Texas Scorecard by Ian Camacho February 25, 2025
Texas is one of several states filing legislation to make ivermectin more accessible.Legislation filed in the Texas House would allow Texans to purchase ivermectin over the counter, after its use was discouraged by the Biden administration’s FDA.
State Rep. Wes Virdell (R-Brady) has introduced House Bill 3175 to “authorize a pharmacist to dispense ivermectin without a health care practitioner’s prescription order.”
“During COVID, I watched people ignoring known, proven science for things such as ivermectin to fight against this stuff, and I watched an entire country pushing for an untested, unknown vaccine,” explained Virdell. “They ignored known science and pushed untested science, and they were claiming that anyone who ignored the untested science was therefore not supporting science.”
Japanese microbiologist Satoshi Omura and Irish parasitologist William C. Campbell discovered ivermectin in 1975, eventually earning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2015. Initially used to treat heartworms and mites in veterinary medicine, it received FDA approval for humans in 1987.
Despite decades of use, however, the FDA and media politicized and weaponized ivermectin during the COVID-19 lockdowns.
Texas-based Dr. Mary Talley Bowden had reported that humans have used ivermectin for decades as an anti-parasitic prophylactic.
In response, the FDA discouraged people from using ivermectin to prevent or treat COVID-19. A now-deleted tweet stated, “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously y’all. Stop it.”
More:
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