California psychiatrist, Dr. John DeSantis, has advised Governor. Ron DeSantis, a California psychiatrist who has advised Gov.
On Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a national advisory advising against ivermectin's use in treating coronavirus due to the high interest in the parasite drug. Merck, the maker of the drug has also stated that there is no scientific evidence to support the claim that ivermectin works against COVID-19.
Los Angeles' Dr. Mark McDonald is one of a few outspoken medical practitioners who has pushed ivermectin to be an alternative to widespread coronavirus vaccination. McDonald's shared a Twitter post on Aug. 5, in which he called ivermectin a safe, effective, and inexpensive treatment. He also shared an article from the Jerusalem Post that cited a recent Israeli study.
An increase in online misinformation regarding ivermectin has resulted in increased demand. Some people are now using a version that is meant for farm animals. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration tweeted: You are not horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, yall. Stop.
Florida's Poison Control Center is a state-funded non profit that has treated 27 cases of ivermectin-related deaths in August. Most were livestock-related. This is more cases related to the drug than it saw last year.
In a Monday tweet, McDonald's called those who believe ivermectin can be used to treat horses ignorant. (The drug can be used to treat parasites in humans as well as animals such horses.
McDonald's made it clear in a telephone interview that they don't recommend anyone get (ivermectin from a feedlot). However, he stated that people are desperate and taking livestock medicine from the fed lot because doctors have been unable to make the drug readily available.
McDonald's accused the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of sidelining ivermectin, claiming that it has already spent billions of money to mass-vaccinate the nation.
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McDonald's said that if the goal of these people was to improve public health and make society well, then why has McDonald's not spoken a word about prevention or making it easier to avoid infection, hospitalization, or death? There is a lot dishonesty and the cancellation of truth-loving people.
Dr. John Sinnott is the chair of internal medicine at University of South Floridas Morsani College of Medicine. He also works as an epidemiologist at Tampa General Hospital. Sinnott said that it was wrong to promote ivermectin for COVID-19 because it takes away from proper care.
Sinnott said that any physician who believes this should be reported immediately to the state medical association.
DeSantis summoned McDonald's to a July closed-door meeting on school mask policies. According to video footage of the meeting, DeSantis later released the recording. He claimed that masking children was child abuse. He also compared mask mandates with apartheid in South Africa, the racist system of segregation that existed during the 20th Century.
Attorneys for the state used McDonalds comments to support their case against Governor DeSantis in Tallahassee's ban on school-mask mandates. Leon County Circuit Judge John Cooper dismissed McDonalds' opinion in his Friday ruling against DeSantis.
DeSantis relied on McDonald's as a source of guidance during the pandemic. DeSantis also frequently consulted Dr. Scott Atlas (a Stanford neuroradiologist who was favored by President Donald Trump). Atlas was reportedly in conflict with members of the White House coronavirus taskforce last year because he urged Trump to allow the virus to run its course, without any government intervention.
At the mask trial, Florida lawyers called upon Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford University professor to defend DeSantis' order not to state Surgeon General Scott Rivkees. Bhattacharya was an early opponent to business restrictions that were intended to stop the spread of the virus. He testified that he has been an informal adviser to the governor since September last year.
Christina Pushaw, a spokesperson for DeSantis, stated Friday that McDonald's inclusion on the school panel is not an endorsement or opposition to Dr. McDonalds views on other subjects.
She said that the panel was not about Ivermectin. It was about the forced masking schoolchildren.
McDonald's has a history if comments that are contrary to the consensus of the greater medical community and the public health community. He posted a picture on social media calling people wearing masks retarded. He also made comments doubtful about vaccines.
McDonald's has ties with Americas Frontline Doctors. This political group is accused by medical experts of spreading misinformation regarding coronavirus treatments and other treatments. McDonald's spoke at Americas Frontline Doctors' summit, and his Twitter feed features a photo of him with the group.
NBC News reported Friday that Americas Frontline Doctors was one of the largest purveyors ivermectin for false remedies. According to the network, the organization has made a living by prescribing the drug.
The CDC reported that prescriptions for ivermectin jumped from just a few thousand a week before the pandemic to 88,000 by the end of August 13. This is a fourfold increase over July's levels. The agency reported that poison control center calls related to ivermectin have increased by 400 percent.
Asim Tarabar is an assistant professor of emergency medicine at Yale School of Medicine. He is also a medical toxicologist. Many people who take ivermectin might not be suffering from side effects. He said that they may be getting sick but are reluctant to call the doctor.
Ivermectin has been used successfully in developing countries for years to treat parasites. The U.S. Food and Drug Association has approved it as an oral treatment against roundworm and as a topical treatment to lice. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stated that while side effects are not serious when taken correctly, overdoses can cause vomiting, confusion, seizures, and even death.
Studies have not shown that ivermectin can be effective in coronavirus treatment. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends against using it off-label. In February, the National Institutes of Health stated that there were a variety of clinical studies of ivermectin. Some showed some benefits while others revealed little or no change in patients.
Tarabar suggested that people's trust in ivermectin could result from a misinterpretation of scientific processes. According to the doctor, some studies have shown that the drug can reduce the virus' ability to reproduce in a laboratory environment. However, there is no evidence that the medicine works in humans.
Tarabar stated that regardless of what we believe, left, right and center, scientific rigor must be applied.
