HOW COVID MISINFORMATION CREATED A RUN ON ANIMAL MEDICINE –

For more than a year, misinformation that ivermectin is effective at treating or preventing the coronavirus has run rampant across social media, podcasts and talk radio. Even as the Food and Drug Administration has said the drug is not approved to cure COVID and has warned people against taking it, sales for the medicine have gone up and the demand has strained the equine and livestock world. (New York Times)