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In 2021, a bizarre cure for COVID-19 began to emerge on social media, the anti-parasite drug ivermectin. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is now under fire for its efforts to refute claims that the drugs could stop the deadly virus.

A group of doctors is now suing the FDA, saying the agency’s efforts to refute claims about the drug’s effectiveness against COVID caused them personal harm. Some experts fear that punishment the FDA could face for refuting false information about the drug could undermine public health messaging in America.

After a questionable later-retracted study claiming ivermectin could cure COVID emerged in 2021, many Americans began to seek it out. It especially became popular among people in communities that were skeptical of the COVID-19 vaccines and other pandemic measures such as masking and social distancing.

Ivermectin is an FDA-approved drug, meaning doctors are allowed to prescribe it as they see fit. While it is meant to treat parasitic diseases, many doctors — some hoping to cash it on the ivermectin craze — began to prescribe it off-label for COVID. The drug has never been proven to be effective against COVID, and multiple studies investigating its efficacy have found it to be ineffective against the virus.

Some anecdotal reports emerged that people were seeking out veterinary versions of the drug, meant for horses or cows, to use to fight infections.

A now-infamous Tweet from the FDA responding to these stories is now at the center of the current lawsuit.

“You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y'all. Stop it,” the FDA wrote on the platform now known as X.

Three doctors are plaintiffs in the lawsuit, first filed in September. Robert Apter, M.D., an Arizona physician; Paul Marik, M.D., a doctor at Eastern Virginia Medical School; and Mary Talley Bowden, M.D., a Texas doctor who made national headlines when she was suspended by Houston Methodist Hospital for allegedly spreading vaccine misinformation..........

“FDA decided to target that practice via the ‘horse’ message—and others like it. The messaging traveled widely across legacy and online media,” they write in their suit. “Left unmentioned in most of the messaging: ivermectin also comes in a human version. And while the human version of ivermectin is not FDA-approved to treat the coronavirus, some people were using it off-label for that purpose.”

The plaintiffs say they prescribed the medication off-label to “thousands of their patients”. They claim the FDA’s ivermectin messaging “interfered with their own individual medical practice”...............

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