An emergency room physician said gunshot victims are having trouble getting ER beds due to an overflow of people sick from taking ivermectin to fight COVID-19.
has claimed that people taking the horse de-wormer medication ivermectin to treat COVID-19 are filling up the area's emergency rooms.
McElyea said he's seen many patients in the ER recently due to adverse reactions to ivermectin. He also claimed ambulances are being overwhelmed from responding to people sick from the medication. A doctor in Oklahoma said emergency rooms and ambulances in his region are filled with people taking ivermectin to treat COVID-19. In this photo, a health worker in Colombia holds a box containing a bottle of ivermectin in July 2020."All of their ambulances are stuck at the hospital waiting for a bed to open so they can take the patient in and they don't have any, that's it," McElyea added.
"Growing up in a small town, rural area, we've all accidentally been exposed to ivermectin at some time. So, it's something people are familiar with. Because of those accidental sticks, when trying to inoculate cattle, they're less afraid of it," he explained.
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