Bad medicine

Ivermectin cannot be used to cure COVID-19 – so where did we get the idea that it can?

Why do so many people still want to be treated with a medicine that’s only effective against the coronavirus in a dose that would kill a human being several times over?

Wesley Davis (Emergency Nurse Practitioner: DNP, ENP-C, FNP-C, AGACNP-BC) says Crook County Medical Services District (CCMSD) is seeing an alarming increase in the number of patients asking to be prescribed ivermectin.

Though these patients are often angry when their request is denied, he says, they usually feel much less so after he...