As COVID cases across the country surges, people who are suspicious of taking the COVID vaccines are trying to find new ways to avoid getting sick or possibly dying from the virus.
According to a Daily Beast report, those individuals are now taking horse paste and weighing the benefits of taking “sheep drench” and a noromectin “injection for swine and cattle.”
Those ‘cures’ contain ivermectin, a drug used to treat parasitic infections in humans and animals. Thanks to a dubious studies of the drug including few trials on COVID patients, which were either withdrawn or heavily criticized due to errors, ivermectin is the new craze among anti-vaxxers to fight COVID and is being prescribed by quack doctors as a cure.
One such group is America’s Frontline Doctors, founded in 2020 by Capitol rioter Dr. Simone Gold who with the help of ‘Demon Sperm’ doctor Stella Immanuel promoted anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine as a cure for COVID last year.
According to the Daily Beast, the group “offers tele-health consults for $90 and directs prospective patients and visitors looking to get scripts for hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin filled to Ravkoo, an online pharmacy startup based in Florida.”
Pharmacies have since crack down on the drug, treating it as an opioid. With it no longer readily available, the pro-ivermectin crowd have resorted to raiding tractor supply stores in rural areas, searching for ivermectin horse paste.
But, what these people taking horse paste may not see in their local ivermectin Facebook group is that, though they contain the same active ingredient approved for use in people, it is usually more concentrated in animal medications because larger animals like horses weigh more than humans do. “Such high doses can be highly toxic in humans,’ the FDA noted.
“There is certainly a noticeable increase in calls to poison centers regarding ivermectin being misused,” a Texas-based poison control specialist told The Daily Beast on condition of anonymity. “It’s clear that a vast majority are associated with a belief that it will prevent or treat COVID. That said, I do want to be careful not to be sensational—there’s no epidemic of ivermectin overdoses in hospitals, but it’s needless suffering given the lack of conclusive evidence of a benefit.”
Ironically, “in a severe ivermectin overdose–which is rare–patients will end up needing to be intubated to protect their airway, meanwhile, a lot of them are taking the ivermectin to allegedly treat their COVID… to avoid ultimately being intubated and placed on a ventilator,” the poison control specialist said.
Read the full report on The Daily Beast.
