Omicron managed to break through the defenses of the last remaining Covid-free states, leaving just one country and a handful of territories still claiming to be Covid-free, though experts doubt some have managed to evade the virus for more than two ye…
Poison control centers dealt with more cases of people abusing the antiparasitic ivermectin, which has been falsely touted as a Covid-19 cure, in August than they did for the whole of 2019 or 2020.
There have been massive increases in online searches for ivermectin, an antiparasitic repeatedly determined to be of no benefit in treating or preventing Covid-19, in areas with some of the lowest vaccination rates in the country.