Oklahoma!

It is now reported that some rural hospitals and ambulance services in Oklahoma are being overwhelmed by people who have overdosed on Ivermectin (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/04/oklahoma-doctor-ivermectin-covid-coronavirus). It seems very strange (at least to me) that some people will self-dose with Ivermectin, largely on the basis of a rumour (there is zero evidence), that it prevents or cures Covid. Invermectin is mainly used to treat internal and external worm and Arthropod parasites in domestic animals. It is used, in much smaller doses, to treat similar infections in humans. The overdosing may be a consequence of people obtaining veterinary Invermectin. They may go on to administer horse-sized doses to themselves. Worms and Arthropods are obviously nothing like viruses. The same people, who dose themselves with Ivermectin, resolutely reject vaccines, developed and approved to protect humans from the Covid virus. Vaccines are both relatively safe and efficacious. Detailed scientific studies have confirmed these facts. Millions of people have now been treated with vaccines. As they say, 'the proof of the pudding is in the eating'.