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Pro-ivermectin Kansas doctor-lawmaker under investigation
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https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-business-worms-legislature-054e83c1a4d69704b4ed6508c301dd18
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas doctor-lawmaker who has prescribed a parasitic worm treatment for COVID-19 symptoms acknowledged Wednesday that the state medical board has been investigating him since the summer of 2020.
Conservative Republican state Sen. Mark Steffen disclosed the Kansas Board of Healing Arts’ investigation of him during a Senate committee hearing. He was testifying in favor of a bill that would require pharmacists to fill prescriptions for both the anti-worm treatment ivermectin and the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine for potentially dangerous off-label uses in treating COVID-19.
Steffen said the medical board has been investigating him for 18 months over statements dating back to his brief time as a local county commissioner before he took his Senate seat in January 2021. He said no hearings have been scheduled.
“They’re using it to hold over me, to think they’re going to silence me as I serve as a state senator,” he told the committee. “And obviously, that’s not working out for them.”
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