Julie Moore is a keeper Gas City, Indiana: An orange plastic bottle with 14 round white tablets on her desk. She claims that the other 21 pills killed her father.
Moore laughed when she heard the first time on the news about people taking ivermectin – an antiparasitic commonly used to deworm livestock – to treat COVID-19. She never thought her career pharmacist father would become one of these people.
Over the course of the pandemic, Moore’s father started watching online videos of doctors in white coats who claimed that alternative COVID treatments were being used effectively in India. He explained to his children that the studies cited by their skeptical parents were valid. Soon after, he decided not to get the COVID-19 vaccine. He paid $90 to have a telemedicine consultation with America’s Frontline Doctors (AFLD), a right-wing anti-vaccine Group that claimed that the U.S. Government was suppressing effective treatment, hospitals were causing COVID deaths, and vaccines against the virus cause cancer. Moore’s father told his wife he trusted their credentials; President Donald Trump had praised the group as “very respected doctors.” A few days after the consultation, ivermectin and antibiotic pills arrived on his doorstep from a…
