DANGEROUS. REPORTER: I HAVE TALKED TO SOME MANAGE,RS CUSTOMERS ARE COMING IN AND BUYING IT TO TREAT COVID SYMPTOMS. DOCTORUSS ING THE DRUG FORMULATED FOR ANIMALS, THOUSANDS OF POUNDS. IT CANNOT ONLY BE DANGEROUS IF USED ON HUMANS, IT CAN BE DEADLY. 12 NEWS WENT TO THREE FARMING PPLYSU STORES SEARCHING FOR IVERMECTIN, A DRUG PRIMILYAR USED AS A DEWORMING AGENT IN LIVESTOCK. INSTEAD, WE FOUND EMPTY SHELVES WITH SNSIG WARNING PEOPLE USING IT AS A COVID TREAENTMT. >> THERE IS NO GOOD DATA THAT WOULD SUGGEST TREHE IS A BENEFIT, AND THE DOSES HUMAN CAN TOLETERA IN PREVENTING OR TREATING COVID-19. REPORT:ER DOCTORS DO SOMETIMES PRESCRIBE IVERMECTIN TREAT HEAD LICE OR INSTTEINAL WORMS, BUT ACCORDING TO THE CDC THE NUMRBE OF PRESCRIPTIONS WRITTEN IN THE U.S. HAS SKYROETEDCK SINCE JULY. SOME REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS HAVE ADVOCATED FOR IT AS A TREATMENT FOR COVID, LIKE SENATOR RON JOHNSON TALKED ABOUT IT ON THE FIVE TEST LAST WEEK. >> WHY NOT LET DOCTORSSE U OFF WAIVER PRESCRIPTION RIGHTS AND EXPERIMENT WITH DIFFERENT THINGS THAT JUST MIGHT HELP. THERE IS GROWING EVIDENCE THAT IVERMECTINAN C BE EFFECTIVE. >> IN MEDICINE WE DON’T TYPICALLY THROW HAIL MARYS. REPORT:ER HOWEVER, DOCTORS WITH UW HEALTH SAY IT IS NOT IN ANTIVIRAL DRUG AND THERE ARE REPORTS OF PEOPLE OVERDOSG.IN >> WHATEVER YOU DO, DON’T GO TO YOUR LOCAL FARM PPSULY STORE, BIO MEDICATION THAT IS METAPHORIC HOW OR A HORSE AND THINK THERE IS ANYWAY YOU CAN TAKE THAT SAFY.EL THAT NEEDS TO NOT HAPPEN. PATRICK: WHAT IS SENATOR JOHNSON SAYING ABOUT THE PUSHBACK FROM REPORTER: I REACHED OUT TO HIS OFFICE, THEY DID NOT ANSR WEMY QUESTIONS