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AZProgressive

(29,322 posts)
Wed Oct 20, 2021, 10:07 PM Oct 2021

GOP lawmaker says he's prescribed ivermectin as COVID-19 treatment

Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.) says he has prescribed ivermectin to his patients as a treatment for COVID-19.

Harris, who is a practicing anesthesiologist, said while co-hosting a local Baltimore radio program with his wife last month that he supports the medication being prescribed as a treatment for coronavirus, The Washington Post reported.

The use of ivermectin, which is commonly used to treat parasitic worm infections as a veterinary medicine and has sometimes been used to treat humans, has been controversial, and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has advised against using the drug as a COVID-19 treatment.

"I wrote a prescription for ivermectin, I guess it's now three weeks ago, four weeks ago, and yeah, couldn't find a pharmacy to fill it," he said on the "Casey & Company" show, according to the Post. "It's gotten bad. ... The pharmacists are just refusing to fill it."

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/577540-gop-rep-whos-an-anesthesiologist-says-hes-prescribed-ivermectin-as-covid-19?amp

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GOP lawmaker says he's prescribed ivermectin as COVID-19 treatment (Original Post) AZProgressive Oct 2021 OP
why would pharmacists refuse to fill something that is not approved for Covid Skittles Oct 2021 #1
Or humans? Cracklin Charlie Oct 2021 #8
it's like a mass psychosis Skittles Oct 2021 #9
Find a right wing pharmacist to fill the prescription. keithbvadu2 Oct 2021 #2
It's as much a treatment for COVID Mad_Machine76 Oct 2021 #3
Needs his license yanked Lars39 Oct 2021 #4
I know if I ever get Covid, my first call will be to an anesthesiologist. Such morons. Scrivener7 Oct 2021 #5
"I write prescriptions for anything you want!" struggle4progress Oct 2021 #7
Dear Dr Quackpot: struggle4progress Oct 2021 #6

Skittles

(152,964 posts)
1. why would pharmacists refuse to fill something that is not approved for Covid
Wed Oct 20, 2021, 10:10 PM
Oct 2021

HOW DOES THAT MAN STILL HAVE HIS LICENSE TO PRACTICE MEDICINE

keithbvadu2

(36,362 posts)
2. Find a right wing pharmacist to fill the prescription.
Wed Oct 20, 2021, 10:44 PM
Oct 2021

Find a right wing pharmacist to fill the prescription.

Politicians who insist hospitals treat with iverm... and hydroxy... should write the prescription and specify the dosage.

struggle4progress

(118,039 posts)
6. Dear Dr Quackpot:
Wed Oct 20, 2021, 11:02 PM
Oct 2021

My friends on the internet say that morphine and nitrous oxide provide powerful protection against those fake new magnetic microchip viruses. Could you please write me a script?
-- Moaning in America

Dear Moaning:
But of course!
-- Dr Quackpot

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