What’s Behind the Ivermectin Frenzy?

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 4 October 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Ivermectin is a drug that emerged in the 1970s, used mainly for deworming horses and other livestock. But during the pandemic, it has been falsely lauded in some corners as a kind of miracle cure for the coronavirus. What is fueling the demand for a drug that the medical establishment has begged people not to take? Guest: Emma Goldberg, a writer for The New York Times.

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0:41.0	For more than a year, questionable claims that a drug called Ivermectin is effective
0:48.8	at treating the coronavirus have run rampant online and across right-wing media.
0:55.3	But even as the medical establishment rejects these claims, demand for Ivermectin has skyrocketed.
1:03.4	I spoke with my colleague Emma Goldberg that how this little known drug that's widely
1:07.6	used to treat livestock became the COVID treatment of choice for many Americans reluctant to
1:13.8	take the vaccine.
1:17.8	It's Monday, October 4th.
1:32.0	Emma, full disclosure, I've been basically begging the daily team to let me do an episode
1:37.0	on The Ivermectin story for months now.
1:40.6	And I'm so interested in this story because A, it's a story about people doing weird stuff
1:46.4	on the internet, which is sort of my wheelhouse.
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