Merck’s COVID-19 Pill Is Ivermectin All Over Again
This article is dedicated to Jack Posobiec, who tweeted:
Although obviously comical, Posobiec’s tweet shows something about many Trump supporters, and those on the right-wing of politics more generally: They’re willing to do anything that might help COVID-19 — except take vaccines. Some, such as Daniel Horowitz, are still doubling down on Ivermectin — although those types are becoming rarer and rarer. What is much more common is people jumping from potential COVID-19 cure to potential COVID-19 cure, trying to find something — again, besides vaccines — that will help them.
Back in September, that new COVID-19 cure was Iodine — specifically, gargling Iodine. Enter the pharmaceutical company Merck & Co. along with the partner company Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, which now claim to have created an oral antibiotic to treat COVID-19.
Here’s what The Wall Street Journal wrote on the pill on 10/1/2021: