Ivermectin

While the US started ramping up and distributing vaccines at the tail end of 2020 and early 2021, huge chunks of Latin America started adopting Ivermectin as a standard treatment protocol. White Sped poverty meant that while the vaccine was starting to get rolled out in the United States, it was not going to be anywhere in the near future for tens of millions of people in Latin America. And Peru included the drug in its basic treatment guidelines. One health minister said clinical trials investigating the drugs efficacy had trouble recruiting control group participants because there were so many people already on the drug.