 21st century, digital version of snake-oil salesmen,” Irwin Redlener, a physician who directs the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University, told Time. “And in the case of ivermectin, it’s extremely dangerous.”

[empedocles]

1. Seems to be connecting threads to a lot of these rw people

[tanyev]

2. Killing off their own.

[malaise]

3. Report them - their Boards will take away their licenses

Sick of these criminals

[lark]

4. I hope insurance companies refuse to pay for poisoning cases from ivermectin.

Just like they won't pay for drunk driving accidents, they should not pay one dime for anyone injured from taking fake anti-Covid meds. Hospitals should refuse to treat them unless they pay upfront because they did this with no proof it works and every proof that it would make them very sick.

[mopinko]

5. google needs to act. this is the top hit when you google ivermectin.