edical Officer, Paul Kelly, and "news" outlets felt the need to fire shots across the bow. As predicted the drug was labeled as a horse dewormer used by fringe people and crazies.  If the drug didn't threaten sinecures and profits,  it could have been called a Nobel Prize winning Wonder Drug used by 200 million people.

In an extraordinary turn, the Chief Medical Officer staked his reputation on something that is obviously flat out wrong and easily shown to be so. In another remarkable move, the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia advised pharmacists to refuse legal prescriptions if the patient didn't answer in a politically correct manner.  (Who needs doctors?)

Here's the Chief Medical Officer of Australia, who has apparently not read many papers on Ivermectin:

There's no evidence to support the use of ivermectin to treat Covid-19. Don't look for magic cures online, and don't rely on what's being peddled on the internet, because none of them work."

Australia's chief medical officer, Prof Paul Kelly, pleaded with the public not to take unproven medicine like ivermectin to treat Covid-19.

"The reality is, there are many trials that have been done into ivermectin, not a single one of them have shown to be effective," he said.