The FDA has just fully approved the Pfizer COVID vaccine. However, if you can read this, and are someone other than Devin Nunes’s cow, you’re likely smarter than the people ingesting livestock deworming medicine.
Meanwhile, over at Fox News & Disinformation, Hannity, Carlson, and Ingraham are outraged the true data about Invermectin is being kept from the public. The drug is used for river blindness in humans, but as ICU beds fill, the panic of ignorance returns to that moment when some politicians including previous guy were making noise about bleach.
“Mississippi Poison Control Center said it received an increasing number of calls from people who have taken the drug known as ivermectin purchased at livestock supply centers”
Ivermectin, an anti-parasitic drug commonly used for livestock, should not be taken to treat or prevent Covid-19, the Food and Drug Administration said on Saturday.
The warning came a day after the Mississippi State Department of Health issued a similar statement in response to reports that an increasing number of people in Mississippi were using the drug to prevent a Covid infection.
Some studies last year spurred use of the drug against Covid-19, especially in Latin America, and Fox News has promoted some of those studies’ findings on air.
But the National Institutes of Health said in February that most of the studies related to Ivermectin and the coronavirus “had incomplete information and significant methodological limitations,” including small sample sizes and study outcome measures that were often unclear.
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Of those who called about ingesting Ivermectin, 85 percent had mild symptoms and one person was told to “seek further evaluation” because of the large amount they were reported to have taken, the state’s health department said.
Ivermectin, which is also formulated for use by people to treat parasitic worms, had been controversially promoted as a potential Covid treatment earlier in the pandemic, but recent studies found that the drug’s efficacy against the coronavirus is thin, and the F.D.A. has not approved the drug for Covid treatment.
On Twitter, the F.D.A. was more declarative in its warning.
“You are not a horse,” the agency said. “You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it.”
The F.D.A. said it has received multiple reports, including some in Louisiana, of people who have “required medical support and been hospitalized after self-medicating with ivermectin intended for horses.”
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Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Friday that Fox News host Sean Hannity’s recent claim that COVID vaccines don’t protect some people is “false,” in an unusually direct effort to correct misleading information.
Hannity said on his show Thursday that “the science shows the vaccine will not necessarily protect you. It’s not protecting many people.” Asked to respond Friday by MSNBC’s Ari Melber, Walensky said that the “vast majority of people in this country who are getting infected with COVID, who are showing up in the hospital with COVID, and now who are dying with COVID are people who have not received this vaccine.”
She said she believes Hannity’s claim is false. “Even if you happen to be one of the breakthrough cases, your case will be far milder than if you didn’t have a vaccine,” Walensky said.
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