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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Nick Robins-Early

There’s a reason thousands of people take quack cures for Covid

bottle of ivermectin pills
‘What is the right dose of the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin?’ Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

Every day, in social media groups with hundreds of thousands of members, a debate rages about the best way to treat Covid with laundry lists of unproven medicines.

What is the right dose of the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin? When should it be taken? Should it be combined with hydroxychloroquine? With the antibiotic azithromycin? What about Pepcid, hydrogen peroxide, colloidal silver? Vitamin C? Take it all, one user tells people. And chew a lemon peel, says another.

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