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Concern as Republicans push to make dubious Covid cure prescriptions easier
Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, the cures in question, have proven to be ineffective in preventing or treating Covid-19
Republican state lawmakers across the United States have proposed – and in some cases passed – legislation that they say keeps the government from interfering with doctors who want to prescribe ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine to help prevent and treat Covid-19.
But those treatments have not proven effective at preventing or treating Covid and infectious disease experts see the bills as examples of right-wing lawmakers politicizing medicine – a trend that is increasing as the pandemic wears on in America in to its third year amid an increasingly fraught political atmosphere.
Read the original article at The Guardian