Doctor advising DeSantis promoted ivermectin to treat COVID-19 despite FDA warnings

[Zorro]

“Any physician that espouses this should be reported to the state medical association,” one medical expert said.

A California psychiatrist who has advised Gov. Ron DeSantis on the coronavirus pandemic recently promoted a drug for COVID-19 patients that federal disease experts have strongly warned against after a spike in calls to poison control centers.

The surge of interest in the parasite drug, ivermectin, prompted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday to issue a national alert advising against its use to treat coronavirus. The maker of the drug, Merck, has also said there is “no scientific basis” to claim that ivermectin is effective against COVID-19.

Dr. Mark McDonald of Los Angeles is among a fringe group of outspoken medical professionals who have pushed ivermectin as an alternative to widespread vaccination against coronavirus. McDonald called ivermectin “effective, safe, inexpensive treatment” in a Aug. 5 Twitter post, and he shared an article by the Jerusalem Post citing a recent study of the drug in Israel.

A wave of online misinformation about ivermectin has led to increased demand, and some people have turned to a version of the drug meant for farm animals. That sparked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to tweet: “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it.”

https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2021/08/28/doctor-advising-desantis-promoted-ivermectin-to-treat-covid-19-despite-fda-warnings/

[NewHendoLib]

1. amazing how inventive repubs are being to catalyze their much-desired rapture!

[dalton99a]

2. About this asshole

https://www.markmcdonaldmd.com/about

[Walleye]

3. What's his cut? Everybody making money on this. And inexpensive? The shots are free !

[Ocelot II]

4. He's a psychiatrist, not an epidemiologist or a virologist or any kind of

infectious disease specialist. He has no business giving medical advice so far outside his specialty. It would be like hiring a real estate lawyer to handle your murder defense.

[Docreed2003]

6. This!

Why the heck is a psychiatrist advising on Covid?? Purely political

[BadgerKid]

5. Put it behind the counter, make people sign for it.

[ananda]

7. He should be struck off for malpractice.

Just like that doctor in Texas who was pushing HCQ
in nursing homes.

[yonder]

8. From Thorizine to Ivermectin to Pennzoil 10W-40.

"Damn it Jim, I'm just a doctor".

[Colgate 64]

9. I always go to a psychiatrist when I have

a question about highly infectious diseases.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

10. Ron DeSantis's top donor is invested in the Regeneron treatment DeSantis has been promoting.

Link to tweet