Posted on 09/03/2021 12:10:54 PM PDT by PROCON
SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA, Okla. (KFOR) – A rural Oklahoma doctor said patients who are taking the horse de-wormer medication, ivermectin, to fight COVID-19 are causing emergency room and ambulance back ups.
“There’s a reason you have to have a doctor to get a prescription for this stuff, because it can be dangerous,” said Dr. Jason McElyea.
Dr. McElyea said patients are packing his eastern and southeastern Oklahoma hospitals after taking ivermectin doses meant for a full-sized horse, because they believed false claims the horse de-wormer could fight COVID-19.
“The ERs are so backed up that gunshot victims were having hard times getting to facilities where they can get definitive care and be treated,” he said.
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If doctors and pharmacies would just make the pills available this could be prevented. This is on the FDA and the CDC.
If you can get it OTC for your pet, you should be able to get it OTC for yourself.
Then again this story is probably fake news.
Doctors in Oklahoma are allowed to prescribe ivermectin and HCQ.
Calling Ivermectin a horse-dewormer is a glaring clue that this is a contrived hit piece, government propaganda.
Good point. Anybody with liver problems such as cirrhosis or a transplant needs to work with a reasonable doctor. Those can be hard to find today.
If you think you are catching Covid, you want to be sure you are taking enough. 1.87% of enough, isn’t enough.
Sounds like the Black market is making people sick so let them get the stuff from their Doctors
Unless and untilI see the numbers, the lication, and the hospital location and records with my own eyes ....
I
Will
Not
Beleive
Period.
Media has zero credibility anymore.
More lies for the service of the War on Ivermectin.
Not believing this.
My little town in northeast Oklahoma, population 3500, has one ER nurse and one physician’s assistant or doctor, in our very small hospital. So, they could easily get overrun, but haven’t heard that they have. BTW, the ER staff are excellent. Larger hospitals 30 plus minutes away.
Agree that is what he is saying - but based on what?
He is making it up...especially if he is talking ivermectin.
Ping to FReepers in “S.E. Oklahoma.”
That’s a lot of acreage.
5.56mm
He’s got his libtard member glasses.
“Hogwash Propaganda”
Might be... It’s a claim that isn’t backed up by any numbers or direct quotes from hospital sources. And the line about “gun shot victims having a hard time getting treatment” seems designed to inflame the gullible.
Sounds more like the Babylon Bee.
I call BS on it too.
It’s a little too convenient.
Equine Ivermectin comes as a 1.87% Paste. Net weight of 6.08 gm. How much paste should a 200# person take?
Thank you !!
Pollard wrote:
“I’ve got a tube of Durvet brand horse paste here and when I did the math(which is on my profile page), it came out to be 113.6mg of Ivermectin in one tube. For my weight, that would give me 10 preventative doses at 11.36mg or 5 treatment doses at 22.72mg. The studies on https://ivmmeta.com/ generally used 12-48mg but it should go by weight.
Since I can get 10 preventative doses from a tube that does a 1250lb horse and I weigh 125lbs, it makes things real easy. Dial in pound for pound for preventative or dial in 250 horse pounds for treatment. A full treatment course is for 5 days which makes it even handier.
The article is either fakenews or people are taking a whole tube at once or more.”
How about making it available in human-sized doses OTC to avoid the overdosing?
Right? One of the safest drugs needs to be readily available.
The entire population of the county I live in here in Texas is a little over 23,000 people. We have no hospitals at all in the county. Any hospital care and we have to go to a city in an adjacent county. We don’t even have emergency clinics. Although we do have a doctors office or two.
But how many places in SE Oklahoma have a lot of gunshot wounds?
The calls are probably from people who heard on the news that they were doomed, so they freaked and called an ambulance.
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