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Covid-19, ivermectin and reporting on misinformation in Australia – with Lenore Taylor
In Australia, imports of the drug ivermectin have increased tenfold. The relatively obscure drug, primarily used to deworm animals, is being touted as a cure for Covid. But this week a Covid-positive man presented to Sydney’s Westmead hospital suffering not from the effects of Covid, but an overdose of a combination of ivermectin and other so-called cures he’d found online. Lenore Taylor and Mike Ticher speak to Gabrielle Jackson about reporting on misinformation and the anti-vax movement in Australia