{"id":40605,"date":"2021-09-29T12:09:21","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T19:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=40605"},"modified":"2021-09-29T17:09:58","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T00:09:58","slug":"ivermectin-disinformation-leads-to-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=40605","title":{"rendered":"Ivermectin disinformation leads to chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">An avalanche of misinformation about the antiparasitic drug ivermectin\u2019s ability to treat COVID-19 has caused a series of national problems, from increased calls to poisoning centers to a shortage of the medicine itself.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Patients have become desperate for a treatment that\u2019s most commonly used for livestock and have taken their disputes over ivermectin with hospitals to court.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Disinformation has flooded the internet, where dozens of Facebook groups centered around ivermectin remain active despite insufficient evidence that the medicine works in treating people for COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An avalanche of misinformation about the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-science-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40606,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40605\/revisions\/40606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}