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 Update to Presentation:  The Curious Fact That Many Americans Have Been Willing to Ignore Science During the Covid Pandemic and Grasp at Horsefeathers Instead

Gary Wedgewood, Final Presentation, Bioethics, PHIL 3345, Spring 2022

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Ivermectin on its way to becoming available without prescription in Tennessee

By Tosin Fakile

Published: Apr. 8, 2022 at 7:22 PM CDT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) -Ivermectin will soon be available for the treatment of COVID-19 without a prescription in Tennessee.

The state’s Senate and House leaders voted overwhelmingly in favor of the bill the final approval on the bill SB2188/HB2746.

The bill will allow a pharmacist to provide Ivermectin tablets to a patient in accordance with a collaborative pharmacy practice agreement containing a non-patient-specific prescriptive order, developed and executed by one or more authorized prescribers.

News 4′s Tosin Fakile talked to Hetal Patel, Pharmacist and Owner of Lebanon Family Pharmacy, who said once she can, she plans to make Ivermectin available at her pharmacy.

She says and the process with pharmacies will involve a number of steps.

“There’s going to be more steps involved in it. The Tennessee Board of Pharmacy is basically going to make the access like naloxone. It’s going to have a standing order protocol. You’ll have to counsel the patient,” said Patel. “It is going to be over the counter but it’s going to have a little more rules and regulations that are going to apply to it,” she added.

The Ivermectin bill will require the Board of Pharmacy (Board) to establish procedures for providing patients with a screening risk assessment tool, providing a standardized factsheet, and providing either ivermectin or a referral to a pharmacy that dispenses ivermectin.

Patel said she understands the move by state legislators.

“Which in one way is good because I’d rather have somebody come and talk to me about their medication than go and buy it at like a co-op store where they have no idea the kind of dosing you have to take,” Patel said.

Studies including one released in March 2022 by the New England Journal of Medicine showed it was unclear how effective ivermectin is when it comes to Covid19.

“As of yet, the amount of data that we have. It does feel like that the data is inconclusive and so we’re not able to say that ivermectin for sure helps in the treatment of covid-19,” said Dr. Parul Goyal, an Assistant professor in the Dept of Internal Medicine and Public Health at Vanderbilt.

Vanderbilt is conducting an ivermectin treatment of covid 19 trial.

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