The group, dubbed 'No License for Disinformation,' wants state boards to discipline doctors who spread misinformation.
Dr. Jen Ashton discusses the social media rumors about the drug’s use in India.In July 2020, as the country faced its first summer wave ofcases, a group of physicians stood in front of the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court and held their first self-titled"White Coat Summit" to tout the unproven benefits of hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 treatment.
In Pennsylvania, Texas and Maine, some physicians have faced repercussions for spreading misinformation about coronavirus vaccines and treating COVID-19 patients with unproven drugs like ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine -- but Sawyer says there's still a long way to go. "If a patient is denied ivermectin, but the doctor says, 'Listen, I'm comfortable with giving Paxlovid,' I'm perfectly fine with that, OK? But when the doctor says no ivermectin, no hydroxychloroquine, no Paxlovid, no drugs at all, go home and wait until you come back sick, I'm not OK with that," McCullough told ABC News.
"Historically, hydroxychloroquine played a big role in year one, ivermectin year two, and I'm thinking probably Pfizer and Merck in year three," McCullough said, despite there being no evidence that hydroxychloroquine played a big role in combating the coronavirus in the first year of the pandemic nor that ivermectin played a big role or was an effective treatment in the second year.
The general consensus in the medical community now is that there's not enough data to recommend ivermectin for use as a COVID-19 treatment, said Dr. Adrian Hernandez, professor of medicine and vice dean and executive director of Duke Clinical Research Institute, who is leading the largest ivermectin trial ever to see if three existing medications used for other conditions could help in the early treatment of COVID-19 patients outside of the hospital.
Fajgenbaum's team has looked at the highest quality studies on ivermectin published so far, and he says the data shows the drug is unlikely to be widely helpful"for a large portion of patients."since there are other therapeutics that have met the FDA's emergency use authorization threshold, McCullough instead told ABC News,"I think it is time to stop the vaccines," as he repeated false information about vaccine safety.
While Phil was in the hospital, Mark says Phil told him that after he recovered from the virus, he would go on his radio show to encourage others to get vaccinated and be more"pro-vaccine."
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