{"id":4795,"date":"2023-10-03T13:48:46","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T18:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=4795"},"modified":"2023-10-03T15:28:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T20:28:09","slug":"spouting-covid-misinformation-tied-to-use-of-ivermectin-hcq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/10\/03\/spouting-covid-misinformation-tied-to-use-of-ivermectin-hcq\/","title":{"rendered":"Spouting COVID Misinformation Tied to Use of Ivermectin, HCQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/special-reports\/features\/106561\">MedPageToday<\/a> And survey study finds similar usage of unproven drugs for COVID among Democrats and Republicans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Endorsing COVID-19 vaccine misinformation, lack of trust in physicians or scientists, and conspiracy-mindedness were linked to the use of non-evidence-based treatments for COVID-19, an internet-based survey study of U.S. adults showed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of more than 13,000 survey respondents who reported prior COVID infection, those who endorsed at least one item of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation were more likely to have received ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine (adjusted OR 2.86, 95% CI 2.28-3.58), reported Roy H. Perlis, MD, MSc, of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, and colleagues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also more likely to receive non-evidence-based medication were those reporting trust in social media (aOR 2.39, 95% CI 2.00-2.87) and in Donald Trump (aOR 2.97, 95% CI 2.34-3.78), and those with greater scores on the American Conspiracy Thinking Scale (aOR 1.10, 95% CI 1.07-1.13), they noted in\u00a0<em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama-health-forum\/fullarticle\/10.1001\/jamahealthforum.2023.3257\" target=\"_blank\">JAMA Health Forum<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In aggregate, our survey results suggest that the potential harms of misinformation may extend to prescription of ineffective and potentially toxic treatments, rather than simply avoiding health-promoting behaviors, such as vaccination,&#8221; Perlis and team wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conversely, people who reported trusting physicians and hospitals (aOR 0.74, 95% CI 0.56-0.98) and scientists (aOR 0.63, 95% CI 0.51-0.79) were less likely to seek non-evidence-based treatments.<\/p>\n<!-- <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\" vURCOLd o  RuQCVtZ bo\"> vURCOLd o  RuQCVtZ bo<\/a> --><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MedPageToday And survey study finds similar usage of unproven drugs for COVID among Democrats and Republicans. Endorsing COVID-19 vaccine misinformation, lack of trust in physicians or scientists, and conspiracy-mindedness were linked to the use of non-evidence-based treatments for COVID-19, an internet-based survey study of U.S. adults showed. 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