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August 31, 2021
Dr. Shawn Varney, Emergency Medicine, South Texas Poison Center, is quoted in this Telemundo story about the dramatic increase seen in Texans taking the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin to treat COVID-19 and the symptoms people can have from ingesting it. Watch here
August 30, 2021
Dr. Shawn Varney, Emergency Medicine, South Texas Poison Center, is quoted in this Texas Public Radio article about the demand for the drug ivermectin to prevent or treat COVID-19 despite no evidence that it works. Read story
August 30, 2021
Dr. Shawn Varney, Emergency Medicine, South Texas Poison Center, is quoted in this KSAT 12 article about the demand for the drug ivermectin to prevent or treat COVID-19 despite no evidence that it works. Read story
August 30, 2021
Dr. Shawn Varney, Emergency Medicine, South Texas Poison Center, is quoted in this New York Times article about the demand for the drug ivermectin to prevent or treat COVID-19 despite no evidence that it works. Read story
August 30, 2021
Dr. Shawn Varney, Emergency Medicine, South Texas Poison Center, is quoted in this San Antonio Express-News story on the dramatic increase seen in Texans taking the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin to treat COVID-19 and the symptoms people can have from ingesting it. Read story
August 20, 2021
Dr. Barbara Taylor, Infectious Diseases, spoke with the San Antonio Express-News Editorial Board about the heartbreaking reality some patients with COVID-19, who chose not to get vaccinated, are facing now and why some of them made the decision to not get the vaccine at the time. Read story