In a country with the world’s second-highest pandemic death toll, public officials and doctors are promoting a drug that scientists say is unproven against COVID-19. From codastory.
The coastal city of Itajaí in southern Brazil is known for its port and sandy beaches, but recent questionable attempts to hold Covid-19 at bay have brought an additional notoriety. In early July, Mayor Volnei Morastoni — who also happens to be a doctor — took toto announce a massive giveaway of the antiparasitic drug ivermectin. The aim of the program was to protect residents against a disease rampaging across the country.
Proclaiming ivermectin “another weapon in our war against the coronavirus,” Morastoni urged everyone to embrace its use, avoid crowds and wear masks. Soon after, people began to line up outside the city’s 200,000 square foot events center to collect their allocation of the miracle immunity-boosting pills. Some had even taken a ferry from a neighboring municipality.
Morastoni’s move was not without precedent. In late April, Itajai’s local authorities launched a campaign to distribute the homeopathic remedyto residents as a protective measure. Soélia Fernandes Ferreira Nunes, a local accountant, dismissed the whole idea, skeptical that a single dose of five small pellets could prevent her from contracting the disease.
“I figured it couldn’t do any harm,” she told me over the telephone. “If it’s something that can improve my immunity and make my body healthier, then I want it.”
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