Editor:
“It’s wrong to arrest doctor for trying to help patients” (Reading Eagle, Feb. 8) asserts that Tower Health should not have fired a physician for prescribing Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19. The letter does not mention that the physician did this through a restaurant’s Facebook page where the drugs were referred to as “I” and “H.” This is hardly a professional way to conduct business.
What boggles the mind is the willingness of certain folks to defend unproven therapies for COVID-19 while totally dismissing vaccines, which have a better track record than either of the two drugs in question, neither of which is an antiviral medication, as erroneously stated in the letter. Hydroxychloroquine is an anti-malarial drug used to treat that disease as well as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. Ivermectin is an anti-parasitic medication primarily used to treat intestinal worms.
The misinformation surrounding treatments and vaccines for COVID-19 continues to swirl, fed by right wing media outlets that have politicized and unnecessarily prolonged this disease.
Mary Arguelles
West Reading
Source: Berkshire mont
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