I seriously shook my head when I read this. What a profoundly ignorant stupid thing to say, but then, consider the source:
Never mind that Doctors are telling people do NOT take this medication for covid:
Sen.
Rand Paul (R-Ky.) claimed that animosity against former President
Donald Trump is hindering studies of ivermectin — a drug approved to treat some parasitic worms and often administered to livestock — and its supposed potential to treat or prevent
COVID-19 in humans.
“The hatred for Trump deranged these people so much, that they’re unwilling to objectively study it,” Paul said Friday during a town hall in Cold Spring, Kentucky, according to
The Cincinnati Enquirer, the first outlet to report Paul’s remarks.
“Someone like me that’s in the middle on it, I can’t tell you because they will not study ivermectin,” Paul told his audience. “They will not study hydroxychloroquine without the taint of their hatred for Donald Trump.”
Hydroxychloroquine is an anti-malarial drug that
Trump touted during his presidency as a treatment for COVID, despite health officials’
concerns about its safety and effectiveness.
Studies have shown the drug has no benefit for patients hospitalized with the coronavirus.
Ivermectin is not a drug that is used to treat viruses. Some
initial research is being done on the effect of ivermectin on SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. But after people began purchasing
doses meant for horses in order to self-medicate, the
Food and Drug Administration warned against using the antiparasitic.
After people began purchasing doses meant for horses in order to self-medicate for the coronavirus, the FDA warned against using the drug.
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