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Hi, everybody. Cheryl Atkinson here. Welcome to another edition of Full Measure After Hours.

Today, Dr. Mary Talley Bowden is part of a growing movement to make Ivermectin available without a

prescription. She talks about efforts to take her down for prescribing Ivermectin during COVID

and how her lawsuit proved the FDA wrong.

On full measure Sunday, October 5th, I'm reporting on growing efforts to have Ivermectin

approved to be sold over-the-counter without a prescription.

This effort and outgrowth of the whole COVID controversy, when doctors were punished

if they prescribed ivermectin for COVID,

even though many saw it as effective, and many studies have proven since then, some even at

the time, that it works quite well. But as you probably know, there was a huge propaganda campaign

against it. Many well-regarded doctors, including Dr. Bowden, paid the price as a

result of this propaganda campaign. You'll hear her talk about that. In the long run, she and other doctors

have arguably won their battle, but say there's a lot more work to be done. Because if you recall,

even when some doctors did prescribe ivermectin and continued to be able to do so in some cases, there were pharmacies that

would not fill these legal prescriptions. Numerous people are trying to figure out ways to

prevent a repeat of many of the horrors that we saw during the COVID

pandemic. Here's Dr. Bowden. Yeah, I'm an ear, nose and throat and sleep medicine

specialist in Houston, Texas, solo physician, very quiet practice prior to the

pandemic. I had patients. As an E&T, we see people with respiratory tract infections. So I had

people coming to my office when COVID hit. And I didn't really become known in town until I started

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