What a bottle of ivermectin reveals about the shadowy world of COVID telemedicine

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Robert Maguire
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One of the doctors scamming anti-vaxxers out of money for ivermectin prescriptions lost her medical license in Alabama for ordering expensive tests that her patients didn’t need, including prostate tests for women who, quite notably, don’t have prostates

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What a bottle of ivermectin reveals about the shadowy world of COVID telemedicine
An anti-vaccine group known for spreading medical disinformation is writing prescriptions for unproven COVID-19 treatments, with the help of a doctor whose medical license was revoked in Alabama.
10:39 AM · Feb 9, 2022

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/02/09/1079183523/what-a-bottle-of-ivermectin-reveals-about-the-shadowy-world-of-covid-telemedicin

Just before Christmas, a right-wing journalist named Ben Bergquam became seriously ill with COVID-19.

"My Christmas gift was losing my [sense of] taste and smell and having a 105-degree fever, and just feeling like garbage," Bergquam said in a Facebook video that he shot as he lay in a California hospital.

"It's scary. When you can't breathe, it's not a fun place to be," he said.

Bergquam told his audience he wasn't vaccinated, despite having had childhood asthma, a potentially dangerous underlying condition. Instead, he held up a bottle of the drug ivermectin. Almost all doctors do not recommend taking ivermectin for COVID, but many individuals on the political right believe that it works.

The details revealed in Bergquam's video provide a rare view into the prescription of an unproven COVID-19 therapy. Data shows that prescriptions for drugs like ivermectin have surged in the pandemic, but patient-doctor confidentiality often obscures exactly who is handing out the drugs.

Bergquam's testimonial provides new and troubling details about a small group of physicians who are willing to eschew the best COVID-19 treatments and provide alternative therapies made popular by disinformation — for a price.

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[Ray Bruns]

1. Always for a price.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. The Qonned pay to be fleeced. . . nt